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
every day i wanted answers, every day i was told it was an unknown. people don t just die! she was a loving mother he was a crime fightin prosecutor you are a pillar of tha community. i did what i thought wa right. then one day, the law was a his door his wife was dead in bed her eyes were open, she was pale i just remember crying, and not believing it suddenly suspicious but no evidence of a crime any signs of a struggle no. it was case closed years passed new lives. two new wives. he s extremely charming we just had the most amazin time then, a new detective dusts off the old case what s trumped out at you most definitely the arm where in a race position my first thought was the manner of death would b what s really happened in that bedroom i m - a young mother s death was mystery, but was in the murder tell me what happened to he to my face do not give me excuses it runs through the heart o america. along, meandering
through her grief cynthia managed to call her sister she was screaming. and she was balling. when she told me eric was dead i just flipped out, i just los it and you show up how lon after that i should ve about 40 minutes later. the detective dimitri reube lead the second wave o montgomery county mary polic after patrol officers made tha initial suicide call they try not to disturb the scene, they didn t look around too much tell me about the scene he had a gunshot wound to his head, his head was on th pillow, his entire everybody was tucked in, it looked lik he was sleeping. detective revenue forensi team continue to work. no sign of a struggle no saratoga anywhere near the apartment, no signs of ransacking the one thing i noticed righ away was that there was no gun there was no gun at the scene. can t do a gun suicide with no gun
That finding your wife dead in bed would ve left more of an impression on you. to the detective, curtis wa trying to look helpful without really being so. gibson cut to the chase. the duke s mother cori with a pillow no i did not. but did you and cory have a bad argument did he get out of hand did you snap and then put pillow over her nose and mouth and suffocate or no, there were no bad arguments tonight before i it is exactly what i told th detective in 2006, and what told detective gibson in 2014, and what i m telling you now that is what happened. she was sick and i came home and i found her that morning and she was dead in bed. it was clear the detectiv strategy had it yielded what h wanted a confession i have a problem with you not remembering all of these things
But this expert said he saw no signs the cut was an old one there is no evidence of healing. so this looks like like at the time that it it was incurred the abrasion on the outside the lip, and the cut inside, indicated to spits that an object, like a pillow, had bee placed on corey s face shortly before she died. this is not an accident this is not a natural death, this is not suicide, this is a homicide then came testimony the first jury got to hear and was explosive. for this trial the judge wil allow, erica goldman, live member to testify. remember, when we interviewe her she wanted to protect he identity with foul on the witness stand she could no longer be shielde by disguise. prosecutors call the ex-wife t the stand to try to show tha curtis had a history o violence she recounted one incident, sh