he really wanted a boy. so it was wonderful. not perfect, of course. what is? ernie s mother, the devout mormon, did not approve of his poker playing, apparently. even though ernie s father loved poker and they often played together. he really seemed to like his father and respect his father. they seemed to be close. so why didn t they want to meet her? it was frankly a little hard to understand. how he explained it to me, his mother did not approve of our relationship because i was not mormon and we traveled around together and were living a life of sin or whatever. the scarlet woman. exactly. and when she did meet ernie s dad once, it didn t go so well. so we were in the lobby of caesar s and he started to say this is adrian. he said, i know who she is and turned his back to me. wow. yeah. i don t think i ve ever been so offended in my life. anyway, by then the bloom had faded.
and he said that the cops are starting to harass him a little bit. and again adrian calmed him down. all normal police procedure, she told him. you always hear that they have to look at family first. and so that s just what they were doing. but ernie was a mess, asked to see her again. so adrian arranged to meet him at her next business stop in dallas. be a support again. be a support again, exactly. but adrian had no way of knowing what was coming. or what that news would do to her. it was horrible. i think i started shaking. what was wrong with me that i didn t see this? was it about the murder? no. no, it was something else altogether. coming up, revelations about the double life of a man she thought she knew. he did it in las vegas. he did it in new orleans. he did it everywhere he went. what else had he done? when the player continues.
the police are listening to this phone call, i m assuming. right? i guess. i have no idea. and in this game of poker it was hard to say who was playing whom. in the end there was no smoking gun, but was ernie spooked a little? was that why he reached out again to adrian solomon with this request? i m really hoping we can end up back together. he told her, said adrian, he was thinking of changing his lifestyle, quitting poker, if only she d take him back. well, she was a different adrian now. i think i kind of felt more powerful in that conversation than i had with him in a long time because i know that i don t trust a single word that he says. meanwhile, back in vegas, detectives learn that just days before the murders ernie scherer had made a rather unusual request of this man. his name is david mock. he asked me if i would do something slightly illegal for
world had gone crazy. he s a poker player and he had made his mistakes, obviously, with the women in his life. but i mean, that s a very far jump from being a poker player to murdering your parents. but back home in north carolina, when adrian solomon heard about ernie s arrest did you believe he could have done such a thing? i believe that he could have and for me that was enough. a date was set for trial based on circumstantial evidence. even though that mystery dna at the crime scene was never identified. even though not one piece of direct evidence connected ernie to any murder weapon or those mysterious nike footprints. remember, they were consistent with a size 12 and ernie wore 9 1/2 or 10. and you knew that one of the lines that was coming had to be a defense attorney couldn t resist it was if those shoes don t fit you must acquit. absolutely. and a jury just might look at that.
rest of her life. i was in a taxi headed from the airport to the hotel in dallas and my phone rings and it is a detective. she listened to him say he was investigating the death of ernie s parents and he had a question. and he said, i know you guys have broke up, but can you tell me how long this affair lasted. affair? why did he use that word? why would you say that? we dated exclusively for two years. you don t know what you re talking about, she told him. he said, so you didn t know that he was married and has a child? i said what are you talking about? i said to him, why would i believe you? but by the time she hung up the phone, adrian knew she did believe him. all of the puzzle pieces came together in my head. suddenly it all made sense. why he never wanted her to see his apartment or meet his