based on misinterpreting things he said. like the time he said to a friend, if i was a bad guy, i 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 downstream. they did not look anywhere. so did you through 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 that. dave said, we won t be rid of that till 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. he told police that he saw dave and mary share a celebratory toasts after debbie s disappearance. conrad said they just didn t
dave hawk to the crime scene, his defense attorneys tried to poke holes in what they saw as a purely circumstantial case. would this be enough to sway the jury? here with the conclusion of our story is keith morris. 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. he had a feeling that he knew what they were thinking. always blamed ex-husband first? it was an awful problem, as he saw it, had been from the day debbie disappeared in a trail of her own blood. the number one suspect, was him. that is what the police had been saying all along. that is apparently what a great many people thought in hand furred california, even as he sat here in a as a defendant in a murder case. even though i didn t have the motive and the capacity. you know how it can be, said
his families almond groves. they both wanted to have a family and i think that was 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, comrade arrived and chelsa and savannah. i saw at christmas is where we would run around and deliver gifts to everybody and everybody was getting along. definitely some happy memories there. but sadly, a lot of unhappy ones to. pretty much from when i can remember, fighting and arguing were pretty routine. and after nearly nine years, this marriage, like so many others, fell apart. we might have been a little more different than we were
limbo, now it was may 2008, two years after debbie s disappearance, her body still hadn t been found, and there was no new evidence tying dave to her murder. but prosecutor larry crouch heard disquieting reports from his investigators. they started surveilling the office, the police offices and eventually started driving by investigators home. it was getting pretty concerning. time to move. on may 29th 2008, dave hawk was arrested and charged with first degree murder and the special circumstance, murder for financial gain. he pleaded not guilty. when the trial finally began more than a year later, day faced murder and the earlier embezzlement charges together. prosecutor larry crouch offered the jury this theory. that dave snuck out of his house in the middle of the night without waking his sleeping children, maybe even
make it look like debbie hawk had been kidnapped. or was intentioned, afield intention perhaps, to show that she just left him? i believe it was designed to look like a missing persons case. yeah. but most year crooks don t do that? and had the criminal here been looking for something? there was paperwork that normally would ve been put away, at least stepped up, it wasn t. it was scattered and, this financial document was on top. significant? maybe. but certainly significant were the sounds neighbors reported hearing in the middle of the night. the night before debbie s arrived at her doorstep and discovered she was. missing several neighbors actually heard a loud scream. it was a blood curdling type. why did nobody call 9-1-1? that is not the type of neighborhood that bad things happen in. no one, not the type of bat person bad things happen to.