of course, investigators say they did look into that and other leads, too. but they all came back to dave. and one primary motive. some cross-examination. she was going to expose your embezzlement ofou the children trust fund. were you afraid your father would find out what you were doing with the money. your father who lovingly put the money into the trust fund before you siphoned it out. i don t like the way you re characterizing these things. i really don t like the way the prosecutor accused me of whether you like it or not, those are the accusations. yeah. they re not right. they re wrong. they re rfalse. which part did you not understand? what part did i not understand? what i understand is you bought a $27,000 car using trust fund money. you took a trip to hawaii with
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, which declined review. then in march 2016, ten years after debbie hawk disappeared. a farmhand found her remains in a field in the neighboring town where dave grew up. debbie sup father, bud, had a dying wish that she be found before he passed away. he left this earth just a week after that discovery. the children who held opposing views about their father s innocence it s complicated. yep. this created a rift