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
that s correct. so this wasn t suicide. this was a murder in some ways, dimitri reube was like eric somouh young, successful, driven. but even working homicides reuben head none of the worl weariness of some detectives he was the right cop to brea the difficult news to th family i went downstairs and sai we have reason to believe eric was murdered that s when everybody lost it. his sister was just crying, hi dad had just had his hea buried in his hands and just like, people couldn t believ it we were all in shock, w were just shocked. who would want to murde eric that is exactly wha detective reuben wanted to know we started right there, w started our investigation with the family and those who wer close to him, just to see if h had any enemies if, there wa anyone that wanted to hurt him what s the answer
Held a gun, if you are far begun. it was simple, they tol her. she murdered eric. it was your gun that killed him, but the scientific fact the question was why. there has to be a reason, there has to be a reason if there isn t a reason, the you re going to go down, i m telling you as the most cold blooded that we have spoke with, because you re so good it s gonna look horrible well, you know, i m jus gonna have my day in court but katrina wouldn t give i up and asked for a lawyer. the detectives put her i lock-up and ruvin steppe outside to call eric s family. i was just like, thank yo guys, they are going to ge this woman getting a conviction wa ultimately the responsibilit of montgomery county state attorney john mccarthy even with the gun which get you an arrest and into the courtroom, this is pretty fa from an ideal case absolutely, to sell this to
Their goodbyes as katrin headed off to a new job in baltimore. at this point there was enough we are behavior fro katrina vann we had nothing solid, nothin incriminating, but it wa something not being righ there. the cops had a naggin feeling, katrina was lying that pot dealer was not in the apartment tonight erik was murdered but katrina was, and suddenl she looked suspicious. but suspicions don t make case, and right now, someone was getting away with murder with katrina bound fo baltimore, the investigation into her lover s murde threatened to stall. then, a remarkable roadsid discovery. coming up, a damaged gu helps the detective shoot bull s-eye it was recovered the da after we found erik spotty and we said let s just text this
well, i think we can tell where it happened. he was killed in hi apartment. the interview topic returne to the vibrant eric she knew this guy had so many goal in so many dreams. it s just crazy. it s like he was having th best time of his life, and now he s dead. that explained, katrina said, why he never answered he recent texts did you make any calls on tuesday? and by the last person can you tell me the? i mean, i don t, i don t kno if you stop calling me or if you wasn t answering because h was dead because i ve been depressed an suffering and mad and crying because i m thinking he s no talking to me. we ve been like this she to settle my heart, yo know i think your heart can be settled. the detectives consoled her but also continue to probe about that last night together two days before eric s body wa discovered and winter s place monday