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
Spotted his drive and business savvy at an early age. suzy somuah: and he started a lawn cutting business in our neighborhood. early age the neighborhood kids, they were he would pay them, what, $2. a born capitalist he would tell me, susie, i going to be really rich on day. he wanted to go all the way to the top. from the day he was born, eric was a charm or and hi sisters and big brother michae always adored him. he was a wonderful joy to our family, and two are sister and i. eric was the baby of th family, we all enjoyed him because he was very vibrant. it was just the three of us and then he came along he was sort of our little doll then, erik grew up an became a living doll, to the
His work ethic earned hi success on the job a high-rise apartment in the d.c. suburbs and a busy an exciting social life he was a young man on top of the world. but his big brother still felt the need to occasionally offer advice, like that playing th field has its risks and can last forever he really respected me, the fact that i ve been with m wife, we ve been together 28 years, we always communicate and say hey, i want to be that but i just can t find the righ one. even as the youngest and th only one that had not married, eric was the glue that bonde his family eric was the person tha kind of brought the family together he remembered everyone s birthday, he made everyone fee really special so it wasn t just customers he was charming. he was charming his famil to he wanted everyone to com together in june, 2012, he brought