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
Mississippi, which was the hometown of katrina. reuven just couldn t bu that as a coincidence. so he took another trip down t mississippi, this time to trac down the guns original owner which was harder than it might sound. this gun had multiple owners it would take me 30 minute just to persuade somebody to talk to me why, because in mississippi you sound like a stranger? that s so weird. possibly sound like a stranger, also, nobody want to talk about guns. they always think that i m there to get them in trouble it was a lot of shoe leathe and reuven still didn t have a solid link to katrina. it would take some persuadin it would take some persuadin for me to even hav it sometime around 2003. dimitry ruvin: so the owner, he was like we kept our records in diaper boxes