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
He stayed with me sunday when they went down to hi place. but then, she said, the night got strange. out of the blue, erik said h wanted to smoke some pot it s like, hey, you know what she told him, sh wasn t interested. she agreed to ride with ara and social he could buy we did a nearby apartment complex i don t know what happened, he s never done anything lik that around me they drove to this building in almost immediately a po dealer dumped into the backseat it was real quick, the ligh was on, the whole deal and the guy got out. all this happened before the lie could even go out of the car. if you re doing this turn th light out, somebody might se me, i work at nih, i don t wan to be identified with someon like this. he was bald and he had a, he had my color, skinny guy scruffy beard. i didn t see his face straight on, i wasn t trying to look at him directly i m not trying to look like want to know who you are after driving back to their building eric and katrina
Talking about breaking up by mutual agreement reuven said she also acknowledged eric wa dissatisfied with thei relationship, giving the detective a theory to consider older woman, younger man, and now he wants to end it and maybe see somebody else an that breeds jealousy and w know what that leads to. correct, jealousy leads t murder will he continue to investigate in these, reuven learn from residents in eric building that there was a woma there he had been dating for just a few weeks that s why i want to talk t katrina. katrina vann came down to police headquarters for an interview. she s visibly upset here jus earlier that day detective reuven and her partner had tol or erik was dead i just want to start agai by saying, thank you, you don have to be here, thank you for
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
the answer is eric was love by everybody and there was n one out there that the famil knew wanted to hurt him. eric headroom from a thre 80 caliber gun indicated t detectives that he was shot at point blank range. it appears that he wa sleeping when it happened so would be someone that eric trusted so much that he went t sleep and had that person there. rubin quickly learned that his victim, mr. popularity, ha welcomed lots of people into his life and into his home he used to hang out at local bar just down the street from his house the owner of the establishment knew him by name and he woul tell us he would be here every night and he would go home wit a different girl and his family knew that, they didn t deny that. now it was the kind of thin erik s brother michael had already warned him about could it have been some revenge situation. someone wanted to have him, he didn t want to be with him they came in and took him out, we just didn t know. but michael and his si