Peter Van Sant
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That stock market drop, combined with Eric's incompetence, left him broke and in more than $150,000 of debt to creditors, including the IRS.
Just one day before his parents were murdered, Eric says his father gave him a signed blank check.
Eric now admits he, not his father, filled that check out for $50,000.
You know for an outsider it looks terrible.
The day after your parents are killed, you're depositing a check in your account for $50,000.
It looks like you are cashing in on your parents' murders.
They questioned some of Dennis' coworkers at the pharmacy where he'd been just an hour before his death.
You're the last person to see Dennis alive.
Helen Van Roo worked as a pharmacy tech alongside Dennis.
She knows firsthand how generous he could be.
But Helen says there had recently been a change in Dennis' attitude toward his own children.
Helen recalls a conversation she had with Dennis just days before his murder.
Which was the same day, Eric says, he received the signed blank check from his father.