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
she was a message light i this dark world. that is what she was about, sh was just a cup of love and i am like, who saw thi coming a beautiful young student gunned down. things like that just didn happen there why? who? who would want to do this? i thought i had my man. her fiance was a police officer. anyone knew how to do thi and get away with it, wouldn t it be him? then someone told polic what he saw. he told me he saw a femal that was about 5:10, she pulls off and takes off at the complex. what did she know she said i m in fear of m life the story starts to unravel. a secret tape why are you whispering? you know why. because somebody s listening. a secret lover he wanted her to come bac to him and she didn t. and a secret reveal as we re getting ready to finish up, someone hands me note who killed denita you ve told me some thing you d only admit to a priest and you can t tell me this las little piece of the puzzle. why? t
Their goodbyes as katrin headed off to a new job in baltimore. at this point there was enough we are behavior fro katrina vann we had nothing solid, nothin incriminating, but it wa something not being righ there. the cops had a naggin feeling, katrina was lying that pot dealer was not in the apartment tonight erik was murdered but katrina was, and suddenl she looked suspicious. but suspicions don t make case, and right now, someone was getting away with murder with katrina bound fo baltimore, the investigation into her lover s murde threatened to stall. then, a remarkable roadsid discovery. coming up, a damaged gu helps the detective shoot bull s-eye it was recovered the da after we found erik spotty and we said let s just text this
10:00 a.m. some two hours afte denita smith had been murdered more than enough time for th 55-mile drive from durham to her job at the 911 center in greensboro. so police obtained a search warrant for shannon s house. and we do find a greensboro communication 911 center uniforms. and they are exactly as described by the maintenanc supervisor. down to the colo of the patch and the shape you find a gun? no gun was found. no bullet were found. nothin incriminating other than - than that. and then came this. shannon had told police she had neve been to durham. but her cell phone records clearly indicate she had been there. not on the day denita was killed. shannon or at least her phone, had bee there the day before she was hitting a tower tha placed her no less than 10 feet away from where denit would be found dead the next morning.