but about 2:00 in the afternoon, said pamela, ernie called to cancel. >> saying he needed to go home. that his parents' house was broken into and burglarized. and they were both murdered. >> but in the weeks after the murder ernie's craigslist conquest resumed. >> he did it in las vegas. he did it in new orleans. >> he did it everywhere he went. and he got lots of responses. >> does that surprise you? >> it surprised me that he was able to form the level of intimacy very rapidly with so many different women that he did. >> kimberly olson was one of them. kimberly formed a very intimate relationship with ernie scherer. met him in september 2008, six months after his parents' murder. she was at a casino in mesquite, nevada. >> he came over and said he needed a pretty girl to blow on the dice at his craps table. so. he was a smooth talker. >> now, that's a line.