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
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