Pedophile politician's $150,000 bribery scheme
Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 5:43PM
​In 2006, pharmaceutical exec Paul Duncsak arrived at his $1.1 million home in Ramsey, New Jersey. He was talking to his girlfriend on the phone when she heard a scream, then a thud, so she called 911.
Edward Ates invokes the porker defense, saying he was in too poor of shape to handle the New Jersey execution
Police arrived in minutes to find Duncsak shot six times. The killer fired from the stairwell leading to the basement as Duncsak walked down the hall. He was then shot again execution style.
At the time, Duncsak was going through a nasty custody battle with his ex-wife Stacey, who he'd divorced a year earlier. Investigators' trail immediately led to Stacey's father, Edward Ates. He was found in Louisiana at a relative's home the next day. Police believe he drove from his home in Fort Pierce, Florida to take his former son-in-law out, then drove back to Louisiana...
Though there's little physical evidence to support the charge, detectives do have some telling circumstantial evidence. Prosecutors have shown how Ates bought books about how to make a silencer, and ran internet searches on how to pick locks and conduct the perfect murder. Duncsak's mother Sophia has also testified that Ates was pissed at his son-in-law long before the divorce. She says that in 2003 Duncsak refused to pony
up with a $250,000 loan to keep Ates' struggling Florida golf course afloat.
Worse, Ates' own sister has testified that he asked her to lie, saying he showed up at his mom's Sibley, Louisiana home a day before he actually did.
But Ates has come up with an interesting defense: He was simply too fat to be the killer.
He was 62 years old in 2006, and stood just 5-foot-8 while porking out at 285 pounds. He suffered from asthma and sleep apnea. In short, he says he was in too bad of shape to run up and down the stairs, gather shell casings and quickly escape before police arrived, then drive 21 hours non-stop to mom's house, where police found him the next day.
Unfortunately for the defendant, the fat man has lost 40- pounds eating jail food while
waiting to go to trial, which doesn't help with the visuals for the jury. But it may land Ates a lucrative new weight-loss system if he can ever get out of the slam.
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