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 ernies 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 didnt 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 ernies dad once, it didnt go so well. So we were in the lobby of caesars and he started to say this is adrian. He said, i know who she is and turned his back to me. Wow. Yeah. I dont think ive ever been so offended in my life. Anyway, by then the bloom had faded. Wasnt going to be a marriage or children. For probably the last six months of our relationship i think we both knew that it wasnt going anywhere. And in February Of 2008 they broke it off. So maybe thats why weeks later she didnt hear right away about what happened. We need emergency. We need everybody now. What kind of problem . I dont know. Didnt hear about the grisly Double Murder or that one of the victims was named Ernest Scherer. Coming up, was one of the victims the man she had loved . It didnt seem like Something Like that could really have happened to someone i know. When the player continues. sup, world . Its the box with 30 savings for safe drivers. Coming at you with my brandnew vlog. Just making some ice in my freezer here. So check back for that followup vid. This is my cashew guy bruno. Holler at em, brun. Kicking it live and direct here at the fountain. Should i go habanero or maui onion . Should i buy a chinchilla . Comment below. Did i mention i save people 620 for switching . Chinchilla update got that chinchilla after all. Say what up, rocco. Say what up, rocco. But some of us Make Somethinge make sommuch more. Dinner. With blue apron, any night is a chance to see what cooking can do. Scherer. They talked about marriage and having children yet eventually their marriage fell apart. Weeks after a shocking tragedy and frightening turn of events would put the couple back in contact. Here again is keith morrison. Adrian solomon was putting lifes pieces back together. Her twoyear romance with Ernie Scherer once appearing marriage bound he deflated and failed. A couple weeks later she was in San Francisco when her phone chirped, text message from an acquaintance. She said i heard about his parents, let me know if theres anything i can do. Adrian got herself to a computer and got herself online and saw the appalling story. And learned that they had been murdered. It was surreal. It didnt seem like Something Like that could really have happened to someone i know. Not her ernie, thankfully, but ernies parents. Ere Ernie Scherer jr. And his wife Charlene Abendroth murdered. Found dead in their own house which was in an upscale country club right across the San Francisco bay from adrians hotel. And now, of course, the house was a crime scene where even the season lead detective scott dudek was horrified by what he saw. It was probably the most gruesome brutal Homicide Scene ive ever seen. It was march 14th, 2008, when the call came in. A country Club Employee had seen what looked like a body through the scherers window. Detective Kirsten Tucker was one of the first on the scene. As i approached the front door of the home, i could smell the odor of decay and blood from quite a distance away. And inside was like a war zone. Blood everywhere. And the battered bodies of two people who had clearly fought for their lives. The bodies had suffered extensive, extensive injuries. It wasnt just the odor that told investigators the bodies had been here a while. There was a weeks worth of newspapers that had been uncollected. They narrowed the time of death had to be some time between friday evening, March 7th The Last Time anyone saw them, and march 8th. Method of death . Hard to be sure. No Murder Weapon lying around but theyd been hit repeatedly by some sort of blunt instrument and sliced by what must have been a very big knife or sword. What happened here . Was it a Home Invasion robbery . Possible, judging from the mess. And Ernest Scherer was a wealthy Real Estate Investor who was known to carry cash around. Detective mike norton. In the victims bedroom, the drawers had been pulled out, a lot of clothes thrown on the floor. A decorative sword was missing and two jade statues. Likely expensive. But wait a minute. Maybe it wasnt a robbery. Her purse was present on the kitchen table. There was jewelry. In the fathers pants pocket which were in his bedroom, there was a large amount of cash. 9,000 in cash rolled up in his jeans pocket. And that was untouched . Untouched. So was the crime scene staged to hide something more sinister than robbery . Why did they find that odd and very obvious pattern of bloody shoe prints but only around the bodies . And the shoe prints would go back and forth to each victim but they just disappeared. You were thinking how did this person get out . Still, easy enough to id the shoe prints. There was an obvious nike swoosh right there in the middle. Little checking revealed it was a nike impact tomahawk. Big. Maybe close to size 12. But who wore them . Who would do such an awful thing . And why . In our area we just didnt have a husband and wife in their 60s in a multimilliondollar neighborhood killed for no reason. Investigators poked around the scherers background looking for enemies with motive and it turned out they had some, or at least ernest did. Ernie was a passionate person in his views and he wasnt afraid to let you know how he felt. Guy houston, a former california state assemblyman, knew Ernest Scherer for his extreme Fiscal Conservatism for his work with the republican part write and the local school board. He did make people angry but it was all on a political, not a personal basis. It was all political. Besides, what happened to them was too ugly even for politics. And as for charlene i dont know anybody who didnt like her. Here was her friend from the mormon church. Her confidence, her command, her good heart, her ability to reach out and help people. Which shed also been doing
professionally for decades as an Accounting Teacher said this colleague at cal state east bay. She not only wanted to help the students with the particular subject area and the class, she also wanted to help the students with their career and their life. So who was responsible . Who knew . Not a suspect in sight. I instantly got my phone out and sent him a text message. The minute Adrian Solomon heard what happened, she reached out for her ernie. They decided to meet in San Francisco for dinner that very night. Even though we werent in a relationship anymore, wed been friends for a long time. I felt good that i was able to be there for him. He got really upset during dinner. I was just there to be a Listening Board for him. And that was that. Until a few days later when ernie phoned again very upset. And he said that the cops are starting to harass him a little bit. And again adrian calmed him
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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 ernies 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 dont know what youre talking about, she told him. He said, so you didnt 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 parents, why his dad snubbed her that time in the casino. He had been married all along to a woman named robin and had a young son, ernest iv, and every good opinion adrian had of him and her and her own judgment flew out the window of that dallas cab. Im a smart person. How could i not have put all these pieces together . We talked about having kids together. And he wanted to have a boy. Well, he already had a boy. What is going on . Things happened quickly then. Quickly and painfully. My phone rang and it was him. I said listen, the cops just called and so he asked what did they tell you. I was like, well, i know youre married. He was like, its in name only. Its not a true marriage. He said let me come there and explain the whole thing to you. I said like, i dont want to see you. Please just go. He wouldnt. He refused. She met him in the lobby. Then he tried to explain everything away. He couldnt, of course, and she sat there half listening. Equilibrium gone and a bad feeling. I was hurt and angry with him and myself and it was just unbelievable to think that those two years had been a sham. Yes. And in fact more than one sham, a whole quilt of shams. Detectives back in Northern California had begun to uncover details of a double life which had been, shall we say, prodigious. It seemed like at every turn there was another woman this guy had some involvement with. It was coming out of the woodwork. There was quite a few of them. He said he was recently single. Like pamela icles, for example, who responded to ernies ad in 2008 in the Dating Section of craigslist in las vegas. She met him for drinks. Ernies personality was very nice, friendly. The two had plans to have dinner march 14th, 2008. But about 2 00 in the afternoon, said pamela, ernie called to cancel. Saying he needed to go home. That his parents house was broken into and burglarized. And they were both murdered. But in the weeks after the murder ernies Craigslist Conquest resumed. He did it in las vegas. He did it in new orleans. He did it everywhere he went. And he got lots of responses. Does that surprise you . It surprised me that he was able to form the level of intimacy very rapidly with so many different women that he did. Kimberly olson was one of them. Kimberly formed a very intimate relationship with Ernie Scherer. Met him in September 2008 six months after his parents murder. She was at a casino in mesquite, nevada. He came over and said he needed a pretty girl to blow on
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