they made in vegas, a professional poker player. he said he s making good money mad at it. a former trap ease artist she fell for it. but she didn t gamble on this. i could smell the odor of decay and blood. or this at every turn there was another married, with a child, and women in multiple cities what else is he capable of? capable of murder? he had an alibi. credit card transactions and phone records of me from las vegas. but could this little card holds the key? we just a shot in the dark? absolutely. we see a calculated killer? or was his lifestyle on trial? he made mistakes. that doesn t make him a monster. was there one more card up his sleeve? it goes back to him thinking, i ve bluffed some of the best. welcome to dateline. it was a perplexing double murder, with no witnesses and no physical evidence. the victims were a respected couple their son, it turned out, played poker for a living, and could that lifestyle have had so
i think i kind of felt more powerful in that conversation than i had with him in a long time. because i know that i don t trust a single word that he says. meanwhile, back in vegas, detectives learned that, just days before the murders, bernie had made a rather unusual request of this man. his name is david mosque. he asked me if i would do something slightly illegal for $400. dave it is a professional piano player in vegas. he says, oh, i m looking to get a gun. because i m a professional gambler. and i carry a lot of money. i thought, no. i m not going to do that. and investigators discovered ernie also asked david s performance partner to buy him a gun, and offered another friend $50,000 to point the finger of suspicion away from ernie and toward someone else. and even if none of it was definitive, it all ended up. and it looked bad for ernie. and so, finally, nearly a year