Peter Van Sant

Prosecutor Tim Grinke admits his case is circumstantial.

But during the trial, the defense drops a bombshell.

Remember that fixed you note Eric found in his mailbox, which he said pointed to the real killer?

Eric says he planted the note after investigators questioned his 16-year-old son, Dexter.

But the prosecution says it's one more sign of Eric's guilt.

I think he panicked and decided he needed to do something to get the focus off of him.

And this is what he came up with.

Investigators say you lied and you manipulated

You did.

He's a murderer, and he's a liar.

Jim Kobe, Eric's lead defense attorney, says name-calling is dominating the trial.

The focus of the prosecution's case, over and over and over, is going to be liar, liar, pants on fire to get a guttural response from a jury, hoping that if a jury just buys into the lies, they'll ignore...

the evidence or lack thereof.

But the prosecution says it does have other evidence against Eric, most notably his growing financial crisis.

They owed over $52,000.

Forensic accountant Mary Jo Werner says Eric's assets had dwindled to nearly nothing.

Yes.

The prosecution then calls Dennis Cola's brother, Eric's uncle, to the stand.

Leroy Cola says just days before the murders, Dennis told him he was cutting his kids off financially.

He surprised me because he just said, I'm all done giving to the kids.