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
through her grief cynthia managed to call her sister she was screaming. and she was balling. when she told me eric was dead i just flipped out, i just los it and you show up how lon after that i should ve about 40 minutes later. the detective dimitri reube lead the second wave o montgomery county mary polic after patrol officers made tha initial suicide call they try not to disturb the scene, they didn t look around too much tell me about the scene he had a gunshot wound to his head, his head was on th pillow, his entire everybody was tucked in, it looked lik he was sleeping. detective revenue forensi team continue to work. no sign of a struggle no saratoga anywhere near the apartment, no signs of ransacking the one thing i noticed righ away was that there was no gun there was no gun at the scene. can t do a gun suicide with no gun