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