adrian solomon was putting lights pieces back together. her two year romance, ones by all appearances had deflated, and finally failed. and a couple weeks later, she was in san francisco on a business trip when her phone shirt. text message from an acquaintance. >> she said, i heard about his parents, let me know if there's anything i can do. >> adrian got herself to a computer and got herself online and saw the appalling story. >> and learned that they had been murdered. it was surreal. it didn't seem like something like that could really have happened to someone i no. >> not her ernie, thankfully, but ernie's parents. earnest scherer and his wife charlene abendroth found dead in their own house which was in an upscale country club right across the san francisco bay from adrian's hotel. and now, of course, the house was a crime scene where even the seasoned lead detective scott dudek was horrified by what he saw. >> it was probably the most gruesome brutal homicide scene i've ever seen. >> it was march 14th, 2008, when the call came in. a