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
and that s a good thing? great in my book! who are you? no power? no problem. introducing storm-ready wifi. now you can stay reliably connected through power outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery back-up to keep you online. only from xfinity. welcome back. home of the xfinity 10g network. ernest scherer we re charged with killing his parents. the evidence against him was largely circumstantial except for a small slip of paper discovered after the crime scene that could be the key to blowing the case wide open. here s keith morrison with the conclusion of the player. it was september 2010, just months before ernie shearer iii
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 after the murders, the alameda county d. a. made a decision to roll the dice. it was february, 2009. kimberly olson was at home with ernie in their las vegas apartment. there was a knock on the your, and ernie answered the door, and i came out and the fbi agents with guns drawn. ernie was charged with two counts of murder. and kimberly olson thought the whole world had gone crazy. he was a poker player, and he had made his mistakes, obviously, with the women in his life. but, i mean, that is a very far jumped from being a poker player to murdering your parents. but back home in northern carolina, when adrian solomon had learned of ernie s arrest. do you believe that he could ve done such a thing? i believe he could have, and
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