craig melvin: he looked like he was sleeping, except for the bullet hole. he was in bed. his head was on a pillow. his entire upper body was tucked in. craig melvin: the first guess was suicide, but there was no gun on the scene. hard to have a gun suicide with no gun. that s correct. craig melvin: and this was a man who had everything to live for. eric loved life. craig melvin: he loved his family and women, too, many women. did one of them love him too much? no shortage of lovers to question. craig melvin: no sign of a break-in either. someone either had to have a key or have been let in by eric. craig melvin: so it must have been somebody he trusted or maybe someone who didn t trust him. inside the safe was a .380 handgun. josh mankiewicz: that s the same kind of gun that killed eric. the same kind of gun. craig melvin: everybody loved him. so who killed him? we knew in our hearts that this murder was going to be solved. we believed that justice was going to be served f
Talking about breaking up by mutual agreement reuven said she also acknowledged eric wa dissatisfied with thei relationship, giving the detective a theory to consider older woman, younger man, and now he wants to end it and maybe see somebody else an that breeds jealousy and w know what that leads to. correct, jealousy leads t murder will he continue to investigate in these, reuven learn from residents in eric building that there was a woma there he had been dating for just a few weeks that s why i want to talk t katrina. katrina vann came down to police headquarters for an interview. she s visibly upset here jus earlier that day detective reuven and her partner had tol or erik was dead i just want to start agai by saying, thank you, you don have to be here, thank you for
But his family, bound together by grief and faith, for more than a year and still, no one had been arrested for his murder. his family, bound together b grief and faith, felt a kind o serenity i believe that there were certain people who wer destined, ordained, i would say, to work this case. detective reuven, outside of his normal business hours, was very determined and he persevered beyond what a norma detective would do the family didn t know yet, but that perseverance was abou to be rewarded detective reuven had an arrest warrant for katrina bent, sh
About owning any guns. to your negan no. have your father gone no. armed with a warrant, reuve searched katrina s apartment but did not find a gun he sees her phone and computer but cops didn t find anythin incriminating. no sign that she had any gun, ever owned one in her life that s correct. i subpoenaed her bank records and credit card record just to see if she purchased any ammunition somewhere you didn t find it? no. reuven didn t stop there. he kept looking everywhere he even went all the way t katrina s hometown o mississippi, where he learne something interesting. i talk to her dad who sai that he had guns, multiple gun in the house, and that katrina had shot guns before so, we knew she lied but that is no criminal offense. still, reuven was certain he
Could eventually find somethin concrete if you kept looking weeks passed, then, months i think it s probably the toughest thing about this jo is if it goes on salt for while. you feel like you are letting the family down. yes, exactly. especially families or to stay in contact with you. eric s family was eager for answers. they were not shy about lettin reuven know that he gets, probably, dail phone calls from each one of us he was so patient in jus explaining detective reuven never said to you hey, maybe one of you could call me. no, never you look at your phone, and you don t even want to answe because you have no news it s the same it was last week we think we know who did it, but we can t prove it righ now. may 2013, the one yea anniversary of erik s murder approached frankly, the investigation had come to a standstill