stacked against dave hawk. >> at least in the harsh court of public opinion, it looks bad for dave hawkroached in hannaford, california. dennis peterson and mark coleman, dave's attorneys. >> allegedly taking from his kids. same bad things about him. a sympathetic victim. and all these things mean wildly played in the press. >> if there ever was a case for change in venue, this must be, said the defense. after all, almost everybody seemed to have heard the accusations about dave. every time he had a court appearance, purple clad friends of debbie's crowded in the public gallery. in fact, during julie jury selection, he actually heard some jurors tell the judge they had already decided dave hawk was guilty. >> the judge asked him, will if i order you set those opinions aside, can you do it? we're well, i guess so. >> still, the defense application for change of venue was denied. as was the defense request to separate the financial charge from the murder charge. the defense argued the embezzlement accusations were unfairly prejudicial. >> they wanted to make him look like a bad person. a

. >> surely not easy going, but the children of dave and debbie hawk -- >> we did the best we could. >> that is all for this edition of dateline, thank you for watching. >> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is dateline. >> she was crying and crying. i said, what's wrong? and she says, that he's dead. we all wanted to believe that it was an accident. there is no possible way he could do this. on purpose. >> a dark house. a husband with a gun. a wife dead on the floor. >> make sure that she still breathing. >> oh, i don't think she is, damn it. >> there was no question who killed her. the mystery was why. >> i hear the door squeaking. and i hear a grumbling. and i hear the dog rolling. >> how could you not tell that's your wife? >> it was dark. >> i did he just kept seeing it was an accident and he didn't do anything wrong. >> others disagreed. >> we never for a second believed that he didn't know who that was that he was threatening. >> was it a tragic mistake? >> he was broken. >> or cold-blooded murder? >> he has fits of emotion, they're only down in front of

hawk was in here. aauw [ laughter ] "army of the dead" which is in select theaters and on netflix right now. please welcome daveknow everything about you because i know you from the movies i know you from "avengers," "guardians of the galaxy." [ cheers and applause but you have a very interesting story because it started with wrestling, right >> yeah, yeah. [ cheers ] >> jimmy: was it the plan or was -- >> no, no. [ cheers ] honestly, i -- [ cheers and applause >> jimmy: that's got to feel good though, right >> it feels good >> jimmy: you wanted to be an actor first? >> no, no. it's weird, man. i stumbled onto things i didn't even realize i was athletic till i was, like, 16-years-old yeah i grew up -- i didn't grow up with sports. so i moved from san francisco to d.c., back to d.c. to live with my dad. and so now i'm in the suburbs, and i have access to sports. the only other two filipinos in my high school were on the wrestling team so, they asked me to come out really because i was filipino but i went out and i started just like sticking guys. i was like launching guys. like, "hey, i'm pretty good at this." >