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He had no motive and was too unhealthy to murder and flee the scene as police claimed. and he couldn't have been in two places at once. in new jersey when paul duncsak was dying and in louisiana where a neighbor named matlock clearly identified him. >> matlock saw him and his car there wednesday night. august 23rd. >> now it was the jury's case. but it wouldn't take long, a little more than a day for it to render a verdict. >> what is your verdict? >> guilty. >> the 12 men and women who had heard the case agreed ed ates had, in fact, murdered his former son-in-law paul duncsak. his "too fat to...

Sheet to him. >> exactly. so you have that luxury. thirdly and most importantly, he insisted. he insisted. he wanted to explain that he didn't do it. >> just as had he with "dateline," edward etas told the jury his version of those computer searches and the trip north a week before paul duncsak's death. but in so doing, he left himself open to the prosecution's cross-examination. >> had you murdered paul duncsak in cold blood and fled that scene driving to your mother's home? isn't that the truth? >> no, sir, that is not true. >> the victim's brother, john duncsak said he listened to ed ates' ...

Powered by adrenaline keeps you awake four hours? five hours, six hours, then you have a crash. but adrenaline can't run 24 hours. >> the defense was telling the jury it had been presented no direct evidence to tie ed ates to the murder of his former son-in-law, and medically there was no earthly way he could have done it. and yet there was all that circumstantial evidence still to explain away, that odd trip to pennsylvania and new jersey the week before the murder, the damning computer searches, and there was only one person left who could do that. coming up -- ed ates takes the stand in h...

I didn't have a real feeling for him as far as any other way. >> and he gambled by telling that story directly to the jury itself. >> now why in violation of all of the rules of perception of trial law 101 did you elect to put him on the stand? >> this is a very intelligent man, number one. the vast majority of cases you're having people who have problems successly, he has no prior convicts. he has no criminal record. >> so you can't read back a rap sheet to him? >> exactly. so you have that luxury. thirdly and most importantly, he insisted. he insisted. he wanted to explain that he didn't do ...

Wednesday night, august 23rd. now it was the jury's case, but it wouldn't take long. just a little more than a day for it to render a verdict. >> what is your verdict? >> guilty. the 12 men and women who heard the case agreed that edwardat as murdered his son-in-law, paul dunnsack. these two jurors said the panel rejected it completely. >> he held his hand out, shot a gun and went to the neighbor's yard and got in a car and drove. >> they found the prosecution's evidence, circumstantial, though it was, pointed overwhelmingly to the man's guilt. the computer searches, the sister's testimony, th...