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
the answer is eric was love by everybody and there was n one out there that the famil knew wanted to hurt him. eric headroom from a thre 80 caliber gun indicated t detectives that he was shot at point blank range. it appears that he wa sleeping when it happened so would be someone that eric trusted so much that he went t sleep and had that person there. rubin quickly learned that his victim, mr. popularity, ha welcomed lots of people into his life and into his home he used to hang out at local bar just down the street from his house the owner of the establishment knew him by name and he woul tell us he would be here every night and he would go home wit a different girl and his family knew that, they didn t deny that. now it was the kind of thin erik s brother michael had already warned him about could it have been some revenge situation. someone wanted to have him, he didn t want to be with him they came in and took him out, we just didn t know. but michael and his si