Credit Card Transactions and Phone Records of me driving from las vegas. But could this little card hold the key . That was just A Shot In The Dark. Absolutely. Was he a calculating killer or was his lifestyle on trial . He made mistakes, but that doesnt make him a monster. Was there one more card up his sleeve . It goes back to him thinking ive bluffed some of the best. The player. Hello and welcome to dateline extra. Im craig melvin. In this hour the story of a Double Murder that was shocking and puzzling. There were no witnesses and few clues. The victims, a respected couple. Their son, it turned out, played poker for a living. Could that lifestyle have had something to do with the crime . The case was a mystery until prosecutors looked again at bloodstained evidence originally gathered from the crime scene. Could that be the key . Heres keith morrison. Not perfect, of course. What is . Ernies mother, the devout mormon, did not approve of his poker playing, apparently. Even though e
detectives pored over thousands of text messages and they got their answer. lo and behold, on her phone there was text messages to her friends describing what that phone conversation was like. reporter: the detective says a message michelle sent her friend samantha boardman explained it all. sam, his death is my fault, like honestly i could have stopped him. i was on the phone with him. and he got out of the car because it was working and he got scared and i f-ing told him to get back in. and as much as we were in shock about her language prior to that, once we read that, that was really disturbing. reporter: prosecutor flynn says another text message to that friend made it clear michelle knew what she d done was wrong. she said, sam, i just found out from his mother that the detectives have some of his things and are are going through them to see if anybody texted him or encouraged him. they read my text messages with him and i m done, his family will hate me, and i cou
not the sort of thing at all you d expect of some hormonally hopped-up lover boy. and as detectives pored over the scanty evidence, they encountered lots of the victims blood but very few useful clues. we were looking for everything. every blood-stained fingerprints. and they found nothing that pointed to ernie. after all those mysterious nike shoe prints were consistent with a size 12 and ernie wore a 9 1/2 or 10. 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 tucker give him entry. no can do, she said, active crime scene and all. he became demanding and even condescending very, very quickly, which surprised me. why did he want to get in the house so badly? he wanted the will. he told you that? he did.
ernie s parents had been callous ly deliberately, brutally murdered. not the sort of thing at all you d expect of some hormonally hopped-up lover boy. and as detectives pored over the scanty evidence, they encountered lots of the victims blood but very few useful clues. we were looking for everything. every blood stained fingerprints. they found nothing that pointed to ernie. those shoe prints were consistent with a size 12 and ernie wore a 9 1/2 or 10. 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 tucker gave him entry. no can do, she said, active crime scene and all. he became demanding and even condescending very, very quickly, which surprised 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. not the sort of thing at all you d expect of some hormonally hopped-up lover boy. and as detectives pored over the scanty evidence, they encountered lots of the victims blood but very few useful clues. we were looking for everything. every blood stained fingerprints. they found nothing that pointed to ernie. those shoe prints were consistent with a size 12 and ernie wore a 9 1/2 or 10. 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 tucker gave him entry. no can do, she said, active