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. i am not stupid. no sign of a break-in either. someone either have a key. it must have been somebody he trusted or someone who didn t trust him. inside the safe was a 380 handgun. it s the same kind. everybody loved him. who killed him? we knew in our hearts this murder was going to be solve. we believer justice is going to be served for eric. hello and welcome to dateline, it was a crime scene that offered little evidence. those who knew eric samoas could not imagine who would want him dead. one detective refused to give up. here is josh with while he was sleeping. he was the life of every party. at 34, eric samoas was charming and magnetic and successful. in 2012, he was living the life that young men was bragging it. he called it a good life and a fast life. a world without too many rules. you get clo
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
Homicide what i m thinking of is fatal attraction, an insignificant on one side in a very significant relationshi on the other side. obviously he made i misjudgment when he go involved with her, and the sense of betrayal that she fel is what fuel this homicide and, said prosecutors, afte katrina killed eric she quickl dish the gun and began playing the part of the concerne lover. but she couldn t keep her stor straight eyes upon lies upon lies to bury the truth and tha ultimate truth, in this case was that gun the crux of katrina s defense was that she had n reason to kill eric, because she just wasn t that into him. it was a great guy, but i wasn t even trying to be wit eric like that, to be honest he told me he was in love with me, i never believed him what s wrong with the argument that this was a woman who discovered there were othe women in his life and she go
. the gun was sent to the firearm lab as ruban checked to see if he could prove william s dna and fingerprints. his fingerprints were not on the door or anywhere else. did you look at the security tapes? he was nowhere. the test came back on the dealer s 380. it was not the game that kill eric. it was one big coincidence. eric was not looking as good for the murder. not only was the gun not a match, he was convinced that the dealer was never at eric s apartment. as for denise. the woman who had been eric s girlfriend, investigators interviewed her three times. he was cooperative. her phone records was put at home. they eliminated the thesis.
again, eric was rushed to the hospital, but this time, he was dead within 16 hours. we had put enough together to say in all reasonable probability, ann miller and derril willard conspired to kill eric. but the other shocking piece of information that came from the analysis of eric s hair was that the poisonings had been going on for months. the testing showed that eric miller had been poisoned multiple times, and they were able to isolate, i believe, three times for certain, but multiple times over the six-month period previous to his death. but if she wanted him dead, why take so long to do it? there were a lot of theories about this. one was that she was torturing him. the most obvious one that i think investigators kind of settled on was that she wanted