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The Country Club Murders

August 4, 2012 7:45 PM

A smooth-talking professional poker player is under suspicion for the brutal murder of his parents. Did skyrocketing debt push this former high roller to savagely kill? Peter Van Sant reports.

Poker pro suspected in double murder
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by PapaMoses April 14, 2013 6:07 PM EDT
This is heartbreaking! It's hard to believe a son could take the lives of the very two whom gave him life. I can't get my head around this nightmare! I do believe he's guilty. I wonder what his mother and father were thinking when their only son was killing them. Lord help us.
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by Hetaira3 February 9, 2013 6:25 PM EST
What an horrible person was this guy!!!!!!!! Seriously did he think police wouldn't catch him??? In the moment he left his home he was lost. He wasn't so intelligent as he thought he was. Sometimes you cannot avoid to think what kind of people is walking in the streets.
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by sandraqcharney September 21, 2012 12:59 AM EDT
Wow - I guess this freak is sorry he missed the almost 9K in his fathers pants - guess he was suffering from 'tunnel vision' - what a scary guy - it makes one wonder who he owed $ too - that he would kill his parents and loose everyone - but then gambling is an addiction - and he was obviously 'in' deep - how sad all around - and some of the ladies he was involved with I mean really? you don't clue in there is something wrong with a guy who baracades himself in a hotel room? what a looney tune - no wonder he had the delusion of thinking himself smarter than most -
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by dunny510 August 26, 2012 3:21 AM EDT
oh my god i Was in santa rita jail being held With in ernie scherer c-pod ad-seg We became good friends but i never kneW he Was a murderer knoWing What I knoW noW i feel creeped out
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by MarciaAnnS August 14, 2012 2:47 PM EDT
ugh! The sister of the family seemed like a cold hearted witch, even with telling of her parents death. She made me sick. Couldn't finish this..
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by dama350 August 13, 2012 4:30 AM EDT
This was good police work. I was hoping the man had not killed his parents.
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by WakeUpPeople001 August 7, 2012 12:56 PM EDT
Hey, CBS, why won't you allow readers to comment on "A Killer Defense" (July 26, 2011)? Social engineering?
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by AmberTanner85 August 6, 2012 5:30 PM EDT
Wow this one was a close call.. I cant believe he almost got away with killing his parents.
Why do some people kill the ones the love for money this is something I will never understand this story it heartbreaking.
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by liskothe August 5, 2012 5:18 PM EDT
dont care
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by WakeUpPeople001 August 5, 2012 4:33 AM EDT
No justification for the murders. None.

However...

Ernie (the son) is clearly the genetic black sheep of the family. Even his wife, Robin, seems more like a member of the family than Ernie.

I'm guessing that Ernie's parents rode him too much to become a success like his father. His mother probably maligned Ernie the most, so she received the most blows to the head.

Parents need to accept their kids as is. If Ernie wasn't endowed with the abilities to rise to his father's level, then his parents should have allowed him to become his own person.

The family is devout Mormon? In that case, they should've known the story of the "Prodigal Son". Don't call your kid a "professional nosepicker". Instead, let him find his own path. After your kid recognizes the errors of his way, then you welcome him home and kill the fatted calf for a celebration.
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