adrian salman was putting life pieces back together. her two year romance with professional poker player ernie shearer, once by all appearances marriage bound head deflated and finally failed. and a couple weeks later she was in san francisco on a business trip, when your phone tripped. text message from an acquaintance. she said, i heard about his plans, let me know if there is anything that i can do. she got herself to a computer, one online, and saw the appalling story. and learned that they had been murdered. it was surreal. it didn t seem like something could happen like that to someone i know. not her ernie, thankfully, but ernie s parents. earnest shearer and his wife charlene found dead in their house, which was, coincidently, in an upscale country club right across the san francisco bay from adrian s hotel.
i.d. the shoe prints. there was an obvious nike smoosh right there in the middle. and there was a nike impact tomahawk, big, maybe close to size 12. but who wore them? who would do such an awful thing? and why? in our area, we just did not have a husband and wife in their 60s in a multi million dollar neighborhood killed for no reason. investigators poked around the scherer family background, looking for then, it turned out, they had some, or at least ernest did. ernie was a very passionate person and he wasn t afraid to let you know how he felt. guy houston, a former california state assemblyman, new ernest scherer for his extreme fiscal conservatism in his work with the republican party and with a local school board. it was on a political, it wasn t a personal basis. it was all political. besides, what happened to
scherer s country club. and finally, there it was. a red chevrolet kamau roe approaching the scherer home on march 27th, and 12:42 a.m. on march 8th, just when the murders were thought to have occurred. a red chevy come out 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. what a coincidence. and even that, the car and the other evidence they enough to persuade the dea to file a 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 weeks before the murders. when she saw what investigators had, she was not only ready to divorce ernie. she told the police she would help them by attempting to
them was too ugly even for politics. and as for charlene i didn t know anybody who didn t like her. a friend from the mormon church her confidence, her command, her good heart, her ability to reach out and help people which she had also been doing professionally for decades as in the county teacher, said this colleague in east bay. and the class. she also wanted to help the students with their career and their life. so, who was responsible? who knew? not a suspect insight. send them a text message. the minute adrian solomon heard what happened, she reached out for her ernie. they decided to meet in san francisco for dinner that very night. even though we weren t in a relationship anymore, we had been friends for a long time. i felt good that i was able to be there for him. we got really upset during
his mother did not approve of our relationship because i was not mormon. and we traveled around together, and a life of sin or whatever the scarlet woman. and when she did eat meat ernie s dad, once, it didn t go so well. we were in the lobby of seizures and i started to say, this is adrienne. i know who she is and turned his back to me. wow. i don t think i ve ever been so offended in my life. by then, the bloom had faded. there 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 of 2008, they broke it off. so, maybe that s why you would figure, she didn t hear right away about what happened. we need emergency. we need everybody now. what kind of a problem? didn t hear about the grisly