little melodramatic. you think the guy s paranoid. absolutely. and he said, no, this is really happening. i know nobody believes me. with all this drama going on, when stacey took the kids for vacation the second week in august of 2006, paul was all but convinced he would never see them again. michael, the best friend, tried to cheer him up, changing the subject to the exciting new chapter. his fiancee would be moving in with him in a few days. in fact, paul was on his cell phone with her as he pulled into his driveway after work on wednesday, august 23rd. as the fiances chatted, he remarked about an empty hamburger wrapper lying on the floor. then he took her to task for leaving the central air conditioner going full blast. paul was being paul and made the crack, i can t believe you left the freaking air conditioner on. she said, no, i didn t. that s when she heard paul scream and the line go dead. his months of growing fear had been validated by at least seven gunshots at c
sister s testimony, the mystery trip to new jersey. he knew the comings and goings of paul, so he was in the house waiting. 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 you really sunk ed ates for these jurors was his decision to testify directly. it all snapped together. i was certainly in shock that he took the stand, and then all of a sudden, when the change of the story of when he actually got there. he changed his story as well? just the changing of the story, we went from tuesday to wednesday to thursday. the wiretaps. i think that all certainly played into it. you are guilty. later in court, the victim s brother john duncsak vented his fury at the man who took his brother s life and robbed his children of their father. the defendant s decision to take the life of a human being with no regard for the effect that it may have on others is
his new son-in-law to invest in various business schemes. paul s fellow pharmacist and best friend tried to give him advice. i told him be careful. that you don t know the guy. things can happen to your money. and the business went bust, didn t it? the business went bust, yes. by the end of 2003, after four years of marriage and two kids, paul and stacey were over and out, heading for divorce. the father-in-law says the soured business deals had nothing to do with his daughter s marriage going bust. ed ates says paul duncsak had come to recent stacey, suffering from an illness that paralyzed her face. apparently he wanted to be rid of her after she got disfigured. she wasn t a trophy wife no more. as paul told it, it was stacy who was the problem. he told friends she was abusing prescription drugs. she deny it had and allegedly told her father that her husband was selling those drugs on the black market.
same daycare as paul could not fathom why he was so hush-hush about anyone learning who his new employer was. downright weird. please do not notice me if you ever see me over at the day care. i don t want anybody to know where i am working. but three weeks later, she ran into him at that daycare and innocently said hello. back at the office he went nuts on her. very, very arrogantly and very mad. just pointed his finger at me and said, i thought we had this conversation. i thought i told you never to talk to me outside of this office. i mean to the point that i was very scared. even his good friend michael hertz thought paul was starting to lose it. after all, the divorce and custody issue had been settled. he had no reason to fear his ex. i said, paul, you know, really, i think you re being a
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 the kids, my brother was always and behind that fear of losing his kids was an even darker threat. paul shared it with his friend nancy bagley one afternoon as their kids swam in his backyard. he said that earlier that summer his pool had been sabotaged, its heater cranked up to a piping 101 degrees. he was convinced it was no accident. he said i am afraid for my life. i remember looking at the other mom, and we were just frozen. i mean we really were. pretty soon word was getting with his new business associates that paul duncsak was a man looking over his shoulder. co-worker janie who used the