court and she was fighting back. the issue she was dealing with was custody and support. reporter: dave asked the court for a reduction of his $553 child a month support came up. he claims he only earns $6,000 a year. his salary and from his dad who pays him 500 a month to work on his farm. his only income apparently, debbie found it hard to believe. he lives in a nice home and drove a late model suburban. that s hard to do on $6,000 a year. reporter: debbie asked the court for more time with the children. his response was to ask for half custody. the percentages were 65% and 35% with dave. he wanted to make it an even 50/50. reporter: that s when the battle moves through trust funds
explanations for what could have happened other than dave. dave was an ex-husband. one of his children was convinced he was not guilty but could dave hawkins convince the jury? coming up. i told him i wanted to testify. when the disappearance of debbie hawk continues. hawk continues trelegy. the power of 1-2-3. trelegy 1-2-3 trelegy. with trelegy and the power of 1 2 3, i m breathing better. trelegy works 3 ways to. .open airways,. .keep them open. .and reduce inflammation. .for 24 hours of better breathing. trelegy won t replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. trelegy is not for asthma. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. do not take trelegy more than prescribed. trelegy may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis. call your doctor if worsened breathing, chest pain,
change oven yu f venue is denie. they wanted to make him look like a bad person. a person who would take money from his kids would be likely to murder his ex-wife. the prosecution would say dave feared that debbie was about to reveal an open court and give steph the kids trust funds. that was already exposed and already been filed in an open declaration in court. he would have gained nothing buy getting rid of her. no. we have that great, old american saying, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck. but you are saying it is a turkey. the prosecution has no
then said the prosecutors, he must have dragged debbie s body in the garage and dispose of her some where and drove them out to fresno and left it in a high crime zone. how did he get back home snl. the prosecutors must have picked it up and driven 40 miles back to his farm. there was no body and dna and no forensic evidence to show that dave had been at the murder scene. everybody in town seems to have a theory and the prosecutor, did, too. was that proof? the state tried to build a bridge of dave s financial crime to the murder, pai enough? well, we shall see. there is a number of other
perhaps that money was my own money. prosecutor never bothered to figure out what dollar went where, did they? you made it hard because you were mixing up the trust fund money and your money all the time. frankly, that is what scam artists do. i m not a scam artist. why didn t you get a job. i had a job. i m talking about a job that pays enough to support a family which is what a dad does. you are reading from a script the prosecutor has given you because none of these 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.