Father of 2017 Squamish victim says son’s death is shocking but not ‘unexpected’
Posted October 31, 2020 8:07 pm.
Last Updated October 31, 2020 8:26 pm.
SQUAMISH (NEWS 1130) — The father of a man who was found dead inside a burned vehicle in Squamish three years ago says his son’s death is not completely unexpected.
Earlier this week, The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team identified the murdered man as Davis Wolfgang Hawke. His father, Hyman Greenbaum, says the last time he spoke with his son was about 15 years ago when he was living in Belize.
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“He heard that AOL was still looking for him, and he disappeared again. And we hadn’t heard from him since then,” he says.
A news report from 2006 said AOL believed Hawke, a renegade internet spammer, buried gold and platinum on his family’s property in Massachusetts and wanted to bring in bulldozers to search for the treasure and satisfy a $12.8-million judgment it won in federal court. There is speculation he may have been killed in connection with the trove of money.
“Certainly it’s a big shock, and I can’t say it’s completely unexpected. That’s why my wife and I gave our DNA as we were afraid something might happen to him,” Greenbaum says.
Police are still trying to figure out the circumstances surrounding Hawke’s death.
Greenbaum says he now is offering a $10,000 reward for information that can lead to an arrest and a conviction.
