why did nobody call 911? that is not the type of neighborhood bad things happen in. debbie was an accomplished woman, a sales rep for a pharmaceutical firm and was immensely popular. she was very regal, to us, royalty. she definitely fits the bill as the princess. she should have been a kennedy. 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, peered among the trees, not a trace. by 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
years after debbie s disappearance, her body still hadn t been found, and there was no new evidence tying dave from to the murder. dave starts sur veiling our office, police officers. eventually starts driving by an investigators home. it was getting pretty concerning out there. time to move. on may 29, 2008 dave was arrested an charged with first-degree murder and a special circumstance, murder for financial gain. he pleaded not guilty. when the trial finally began more than a year later, dave faced murder and the earlier embezzle. charges together. prosecutor offered the jury this theory, that dave snuck out of his house in the middle of the night without waking up his sleeping children, maybe even using a ladder to get out the
a duck as quacks like a duck it s probably a duck but you re saying it s a turkey. the burden is on them to prove it s a duck. in this case, they toondidn t. the pros kurecution claimed had no evidence. his daughter chelsa insisted he could not have left the house without having heard him. this doesn t seem at all possible. and even they investigators would tell the court that the kids slept so soundly it was hard to wake them up when they went to see them one morning the defense claimed the prosecution s theory didn t add up. that s beyond belief that somebody would take that kind of risk, that he would sneak down the hallway, open the door, drive the 10 or 12 miles over to debbie hawk s house, subdue her, bludgeon her, load her into the van, drive it to fresno and then
things are true. 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 foreign 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. debbie s father, bud tree yacht tis had a dying wish she could be found. he left the earth a week before. the children.
willing to admit, early on. even at that age coy definitely see the water was about to boil over. the kids were 9, 8 and 4 when the divorced was finalized. they learned how to navigate the choppy waters known all too well by children of divorce. they couldn t talk to each other really so i tried to step in and help resolve that. you were kind of a mediator? yeah. in a way. tough role for a kid to play, tint. i think it was easier to be the mediator than have each other yelling on the phone. my mom was happier. debbie did well enough as a pharmaceutical representative that she could buy her own home. there were issues. the once, after they separated during the squabbles over