documents scattered everywhere. sitting on top of the file were the records from the children s first set of trusts. the one only debbie controlled. there was $166,000 in those accounts. the investigators in hanford now focused hard on dave. searched his home several times. carted off lots of stuff. including a stun gun, which turned out he bought a month before debbie disappeared. told investigators it was for home protection for his daughters and girlfriend, mary. however he had never discussed it with mary, he never discussed it with the kmichildr at all. they did not know it existed. they couldn t find anything to connect the stun gun to the crime. it was odd. they also took his computers of course. and since dave did volunteer work at a local church, they seized the church computer too: even cuffed him outside his house in full view of local
purely ccumstantial case. would this be enough to sway the jury? here with the conclusion of our story is keith morrison. dave hawk on trial for the murder of his ex-wife debbie did not testify, didn t tell the members of the jury what he was thinking, but he had a sinking feeling he knew what they were thinking. always blame the ex-husband first. it was an awful problem, as he saw it, had been from the day his ex-wife, debbie, disappeared through a trail of her own blood. the number one suspect was him. that s what the police had been saying all along. and that s apparently what a great many people thought in hanford, california. even as he sat here as a defendant in a murder case. even though i didn t have the motive, and i didn t have the capacity. you know how it could be, said dave. once people get it in their heads you did something, they ll tend to misinterpret everything
they built a home among his family s almond grove. i think they both wanted to have a family. i think that was the impetuous for the acceleration, i guess, you 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 chill is a and savannah. i still remember christmass where my brother and i would run around and deliver all the gifts to irving aeverybody and everyb getting along. definitely happy memories there. sadly, a lot of unhappy one to 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 more different than we were
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, th 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 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 innocence it s complicated, huh?
and asthma were missing, this was weird. the windows we re down t. keys in the ignition t. license plate has been replaced with a stolen one. it appears whoever left it there wanted someone to get in and drive off. one more thing, the van s back seat was covered instead blood. at that point whoever was driving the van would immediately become a suspect in debbie hawk s disappearance. police were pretty sure that was exactly what the killer wanted. it was a ruiz. an attempt to plant blame somewhere else. around town people had already begun directing blame at one individual they thought they knew who did it. she had said to me, you know, if anything ever happens to me, you know where to look. but suspicion runs fast. the truth doddles along.