Ex-son-in-law s neighborhood. 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. now, you knew that was untrue? yes, sir.
He told the court he d seen a green van with a mysterious woman inside it around the time of the murder, but the tip seemed to be one of those investigative red herrings. i did not then nor do i now believe that that van was involved in this murder. instead the prosecutors said the evidence gathered in the months after the murder showed that the killer was far from a nameless intruder. it was, in fact, someone who knew paul duncsak well and plotted his death carefully. what we have here as a search string is how to commit a perfect murder. a forensic expert provided damning testimony against the defendant. he explained how a computer used by edward ates and later seized by police yielded the ghosts of past online searches. is it true that on the hard drive they found a search asking the question, how do you commit the perfect murder? that is true. he researched how to pick a lock and purchased a lock pit set. he researched silencers, and he
U.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner is welcoming spain s decision to ask for a bank bailout. euro zone finance ministers say they re willing to loan spanish backs up to $145 billion. a fast-moving wildfire in northern colorado is forcing the evacuation of morn 40 homes there. the fire is said to have burned more than 200 acres. now back to our program. this wasn t how edward ronald ates, a highly decorated computer analyst for the military, figured he d be spending his retirement years, inside a courtroom in a defendant s chair on trial. would you please step from the jury box. and yet the state of new jersey was about to tell 12
Would purchase two books on silencers. he researched .22 caliber weapons. and not only did edward ates research guns, the prosecutors said he owned them, too. please raise your right hand. to emphasize that point, he called an extremely reluctant witness for the prosecution, stacey duncsak, the daughter of edward ates and ex-wife of the victim. it would be fair to say that your dad has a good knowledge of guns? he has a knowledge of them. okay. in fact, you know that in 2006 he certainly owned a gun. yes, sir. the prosecutor was trying to show that the defendant was not only comfortable around guns, but also had planned his murder like assassin, surveilling his intended victim in the week before the crime. the court was told the story of the cell tower hits and cell phone records that put edwards ates squarely in his
To make a better experience for our customers. [ male announcer ] it s a network of possibilities helping you do what you do. even better. the prosecution had painted edward ates as a liar, a schemer, and worst of all, a cold-blooded killer, but as his lawyer was about to assert, those were just words. where was the hard evidence of ates guilt in the murder of paul duncsak? well, first of all, i knew walking into the courtroom every morning they would presume he was guilty. the myth that everyone is innocent unless proven guilty is false. we walk in knowing that the