back to the house without any blood on him, without being discovered. what did happen to debbie hawk. floating this theory. she worked in pharmaceutical sales. perhaps a drug addict went after her. all of the samples in her van was gone. if drug theft was behind it, why didn t the thief take any jewelry or electronics. it all came down to dave. his behavior and character. his own words. a conversation with a friend in which dave spec is lated what might have happened. they played it in court as an unguarded expectation of what happened. happened
family s almond groves. i think they both wanted to have a family. i think that was like the impetus for the acceleration, i guess you would say, of the relationship. though debbie s big sister wasn t sure what she saw in him. he seemed very quiet. very opposite of my sister. then before long conrad arrived and chelsa and savannah. i still remember christmases where my brother and i would run around and deliver all the gifts to everybody. everybody was getting along. definitely some happy memories there. sadly, a lot of unhappy ones, too. pretty much from when i can remember, fighting and arguing were pretty routine. after nearly nine years this marriage, like so many others, fell apart. we might have been a little bit more different than we were
debbie was an accomplished woman, a sales rep with a pharmaceutical firm and with a wide circle of friends immensely popular. she was very regal, to us, royalty. she definitely fits the bill as the princess. she should have been a kennedy. mm-hmm. which is why the ribbons that suddenly bloomed everywhere around hanford were royal purple and the people who put the ribbons on and up also joined a search to find her. they walked the river banks. they peered among the trees. not a trace. and then, as you can imagine, the whole town knew about the disappearance of debbie hawk. and they knew something else, too. two days after she vanished, there was a find, and it wasn t good. but it wasn t debbie. instead, police found her van. it was parked on the street in a high crime district of fresno, 40 miles from home. the drug samples debbie kept in the back, medications for nasal
a guilty man or not? the jury did not take very long to decide. we, the jury, find the defendant, david martin hawk, guilty of the murder of debbie hawk. guilty of murder and nine financial crimes. dave hawk was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars. but was that the end of this story? not in the least. his defense attorney appealed the case as high as he could, even trying the supreme court, which declined review. then in march 2016, ten years after debbie hawk disappeared, a farm hand found her remains in a field in the neighboring town where dave grew up. debbie s father bud had a dying wish that she be found before he passed away. he left this earth just a week after that discovery, and the children who held opposing views about their father s innocen innocence
but they did not. no debbie hawk, not anywhere. there were some drag marks, some kind of smear marks leading out to the garage where they stopped. and debbie s van was gone, too. my initial reaction was, oh, my god. what has happened? who could have done this? sure. the girls ran to a neighbor s house. conrad called 911. we re in my mom s room and her bathroom, and there s blood on the carpet. after the initial shock of it, i start to be reasonable and think, wait a minute, let s not overreact here. clearly she cut her hand with a knife and she was bleeding and raced out to the car to go to the emergency room. this is all just a big misunderstanding. but it wasn t. there were plenty of misunderstandings to come and questions that stubbornly refused to be answered like