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
D.c. s famous bumper-to-bumper traffic. it was recovered the da after we found erik s body it was a short distance away from the crime scene and i was like, let s just test this gun this gun makes sense this seems like succeedin against unbelievable odds. one of the million. the gun was a mess, missing most of its components and it looked as if it might have been run over at it hit the pavement but the barrel was intact. using spare parts, the polic firearms lab reassemble th weapon and test fired. the result, a close match to the bullet that killed eric so and on the gun, serial number. from, reuben learn something else where was originally sold it was sold at a pawnshop i columbia mississippi why was that a big deal because that little pawnshop was just a few miles down th road from silver creek