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
Talking about breaking up by mutual agreement reuven said she also acknowledged eric wa dissatisfied with thei relationship, giving the detective a theory to consider older woman, younger man, and now he wants to end it and maybe see somebody else an that breeds jealousy and w know what that leads to. correct, jealousy leads t murder will he continue to investigate in these, reuven learn from residents in eric building that there was a woma there he had been dating for just a few weeks that s why i want to talk t katrina. katrina vann came down to police headquarters for an interview. she s visibly upset here jus earlier that day detective reuven and her partner had tol or erik was dead i just want to start agai by saying, thank you, you don have to be here, thank you for
Because i was thinking, why is he here? katrina told them how uneas she felt with the dealer in th apartment. it was just a littl uncomfortable, he just seemed little weird so i just around five a.m., katrina said she got out o there. she said the guy, then, jus came up to her as she wa leaving and basically pushed her out of the door. based on katrina s account, police believe eric was killed sometime in the early mornin hours of june 5th 2012 reuven brought in the dealer for questioning. a man named william would fork he was like, i have no idea who that is, never met him before did you believe him now, i knew erik called him and katrina s story tied him t eric reuven hammered away it would force for hours, finally getting him to admit he sold eric marijuana the night of th murder but the dealer bulked when reuven asked why he later went
The rest of the night watching basketball game before the became focused on each other excuse me if this is to much information but we had se for a while and i went t sleep. a little later, she tol detectives she was woken up by the son of eric talking to someone else had the bedroom through cracking the door. katrina thought she could make out of face and the man looked familiar she believed the got to b the drug dealer. the same guy she met earlier? yes this was only hours befor erik was murdered in his bed detective reuven now had a major suspect. we concentrated on this dru dealer this would prove to be critical moment in the case, but not for the reasons yo think. coming up, did police strik gold in the drug dealers apartment? the same gun that kille eric
Doing this i want to know too. they wanted what ever league they could give them but the began with the basics. how did you meet eric i m eric outside th building outside the building. he asked me if i was a nurs because he was starting some kind of nursing agency that could work for katrina did work as a nurse for the nih, the nationa institutes of health, it turne out she and erik had plenty in common i m a basketball fan, and s was he so that was our connection the relationship quickl turned more than friendly. katrina said she and eric ha been dating weekly, usually on mondays, ever since. katrina wanted to know about progress in finding her lover killer we can t really tell yo what s going on with the investigation, the reason is because you are a witness. oh my god she asked if they could a least say where erik died.