it was the 23rd of march, 2008. ernie sheerer iii, a person of interest in it the particularly violent murder of his parents, quite suddenly got out of dodge. he was gone. a guilty conscience or an innocent plan fed up with negative attention? detectives back in alameda county, california, did not panic. ernie probably didn t know it, but an enterprising officer fitted his car, his deceased father s car, with a gps tracking device. for a majority of the time we knew where he was. and the car, plus ernie s regular visits to social media dating sites, led the police to a number of young women he, well, met. like the one in new orleans who called the police after a strange night with a man who first told her he was writing a novel about a gambler who is a suspect in his parents murder and who then told her his own