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. Theres 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. Im not stupid. No sign of a break in either. It must have been somebody he trusted or maybe someone who didnt trust him. Inside the safe was a. 380 handgun. Thats 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 evidence and those who knew eric somuah c
9-1-1. what are you reporting? i just heard three gunshots. there is a female victim that was shot in the car, slumped over. i can t believe she s gone. melvin found with apparent gunshot wounds inside an apartment . stop, screaming i can t understand you. my husband has been shot. most people never know anybody that s been murdered. but to know too, and be stuck right in the middle of the. it was like a hunting party, stalking your family. i had a lot of fears for peoples safety. this guy marshall this whole family is part of this criminal enterprise. right. there s a moment where he stares at you and goes like this? like he s ringing your neck. yes, he didn t like me. he s an evil man. worse than charles manchin. sometimes it looks as if houston texas goes on forever, sprawling all the way to the horizon. this was also the setting of a sprawling crime. when they began on a quiet sunday night, with the young woman, named gelareh bagherza
he said i don t know her. i don t know what you re talking about. he wouldn t open up to us about anything. it was like prying and nail out of a two by far. they kept an eye on him, even checking out his phone records. no one s on the phone at that time of night, so we re not able to tell whether he was there or not. so if he had something to do something with it. his records from his cell phone doesn t indicate anything at all. now after the murder the sergeant at the office needed to talk to ali. and he says that the man who showed up in his harrogate should room, didn t act at all like the monster that nesreen had described. he came across as the poor helpful father, that is not around away from home. and he was merely trying to find her and bring her home. just help me get her back? yes. i explained to him that i was there due to the murder of
told her often said she is old enough to do her own thing at this point, you re not in charge of her anymore. you are present at that call? she told me about the call. cory said that about a month later ali contacted gelareh again. she said. she said hello? and that s when he said, is this that iranian [bleep]. and that s when she went off on him. the tiny woman with a big voice let ali know exactly what she thought of him. then she started yelling at him in farsi. my understanding was that she was cursing him out. a few days later, gelareh was murdered. i told cory several times when he would talk about gelareh, i said i think it might have been ali. really? you don t think that was jumping to conclusions? she was a voice on the phone to him. and he s gonna color? i don t know. i just felt like he had something to do with it. richard bolton the houston
left behind struggle to make sense of the senseless. when someone loses a twin, they agony can be even more profound. a mirror image, vanished. after codi beaver s murder came a haunting question, was it possible that his identical twin brother cory, was the real targets? was this all a case of mistaken identity? in the beginning i thought would if it was they were after cory, would if gelareh and cory were in this something. and cody gets killed by mistake yes by mistake. not according to cody beaver s wife, who said his murder was no mistake. she had put a lot out there. her story kept growing. the story nesreen told the detective, began three years earlier. in the fall of 2009. she enrolled in a local community college, there she met cory beavers. who set her up with his twin