everything to live for. eric loved life. he loved his family and women, too. many women, did one of them love him too much? no shortage of lovers. i am not stupid. no sign of a break-in either. someone either have a key. it must have been somebody he trusted or someone who didn t trust him. inside the safe was a 380 handgun. it s the same kind. everybody loved him. who killed him? we knew in our hearts this murder was going to be solve. we believer justice is going to be served for eric. hello and welcome to dateline, it was a crime scene that offered little evidence. those who knew eric samoas could not imagine who would want him dead. one detective refused to give up. here is josh with while he was sleeping. he was the life of every party. at 34, eric samoas was charming and magnetic and successful. in 2012, he was living the life that young men was bragging it. he called it a good life and a fast life. a world without too many rules. you get clo
i lost it. we could not understand how anybody would want to murder him. he looked like he was sleeping, except for the bullet hole. he was in bed. his head was waon the pillow. his entire upper body was tucked in. the first guess was suicide. there s no gun on the season. hard to have a gun suicide with no gun. this was a man who had everything to live for. eric loved life. he loved his family. and women too. many women. did one of them love him too much? no shortage of lovers to question. i knew he was a ladies man. i m not stupid. no sign of a break in either. it must have been somebody he trusted or maybe someone who didn t trust him. inside the safe was a .380 handgun. that s the same kind of gun that killed eric. 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 for eric. hello and welcome to dateline. it was a crime scene that offered little
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
Mississippi, which was the hometown of katrina. reuven just couldn t bu that as a coincidence. so he took another trip down t mississippi, this time to trac down the guns original owner which was harder than it might sound. this gun had multiple owners it would take me 30 minute just to persuade somebody to talk to me why, because in mississippi you sound like a stranger? that s so weird. possibly sound like a stranger, also, nobody want to talk about guns. they always think that i m there to get them in trouble it was a lot of shoe leathe and reuven still didn t have a solid link to katrina. it would take some persuadin it would take some persuadin for me to even hav it sometime around 2003. dimitry ruvin: so the owner, he was like we kept our records in diaper boxes
In the back of the shed. and the rats were eating on them so we decided to just send them to the atf. josh mankiewicz: ruvin offered to come look through those diaper boxes. the response from the atf thanks but no thanks. the atf agent was just saying, just let us take care of it, so we left mississippi really with nothing. josh mankiewicz: ruvin returned to maryland wondering if he d hit another dead end. he wondered for about a week. it was late june, now more than a year since eric was murdered, when an atf agent called back. we found these diaper boxes. we found these records. and we re faxing a receipt. so i was waiting by the fax machine. the fax came through. i looked at the name. and it was katrina ben. she was the last purchaser of that handgun. machine, the facts came through, and you ve got her.e wait. and it was katrina bin, she wa the last purchaser of that handgun. and you got her