financial document was on top. significant? maybe. certainly significant with the sounds the neighbors reported hearing the night before debbie s kids arrived at her doorstep and found her missing. several neighbors heard a loud scream, a blood curdling type. why did nobody call 911? that is not the type of
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 is it over? no. defense attorneys will appeal claiming some jurors were swayed and the children, for them, it may never end. it s complicated, huh? yep.
i imagine. my biggest fear is we were going to find her. that is what scared me the most. we would find her somewhere in the house. 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 are in my mom s room n the bathroom, there is blood on the carpet. after the initial shock i start to be reasonable and think, 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.
more time with the children. his response was to ask for half custody. the percentages were 65 with debbie and 35 with dave. he wanted to make it an even 50-50. and that is when the battle moved to these, trust funds set up for the childrens futures the mon came from dave s father but dave controlled the funds and debbie was sure dave was stealing from them to support his own lifestyle. why would she think that? well, this was actually the second set of trusts established for the children. several years before a judge caught dave s hand in the cookie jar of the first trust which listed both dave and debbie as trustees. dave was removed of trustee of those funds. during the divorce dave s father gave him sole control of a second quite generous trust fund. but when investigators ran the numbers on that second fund
happened just didn t add up. that is just beyond belief that somebody would take that kind of risk, he would sneak down the hallway, open the door, drive the ten or 12 miles over to debbie hawk s house, subdue her, bludgeon her, load her into the van and drive to fresno and get back to his house without getting any blood on him, without being discovered. so what did happen to debbie hawk? the defense floated this theory. debbie worked in pharmaceutical sales. perhaps a drug addict had gone after the samples she kept in the van. all of the pharmaceuticals in her van were missing. somebody took them. that was a ludicrous idea, countered the prosecution. debbie carried very few samples. anyway, if drug theft was behind it why didn t the thief take any jewelry or electronics. no. it seemed to come down to dave. his character, his behavior and his own words and a conversation with a friend police recorded when dave speculated what might have happened to debbie. the defense played it i