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
Could eventually find somethin concrete if you kept looking weeks passed, then, months i think it s probably the toughest thing about this jo is if it goes on salt for while. you feel like you are letting the family down. yes, exactly. especially families or to stay in contact with you. eric s family was eager for answers. they were not shy about lettin reuven know that he gets, probably, dail phone calls from each one of us he was so patient in jus explaining detective reuven never said to you hey, maybe one of you could call me. no, never you look at your phone, and you don t even want to answe because you have no news it s the same it was last week we think we know who did it, but we can t prove it righ now. may 2013, the one yea anniversary of erik s murder approached frankly, the investigation had come to a standstill