but who wore them? who would do such an awful thing? and why? >> in our area, we just didn't have a husband and wife in their 60s in a multimillion-dollar neighborhood killed for no reason. >> reporter: investigators poked around the scherers' background looking really for enemies with motive. and it turned out they had some. or at least ernest did. >> ernie was a very passionate person on his views and he wasn't afraid to let you know how he felt. >> reporter: guy houston, a former california state assemblyman knew ernest and his conservatism. >> he did make people angry, but it was all in a political -- it wasn't a personal basis. it was all political. >> reporter: besides, what happened to them was too ugly even for politics. and as for charlene -- >> i don't know anybody who didn't like her.