was going to kill me. and not too long after that she had said to me, you know, if anything ever happens to me you know where to look. dave said that choking thing just never happened. that he was never violent with her. i ve never choked anybody. things settled down eventually, though there was always some dispute and the things conrad said he heard his dad say about his mom. awful. things like she needs a taste of her own medicine. she s going to get hers. she s going to get what she has coming to her. in fact, the very night he discovered debbie had vanished conrad told police his dad might have done this. i didn t see anything that would disqualify him from being able to carry that out. which is why just hours after the kids discovered debbie was missing it was 2:20 a.m. by then. police called dave, woke him up.
but they did not. no debbie hawk, not anywhere. there were some drag marks, some kind of smear marks leading out to the garage where they stopped. and debbie s van was gone, too. my initial reaction was, oh, my god. what has happened? who could have done this? sure. the girls ran to a neighbor s house. conrad called 911. we are in my mom s room n the bathroom, there is blood on the carpet. after the initial shock i start to be reasonable and think, let s not overreact here. clearly she cut her hand with a knife or something, and she was bleeding and she raced out of the car to go to the emergency room. this is all just a big misunderstanding. but it wasn t. there were plenty of misunderstandings to come and questions that stubbornly refused to be answered, like where was debbie hawk? what happened to her? what happened to the sacred bond that once held three children together?
which child went to hawaii on vacation? 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 apparently, 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.
evidence dave even left his house the night debbie was abducted and presumably murdered. his daughter insisted he could not have left the house without her having heard him. it doesn t seem at all possible. even though investigators would tell the court the kids slept so soundly it was hard to wake them up when they went to see them one morning, the defense claims that the prosecution s theory of what happened just didn t add up. that is just beyond belief that somebody would take that kind of risk, 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 and drive to fresno and get back to his house without getting any blood on him, without being discovered. so what did happen to debbie hawk? the defense floated this theory.
insurance pay nothing out of pocket. text save to 27747 to check your eligibility, then talk to your doctor. welcome back. without a body or any forensic evidence tying dave hawk to the murder of his ex-wife debbie, his attorneys tried to pull coals in what they saw as purely circumstantial case. dave s fate was now in the hands of the jury. and while the accused killer did not take the stand in his own defense, he did talk to us, sharing his theory of who really killed debbie. with the conclusion of our story, here 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. he had a sinking feeling he knew what they were thinking.