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
Over to erik s and he was like, what are you talking about? he was so adamant about no even knowing where eric lives. i m a we dealer, a motto delivery men, i don t deliver, people come to me. detective reuven wasn t about to take a drug dealer at his word we got a search warrant for his place and we recovered a safe from his apartment, and inside a safe was a three 80 handgun. and it s like, did he lie, tha the murder weapon. it s the same kind of gun it s the same kind of gun the gun was sent to the firearms lab as reuven check t see if he could prove that william would fork wasn ericsson part mint would force dna an fingerprints were not on the door or anywhere else. you look at a security tape was he on their anywhere then, the test came back on the dealers three 80 it was not the gun that killed eric, it was the same