A Wealthy Family's Secrets Surface After A Gruesome Double Murder | A Secret to Die For

Get mired in a high-stakes game of secrets, lies, greed, and infidelity. Learn why Ernie and Charlene Scherer’s American-dream life wasn’t exactly what it seemed, and see how the exposure of their dangerous double life led to one last fatal gamble. In this episode of A Secret to Die For, we head to Pleasanton, California, one of the wealthiest towns in America. Ernie Scherer Jr., a real estate investor and outspoken former school board member, and his wife Charlene, an accounting professor and devout Mormon, raised two children, Skip and Catherine, with holidays to Australia, the Caribbean and Greece. But Ernie loved poker, drank and flashed his winnings, and his love of the game rubbed off on Skip, a card-counting economist who quit his job to become a professional gambler, much to his mother’s dismay. When Skip couldn’t get a mortgage, his parents lent him $616,000 for his dream home. Ernie was also calling in a $125,000 condo loan from a poker buddy, waging war on his old school board, and scheduled to meet a former mayor about corruption claims. Then, the week before a family holiday to Hawaii, Charlene stopped answering her phone. A country club employee looked through a window and found one of the most gruesome crime scenes detectives had ever seen, with $9,000 still in Ernie’s pocket and size 12 bloody footprints across the floor. A Secret to Die For | S1E05 | Gambled to Death (The Ernie & Charlene Sherer Story) **This film is under non-exclusive license from Blue Ant. All rights reserved. See our curated list of our best and favourite True Crime Documentaries: https://bit.ly/45yLtRZ Want to watch how Forensics solves crimes? Check out the Forensics playlist: https://bit.ly/3WELj7n Murder Made Me Famous Playlist: https://bit.ly/3WEuw4o ______________________________________________________ ★ Subscribe to get more True Crime Central content and hit the notification bell to see freshly uploaded content. https://bit.ly/SubscribetoTCC We hope you've enjoyed our True Crime Content - let us know if you want us to cover any cases in particular! We'll see what we can do. Watch more here: https://bit.ly/3rMw8ch All of the content on this channel is UNDER LEGAL LICENSE (We have written contracts) from various copyright holders and distributors. We ask you to please contact us if you believe there are any copyright issues via - rights@vamedianetwork.com True Crime Central is owned and operated by VA Media Ltd. All rights reserved. #truecrime #crimestories #erniescherer #pleasanton #asecrettodiefor #california #documentary 0:00 A Secret To Die For 2:56 A Privileged Family 4:51 A Love Of Gambling 7:42 Going Pro 10:05 A Financial Backer 12:04 The Bank Of Mom And Dad 15:08 A Double Life 18:07 Banned From Blackjack 21:27 Meeting Dad In Vegas 22:38 Debts Exposed 25:44 A House Of Cards 28:28 A Family Holiday 30:01 A Gruesome Discovery 32:28 A Staged Scene 35:45 Gaps In An Alibi 38:41 Security Footage 41:02 A Shopping Trip 44:44 Justice