 In 1953, he married Judy Cauley, a 24-year-old former cocktail waitress from Lubbock, Texas.They resided on the corner of 10th Street and Charleston Boulevard in Las Vegas.Scherer's mother-in-law, Mrs Mabel Monahan, was murdered in her house in Burbank, California by burglars who thought she was hiding US$100,000 for Scherer on March 9, 1953.