interviewed, it all led to ed ates. ed ates. stacey s father. paul s friend michael told the police the same thing when he learned of the death. he even thought he might try to nail him next. we all walked around wondering if we were next on the hit list. you thought there was an enemies list of friends of paul? yes, exactly. homicide detectives always pose the question, who benefitted from the murder. and here the victim s brother and best friend are telling the police that stacey unquestionably stood to gain from her ex s death. she would be free to move to florida with her children and raise them with money from the million-dollar trust fund paul had set up for them. and who was the shooter in this theory? her father. giving his daughter a monstrous and bloody gift of liberation from a man they both loathed. so detectives tried to call ed ates at his home in florida. they say his wife dottie
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murder and his wife arrested for obstruction of justice. the authorities thought they had their man for the crime, but how were they going break his alibi story? in louisiana on tuesday, the day before the killing, the relatives had circled the wagons around big ed ates who was about to tell the world a larger-than-life story about why he couldn t have possibly killed the man he once called family. coming up drama in the court as ed ates sister takes the stand she was his alibi, but what will she say under oath? i wanted to do what i thought was the right thing to do. when too fat to kill continues. re in a rut. ever since that ol broom dumped me here. oh, oh. oooh! will love ever come my way? oh my! i believe in miracles [ male announcer ] swiffer attracts dirt. swiffer sweeper s new, thicker cloths get deep into ridges
and i m just a simple lady who gives people baths in a nursing home. if that s what you say, it must be true. but the defense was about to tell the jury something really surprising. sister brenda hadn t been the only one who got it all wrong about when ed ates made it to louisiana. the defendant himself now said he had misspoken in those damning wiretaps about arriving on tuesday. you were there when i got there on tuesday. yes. in fact, the lawyer said, ed ates had arrived in louisiana not on tuesday, the day before the murder, and not on thursday, the day after the murder after the police claimed. ates was now saying he had gotten to louisiana on wednesday at around the very hour paul duncsak was being killed in new jersey. to verify the amended day, a man who lived in the same neighborhood as ates mother and sister took the stand. his name was matlock, and he remembered seeing ed ates and his car on a louisiana block on wednesday.
how to commit the perfect murder. looking for books on making your own silencer at home for a weapon. that doesn t look good. those are bad facts to bring into a murder case. out of context, yes. fox and friend, they were discussing how to commit a murder and about the book being ganed. i looked is it really banned and is it available on the internet. did you lie in wait on your son-in-law and then shoot him with a 22 seven times when he came in the door. no, sir. did you hear him say no, no, no, hit the floor, give him one in the groin for your daughter staysy? no, sir. i wasn t there. out the back door and drive 21 hours? no, sir. and motive, ates tells you is where motive fall apart. he had no reason to avenge his daughter or have his son-in-law dead. i didn t have anything to get even for. they had a marriage. they had a divorce. he never did anything to me.