he had driven from las vegas that afternoon, stopped for gas and a bite to eat at a mcdonald's in primmrds to prove it. he arrived home around 5:00 p.m., fell asleep on the couch for a bit, watched a movie on tv and went to bed. wife and son were away, he said. and bright and early the next morning, he met his elderly grandfather for a bridge tournament which his grandfather ernest i confirmed. still, detectives had some questions that ernie surely should have been able to answer, shouldn't he? >> so we asked him what road did you take to get to your home. 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 murders. 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 cell phone tower anywhere. >> he was just a guy that was constantly talking on his cell phone. so the fact that there's a 17-hour window where he's not using it at all

in the stories that shaped the week suppose it evidencing primm an ailing russia in the script poisoning case is seriously weakened after several major claims are refute it also ahead this hour. about. a six week of really protests along the gal's of border brings the palestinian death toll to nearly fifty people follow dozens more remain wounded. me and president warns america against scrapping that twenty fifteen you cleared him saying it would be a monumental mistake that says israel liked. uses tehran of secretly frying to undermine. what's being called the worst may day riots in half a century takes place in paris more than two hundred people are arrested following clashes with. the middle class is now starting to. see the guests coming up to the police and that's because just. going on. with the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r.t. international hello and welcome this week saw some major developments in the ongoing investigation into the script poisoning case a nato member admitted it had produced a chalk li

a nike outlet store in primm, nevada just yards away from the gas station where ernie used a credit cardis tank, and very close to the mcdonald's where he used plastic to buy a burger. this was maybe 12 hours before the murders. possible hitch? ernie did not use a credit card at this or any other nike store that day. so maybe he didn't buy a baseball bat to use on his parents. unless. did he use cash in an effort to hide a purchase at nike? one of the d.a.'s investigators asked nike to check purchase records for march 7th, 2008. and as they say in vegas, jackpot. at 11:38 a.m., just before ernie used his credit card at the mcdonald's and the gas station, there was a cash purchase at the nike outlet. one pair of size 12 nike impact tomahawk sneakers, a ripken youth baseball bat and junior match soccer gloves. >> i'm thinking even the most skeptical jury in the world has to realize, put it all together, the book has just finished, that's the ending of the book. >> in january 2011 the alameda county prosecutor told jurors ernest scherer iii was a narcissistic sociopath who savagely murdered