Extra: Ernie Scherer interrogation excerpt | Forensic Files

Just go. Just go in there. Okay. If you sit right there for me, I I would hope that you would understand that I've
been, you know, honest with you and and I would just appreciate, you know, the same thing from you and then we can we
can go on the important thing about finding out who killed your parents. You know, Friday, I left Las Vegas uh around
12:30, I want to say, in the afternoon. Um, there will be credit card transactions and phone records of me
driving from Las Vegas back to Brea, California. I got to my home, I want to say around 5:00 in the evening. I was
exhausted. I was waking up the next day to play bridge with my grandfather. I had to be at his house at 7:00 a.m.,
which meant I had to wake up at like 5:30. So, I got inside. I crashed on the sofa, fell asleep, just me I turned on
TV, fell asleep. I was dead tired. Woke up a couple hours later, brushed my teeth, took a shower, watched a movie,
and went to bed. woke up at 5:30. I was at my grandfather's at 7. There will be phone records that I was in my house at
6:00 a.m. because I turned my phone on at 6. So, I was at my house. You can you'll be able to track me to my house
until 5:00 p.m. on Friday night and then you'll be able to track that I was at my
house at 6:00 a.m. 13 hours later on Saturday morning. You said you get inside your house. Um, nobody's home.
You throw on the TV, caution on the couch for a little bit. Do you recall how long you were asleep for? Uh, I
probably woke up around 8 and then uh watched a movie and and went to bed. Brushed my teeth and went to bed. You
know, don't get mad at me. You're hiding something. And I don't think it's the fact that you're hiding that you went
and killed your dad. Maybe it's you were somewhere else you weren't supposed to be. I'm I'm really I'm I'm asking you.
I'm just asking you. But if if just I'm you know, I've been doing this a long time and I'm just wondering if you were
doing something else and you don't want to tell us about it. Question. I'm not trying to hide anything. It's just like
when you throw down the poker hand, even though you played a good poker face, either you have a royal flesh or you
don't or whatever. You see what I'm saying? Absolutely. Cuz the cards speak for themselves. Absolutely. All right.
So, we've all talked about it in my family and everybody understands my alibi is not real strong. Do you know
anybody that had any involvement in your parents' murder? No. Go look around. Go
look at cases on TV. Highrof. Every Usually somebody that's killed is somebody by somebody they know. What
makes them hard to solve is somebody they

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Brief Summary

A suspect discusses their alibi in a murder case involving their parents, raising questions about honesty and family dynamics.

Key points

The Alibi. The speaker discusses their alibi and the timeline of events surrounding a murder.
Questioning Involvement. The speaker asks if the other person knows anyone involved in their parents' murder.

Episode highlights

The AlibiThe speaker discusses their alibi and the timeline of events surrounding a murder.“My alibi is not real strong.”2:00Dec 4, 2013

Episode quotes

I'm just asking you.

A plea for honesty in a tense conversation.

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