interviewed, it all led to ed ates. ed ates. stacey s father. paul s friend michael told the police the same thing when he learned of the death. he even thought he might try to nail him next. we all walked around wondering if we were next on the hit list. you thought there was an enemies list of friends of paul? yes, exactly. homicide detectives always pose the question, who benefitted from the murder. and here the victim s brother and best friend are telling the police that stacey unquestionably stood to gain from her ex s death. she would be free to move to florida with her children and raise them with money from the million-dollar trust fund paul had set up for them. and who was the shooter in this theory? her father. giving his daughter a monstrous and bloody gift of liberation from a man they both loathed. so detectives tried to call ed ates at his home in florida. they say his wife dottie
and i m just a simple lady who gives people baths in a nursing home. if that s what you say, it must be true. but the defense was about to tell the jury something really surprising. sister brenda hadn t been the only one who got it all wrong about when ed ates made it to louisiana. the defendant himself now said he had misspoken in those damning wiretaps about arriving on tuesday. you were there when i got there on tuesday. yes. in fact, the lawyer said, ed ates had arrived in louisiana not on tuesday, the day before the murder, and not on thursday, the day after the murder after the police claimed. ates was now saying he had gotten to louisiana on wednesday at around the very hour paul duncsak was being killed in new jersey. to verify the amended day, a man who lived in the same neighborhood as ates mother and sister took the stand. his name was matlock, and he remembered seeing ed ates and his car on a louisiana block on wednesday.
the defendant s initial alibi, which his sister seemed to smash to bits. she told the court her brother had asked her to lie to police, to say he arrived in louisiana on tuesday, one day before the murder of paul duncsak instead of one day after on thursday. on cross, the defense lawyer tried to show that brenda, a nice woman, was easily confused. if i told you that the detective sat where you are and said that brenda ates told me she gets confused, would that be true? occasionally, i do. i have diabetes and i do occasionally get my mind she believed the truth was what the detectives told her it was. they told her the truth is thursday. they told her we drove and followed ed down. we followed him from ramsey all the way to selby. we know exactly when he got there, it was thursday. and she said well, you know, sir, you re a smart detective,
paul duncsak s girlfriend heard her fiance being murdered just hours before they were to begin a new life together in this million-dollar new jersey home. she called 911. 911, what s your emergency? police arrived at the house that wednesday evening to find the 40-year-old pharmaceutical executive slumped inside a hallway, dead of multiple gunshot wounds. the killer, whoever he or she was, had left the house unseen and left it behind fairly clean. and the crime scene techs are not getting lucky at the crime scene, are they? with forensics no. fingerprints, there were some recovered. they turned out to be paul
because he s a mormon. he s the senior at dallas first baptist church. and the controversial owner of the nfl s raiders has died. al davis was in football for six decades and is a member of the football hall of fame. he was 82. more news in one hour. stay with us. this wasn t how edward ronald ates, a highly decorated computer analyst for the military, figured he d be spending his retirement years, inside a courtroom in a defendant s chair on trial. would you please step from the jury box. and yet the state of new jersey was about to tell 12 jurors why they should convict this grandfather of murder. this is the case of the killing of paul duncsak. bergen county s assistant prosecutor wayne mello opened the state s case talking to the jurors not about the defendant,