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>> he told her, said adrian, he was thinking of changing his lifestyle, quitting poker, if only she would take him back. but she was a different adrian now. >> i think i kind of felt more powerful in that conversation than i had with him in a long time. because i know that i don't trust a single word that he says. >> meanwhile, back in vegas, detectives learned that, just days before the murders, ernie had made a rather unusual request of this man. his name is david mark. >> he asked me if i would do something slightly illegal for $300. >> dave it is a professional piano player in vegas. >> he says, oh, i'm looking to get a gun. because i'm a professional gambler. and i carry a lot of money. i thought, no. i'm not going to do that. >> and investigators discovered ernie also asked david's performance partner to buy him a gun, and offered another friend $50,000 to point the finger of suspicion away from

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look at him during the entire time i was in the, room during the entire testimony. >> was it enough for the jury? ernie's defense jumped to its task, arguing that the evidence the red chevy camera and the surveillance video, the dead cell phone around the time of the murders, asking his friends to buy a gun? all of that could have been simply coincidence, it could be explained away. and besides, said the defense, there was actual physical evidence to prove someone other than ernie committed the crime. that speck of unidentified dna and found one of those bloody shoe prints at the crime scene. the prosecution argued it was just a mistake of contamination. but did it point to the real killer? as for the so-called jackpot evidence, the cash purchase of the nike sneakers and baseball bat and glove? who knows who bought those said the defense, but it was not ernie. anyway, those nike sneakers were a size 12, but ernie wore a nine and a half or a ten.

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they would receive their inheritance at the age of 30. >> did you determine how old ernest was? >> i did. ernest scherer iii the third would turn 30 in july. and his parents were killed in march. >> bernie's father had a couple million invested in real estate, though at the time of his death the value of the state was certainly shrinking right along with housing prices. still, was it even remotely possible ernie would kill his parents to cash in on an inheritance? the detectives had a look at bernie's financial decision. and you know how some professional poker players claim claim they win a lot? maybe not. at least not in ernie's case. >> we learned that he had 60 some odd thousand dollars in credit card debt. and he also, in talking with different casinos, he had lost a significant amount of money in the tune of 80,000 or $90,000 in his play in the last year.

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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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was the trial go on trial for the murder of his parents. prosecutors poured over the evidence, scott do that and his detectives had collected. was there anything else? anything they had missed? that might be used to seal the case against bernie sure? and that's when they sought. something quite odd. >> they came across a piece of paper that we had collected that had blood droplets on it. >> just one small piece of paper which one of the detectives picked up from the bloody floor of the murder scene, a few feet away from the lifeless body of ernie's father, ernest scherer jr. -- it was a warranty card for a baseball bat. that's all it was, it was no big deal, except when police searched through that, has searched search everywhere for, it's one thing they did not find was a baseball bat. >> and they just thought it was

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there were trips. she, to vegas, and he to meet her in places like aruba, mexico. and when they, ernie told adrienne, he loved her. >> it was very exciting. >> ernie travel to adrienne's home base in north carolina, several times, and got to know her family, her mother lynn. >> who is charming. and he was very comfortable with us and us with him. >> we talked about marriage. we were looking at engagement rings. >> they actually talked about children. >> if the first one was a girl, of course he would love her, but he really wanted a boy. >> so, it was wonderful. not perfect, of course. what is? ernie's mother, the devout mormon, did not approve of his poker playing, apparently. even though bernie's father loved poker, in fact they often played together. >> he really seemed to like his father and respect his father. they seemed to be close. >> so, why didn't they want to meet her? it was, frankly, a little hard to understand.

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her ex boyfriend's parents had been murdered, she wanted to be there to support bernie, especially now that he said police were harassing him. >> i knew everything about him. we dated for a couple years. of course, he couldn't have done. this. >> ernie told her he could meet her on her upcoming business trip to dallas. and she arrived just as it had happened. the moment she will recall with absolute clarity for the rest of her life. >> i was in taxi, headed from the airport to the hotel in dallas. and my phone rings. and it is a detective. >> she listen to him say he was investigating the death of our needs parents, and he had a question. >> he said, i know that you guys broke up. but can you tell me how long this affair lasted?

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and he was not able to tell us. we asked him, what television show did you watch? he wasn't able to tell us. >> and then, when they checked ernie's cell phone records, they found an unusual gap in transmission, right around the time of the murder. from the afternoon of march 7th to the early morning of march 8th, 17 hours 46 minutes ernie's phone did not register on any self power anywhere. >> he was just a guy that was constantly talking on his cell phone. so, the fact that there is a 17 hour window window where he is not using it was definitely suspicious to us. >> but as the investigators suspicions grew, just as they felt they might possibly be closing in on something, ernest scherer iii disappeared. >> following the trail, connecting the dots, police turn up a strange story. coming up -- >> he asked me if i would do something slightly illegal for $300. >> but was the smoking gun they needed?

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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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had some, or at least ernest did. >> ernie was a very passionate person and -- he wasn't afraid to let you know how he felt. >> guy houston, a former california state assemblyman, new ernest scherer for his extreme fiscal conservatism in his work with the republican party and with a local school board. >> he did make people angry, but there was a lot of political, it wasn't on a personal basis, it was all political. >> besides, what happened to them was too ugly even for politics. and as for charlene -- >> i didn't know anybody who didn't 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 she had also been doing professionally for decades as in the county 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?

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