please just go. he wouldn t. he refused. she met him in the lobby. then, he tried to explain everything away. he couldn t, of course. and she sat there, hapless. her equilibrium gone in a world of bad feeling. i was hurt and angry with him and myself. and it was just it was unbelievable to think that those two years had been a sham. oh, yes. and, in fact, more than one sham. a whole quilt of shams. detectives back in northern california had begun to uncover details of a double life which appeared to be, shall we say, prodigious. it seemed like at every turn there was another woman that this guy had some involvement with. just coming out of the woodwork? there was quite a few of them. he said he was recently single. like pamela, for example, who responded to ernie s ad in
parents to cash in on an inheritance? the tech detectives had a look at arnie s financial situation. and you know how some professional poker players claim claim they win a lot? maybe not. at least not in ernie s case. we learned that he had 60 some odd thousand dollars in credit card debt. and he also, in talking with different casinos he had lost a significant amount of money to the tune of 80,000 or $90,000 in his play in the last year. but that was not the worst of it. not even close. by march of 2008, when the murders happened, real estate in california is huffing and puffing on its face to the bottom. and six months before that, ernie the son wanted to buy a house in the city of brea in southern california, but couldn t get alone. banks were not quite so sanguine anymore about the security of a poker players income. so, he borrowed the money from ernest the father, 616,000. then we ll stay started
ernie s philandering. but this, after all, it was not some tabloid smackdown. callously, brutally murdered, not the sort of thing you would expect of some hormone early and as detectives poured over this county evidence, they encountered lots of the victims blood, but very few useful clues. we were looking for everything, every blood stayed 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 talk him give him
the evidence detective scott dudek collected. against ernie scherer? and that s when they sought. something quite odd. they came across a piece of paper that we had collected that had blood droplets on it. just one small piece of paper which one of the detectives picked up from the bloody floor of the murder scene, a few feet away from the lifeless body of ernie s father, ernest scherer jr. so, it was no big deal, except when police searched through that, has searched everywhere covid, one thing they did not find was a baseball bat. and they just thought it was odd. why would 60 something-year-old people have a warranty for a bat? knew the warranty was not just for any old bat. it was for nike baseball bat. right on the warranty card,
i think i kind of felt more powerful in that conversation than i had with him in a long time. because i know that i don t trust a single word that he says. meanwhile, back in vegas, detectives learned that, just days before the murders, bernie had made a rather unusual request of this man. his name is david mosque. he asked me if i would do something slightly illegal for $400. dave it is a professional piano player in vegas. he says, oh, i m looking to get a gun. because i m a professional gambler. and i carry a lot of money. i thought, no. i m not going to do that. and investigators discovered ernie also asked david s performance partner to buy him a gun, and offered another friend $50,000 to point the finger of suspicion away from 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