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
That if denise had been in ericsson part mint recently an forensic trail she might hav left might not mean much and the same was true for al those other women police hadn even identified. because the dna belongs there, they re dna belongs everywhere in the apartment, they re fingerprints belon everywhere in the apartment. so now you have to prove i some other way after day one, reuven said, denise topped his list o people to check out. but she would not be reuven only lead. and the reason is, becaus you are a witness. a witness came forward she had seen a man meetin with eric just before th murder like eric, he was a salesman but he wasn t selling cars coming up, a possible new suspect. he s about my color skinny guy, scruffy beard. and a possible motive as ol as time. when dateline continues
Erik on your desk at work, jus to remind you. we called him the mos interesting man in the world just for this case i ve always had a picture of eric to remind me to keep goin and keep working the case. unfortunately, what wasn next to erik s photo on th reuven s desk, was any har evidence against katrina, th woman reuven thought knew more than she was telling about erik s murder. he decided to take yet another crack it is suspect. and along with another detective, reuven paid katrina visit up in baltimore. for the most part, her stor remain the same. but katrina was also on guard and defensive. don t go there with me. a, don t go where now, i feel like you re trying to be sarcastic instead of focusing on th detectives tone, katrina shoul have paid more attention t their clothing detective reuven secretly had tape recorder in his pocket. that s when i asked her
Held a gun, if you are far begun. it was simple, they tol her. she murdered eric. it was your gun that killed him, but the scientific fact the question was why. there has to be a reason, there has to be a reason if there isn t a reason, the you re going to go down, i m telling you as the most cold blooded that we have spoke with, because you re so good it s gonna look horrible well, you know, i m jus gonna have my day in court but katrina wouldn t give i up and asked for a lawyer. the detectives put her i lock-up and ruvin steppe outside to call eric s family. i was just like, thank yo guys, they are going to ge this woman getting a conviction wa ultimately the responsibilit of montgomery county state attorney john mccarthy even with the gun which get you an arrest and into the courtroom, this is pretty fa from an ideal case absolutely, to sell this to