to a friend, if i was a bad guy, i d throw somebody off a bridge. my point was they haven t looked for her. if someone had thrown her off a bridge, it would have floated do stream. did you throw her off the bridge? no i didn t throw anybody off a bridge. they also made a huge deal about something he supposedly said to his girlfriend about debbie. dave said we won t be rid of that until she s dead. i might have. but i don t remember that. that certainly does not mean that i m going to go kill somebody. and then there was his own son, conrad who, after all, believed he was guilty. and told police he saw david and girlfriend mary s celebratory toast after debbie s disappearance. conrad, said dave, just didn t get it. whenever we open a bottle of
summer of 2006 without seeing those purple ribbons, a vivid reminder of debbie hawk. before long, in other absence, debbie was famous, as if everybody in town had known the woman her children so loved. she d walk into the room and it just kind of brightened. she was all for her family, children. these are her parent, angie and pbud treeian tis. amaterial love her and miss her. there s a lot of lives shattered because of her demise. demise, yes. no getting around it now. in july of 2006, the case was reclassified from missing person to homicide, a formality, really. they knew from the moment they arrived at the house, said da
his response was to ask for half custody. the percent fasons were somethi 65 with debbie and he wanted to make it an even 50/50. and that s when the battle moved to these. trust funds set up for the children s futures. the money 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. dave was removed as trustee of those funds, but during the divorce dave s foather gave him sole control of a quite generous trust fund. but when investigators ran the
ju numbers on that zbla basically suppose to be self hundred $0,000, he d been living off it. something like $300,000 was missing. though dave cried poverty he brought his girlfriend, mary royer a lexus and used $60,000 to pay off divorce costs and $1500 he owed to the kids from the first set of trusts, but here, believed the detectives was the heart of the motive for murder. debbie, if she hasn t disappeared, was about to expose all that in court. he steals $300,000 and about to be exposed for it. by a woman you despise. certainly. one more piece of the puzzle. there was yet another strange piece of the puzzle.
remember the documents scattered everywhere around her desk. sitting on top of the pile were the records from the children s first set of trusts, the one only debbie controlled. there was there is $166,000 in those. they focused now hard on dave. searched his home several times, carted off lots of stuff including a stun gun, which it turned out he bought a month before debbie disappeared. he told it was for home protection for his daughters and girlfriend. however he never discussed with mary or the children at all. didn t-de -they did not know existed. they couldn t find anything to connect the stun gun to the crime. but it was odd. they also took his computer, of course, and since dave did volunteer work at a local tor church, they eased that computer as well. even cuffed him outside his