wednesday night, august 23rd. now it was the jury s case, but it wouldn t take long. just a little more than a day for it to render a verdict. what is your verdict? guilty. the 12 men and women who heard the case agreed that edwardat as murdered his son-in-law, paul dunnsack. these two jurors said the panel rejected it completely. he held his hand out, shot a gun and went to the neighbor s yard and got in a car and drove. they found the prosecution s evidence, circumstantial, though it was, pointed overwhelmingly to the man s guilt. the computer searches, the sister s testimony, the mystery trip to new jersey. he knew the comings and goings of paul so he was in the house waiting and as soon as he came in the door and moved a few feet into the hallway, the door opened and ed shot him. but what really sunk ed ates
prosecution s case. andy was willing to do just that in a jailhouse interview with dateline during a break in his trial. he said the drive he and his wife had taken to florida a week before paul dunnsack s death was an innocent vacation up north with a detour into new jersey to make sure his daughter stacy had her children and that her former husband paul did not. your daughter s moved out. yes. she s got her own little place with the kids. yes. no reason to go to the house at all. other than make sure that he was really on vacation. we felt guilty. is he really on vacation. were you snooping on them? no. we live very close together and we got up to see how close we were and we drove by to see if he was really on rakz and he appeared to be on vacation and we drove back to the campground. he said the police had misread something else. those online searches.
son-in-law, and medically there was no earthly way he could have done it. and yet there was all that circumstantial evidence still to explain away, that odd trip to pennsylvania and new jersey the week before the murder, the damning computer searches, and there was only one person left who could do that. coming up ed ates takes the stand in his own defense. you had murdered paul duncsak in cold blood, isn t that the truth? no, sir, that is not true. would his story convince a jury? when too fat to kill continues. but nothing s helped me beat my back pain. then i tried this. it s salonpas. this is the relief i ve been looking for. salonpas has 2 powerful pain fighting ingredients that work for up to 12 hours. and my pharmacist told me it s the only otc pain patch approved for sale using the same rigorous clinical testing that s required for prescription pain medications. proven. powerful. safe. salonpas.
eventually by 2006, the two adults called a cease-fire long enough to hammer out a joint custody agreement, a 50/50 split in parenting. paul, meanwhile, seemed to be getting his groove back. he had managed to work his way from the drugstore counter back into his old environment as a pharmaceutical executive with medco. he also had a girlfriend, a serious new woman in his life who was going to move in with him in the nice but all-too-lonely house in ramsey, new jersey. while paul was talking marriage, the former mrs. duncsak s life was in free fall. money trouble. she hasn t found work after the divorce. she had been sickly with various complaints and now had fallen behind on bank payments for her home. john duncsak says the way his brother saw it, stacey had only one option, to move in with her parents, ed and dottie ates down in florida, but the child custody arrangement wouldn t allow that. every time that stacey had
sister about when he arrived in louisiana, on a tuesday before the wednesday murder of paul duncsak. he has co-opted his sister and his mother into a conspiratorial agreement to hinder his apprehension because it is clear that the truth is he was not there on tuesday. asserted by the prosecution, but still not proven. but that was about to change in most dramatic fashion. the defendant s sister, brenda, took the stand. in a soft voice, she, in effect, ratted out her brother. she recounted how he d asked her to lie to police, to tell them he arrived on her louisiana doorstep on tuesday. now, you knew that was untrue? yes, sir. changing her story, she said her brother had in fact arrived on a thursday, nearly 24 hours after paul duncsak s murder in new jersey. but maybe there was an asterisk next to brenda s testimony. she also admitted on the stand