i was very excited. they met in vegas a professional poker player. he s making good money at it. a former trapeze artist, he fell for it, but she did not gamble on this. i could smell the odor of decay, and blood. or this. at every turn there was another woman. married, with a child and women in multiple cities. what else is he capable of? capable of murder? he had an alibi. credit card transactions and phone records of me from las vegas. but could this little card holds the key? we just a shot in the dark? absolutely. we see a calculated killer? or was his lifestyle on trial? he made mistakes. that doesn t make him a monster. was there one more card up his sleeve? it goes back to him thinking, i ve bluffed some of the best. welcome to dateline. it was a perplexing double murder, with no witnesses and no physical evidence. the victims were a respected couple their son, it turned out, played poker for a living, and could
they made in vegas, a professional poker player. he said he s making good money mad at it. a former trap ease artist she fell for it. but she didn t gamble on this. i could smell the odor of decay and blood. or this at every turn there was another married, with a child, and women in multiple cities what else is he capable of? capable of murder? he had an alibi. credit card transactions and phone records of me from las vegas. but could this little card holds the key? we just a shot in the dark? absolutely. we see a calculated killer? or was his lifestyle on trial? he made mistakes. that doesn t make him a monster. was there one more card up his sleeve? it goes back to him thinking, i ve bluffed some of the best. welcome to dateline. it was a perplexing double murder, with no witnesses and no physical evidence. the victims were a respected couple their son, it turned out, played poker for a living, and could that lifestyle have had so
as a poker player, was ernest scherer a professional bluff, or a keeper of secrets. he had shown that he was practiced in deception away from the table as well, holding his cards close. but was he a killer? here, again, with our story is keith morrison. it was, to say the least, eye-opening when detectives encountered adrian solomon, and heard her account of the secret life of ernest scherer the third. i thought, he stole two years from me. not to mention the truly audacious extent of ernie s philandering. but this after all was not some tabloid smackdown. ernie s parents had been callously, brutally, murdered. not the sort of thing you would expect from some hormone hopped up loverboy. and as detectives poured over this county evidence, they encountered lots of the victims blood, but very few useful clues. we were looking for
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
hate-filled manifesto of sorts posted by the suspect online before the rampage. now back to dateline. welcome back to dateline. i m craig melvin. as a poker player ernie scherer was a professional bluffer, a keeper of secrets. he d shown that he was practiced at deception away from the table as well. holding his cards close. but was he a killer? here again with our story is keith morrison. it was, to say the least, eye opening when detectives encountered adrian solomon and heard her account of the secret life of ernie scherer iii. i kind of thought, you know, he stole two years from me. not to mention the truly audacious extent of ernie s philandering. but this, after all, was not some tabloid smackdown. ernie s parents had been callous ly deliberately, brutally murdered.