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
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
and before long starts some of the most boring of all police work paid off. a deputy board from the local jail for the investigation, for two hours of video taken by a security camera at the scherer s country club. and finally, there it was. a red chevrolet kamara approaching the sheriff home on march 27th, and leaving at 12:42 am on march 8th. just when the murders were thought to have occurred. a red chevy kamara with a black top. and wasn t at the very same make, model and color of ernest scherer s car. it looked like his car to a cops i anyway. the trouble was, they couldn t see the license plate of the drivers face. could have been a coincidence. and even then, the car and all the evidence that they gathered would not be enough to persuade the d a to file murder charges. so, the cops brought everything they knew to the forgotten woman in our story, ernie s wife, robin. she had been left behind when already took off a couple of
and he was not able to tell us. we asked him, what television show did you watch? he wasn t able to tell us. and then, when they checked ernie s cell phone records, they found an unusual gap in transmission, right around the time of the murder. from the afternoon of march 7th to the early morning of march 8th, 17 hours 46 minutes ernie s phone did not register on any self power anywhere. he was just a guy that was constantly talking on his cell phone. so, the fact that there is a 17 hour window window where he is not using it was definitely suspicious to us. but as the investigators suspicions grew, just as they felt they might possibly be closing in on something, ernest scherer iii disappeared. following the trail, connecting the dots, police turn up a strange story. coming up he asked me if i would do something slightly illegal for $300. but was the smoking gun they needed?
that day. so, maybe he didn t buy a baseball bat to use on his parents. unless did he use cash in an effort to hide a purchase at nike? one of the d. a. s investigators asked nike to check purchase records for march 7th, 2008. and as they say in vegas, jackpot. at 11:38 a. m., just before ernie used his credit card at the mcdonald s on the gas station, there was a cash purchase at the nike outlived, one pair of nike 12 impact tomahawk sneakers, a baseball bat, and junior match soccer gloves. i m thinking, even the most skeptical jury in the world has to realize, put it all together, and the book is just finished. that s the ending of the book. in january 2011, the alameda county prosecutor told jurors that ernest scherer iii was a