The Disappearance of Debbie Hawk

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🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, friends and family of Debbie Hawk are left searching for answers when she vanishes. Investigators discover Debbie had planned to reveal secrets and wondered if silencing her was a motive for murder. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on July 19, 2010.

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0:00.0	She was there.
0:02.0	She'd walk into the room and it just kind of brightened.
0:04.0	And then she wasn't.
0:06.0	My initial reaction was, oh my god, what has happened.
0:11.0	The mother they adored, missing.
0:14.0	In her place, a trail of blood.
0:17.0	My biggest fear was that we were going to find her.
0:19.0	What police found instead was a puzzle.
0:22.0	In my 28 years, I've never seen that before.
0:25.0	A missing woman, a mystery with few clues.
0:29.0	Did you find any fingerprints?
0:31.0	No.
0:32.0	Hair.
0:33.0	And it can help.
0:34.0	But did one man have a motive?
0:36.0	He still has $300,000 and you're about to be exposed for it.
0:39.0	Except without proof, how could anyone convince a jury?
0:43.0	So you don't think they had any useful evidence against you at all?
0:47.0	Can anybody name anything?
0:49.0	Could anyone solve the mystery?
0:52.0	We, the jury, find the defendant, David Martin Hawk.
0:57.0	I'm Lester Holt and this is Date Live.
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