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>> but that was not the worst of it. not even close. by march of 2008, when the murders happened, real estate in california is huffing and puffing on its face to the bottom. and six months before that, ernie the son wanted to buy a house in the city of brea in southern california, but couldn't get a loan. banks were not quite so sanguine anymore about the security of a poker players income. so, he borrowed the money from ernest the father, 616,000. but then real estate started tanking. so father ernest asked son ernie to go to a bank, refinance, pay back his loan. and bernie could not. >> he was frantic trying to refinance his home. >> and at the time they were killed, he had missed a mortgage payment to his parents for the first time. >> so, this is approaching some sort of crisis? >> that's what we felt, yes. >> so, motive? well, maybe. investigators told ernie they wanted to talk. and he agreed to come down to the station, where he explained

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that their suspicions were groundless. ernie had an alibi. >> there would be a credit card transactions, and phone records of may driving from las vegas back to bray, a california. >> the night of the murder, said early, he was in california, hours an hours away from his parents house. he had driven from las vegas that afternoon, stop for gas and a bite to eat at mcdonald's in -- nevada. and yes, there were credit card records to prove it. he arrived home around five p m, fellow sleep on the couch for a bit, watch the movie on tv, and went to bed. wife and son were away, he said. and bright and early the next morning, he made his elderly grandfather for a bridge tournament, which his grandfather ernest the first confirmed. still, detectives had some questions that ernie surely should have been able to answer, shouldn't he have? >> so we asked him, what roe did you take to get you home

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> welcome to dateline. it was a perplexing double murder, with no witnesses and no physical evidence. the victims were a respected couple their son, it turned out, played poker for a living, and could that lifestyle have had something to do with the crime? the case was a mystery until prosecutors examined bloodstain evidence from the crime scene. could that be the key? here's keith morrison? >> it was your first time in las vegas. her first look at that famous strip outside -- it's gaudy, cavernous casinos. but for endless electronic clatter, and darker places, where many suits hounded hovered over the studied calm of wishful thinking. >> and there was adrien solomon.

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ernie probably didn't know it by then enterprising officer fitted his car, his deceased father's car with a gps tracking device. >> for majority of the time when you hear he was. >> and the car, plus attorneys visits to social media dating sites led the police to a number of young people, he met, like the one in new orleans who call the police after strange night with a man who first told her he was writing a novel about a gambler who was a suspect in his parents murder, and who then told her his own parents had been murdered. and when she went back to his hotel room, he had rigged it with bungee cords, so if someone came to get him, he had a plan to escape. >> who is going to break the window of the hotel room, and he was going to basically repel out the hotel room window. >> so, did she, quite understandably, hightail it out of there? >> no, she chose to stay. >> stayed the night. >> she did. >> meanwhile, lead detective dudek called in reinforcements,

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>> a fair? why did he use that word? >> why do you say that? we dated exclusively for two years. you don't know what you are talking about, she told him. >> he said, so you did not know that he is married and has a child? and i said, what are you talking about? and i said why would i believe you? >> 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 makes sense, why he never wanted her to see his apartment. or meet his parents. why his dad snubbed her that time at the casino. he had been married all along to a woman named robin, and have a young son, ernest the fourth, and every good opinion adrian had of him, and her, and her own judgment, flew out the window of that dallas cab. >> i'm a smart person. how could i not put all these pieces together? we talked about having kids together. and he wanted to have a boy?

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>> all of the puzzle pieces came together. >> suddenly, it all makes sense, why he never wanted her to see his apartment. why his dad snapped her that time at the casino. -- he had been married all along. to a woman name robin, and have a young son, ernest the fourth, and every good opinion adrian had of him, and her, and her own judgment, flew out the window of that dallas cab. >> i'm a smart person. how could i not put all these pieces together? we talked about having kids together. and he wanted to have a boy? he already had a boy. what is going on? >> things happen quickly, then. quickly and painfully. >> my phone rang, it was him. listen, the cops just called. and so he asked, what did they tell you. -- not really married, it's not a true marriage. let me come there and explain the whole thing to you. i don't want to see you.

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