i was very excited. they met in vegas a professional poker player. he s making good money at it. a former trapeze artist, he fell for it, but she did not gamble on this. i could smell the odor of decay, and blood. or this. at every turn there was another woman. 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
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
Credit Card Transactions and Phone Records of me driving from las vegas. But could this little card hold the key . That was just A Shot In The Dark. Absolutely. Was he a calculating killer or was his lifestyle on trial . He made mistakes, but that doesnt make him a monster. Was there one more card up his sleeve . It goes back to him thinking ive bluffed some of the best. The player. Hello and welcome to dateline extra. Im craig melvin. In this hour the story of a Double Murder that was shocking and puzzling. There were no witnesses and few clues. The victims, a respected couple. Their son, it turned out, played poker for a living. Could that lifestyle have had something to do with the crime . The case was a mystery until prosecutors looked again at bloodstained evidence originally gathered from the crime scene. Could that be the key . Heres keith morrison. Not perfect, of course. What is . Ernies mother, the devout mormon, did not approve of his poker playing, apparently. Even though e
everything, every bloodstain fingerprints. and they found nothing that pointed to or any. after all, those mysterious bloody nike shoe prints were consistent with a size 12. and already wore a nine a half nine and a half or ten. also, the csi people found in one of those prints a speck of human dna that did not belong to either ernie or his parents. early on, there was only that curious incident just a little odd that happened the day after the bodies were discovered. ernie showed up at the house, all distraught, insisting officer tucker give him entry. no can do, she said. active crime scene and all he became demanding and even condescending very, very quickly. what surprised me. why did he want to get in the house so badly? he wanted the will. he told you that? he did. his parents will, which investigators found in a desk drawer. and the will indicated that they re fairly significant to state would be divided equally between their two children, catherine and earnest
and now, of course, the house was a crime scene, we are even the seasons lead detective scott was horrified by what he saw. it was probably the most gruesome, brutal homicide scene i ve ever seen. it was march 14th, 2008, when the call came in a country club employee had seen what looked like a body through the shivers window. detective kirsten tucker was one of the first at the scene. as i approach the front door of the home, i could smell the odor of decay and blood from quite a distance away. and inside was like a war zone. blood everywhere. and the battered bodies of two people who had clearly fought for their lives. the bodies had suffered extensive, extensive injuries. it wasn t just the odor that told investigators the bodies had been here a while. there was a week s worth of newspapers that had been uncollected. they narrowed the time of death had to be sometime between friday evening, march 7th, last time anyone saw them,