dramatic. he said no, this is really happening. and from inside his million dollar dream house. suddenly he started to scream. shot to death, a crime of passion, said police. somebody wanted this man dead very, very badly. the question was who? his ex? she was losing everything. or someone else? the arrest was starting. the strategy in the courtroom, that was the biggest surprise of all. he s overweight, out of shape, too fat. yes. was this suspect too fat to kill? thanks for joining us, i m ann curry. a devoted father gunned down by someone on the stairs. it s a crime that made news because of its unusual defense. the suspect argued he was too obese to carry out the killing. the argument swayed the jury. here s dennis murphy. the world of pills.
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it s reconnaissance. paul duncsak for the week s prior followed the same pattern day in and day out. same pattern, he s punching in, punching out. you could set your watch to him. well put. the sergeant also testified to those wiretaps, the ones in which edward ates reminds his sister about when he arrived in louisiana, on a tuesday before the wednesday murder of paul duncsak. he has co-opted his sister and his mother into a conspiratorial agreement to hinder his apprehension because it is clear that the truth is he was not there on tuesday. asserted by the prosecution, but still not proven. but that was about to change in most dramatic fashion. the defendant s sister, brenda, took the stand. in a soft voice, she, in effect, ratted out her brother. she recounted how he d asked her to lie to police, to tell them he arrived on her louisiana doorstep on tuesday.
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 said he was away and she had no idea how to reach him. the detective out of bergen county, new jersey. he is essentially out of touch for 24 hours from the time of the murder, and he s the person that we re looking to talk to, and when you have that type of situation, it starts throwing up red flags. the night after the murder, thursday it, ed ates did return the police s calls. he told them he was currently in louisiana at his elderly mother s. obviously the new jersey detectives were eager to interview ates in person, so they flew to louisiana. by the time they arrived, the one-time father-in-law had already hired a lawyer and
you know and you re begging not to be killed, wouldn t you use their name? it seems illogical to me. that s what you would say to the intruder with the ski mask, that s right. oh, no, no, no. that s exactly right. paul didn t know the killer. but the defense had a lot of ground to make up, starting with the defendant s initial ally, which his sister seemed to smash to bits. she told the court her brother had asked her to lie to police, to say he arrived in louisiana on tuesday, one day before the murder of paul duncsak instead of one day after on thursday. on cross, the defense lawyer tried to show that brenda, a nice woman, was easily confused. if i told you that the detective sat where you are and said that brenda ates told me she gets confused, would that be true? occasionally, i do. i have diabetes and i do occasionally get my mind she believed the truth was what the detectives told her it
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