doesn t work. reporter: and so ernest scherer iii was found guilty. two counts of first-degree murder, two consecutive life sentences, no parole. his sister katherine, daughter of the victims, spoke publicly for the first time outside the courtroom. hard to have to talk about my parents and the loss. they re no longer with me at all. it does tear me up. do you feel justice was served? i don t know. it s hard. it s hard to admit that anybody could do something like that. reporter: and adrienne solomon, the one-time teacher of the flying trapeze, the woman who thought she had learned a thing or two about reading people, still wonders why she just didn t see it. i don t trust my judgment and i don t trust other people are telling the truth. and that s hard. i wonder if you ll ever get that back. i don t know. i m sure over time everything s been getting better.
there was a cash purchase at the nike outlet, one pair of size 12 nike 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, the book is just finished. that s the ending of the book. reporter: in january 2011 the alameda county prosecutor told jurors that ernest scherer iii was a narcissistic sociopath who savagely murdered his parents in pure blood. he s sheer evil, he thinks he s smarter than everyone. reporter: heavily in debt and desperate for money, ernie s house of cards was collapsing before his eyes, said the prosecutor, so he killed his parents for the money. for his inheritance. even ernie s own family unanimously turned against him, including ernest scherer senior, ernest s grandfather who took
no marriage, no children. i think the last six months of our relationship we knew it wasn t going anywhere. and in february of 2008 they broke it off. so maybe that s why weeks later she didn t hear right away about what happened. we need somebody now. what kind of a problem? i don t know. reporter: didn t hear about the grisly double murder where one of the victims was named ernest scherer. coming up was one of the victims the man she had loved? it didn t seem like something like that could really have happened to someone i know. reporter: adrienne solomon
he wanted the will. he told you that? he did. reporter: his parents will, which investigators found in a desk drawer. and the will indicated that their fairly significant estate would be divided equally between their two children, katherine and ernest, and they would receive their inheritance at the age of 30. did you determine how old ernest was? i did. ernest scherer iii would turn 30 in july, and his parents were killed in march. reporter: ernie s father had a couple million invested in real estate, though at the time of his death the value of the estate was certainly shrinking right along with housing prices. still, was it even remotely possible ernie would kill his parents to cash in on an inheritance? detectives had a look at ernie s financial situation. and you know how some professional poker players claim they win a lot? maybe not. at least not in ernie s case.
our relationship because i was not mormon, and we traveled around together and were living a life of sin or whatever. scarlet woman. exactly. when she did meet his dad once, it didn t go well. we were in the lobby at caesars. he said this is adrienne. he said i know who she is, turned his back to me. i don t think i have ever been so offended. by then the bloom had faded. wasn t going to be a marriage or children. for probably the last six months of our relationship, i think we both knew that it wasn t going anywhere. and in february, 2008, they broke it off. so maybe that s why weeks later she didn t hear right away about what happened. emergency, need everybody now. what kind of problem? i don t know. didn t hear about the grizzly double murder, or that one of the victims was named ernest scherer. coming up, was one of the victims the man she had loved? it didn t seem like something like that could really have happened to someone i know. when the player co