I'm Josh Manquets.

How well do you know the people you hang out with, the people you do business with, the

people you're intimate with?

Well, the answers to all of that can depend on your age.

This is the story of a young man who did not see his own death coming, and whose murder

was solved by a combination of hard work and sheer luck.

The two sisters of the victim, in this case, were also my favorite characters.

They knew their brother inside and out, his virtues and his flaws, and they told me about

both.

And it all happened while he was sleeping.

He was the life of every party.

At 34, Eric Samoa was charming, magnetic, successful.

In 2012, he was living the kind of life that young man liked a brag about to one another.

Call it the good life, the lush life, the fast land.

It's a world without too many rules, one in which you get close in a hurry to a lot of

people you don't know too well.

And it was perfect for Eric.

Living just outside the nation's capital, Eric Samoa was not only

living the American dream, he was selling it too.

The sum of immigrants from Ghana, Eric was a top salesman, delivering luxury cars and

the fantasies that come with them at this Jaguar dealership in Bethesda, Maryland.

Eric's older sisters, Susie and Cynthia, spotted his drive in business savvy at an early

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