larry crouch: dave starts surveilling our office, the police offices.ving by an investigator's home. it was getting pretty concerning out there. keith morrison (voiceover): time to move. on may 29, 2008, dave hawk was arrested and charged with first degree murder and a special circumstance, murder for financial gain. he pleaded not guilty. when the trial finally began more than a year later, dave 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 used a ladder to get out of the window, and got someone to give him a ride to debbie's house and entered her bedroom. larry crouch: i think he tried the stun gun on her and she screamed very loudly. and he struck her with something more than once. and at that point, i assume he suffocated her. keith morrison (voiceover): then, said the prosecutor, he must have dragged debbie's body to the garage, put her into your own van, disposed of her som