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♪

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Some stories are
unforgettable.

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This is one of them.

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I feel very inspired
by my dad.

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He was such a good person.

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I realized I had missed calls.

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There was just this pit
in my stomach.

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The doctor said,
"We were not able to save him."

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This story started,
like many we cover,

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with a family trying to
make sense of the unthinkable.

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I went blank.

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Are you telling me
that Bob is dead?

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It quickly took
a sharp left turn

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into less familiar territory.

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He's a prominent person
in the tech world.

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A friend texted me,
"Tell the police

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to check the footage
of the Millennium Tower."

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It's a large high rise.
A lot of people live there.

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And almost all of them
have money.

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Yes.

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There's this glamorous spread
in a magazine

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and she's gorgeous.

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She and Bob hang around
with each other.

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They're in that circle.

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Khazar puts the two of them
on kind of a collision course.

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On this beat,
I see a lot of video evidence.

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What I saw in this case
was quite unusual.

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We have them getting
into the elevator.

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I think he was out
for blood that night.

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I felt my stomach drop.

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[gunshot]

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That is the most far out story
I've ever heard.

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♪

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This is
Dateline: Unforgettable.

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I'm Josh Mankiewicz
with a fresh look at

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Under the Bay Bridge.

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{\an8}April 4, 2023.

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The 911 call came in
around 2:30 AM

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from this lonely block
on the streets of San Francisco.

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{\an8}The man never gave his name.

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{\an8}He had only one desperate plea,
for the operator

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{\an8}on the other end of the line,

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{\an8}and he kept repeating it.

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security cameras captured
the man as he staggered to

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the front of a luxury
apartment building,

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grabbed onto the call box
and then fell to the pavement.

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He fumbled with his phone
and then somehow

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managed to get up
and take a few more steps.

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Within a few minutes,
officers arrive

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to find him unresponsive.

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Where you stabbed, man?

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Where you stabbed, man?

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They did CPR.

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The average adult male
has about five quarts of blood.

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This guy had already parted ways
with a lot of his.

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San Francisco has long been
a destination for pioneers

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and explorers,
up to and including

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the more modern gold rush
of the digital age.

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Then, as now,
a place to stake your claim

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in the California dream.

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It's also a city where
you can become both famous

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and infamous,

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and where success and failure
get an equal amount of ink.

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So when fate and fortune
collided in the shadow

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of the Bay Bridge,

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people may have thought
they knew what happened.

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Well, this was
no ordinary crime,

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nor ordinary circumstances.

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And that man on the ground
was no ordinary victim.

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This story was competitive.

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Meaning we weren't
the only national news outlet

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covering it,

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largely because of
who that man was.

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And for both reporters
and police,

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who he was raised
two intriguing questions.

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What was a guy like that
doing under the Bay Bridge

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in the middle of the night?
And who was he with?

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A lot of people thought it was
obvious what had happened,

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including one person
with a very big megaphone.

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They were wrong.

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The truth turned out to be
much more complicated.

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On that April night,
San Francisco police sergeant

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Brent Dittmer got the call.

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And I figured, well,
maybe this is gonna be

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something minor.

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- Didn't turn out to be minor.
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Sergeant Dittmer
went to the scene

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at the corner of Main Street
and Harrison

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in the Rincon Hill neighborhood
of San Francisco.

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We just don't have a lot
of call outs to that area.

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Um, it's not an area where
there's a lot of violent crime.

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They knew where
the victim had collapsed.

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Who attacked him and where,
still unknown.

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And you find a blood trail.
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Which points where?

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So the blood trail
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along the building,
toward Harrison Street.

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He ends here,
which means he came down here.

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That's right.

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There were some, uh,
blood swipes

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on the building itself,
but then it was blood drips

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that were moving
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up towards Harrison Street.

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You can tell from the droplets
the direction

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that the person was traveling.
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And as we get close
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the blood drops
went across the street

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over toward the west sidewalk.

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Uniformed officers followed
that blood trail to this fence

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about half a block
from where the man collapsed.

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They scanned with flashlights,
and then there it was.

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There's a knife over here.

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The knife was
on the other side of a fence

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located near
where this blood trail starts.

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And the area that was fenced off
is a parking lot.

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- That's probably your knife.
- Probably the knife.

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- Blood on it?
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That blood was on the blade
of this small paring knife.

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The blade only three
and a half inches long.

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And the brand?
Joseph Joseph.

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Police sent that
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looking for a DNA sample.

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What's the time lag from
when they log it in

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to when you actually get
some kind of result back?

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Sometimes
it's a couple of weeks,

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sometimes it's months.
Sometimes it's over a year.

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Detectives started
knocking on doors.

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Maybe someone had seen
or heard something.

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This is Main Street, after all.

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Except the 911 call came in
around 2:30 AM.

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Witnesses?
- Um, not really.

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There was a homeless person
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by the officers.

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That person had been released
from the scene.

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And he didn't say that he saw,
heard or knew about anything

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that happened.

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Sergeant Dittmer's team
began pulling videos

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from buildings around the area.

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Is that an area where
there are a lot of cameras?

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There's some.

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There aren't as many
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There's never as many
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- Never.
- Right.

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And they're never as good
as you want them to be.

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It was during the search
for video

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that Dittmer got a call.

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The victim had
been identified.

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We were notified that, uh,
the victim was Bob Lee.

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You ever heard of
Bob Lee before?

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- No.
- What do you hear

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from the hospital about
what his injuries were?

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I knew initially
that he had been stabbed

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once in the right hip.

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And then there were
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on the left chest.

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Uh, one of those
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So who was Bob Lee?

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And just as important,
what brought him to

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that downtown street
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of that April morning?

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My focus was just,
let's figure out

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what happened here
and who did it

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and just get on that trail.

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That trail would lead to
some strange places.

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That was a text that you got?
- Anonymous text.

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"I fear that
I will be stabbed too."

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To a slew of rumors.

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What is going on
in San Francisco that, like,

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you know, this could happen.

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To some unforgettable
characters.

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I mean, in San Francisco
you have money,

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but you don't wear your money.

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And she wears her money.

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And the family
at the center of it all.

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She also just kind of
seemed like she was there

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to help her brother
however she could.

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All culminating in a trial
about what really happened

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under the Bay Bridge.

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There's powers that
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when the decedent is
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that Bob Lee is.
Not a regular victim.

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We call it victim plus.

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The skies were still dark
over San Francisco Bay

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when Krista Lee felt
the first inkling.

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Something was just not right on
that Tuesday morning in April.

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I woke up around 6:30,
like I usually do.

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When I grabbed my phone,
I realized I had missed calls.

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Three missed calls in fact,

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all from
the same unknown number.

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So she looked it up.

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It was San Francisco
General Hospital.

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And I found that to be
a little strange.

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Who's calling you
from the hospital?

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Exactly.

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So then as I was taking Scout,
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I said, "Do me a favor,

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check Dad's location for me
really quick."

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Dad was Bob Lee.

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Divorced from Krista for years,

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but maintaining
a close friendship

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and co parenting relationship
for their two children.

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I don't know why,
but there is just this feeling,

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this, you know,
pit in my stomach.

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And then Scout,
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told her where the phone
seemed to be located.

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It was at the police station.

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Specifically the SFPD's
Southern Station.

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I remember my stomach
just, like--

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like I felt nauseous, kind of.

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Like, I didn't know why.

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Krista reminded herself
locating a phone that way

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was an inexact science.

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And besides, Bob was staying
at a hotel nearby,

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since he'd recently
relocated to Miami.

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I'm like,
"This is a little odd."

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I'm not going to let
my overactive imagination

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take hold just yet.

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So Krista got on
with the morning rush,

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dropped Scout off at school,
and when she got home,

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she tried that missed number
from the hospital.

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And the operator had said,
"Oh, I'm so sorry.

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We were probably just verifying
or confirming an appointment."

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And I felt, "This is strange,

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I don't have appointments
down there."

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- So she sent Bob a text.
- Didn't hear back from him.

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Which is very bizarre
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Bob is up and running.

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- He would always text you back.
- Always.

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Yeah, either text,
call, anything.

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Uh, we were always in contact
with each other.

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- So that's weird.
- It was very strange.

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By 10:00-11:00 AM,
I still had not heard from him.

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Krista did hear
from someone else,

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a friend of Bob's.

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He's like, "I'm supposed to
take him to the airport

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and he's not
picking up his phone."

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I'm like, "I know."

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He hasn't returned
my messages either."

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The friend told Krista
he'd go down to

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the police station
just to check.

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And said, "By any chance

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this guy by the name
of Bob Lee here?"

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And the woman, uh, said,
"Are you family?"

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That's never good
when they ask that.

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And it wasn't good.

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The police told the friend
Bob was at the hospital.

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I jumped in the car
with my boyfriend

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and we sped as fast as we could
down to the hospital.

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And every scenario at that time
was going through my head.

253
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- What-- He's been mugged.
- Mugged, car accident,

254
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hit by a car,
hit by a self driving car

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in San Francisco.

256
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You know, every--
every little scenario.

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And so we get there and, uh,
they escorted us back

258
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into a private waiting room,
which, at that point, too,

259
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I felt very, almost
just sick to my stomach.

260
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Like, what is going on here?
Is he in a coma?

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What happened?

262
00:12:10,747 --> 00:12:13,549
And shortly after that
the nurse

263
00:12:13,650 --> 00:12:16,119
and the attending doctor
walked in and said,

264
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"Are you Bob Lee's wife?"

265
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I said,
"Yes, I'm his former wife."

266
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And he said,
"Well, I'm so sorry.

267
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We did everything we could,
but we were not able

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to save him."

269
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Bob, she was told,
had been fatally stabbed.

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He was 43.

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At that time, I just,
I-I went blank.

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I stared at the doctor like,

273
00:12:40,977 --> 00:12:43,046
"Are you telling me
that Bob is dead?"

274
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And...
[sighs]

275
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Um, it was in that moment that,
you know,

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you almost fall to the floor.

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Uh, you don't think it's real.

278
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Um, my whole body, I mean,
just went flush.

279
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This is not real.

280
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And that's all
I kept thinking was,

281
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"You have the wrong person.
This isn't real.

282
00:13:01,998 --> 00:13:04,200
I need to get home
to the kids right now.

283
00:13:04,300 --> 00:13:05,301
Like, they're getting
out of school.

284
00:13:05,401 --> 00:13:09,272
It's 3:00 in the afternoon.
I need to go now."

285
00:13:09,372 --> 00:13:11,207
Krista rushed home
to her children,

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Sirius, then 17,
and Scout,

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who'd been taking
an after school nap.

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She's like, "We're going
to your sister's room."

289
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And I'm like,
"Okay, what's happening?"

290
00:13:21,150 --> 00:13:23,252
And that's when
she breaks the news.

291
00:13:23,353 --> 00:13:26,122
I remember I thought that
I was, like, still dreaming.

292
00:13:26,222 --> 00:13:28,424
Like, I really wish that I was.

293
00:13:30,393 --> 00:13:33,363
Sergeant Dittmer
spoke with Bob's family.

294
00:13:33,463 --> 00:13:36,165
And when you say to Krista,
"Is there some obvious suspect?"

295
00:13:36,265 --> 00:13:38,568
She says...
- There wasn't.

296
00:13:38,668 --> 00:13:40,870
She didn't have any idea
why this would happen.

297
00:13:40,970 --> 00:13:44,040
Hard to find people
who didn't like Bob Lee?

298
00:13:44,140 --> 00:13:45,141
I can't think of anybody
who said

299
00:13:45,241 --> 00:13:48,344
they didn't like Bob Lee.

300
00:13:48,444 --> 00:13:50,446
Now it was up to police
to figure out

301
00:13:50,546 --> 00:13:56,252
if this was a random crime
or whether someone in Bob's life

302
00:13:56,352 --> 00:13:58,054
would want to hurt him.

303
00:13:58,154 --> 00:14:01,424
Police were about to learn
the late Bob Lee

304
00:14:01,524 --> 00:14:04,260
was no average guy.

305
00:14:04,394 --> 00:14:09,432
♪

306
00:14:09,866 --> 00:14:16,539
♪

307
00:14:16,639 --> 00:14:20,309
At first, police knew little
about Bob Lee,

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the man stabbed to death
in the shadow of

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00:14:22,578 --> 00:14:25,415
San Francisco's Bay Bridge.

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00:14:25,515 --> 00:14:28,151
Reporter Sergio Quintana
covered the case

311
00:14:28,251 --> 00:14:30,186
for NBC Bay Area.

312
00:14:30,286 --> 00:14:31,754
San Francisco is
an interesting city

313
00:14:31,854 --> 00:14:34,724
because, you know,
you live in the tech world,

314
00:14:34,824 --> 00:14:39,495
but most residents don't know
who these people are.

315
00:14:39,595 --> 00:14:43,132
But people in the tech industry
knew who Bob Lee is.

316
00:14:43,232 --> 00:14:45,368
Soon, police were
starting to learn

317
00:14:45,468 --> 00:14:47,971
what the tech world
already knew.

318
00:14:48,071 --> 00:14:50,840
Bob Lee was a big deal.

319
00:14:50,940 --> 00:14:53,109
Bob was, I think,
a very rare person

320
00:14:53,209 --> 00:14:57,447
in the tech world.
He invented so many things.

321
00:14:57,547 --> 00:15:01,384
Bob's friends and former
co-workers Ajit Varma

322
00:15:01,484 --> 00:15:02,719
and Carlos Witt.

323
00:15:02,819 --> 00:15:05,455
He was building some of
the best tools on the planet.

324
00:15:05,555 --> 00:15:08,191
You've probably heard of
and maybe even used

325
00:15:08,291 --> 00:15:10,293
some of Bob's tools.

326
00:15:10,393 --> 00:15:13,096
He helped develop Android
for Google,

327
00:15:13,196 --> 00:15:16,132
he founded
the financial service Cash App,

328
00:15:16,232 --> 00:15:20,002
and he was a top executive
at Square and Mobile Coin,

329
00:15:20,103 --> 00:15:22,271
just to mention a few.

330
00:15:22,372 --> 00:15:25,274
Way beyond just what
he created individually.

331
00:15:25,375 --> 00:15:27,543
He empowered
so many other people

332
00:15:27,643 --> 00:15:29,579
to create amazing things.

333
00:15:29,679 --> 00:15:30,713
You must have
been proud of him.

334
00:15:30,813 --> 00:15:33,416
Yeah, very, very proud
of my brother.

335
00:15:33,516 --> 00:15:38,087
And he continually amazed me
with things.

336
00:15:38,187 --> 00:15:40,089
Oliver Lee
was Bob's younger brother

337
00:15:40,189 --> 00:15:42,325
by just 18 months.

338
00:15:42,425 --> 00:15:45,595
They grew up a world away
from Silicon valley,

339
00:15:45,695 --> 00:15:47,997
outside of St. Louis, Missouri.

340
00:15:48,097 --> 00:15:50,767
You can imagine, you know,
two boys close in age,

341
00:15:50,867 --> 00:15:51,934
growing up at the Midwest.

342
00:15:52,035 --> 00:15:54,904
We, um, we built a lot of forts
in the woods.

343
00:15:55,004 --> 00:15:57,573
You know, we did
everything together.

344
00:15:57,674 --> 00:15:59,676
Their dad, Rick Lee,
an engineer,

345
00:15:59,776 --> 00:16:02,378
sparked an interest
in technology.

346
00:16:02,478 --> 00:16:06,883
We wanted a computer,
and so we bought a Tandy 1000,

347
00:16:06,983 --> 00:16:11,087
uh, on time payments
because it was almost $3000.

348
00:16:11,187 --> 00:16:13,656
He saw it as, like,
an investment in us.

349
00:16:13,756 --> 00:16:16,793
And so we started messing around
with that computer,

350
00:16:16,893 --> 00:16:18,828
and then we just
built from there.

351
00:16:18,928 --> 00:16:20,730
And your parents
encouraged this,

352
00:16:20,830 --> 00:16:22,799
because you're explorers?
- Oh, absolutely.

353
00:16:22,899 --> 00:16:23,866
It's like,
"If they take it apart,

354
00:16:23,967 --> 00:16:27,136
they'll probably
put it back together", right?

355
00:16:27,236 --> 00:16:29,505
By high school,
Bob was creating computer games

356
00:16:29,605 --> 00:16:33,276
for his friends and
even programs for the school.

357
00:16:33,376 --> 00:16:36,646
He was their tech expert at--
for the high school.

358
00:16:36,746 --> 00:16:37,847
[chuckling]

359
00:16:37,947 --> 00:16:40,750
Bob went to college,
but not for long.

360
00:16:40,850 --> 00:16:44,020
The Dot Com Boom of
the late 90's beckoned.

361
00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,255
He was at
the breaking wave of tech.

362
00:16:46,356 --> 00:16:49,926
Yeah, it was the wild west of
many parts of tech, you know?

363
00:16:50,026 --> 00:16:54,464
And he, uh, wanted to go
solve problems on his own.

364
00:16:54,564 --> 00:16:57,166
In 2001, Bob first
made a name for himself

365
00:16:57,266 --> 00:16:59,869
by solving a major problem.

366
00:16:59,969 --> 00:17:03,206
He developed a fix
for a dangerous computer virus

367
00:17:03,306 --> 00:17:05,708
called Code Red.

368
00:17:05,808 --> 00:17:08,344
Oliver said his brother
had big money offers

369
00:17:08,444 --> 00:17:11,681
to sell the software
he had created.

370
00:17:11,781 --> 00:17:14,984
But instead of monetizing it,
he just made it open source code

371
00:17:15,084 --> 00:17:17,220
and basically
gave it to the world for free

372
00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:20,690
because that was the fastest way
to be able to create

373
00:17:20,790 --> 00:17:22,458
the best good with it.

374
00:17:22,558 --> 00:17:25,695
Life was not
all computers for Bob.

375
00:17:25,795 --> 00:17:29,465
Not long after Code Red,
Bob met Krista.

376
00:17:29,565 --> 00:17:33,603
Bob made you feel immediately
you could feel your worth.

377
00:17:33,703 --> 00:17:35,171
He was present
in the conversation

378
00:17:35,271 --> 00:17:36,706
just like you and I are
right now.

379
00:17:36,806 --> 00:17:39,942
How'd Bob talk about his work
and what he did for a living

380
00:17:40,043 --> 00:17:42,311
and what he wanted to do?
- It wasn't work.

381
00:17:42,412 --> 00:17:44,681
It was his happiness.
It was his happy place.

382
00:17:44,781 --> 00:17:46,082
He loved his work.

383
00:17:46,182 --> 00:17:50,319
He loved the opportunity to
make the world a better place.

384
00:17:51,988 --> 00:17:55,558
Bob and Krista had
their first child in 2005.

385
00:17:55,658 --> 00:18:00,096
A Star Trek themed wedding
followed in Vegas.

386
00:18:00,196 --> 00:18:02,131
- Honeymoon on Rigel VII.
- Exactly.

387
00:18:02,231 --> 00:18:03,900
- Yeah.
- Yep, yep. Klingons only.

388
00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,501
[laughs]

389
00:18:05,601 --> 00:18:08,938
Yeah, it was something
that we did because

390
00:18:09,038 --> 00:18:12,975
it represented the two of us
rather than some Napa wedding

391
00:18:13,076 --> 00:18:14,610
with a bunch of guests that,
you know,

392
00:18:14,711 --> 00:18:16,813
we could care less about.

393
00:18:16,913 --> 00:18:19,949
By 2008, they were
a family of four.

394
00:18:20,049 --> 00:18:21,784
He didn't treat me
like I was a little kid,

395
00:18:21,884 --> 00:18:24,020
like, even though obviously
I'm his kid,

396
00:18:24,120 --> 00:18:26,422
but, like, he talked to me
like I was an adult.

397
00:18:26,522 --> 00:18:29,258
And he taught me, like,
very valuable life lessons on,

398
00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:33,629
like, being calm in, like, conflict.

399
00:18:33,730 --> 00:18:36,432
- Oh, he's so patient, right?
- Yeah.

400
00:18:36,532 --> 00:18:38,935
He had a very, like,
gentle parenting style.

401
00:18:39,035 --> 00:18:41,604
Yeah, he was really nice,
I want to say.

402
00:18:41,704 --> 00:18:44,440
It was just like
that soft voice,

403
00:18:44,540 --> 00:18:48,277
gentle parenting
kind of thing.

404
00:18:48,378 --> 00:18:51,681
- Rockabye baby!
- As the Lee family grew,

405
00:18:51,781 --> 00:18:55,418
so did Bob's influence
in the tech world.

406
00:18:55,518 --> 00:18:59,088
Financial success followed
and all that comes with it.

407
00:18:59,188 --> 00:19:03,893
Lavish trips, VIP lounges,
private parties.

408
00:19:03,993 --> 00:19:06,729
We would have parties or,
you know, yacht parties.

409
00:19:06,829 --> 00:19:09,465
Private jets were not
an unfamiliar thing.

410
00:19:09,565 --> 00:19:11,134
Oh, he definitely spoiled us.

411
00:19:11,234 --> 00:19:13,936
Oh, there is not a point
where I was not living

412
00:19:14,037 --> 00:19:16,439
in a cush luxury life.

413
00:19:16,539 --> 00:19:19,042
Correct to say that money
and success changed him,

414
00:19:19,142 --> 00:19:21,544
or it just allowed him to be
who he always would have been?

415
00:19:21,644 --> 00:19:24,714
It gave him freedom to be more
of who he was, right?

416
00:19:24,814 --> 00:19:27,750
And so I don't think
it changed him.

417
00:19:27,850 --> 00:19:31,888
After 10 years of marriage,
Bob and Krista split up.

418
00:19:31,988 --> 00:19:36,259
Generally, divorce in America
equals friction of some kind.

419
00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:38,061
- Sure.
- But not here.

420
00:19:38,161 --> 00:19:42,665
No, no, it--
Actually, um, I think he and I

421
00:19:42,765 --> 00:19:45,001
became more loving
towards each other.

422
00:19:45,101 --> 00:19:47,904
Uh, we had a whole newfound
respect for each other.

423
00:19:48,004 --> 00:19:52,208
In 2022, Bob moved to Miami,
but made frequent trips

424
00:19:52,308 --> 00:19:55,078
back to San Francisco
to be with his kids.

425
00:19:55,178 --> 00:19:59,115
In fact, when he was killed,
Bob had come to San Francisco

426
00:19:59,215 --> 00:20:03,019
to see Scout perform
in a school play.

427
00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:05,388
It's difficult for her
to talk about.

428
00:20:05,488 --> 00:20:08,157
Because that was
the last time I ever saw him.

429
00:20:08,257 --> 00:20:10,693
[crying]

430
00:20:10,793 --> 00:20:13,863
Now, Bob's family was
talking with investigators

431
00:20:13,963 --> 00:20:16,966
and learning more about
his final minutes.

432
00:20:17,066 --> 00:20:20,136
On those security videos
from near the crime scene,

433
00:20:20,236 --> 00:20:23,373
police found something
heartbreaking.

434
00:20:23,473 --> 00:20:25,708
Moments after
he's been stabbed,

435
00:20:25,808 --> 00:20:29,345
Bob approaches a car
stopped at a red light,

436
00:20:29,445 --> 00:20:32,915
and it looks like
he's asking for help.

437
00:20:33,016 --> 00:20:35,351
Instead, the person drives off,

438
00:20:35,451 --> 00:20:38,921
and a badly wounded Bob
drops to the ground.

439
00:20:41,357 --> 00:20:42,925
No matter how many times
I see it,

440
00:20:43,026 --> 00:20:46,929
that video doesn't get
any less disturbing to watch.

441
00:20:47,030 --> 00:20:49,632
Some families I meet
want to know everything they can

442
00:20:49,732 --> 00:20:52,101
about their loved ones'
last moments,

443
00:20:52,201 --> 00:20:54,370
no matter how painful
the details.

444
00:20:54,470 --> 00:20:56,372
Others do not.

445
00:20:56,472 --> 00:20:59,709
Bob Lee's family
fell into both camps.

446
00:20:59,809 --> 00:21:03,646
There's video of him,
which you've probably seen.

447
00:21:03,746 --> 00:21:06,783
Actually, no, I can't bring
myself to watch it yet.

448
00:21:06,883 --> 00:21:09,585
Well, it is tough to watch

449
00:21:09,686 --> 00:21:12,355
because he is stumbling
down the street.

450
00:21:12,455 --> 00:21:14,290
He's clearly been hurt.

451
00:21:14,390 --> 00:21:18,795
My son watched the footage,
and his response to me was,

452
00:21:18,895 --> 00:21:22,365
"It only showed me
how strong my father was,

453
00:21:22,465 --> 00:21:26,436
that it looked like
he was trying to survive

454
00:21:26,536 --> 00:21:28,271
whatever had happened to him."

455
00:21:28,371 --> 00:21:31,307
And I trust
his opinion on that one.

456
00:21:31,407 --> 00:21:32,975
Any evidence that would have
made any difference

457
00:21:33,076 --> 00:21:35,411
if somebody had picked him up
and taken him to the hospital?

458
00:21:35,511 --> 00:21:37,180
- As far as surviving?
- Yeah.

459
00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:40,283
I don't think so.

460
00:21:40,383 --> 00:21:42,919
In life, Bob Lee's name
was once known

461
00:21:43,019 --> 00:21:46,422
primarily to tech insiders.

462
00:21:46,522 --> 00:21:49,025
Now, in death,
he was about to achieve

463
00:21:49,125 --> 00:21:52,228
a whole new level of notoriety.

464
00:21:52,328 --> 00:21:55,298
Elon Musk is talking about it
and saying--

465
00:21:55,398 --> 00:21:59,002
Calling you out specifically.
- Yes.

466
00:21:59,135 --> 00:22:02,672
♪

467
00:22:03,039 --> 00:22:10,813
♪

468
00:22:10,913 --> 00:22:13,016
Krista Lee was stunned.

469
00:22:13,116 --> 00:22:16,452
The father of
her two children was gone.

470
00:22:16,552 --> 00:22:19,355
It was unreal.
It felt like I was in a dream.

471
00:22:19,455 --> 00:22:20,456
It wasn't true.

472
00:22:20,556 --> 00:22:22,458
Especially the way
that he was taken from us.

473
00:22:22,558 --> 00:22:25,395
It just did not seem like
it was reality.

474
00:22:25,495 --> 00:22:27,797
When you hear about Bob,
you hear words like, you know,

475
00:22:27,897 --> 00:22:33,236
brilliant, uh, innovator,
visionary, uh, selfless, right?

476
00:22:33,336 --> 00:22:35,905
"Murder."
Not one of them.

477
00:22:36,005 --> 00:22:36,939
No.

478
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,309
I mean, that just seems
inconceivable.

479
00:22:39,409 --> 00:22:41,110
I mean, I think murder
is always

480
00:22:41,210 --> 00:22:43,012
the last thing you expect.

481
00:22:43,112 --> 00:22:45,381
Police in San Francisco
are investigating

482
00:22:45,481 --> 00:22:47,550
the stabbing death of Bob Lee.

483
00:22:47,650 --> 00:22:50,553
His death sent shockwaves
through the tech industry.

484
00:22:50,653 --> 00:22:54,357
News of Bob Lee's death
made national headlines.

485
00:22:54,457 --> 00:22:57,060
Police are trying to solve
a murder mystery.

486
00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:58,728
Yeah, it happened
early Tuesday morning.

487
00:22:58,828 --> 00:22:59,662
That's when investigators...

488
00:22:59,762 --> 00:23:01,531
Especially when
that dramatic video

489
00:23:01,631 --> 00:23:04,767
of his collapse outside
the apartment building

490
00:23:04,867 --> 00:23:06,436
became public.

491
00:23:06,536 --> 00:23:09,305
It is just one of the latest
high profile crimes

492
00:23:09,405 --> 00:23:14,811
that's increased safety concerns
around the San Francisco area.

493
00:23:14,911 --> 00:23:18,314
Reporter Sergio Quintana said
many believed Bob's death

494
00:23:18,414 --> 00:23:24,087
was a symptom of a bigger issue
in Bob's beloved San Francisco.

495
00:23:24,187 --> 00:23:25,321
Hey, get the med kit, please.

496
00:23:25,421 --> 00:23:28,157
In the midst of the pandemic,
the city of San Francisco

497
00:23:28,257 --> 00:23:31,461
went through some changes,
like many cities

498
00:23:31,561 --> 00:23:34,864
in the United States.
There is street crime.

499
00:23:34,964 --> 00:23:36,065
People get mugged.

500
00:23:36,165 --> 00:23:38,801
People get attacked
sometimes in the streets.

501
00:23:38,901 --> 00:23:42,638
And that was the perception
of San Francisco at the time,

502
00:23:42,739 --> 00:23:44,574
that this was a dangerous city.

503
00:23:44,674 --> 00:23:49,679
And this crime
exacerbated that perception.

504
00:23:49,779 --> 00:23:52,081
Even Elon Musk joined
the discussion

505
00:23:52,181 --> 00:23:55,318
about Bob Lee's murder,
writing...

506
00:24:02,825 --> 00:24:05,695
Although that clearly
was not true,

507
00:24:05,795 --> 00:24:07,830
it made an impact.

508
00:24:07,930 --> 00:24:11,234
The attention on this case
was immediate.

509
00:24:11,334 --> 00:24:15,104
And, you know, for someone
like Elon Musk t-to post this,

510
00:24:15,204 --> 00:24:19,142
he had just bought Twitter and
had just come to San Francisco

511
00:24:19,242 --> 00:24:21,778
to run that company.

512
00:24:21,878 --> 00:24:23,680
In the post, Musk mentioned

513
00:24:23,780 --> 00:24:25,782
District Attorney
Brooke Jenkins,

514
00:24:25,882 --> 00:24:27,984
who had recently taken office.

515
00:24:28,084 --> 00:24:31,621
Brooke Jenkins was elected after
the previous DA was recalled

516
00:24:31,721 --> 00:24:33,189
because many voters
perceived him

517
00:24:33,289 --> 00:24:35,224
to be soft on crime.

518
00:24:35,325 --> 00:24:38,594
In her campaign, Jenkins vowed
to be a tough prosecutor.

519
00:24:38,695 --> 00:24:41,431
Now, Bob Lee's stabbing
was shining

520
00:24:41,531 --> 00:24:44,400
a very bright spotlight
on that promise.

521
00:24:44,500 --> 00:24:46,035
Elon Musk is talking about it

522
00:24:46,135 --> 00:24:48,571
and calling you out
specifically.

523
00:24:48,671 --> 00:24:50,773
Yes. He was basically saying
that it was because of

524
00:24:50,873 --> 00:24:53,443
lawlessness in our city
and a need to, uh,

525
00:24:53,543 --> 00:24:56,512
prosecute repeat offenders and
tagging me in that tweet.

526
00:24:56,612 --> 00:24:59,415
And at that point,
nothing was known about

527
00:24:59,515 --> 00:25:02,585
who'd killed Bob Lee, uh,
whether it was a repeat offender

528
00:25:02,685 --> 00:25:05,655
or whether it was a, uh,
a person living on the street

529
00:25:05,755 --> 00:25:07,724
or whether it was
something else.

530
00:25:07,824 --> 00:25:09,492
Nothing publicly
had been disclosed

531
00:25:09,592 --> 00:25:11,661
as far as the, uh, investigation.

532
00:25:11,761 --> 00:25:13,863
He had no information
about that crime.

533
00:25:13,963 --> 00:25:17,100
So you know, it's just kind of
ratcheting up the attention

534
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:18,401
for this case.

535
00:25:18,501 --> 00:25:21,137
With all that attention
on Bob's death,

536
00:25:21,237 --> 00:25:25,041
his friend Ajit
was left angry and shocked.

537
00:25:25,141 --> 00:25:27,076
How could this be
allowed to happen?

538
00:25:27,176 --> 00:25:30,813
Like what is going on
in San Francisco that like,

539
00:25:30,913 --> 00:25:33,750
you know, this could happen
and-and just like you come to,

540
00:25:33,850 --> 00:25:35,718
like, these conclusions.

541
00:25:35,818 --> 00:25:37,820
- What's the world coming to?
- What's the world coming to?

542
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,623
Yeah, and so you know,
it's like a lot of like anger,

543
00:25:40,723 --> 00:25:42,725
like, you know,
this is a great person

544
00:25:42,825 --> 00:25:46,663
getting taken away from us, uh,
that didn't deserve this.

545
00:25:46,763 --> 00:25:49,065
Krista knew Bob would never
put himself

546
00:25:49,165 --> 00:25:51,434
in a dangerous situation.

547
00:25:51,534 --> 00:25:55,238
That made his murder
even more puzzling.

548
00:25:55,338 --> 00:25:57,273
The main thing that people
were saying was,

549
00:25:57,373 --> 00:25:58,808
"Oh, he must have
gotten mugged."

550
00:25:58,908 --> 00:26:01,544
He was walking back home
to his hotel.

551
00:26:01,644 --> 00:26:02,612
That one I did not believe

552
00:26:02,712 --> 00:26:04,480
because Bob never
walked anywhere.

553
00:26:04,580 --> 00:26:07,016
He would have Ubered,
especially at that time.

554
00:26:07,116 --> 00:26:08,985
You ever worry about him
working in San Francisco

555
00:26:09,085 --> 00:26:12,321
and-and crime downtown?
- Never, never. Not at all.

556
00:26:12,422 --> 00:26:14,190
Had Bob been
approached by someone

557
00:26:14,290 --> 00:26:15,591
that was trying to mug him,

558
00:26:15,692 --> 00:26:18,828
he would have given him,
you know, them,

559
00:26:18,928 --> 00:26:20,563
the shirt off his back,
his wallet,

560
00:26:20,663 --> 00:26:22,331
his keys, his clothes.

561
00:26:22,432 --> 00:26:24,834
He would have said, "Hey man,
let me buy you a meal.

562
00:26:24,934 --> 00:26:26,402
Please don't hurt me."

563
00:26:26,502 --> 00:26:29,138
Sergeant Brent Dittmer
was sure from early on

564
00:26:29,238 --> 00:26:32,075
that the person
who stabbed Bob to death

565
00:26:32,175 --> 00:26:34,177
wasn't after his money.

566
00:26:34,277 --> 00:26:35,645
There was a lot of talk that,
you know,

567
00:26:35,745 --> 00:26:40,249
this is random violent
homeless crime in San Francisco.

568
00:26:40,350 --> 00:26:42,752
Could that have happened
when we first get here?

569
00:26:42,852 --> 00:26:45,421
Maybe, but very quickly.

570
00:26:45,521 --> 00:26:46,823
It really doesn't appear
to be the case.

571
00:26:46,923 --> 00:26:48,825
And he's still got his watch
and his wallet.

572
00:26:48,925 --> 00:26:50,660
- He does.
- Let me guess,

573
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,196
you're wondering
if Brent Dittmer is a giant

574
00:26:53,296 --> 00:26:54,897
or maybe I'm a hobbit.

575
00:26:54,998 --> 00:26:57,834
That's what some viewers asked
a little more politely

576
00:26:57,934 --> 00:26:59,702
when this story first aired.

577
00:26:59,802 --> 00:27:02,572
Well, I'm 5'9",
Dittmer's about 6'5",

578
00:27:02,672 --> 00:27:05,308
and yes,
that camera shot was awkward.

579
00:27:05,408 --> 00:27:07,944
Anyway, here's the actual point
I want to make.

580
00:27:08,044 --> 00:27:10,947
Homicide detectives
are notoriously tight lipped

581
00:27:11,047 --> 00:27:13,516
about the cases
they are actively working.

582
00:27:13,616 --> 00:27:15,385
They don't like to
show their cards.

583
00:27:15,485 --> 00:27:19,288
Which is why to Dittmer,
the random crime narrative

584
00:27:19,389 --> 00:27:22,892
that was so popular was a gift.

585
00:27:22,992 --> 00:27:24,994
If that's the story
people are gonna run with,

586
00:27:25,094 --> 00:27:28,064
that is an advantage for us
because the people

587
00:27:28,164 --> 00:27:28,998
who are responsible,

588
00:27:29,098 --> 00:27:31,567
we don't want to know
what we know.

589
00:27:31,668 --> 00:27:33,269
So you leave
the robbery story out there,

590
00:27:33,369 --> 00:27:37,040
even though you know right here
that's probably not it.

591
00:27:37,140 --> 00:27:40,343
Let everybody think that
this is whatever's on Twitter

592
00:27:40,443 --> 00:27:41,978
at that time.

593
00:27:42,078 --> 00:27:44,180
We'll work on
what actually happened.

594
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,616
The idea of a mugging
didn't seem plausible to you,

595
00:27:46,716 --> 00:27:51,854
but Bob being targeted,
that's even harder to believe.

596
00:27:51,954 --> 00:27:55,725
Yes. Yeah.
W-We were all confused.

597
00:27:55,825 --> 00:27:58,261
Confused and scared.

598
00:27:58,361 --> 00:28:02,799
Especially after Krista received
a mysterious text message.

599
00:28:02,899 --> 00:28:05,168
"I heard that you were
talking to the police.

600
00:28:05,268 --> 00:28:06,736
Please tell them to check
the footage

601
00:28:06,836 --> 00:28:08,705
of the Millennium Tower.

602
00:28:08,805 --> 00:28:10,640
I'd like to remain anonymous.

603
00:28:10,740 --> 00:28:13,042
I fear that
I will be stabbed, too."

604
00:28:13,176 --> 00:28:18,081
♪

605
00:28:19,148 --> 00:28:28,458
♪

606
00:28:28,558 --> 00:28:33,162
Bob's impact was discussed in
all corners of Silicon Valley,

607
00:28:33,262 --> 00:28:35,999
in the tech world and beyond,

608
00:28:36,099 --> 00:28:39,802
as his family and friends
gathered for memorial services.

609
00:28:39,902 --> 00:28:43,339
Carlos Witt attended the service
in San Francisco.

610
00:28:43,439 --> 00:28:44,841
People are talking about
Bob's stories,

611
00:28:44,941 --> 00:28:46,542
crying, et cetera.

612
00:28:46,643 --> 00:28:53,416
But you could feel the absence
of Bob everywhere.

613
00:28:53,516 --> 00:28:56,486
And walking around,
and it was--

614
00:28:56,586 --> 00:28:58,388
You know,
it was a beautiful party,

615
00:28:58,488 --> 00:29:00,623
and it was, again, beautiful
to see everybody, but...

616
00:29:00,723 --> 00:29:01,891
But somebody wasn't there.

617
00:29:01,991 --> 00:29:03,393
It wasn't just, like,
minus one person.

618
00:29:03,493 --> 00:29:06,663
It felt like it was minus, like,
a thousand people,

619
00:29:06,763 --> 00:29:08,531
with one person not being there.

620
00:29:08,631 --> 00:29:12,001
I'll record myself, too.
I got myself. Hey!

621
00:29:12,101 --> 00:29:14,704
He just made people
feel so amazing.

622
00:29:14,804 --> 00:29:16,639
Are you gonna
send this to Mom?

623
00:29:16,739 --> 00:29:17,573
Yeah.

624
00:29:17,674 --> 00:29:19,842
And he knew
just how to help people.

625
00:29:19,942 --> 00:29:21,978
Like, he was so charismatic,
and he just, like,

626
00:29:22,078 --> 00:29:25,515
knew how to, like, solve
any issue that he came across.

627
00:29:25,615 --> 00:29:29,118
His brother Oliver caught
a glimpse of Bob's generosity

628
00:29:29,218 --> 00:29:32,255
as he handled Bob's finances
after his death.

629
00:29:32,355 --> 00:29:35,024
Constantly, you see him
helping somebody else.

630
00:29:35,124 --> 00:29:37,393
There was a investment
in a hair salon

631
00:29:37,493 --> 00:29:39,595
and another investment
in a restaurant.

632
00:29:39,696 --> 00:29:42,231
These were not investments
he expected to get back.

633
00:29:42,331 --> 00:29:45,101
And so it was more of,
"I met this cool person

634
00:29:45,201 --> 00:29:46,436
who's doing this cool thing.

635
00:29:46,536 --> 00:29:47,804
How can I help
them to do that?"

636
00:29:47,904 --> 00:29:49,305
And the answer was,
"I'm gonna give them some money,

637
00:29:49,405 --> 00:29:51,341
and I probably won't
get anything for it."

638
00:29:51,441 --> 00:29:53,476
Yeah, well, "I know
I won't get anything for it."

639
00:29:53,576 --> 00:29:54,544
Right?

640
00:29:54,644 --> 00:29:55,445
Except the feeling
that I helped somebody.

641
00:29:55,545 --> 00:29:56,779
Yeah.

642
00:29:56,879 --> 00:29:58,915
Now, investigators
were trying to figure out

643
00:29:59,015 --> 00:30:02,485
why anyone would want Bob dead.

644
00:30:02,585 --> 00:30:04,721
They had already dug up
a possible lead

645
00:30:04,821 --> 00:30:08,458
from that security video
they pulled at the crime scene.

646
00:30:08,558 --> 00:30:11,627
On it, you can see a white car.

647
00:30:11,728 --> 00:30:12,729
From some of the angles, yeah.

648
00:30:12,829 --> 00:30:16,132
You could tell it was
a white, uh, BMW Roadster.

649
00:30:16,232 --> 00:30:19,369
In another video,
where Bob lifts up his shirt,

650
00:30:19,469 --> 00:30:22,939
maybe to see how badly
he's wounded.

651
00:30:23,039 --> 00:30:26,075
There's the white car again
in the background.

652
00:30:26,175 --> 00:30:27,377
You'll see behind him,

653
00:30:27,477 --> 00:30:29,846
this vehicle pull away
from the scene.

654
00:30:29,946 --> 00:30:32,782
A vehicle that we determined
was this, uh,

655
00:30:32,882 --> 00:30:37,153
white BMW Z4 small coupe.

656
00:30:37,253 --> 00:30:39,522
In other videos,
police saw what looked like

657
00:30:39,622 --> 00:30:44,060
the same white car
speeding away from the area.

658
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:49,298
They were able to follow the car
as it got onto the Bay Bridge.

659
00:30:49,399 --> 00:30:52,402
Then they lost sight of it.

660
00:30:52,502 --> 00:30:57,707
Had the driver seen something
or was the driver involved?

661
00:30:57,807 --> 00:30:59,876
Can't get a license number?
- No.

662
00:30:59,976 --> 00:31:01,644
But you start looking for
that car

663
00:31:01,744 --> 00:31:04,480
on other cameras
of other buildings.

664
00:31:04,580 --> 00:31:05,515
Yes.

665
00:31:05,615 --> 00:31:07,216
Sort of back tracing
where it came from?

666
00:31:07,317 --> 00:31:08,651
Yes.

667
00:31:08,751 --> 00:31:09,952
How many other angles
of that car

668
00:31:10,053 --> 00:31:13,556
do you get along its trip?
- Probably six or seven.

669
00:31:13,656 --> 00:31:16,359
- Can you tell who's inside?
- No.

670
00:31:16,459 --> 00:31:17,760
Then they got a break.

671
00:31:17,860 --> 00:31:21,064
A friend of Bob's told police
that on the night he died,

672
00:31:21,164 --> 00:31:24,067
Bob might have gone
to a luxury high rise

673
00:31:24,167 --> 00:31:26,102
called Millennium Tower.

674
00:31:26,202 --> 00:31:28,905
Everybody in San Francisco
knows the Millennium Tower?

675
00:31:29,005 --> 00:31:31,074
- I think so.
- It's famous or infamous maybe.

676
00:31:31,174 --> 00:31:33,343
Well, I think
the short version is, uh,

677
00:31:33,443 --> 00:31:36,379
is a large luxury high rise
apartment building.

678
00:31:36,479 --> 00:31:39,449
Like as luxury as it gets?
- Yeah. Yeah.

679
00:31:39,549 --> 00:31:41,484
Uh, I think it was famous first
because, uh,

680
00:31:41,584 --> 00:31:43,486
Joe Montana was living there,

681
00:31:43,586 --> 00:31:47,023
and then it became famous
'cause it started tilting.

682
00:31:47,123 --> 00:31:50,193
For years, the 58 story
high rise has been plagued

683
00:31:50,293 --> 00:31:54,697
by structural issues that
caused it to lean and sink,

684
00:31:54,797 --> 00:31:59,402
sparking countless lawsuits
from its wealthy residents.

685
00:31:59,502 --> 00:32:00,837
A lot of units
in that building.

686
00:32:00,937 --> 00:32:01,904
- Yes.
- A lot of people live there.

687
00:32:02,005 --> 00:32:03,773
And almost all of them
have money.

688
00:32:03,873 --> 00:32:05,208
Yes.

689
00:32:05,308 --> 00:32:07,176
It was
the same building mentioned

690
00:32:07,276 --> 00:32:10,446
in that alarming text to Krista.

691
00:32:10,546 --> 00:32:12,448
"I heard that you were
talking to the police.

692
00:32:12,548 --> 00:32:14,650
I fear that
I will be stabbed too."

693
00:32:14,751 --> 00:32:17,987
Without saying who it was
they feared,

694
00:32:18,087 --> 00:32:21,724
the texter provided
Krista Lee a clue.

695
00:32:21,824 --> 00:32:23,359
"Please tell them
to check the footage

696
00:32:23,459 --> 00:32:25,395
of the Millennium Tower."

697
00:32:25,495 --> 00:32:27,897
That was exactly
what police were doing.

698
00:32:27,997 --> 00:32:30,233
And fortunately,
the Millennium Tower

699
00:32:30,333 --> 00:32:32,101
had security cameras.

700
00:32:32,201 --> 00:32:33,936
Lots of them.

701
00:32:34,037 --> 00:32:36,439
If Bob Lee had been killed
in a different time

702
00:32:36,539 --> 00:32:39,475
before there were
security cameras everywhere,

703
00:32:39,575 --> 00:32:42,378
there's a good chance his killer
might not have been caught.

704
00:32:42,478 --> 00:32:44,714
This story turned out to be
one of the best examples

705
00:32:44,814 --> 00:32:47,350
of modern crime fighting
I've seen.

706
00:32:47,450 --> 00:32:49,385
Luck was a big part of it

707
00:32:49,485 --> 00:32:51,120
because as we often see
on Dateline,

708
00:32:51,220 --> 00:32:53,289
security cameras
don't always work.

709
00:32:53,389 --> 00:32:55,491
Sometimes they're
not even turned on.

710
00:32:55,591 --> 00:32:57,627
This time they were.

711
00:32:57,727 --> 00:32:59,696
Sergeant Dittmer sent
an investigator

712
00:32:59,796 --> 00:33:03,499
to pull that footage
for any sign of Bob.

713
00:33:03,599 --> 00:33:05,101
Right away,
they saw something interesting

714
00:33:05,201 --> 00:33:07,670
from a camera
outside the building.

715
00:33:07,770 --> 00:33:11,741
We saw white BMW that matched
the white BMW

716
00:33:11,841 --> 00:33:15,411
that was seen driving away
from the scene of the killing.

717
00:33:15,511 --> 00:33:21,050
We run the plate, and the BMW
is registered to Nima Momeni.

718
00:33:21,150 --> 00:33:23,152
Nima Momeni.

719
00:33:23,252 --> 00:33:26,222
Police now focused on him.

720
00:33:26,322 --> 00:33:29,092
There was just one problem.

721
00:33:29,192 --> 00:33:30,893
Is there any evidence
that Nima and Bob

722
00:33:30,993 --> 00:33:33,096
even knew each other
before that evening?

723
00:33:33,196 --> 00:33:34,364
Not really, no.

724
00:33:34,464 --> 00:33:38,167
And that's where Khazar
comes into play in all of this.

725
00:33:38,301 --> 00:33:45,108
♪

726
00:33:45,675 --> 00:33:52,248
♪

727
00:33:52,348 --> 00:33:54,250
Speculation about
Bob Lee's murder

728
00:33:54,350 --> 00:33:57,020
continued to dominate
the headlines.

729
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,389
What wasn't on the news
was that police

730
00:33:59,489 --> 00:34:03,860
now had a name to go on--
Nima Momeni

731
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,997
It was still unclear
how Nima fit into their case,

732
00:34:08,097 --> 00:34:12,001
so Sergeant Dittmer decided to
put off talking with him.

733
00:34:12,101 --> 00:34:14,971
My first plan at this point
is to figure out

734
00:34:15,071 --> 00:34:17,473
who this Nima Momeni is.

735
00:34:17,573 --> 00:34:19,375
We didn't want to go into
the Millennium Tower

736
00:34:19,475 --> 00:34:21,377
and start knocking on doors
or anything like that

737
00:34:21,477 --> 00:34:23,780
because we don't wanna
tip anybody off

738
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:25,882
at what is really
a pretty early stage

739
00:34:25,982 --> 00:34:27,283
of this investigation.

740
00:34:27,383 --> 00:34:29,218
And maybe you're not on
the right track here.

741
00:34:29,318 --> 00:34:30,720
That's possible.

742
00:34:30,820 --> 00:34:33,623
When you run him,
ask people about him,

743
00:34:33,723 --> 00:34:36,092
learn more about him,
w-what picture emerges

744
00:34:36,192 --> 00:34:37,660
of Nima Momeni?

745
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:42,598
Uh, Nima Momeni has
a consulting tech business.

746
00:34:42,699 --> 00:34:44,767
He lives over in the East Bay.

747
00:34:44,867 --> 00:34:47,537
He's in the same business,
broadly, as Bob Lee,

748
00:34:47,637 --> 00:34:50,807
but he's way down
on the food chain below Bob.

749
00:34:50,907 --> 00:34:53,443
Yeah. I mean, if you could say
tech is the same business,

750
00:34:53,543 --> 00:34:54,644
they're in the same business.

751
00:34:54,744 --> 00:34:56,612
I don't think
they're in any way

752
00:34:56,713 --> 00:34:59,115
kind of on the same level.
Yeah.

753
00:34:59,215 --> 00:35:02,452
Investigators would learn Nima
was born in Iran,

754
00:35:02,552 --> 00:35:05,154
and at 14,
he moved to the Bay Area

755
00:35:05,254 --> 00:35:08,758
with his mother and his sister,
Khazar.

756
00:35:08,858 --> 00:35:11,160
His mother, Manaz Tehrani.

757
00:35:11,260 --> 00:35:13,863
How'd your son adjust to
moving to the United States?

758
00:35:13,963 --> 00:35:17,533
Both my kids,
they were so strong.

759
00:35:17,633 --> 00:35:23,840
And we decided when
we were leaving Iran, uh,

760
00:35:23,940 --> 00:35:27,944
we accepted all the difficulties
we're going to face.

761
00:35:28,044 --> 00:35:30,146
- What about your daughter?
- The same.

762
00:35:30,246 --> 00:35:32,615
She was hard working.

763
00:35:32,715 --> 00:35:35,651
Uh, she started working
at a very young age,

764
00:35:35,752 --> 00:35:38,421
at the age of 13
when we came here.

765
00:35:38,521 --> 00:35:43,626
Manaz says she and the kids
all worked hard and scraped by.

766
00:35:43,726 --> 00:35:45,561
It all seemed to pay off.

767
00:35:45,662 --> 00:35:49,198
By 2023, Nima and his family

768
00:35:49,298 --> 00:35:51,367
appeared to be doing
pretty well.

769
00:35:51,467 --> 00:35:55,371
He had a nice white BMW.
He had a couple boats.

770
00:35:55,471 --> 00:35:57,640
He was talking about
buying a ranch.

771
00:35:57,740 --> 00:36:00,343
Eleni Balakrishnan is
a criminal justice reporter

772
00:36:00,443 --> 00:36:04,847
for the news site Mission Local
who did some digging on Nima.

773
00:36:04,947 --> 00:36:06,849
People described him as
being extremely generous

774
00:36:06,949 --> 00:36:08,117
and, you know, well off.

775
00:36:08,217 --> 00:36:11,554
He had a nice loft in Emeryville
where he lived, as well.

776
00:36:11,654 --> 00:36:15,325
His personality?
Quiet, low key.

777
00:36:15,425 --> 00:36:17,460
People thought
he was kind of aloof.

778
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,462
He was kind of a timid guy.

779
00:36:19,562 --> 00:36:21,798
He would be out, but, you know,
wasn't necessarily

780
00:36:21,898 --> 00:36:24,600
the center of the party
or anything.

781
00:36:24,701 --> 00:36:28,338
For all the information
investigators gathered on Nima,

782
00:36:28,438 --> 00:36:30,173
one thing was missing.

783
00:36:30,273 --> 00:36:31,808
Is there any evidence
that Nima and Bob

784
00:36:31,908 --> 00:36:34,110
even knew each other
before that evening?

785
00:36:34,210 --> 00:36:36,646
- Not really, no.
- If this involves Nima and Bob,

786
00:36:36,746 --> 00:36:39,015
that seems maybe off
a little bit

787
00:36:39,115 --> 00:36:40,683
because these guys
aren't friends.

788
00:36:40,783 --> 00:36:42,051
They're not in
business together.

789
00:36:42,151 --> 00:36:43,653
They don't even really
know each other.

790
00:36:43,753 --> 00:36:45,655
They don't.
And you know, that's--

791
00:36:45,755 --> 00:36:48,591
That's where Khazar comes
into play in all of this.

792
00:36:48,691 --> 00:36:51,627
Khazar, Nima's younger sister.

793
00:36:51,728 --> 00:36:54,997
The two were about a year apart
and by all accounts,

794
00:36:55,098 --> 00:36:56,899
extremely close.

795
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,235
Your son and your daughter
have always got along

796
00:36:59,335 --> 00:37:00,636
really well.
- Yes.

797
00:37:00,737 --> 00:37:02,839
Is your son protective
of your daughter?

798
00:37:02,939 --> 00:37:05,875
My son, very supportive, yes.

799
00:37:05,975 --> 00:37:08,845
Very supportive of her
since the day one.

800
00:37:08,945 --> 00:37:11,481
You know, since they were
little kids.

801
00:37:11,581 --> 00:37:14,817
Nima and his sister
spent a lot of time together.

802
00:37:14,917 --> 00:37:20,423
And if Nima was fairly muted,
Khazar was anything but.

803
00:37:20,523 --> 00:37:22,692
Reporter Sergio Quintana.

804
00:37:22,792 --> 00:37:25,194
Khazar Momeni
probably stands out

805
00:37:25,294 --> 00:37:26,863
because she's pretty glamorous.

806
00:37:26,963 --> 00:37:30,667
I mean, in San Francisco, again,
you have money,

807
00:37:30,767 --> 00:37:35,138
but you don't wear your money,
and she wears her money.

808
00:37:36,339 --> 00:37:39,409
Khazar is also married
to Dino Elyassnia,

809
00:37:39,509 --> 00:37:42,645
a top plastic surgeon
in the Bay Area.

810
00:37:42,745 --> 00:37:46,149
There's this glamorous spread
in a San Francisco magazine

811
00:37:46,249 --> 00:37:50,853
of her and her husband Dino,
who they're, like,

812
00:37:50,953 --> 00:37:53,489
being photographed
in this skyrise apartment

813
00:37:53,589 --> 00:37:55,258
overlooking the city.

814
00:37:55,358 --> 00:37:59,429
And she's glamorous
and gorgeous.

815
00:37:59,529 --> 00:38:03,599
Investigators soon discovered
that while Bob didn't know Nima,

816
00:38:03,700 --> 00:38:07,236
he knew Khazar,
and knew her quite well.

817
00:38:07,337 --> 00:38:11,274
The two seemed to run
in the same social circles.

818
00:38:11,374 --> 00:38:14,277
They'd met about eight years
earlier at The Battery,

819
00:38:14,377 --> 00:38:17,080
an exclusive social club
in San Francisco.

820
00:38:17,180 --> 00:38:19,549
Definitely friendly
acquaintances, you know,

821
00:38:19,649 --> 00:38:21,684
talked, texted, uh,
back and forth

822
00:38:21,784 --> 00:38:24,087
about hanging out together,
things like that.

823
00:38:24,187 --> 00:38:26,789
We know that she's a bit
of a party girl.

824
00:38:26,889 --> 00:38:28,558
She and Bob Lee hang around
with each other.

825
00:38:28,658 --> 00:38:32,128
They're in that circle of people
who live in these gorgeous

826
00:38:32,228 --> 00:38:35,465
high rise towers
in downtown San Francisco.

827
00:38:35,565 --> 00:38:38,368
It was Khazar Momeni,
not Nima,

828
00:38:38,468 --> 00:38:41,638
who lived in the glitzy
Millennium Tower.

829
00:38:41,738 --> 00:38:43,306
Police discovered
she and her husband

830
00:38:43,406 --> 00:38:46,976
lived in separate apartments
on separate floors.

831
00:38:47,076 --> 00:38:50,446
That living arrangement appeared
to mirror their lifestyle

832
00:38:50,546 --> 00:38:52,782
and their marriage.
Khazar's married,

833
00:38:52,882 --> 00:38:54,417
but she doesn't
live with her husband.

834
00:38:54,517 --> 00:38:55,451
That's right.

835
00:38:55,551 --> 00:38:58,254
And they have some kind of
open marriage.

836
00:38:58,354 --> 00:38:59,589
I don't know.

837
00:38:59,689 --> 00:39:03,826
Uh, it certainly seems clear
that they know that,

838
00:39:03,926 --> 00:39:05,728
you know, she sees other people.

839
00:39:05,828 --> 00:39:07,830
That's been described
as an open marriage.

840
00:39:07,930 --> 00:39:10,199
Yeah, I don't know how to
describe that,

841
00:39:10,300 --> 00:39:15,705
but, uh, uh, yeah,
her husband was--

842
00:39:15,805 --> 00:39:21,611
I think they were open minded
in some ways.

843
00:39:21,711 --> 00:39:23,980
Had Bob somehow
gotten into the middle of

844
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,316
Khazar and Dino's marriage?

845
00:39:27,417 --> 00:39:29,919
He and Khazar clearly
had a relationship.

846
00:39:30,019 --> 00:39:34,557
Whether this was some sort of
love triangle remained unclear.

847
00:39:34,657 --> 00:39:37,226
On the onset,
I think some people

848
00:39:37,327 --> 00:39:39,295
might have been assuming that
there was something more

849
00:39:39,395 --> 00:39:41,631
going on
beyond just friendship.

850
00:39:41,731 --> 00:39:42,732
I mean, there's a handsome guy

851
00:39:42,832 --> 00:39:44,033
and there's this
glamorous woman,

852
00:39:44,133 --> 00:39:44,968
and they're hanging around
with each other

853
00:39:45,068 --> 00:39:46,202
at these parties,

854
00:39:46,302 --> 00:39:49,839
I think that was kind of
an easy assumption to make.

855
00:39:49,939 --> 00:39:53,676
For detectives, it all felt
like a possible motive.

856
00:39:53,776 --> 00:39:55,311
Did you have any suspicions
to whether or not

857
00:39:55,411 --> 00:39:56,879
Khazar might be
involved in this?

858
00:39:56,979 --> 00:39:57,880
I did.

859
00:39:57,981 --> 00:39:59,983
You know, certainly
that's on the table.

860
00:40:00,083 --> 00:40:04,787
We know that Bob knew her
and, you know,

861
00:40:04,887 --> 00:40:07,323
didn't seem to know Nima,
as far as we knew.

862
00:40:07,423 --> 00:40:09,959
Turns out Khazar and Bob
had been together

863
00:40:10,059 --> 00:40:12,662
just hours before he died.

864
00:40:12,762 --> 00:40:15,531
Khazar Momeni had spent time
with Bob

865
00:40:15,631 --> 00:40:18,101
the day before the killing.

866
00:40:18,201 --> 00:40:21,671
She was at a party that
included Bob, some friends,

867
00:40:21,771 --> 00:40:25,041
and some pharmaceuticals.

868
00:40:25,141 --> 00:40:27,944
Nothing surprises me
about drug use anymore.

869
00:40:28,044 --> 00:40:31,080
And this was Silicon Valley,
which has a reputation.

870
00:40:31,180 --> 00:40:32,682
Among its success stories,

871
00:40:32,782 --> 00:40:35,651
there is also a culture
of extremes.

872
00:40:35,752 --> 00:40:37,887
Bob Lee's murder
turned out to be a window

873
00:40:37,987 --> 00:40:40,056
into some of those excesses.

874
00:40:40,156 --> 00:40:44,027
Some people can code hard
and play hard at a level.

875
00:40:44,127 --> 00:40:46,929
Carlos Witt said his friend
Bob Lee

876
00:40:47,030 --> 00:40:49,999
was at a much higher level.

877
00:40:50,099 --> 00:40:53,536
It would not be weird for us
to put a 100 hour week in,

878
00:40:53,636 --> 00:40:57,040
on a regular basis,
and sometimes string weeks

879
00:40:57,140 --> 00:40:58,574
and weeks together.

880
00:40:58,675 --> 00:41:00,276
So I think one of the ways
that you can do that

881
00:41:00,376 --> 00:41:03,546
is that sometimes you need to
also play hard as well,

882
00:41:03,646 --> 00:41:05,081
to try to balance your life out.

883
00:41:05,181 --> 00:41:08,217
And sometimes playing hard
is staying up all night

884
00:41:08,318 --> 00:41:10,353
shooting pool
or playing Nintendo.

885
00:41:10,453 --> 00:41:11,554
Something harmless.

886
00:41:11,654 --> 00:41:14,524
It's like Wii Tennis
'til like 5:00 in the morning.

887
00:41:14,624 --> 00:41:20,496
Bob was just built different
because he could do the parties,

888
00:41:20,596 --> 00:41:23,032
but he would also be
one of the number one engineers

889
00:41:23,132 --> 00:41:25,234
on the entire planet.

890
00:41:25,335 --> 00:41:30,840
Bob was part of this scene
with this array of substances,

891
00:41:30,940 --> 00:41:35,878
the alphabet of drugs,
K and E and G and cocaine.

892
00:41:36,979 --> 00:41:39,415
Yes, he did partake in parties
and drugs,

893
00:41:39,515 --> 00:41:42,418
but he was never the kind of guy
that would get out of control.

894
00:41:42,518 --> 00:41:44,354
A-And you never
thought to yourself,

895
00:41:44,454 --> 00:41:46,756
you're making a big mistake?
- No, no.

896
00:41:46,856 --> 00:41:52,395
'Cause I never saw drug use
as being abused or an addiction.

897
00:41:52,495 --> 00:41:56,065
However, his brother
Oliver says he did worry about

898
00:41:56,165 --> 00:42:00,636
Bob's chemically fueled
adventures.

899
00:42:00,737 --> 00:42:02,372
He was self medicating.

900
00:42:02,472 --> 00:42:05,575
There's this narrative of Bob
being this super successful guy,

901
00:42:05,675 --> 00:42:08,745
but if you knew him,
you knew he had self doubt

902
00:42:08,845 --> 00:42:11,347
and he had anxiety.

903
00:42:11,447 --> 00:42:15,551
Now Bob's after hours partying
was about to point investigators

904
00:42:15,651 --> 00:42:17,053
to a suspect

905
00:42:17,153 --> 00:42:20,723
and another disturbing piece
of evidence.

906
00:42:20,823 --> 00:42:22,125
Up until that point,
we didn't think

907
00:42:22,225 --> 00:42:24,527
we were gonna have any video
of the killing.

908
00:42:24,627 --> 00:42:27,230
So having something
was very significant.

909
00:42:27,363 --> 00:42:31,968
♪

910
00:42:32,669 --> 00:42:38,675
♪

911
00:42:38,775 --> 00:42:41,177
Police were retracing
Bob Lee's movements

912
00:42:41,277 --> 00:42:45,648
before he was fatally stabbed
on a San Francisco street.

913
00:42:45,748 --> 00:42:48,084
They discovered he'd spent
his last days

914
00:42:48,184 --> 00:42:51,387
balancing the scales
of work and fun

915
00:42:51,487 --> 00:42:55,158
with a small group of friends.

916
00:42:55,258 --> 00:42:57,327
I got a phone call
from someone who played

917
00:42:57,427 --> 00:43:00,430
a large part in the case,
uh, Mr. Mohazzabi,

918
00:43:00,530 --> 00:43:03,533
who said that he had been
spending time with Mr. Lee

919
00:43:03,633 --> 00:43:05,368
the evening
before his death.

920
00:43:05,468 --> 00:43:09,539
And during that conversation
he mentioned Khazar Momeni.

921
00:43:11,107 --> 00:43:12,709
Bob's friend Bo Mohazzabi

922
00:43:12,809 --> 00:43:16,379
is a tech entrepreneur
and DJ.

923
00:43:16,479 --> 00:43:19,582
According to Bo,
he and Khazar were with Bob

924
00:43:19,682 --> 00:43:22,952
at a small afternoon
get-together.

925
00:43:23,052 --> 00:43:27,657
Their host was a guy
named Jeremy Boivin.

926
00:43:27,757 --> 00:43:28,992
Who's Jeremy Boivin?

927
00:43:29,092 --> 00:43:33,129
Jeremy Boivin is
a friend of Bob Lee,

928
00:43:33,229 --> 00:43:35,431
who is also
his drug dealer.

929
00:43:35,531 --> 00:43:37,767
Bob and I met
a few years back.

930
00:43:37,867 --> 00:43:39,702
We vacationed together.

931
00:43:39,802 --> 00:43:41,437
Really got to be
pretty close.

932
00:43:42,305 --> 00:43:46,909
Jeremy was convicted of
drug dealing in 2022.

933
00:43:47,010 --> 00:43:49,312
He didn't want to
talk with me about that,

934
00:43:49,412 --> 00:43:51,180
but he did talk about
that get-together

935
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,083
with Bo, Bob and Khazar.

936
00:43:55,551 --> 00:43:57,320
I ordered some pizzas.

937
00:43:57,420 --> 00:43:59,655
Uh, we partied
a little bit.

938
00:43:59,756 --> 00:44:02,458
Some of them partied
with alcohol, cocaine

939
00:44:02,558 --> 00:44:06,429
and nitrous oxide,
also known as whippets.

940
00:44:06,529 --> 00:44:08,898
To the uninitiated,
that being me,

941
00:44:08,998 --> 00:44:10,033
what's a whippet?

942
00:44:10,133 --> 00:44:12,702
A nitrous oxide canister

943
00:44:12,802 --> 00:44:16,072
used to whip cream
or get high

944
00:44:16,172 --> 00:44:17,874
if you snort
the gas out of it.

945
00:44:17,974 --> 00:44:20,510
Were you aware
that Bob was on drugs?

946
00:44:20,610 --> 00:44:22,712
Uh, yeah, I knew Bob
was having a good time,

947
00:44:22,812 --> 00:44:24,013
and he was off work.

948
00:44:24,113 --> 00:44:26,382
It was not uncommon
for Bob to use drugs?

949
00:44:26,482 --> 00:44:28,718
On the weekends after
his work was all completed,

950
00:44:28,818 --> 00:44:30,353
yeah, he enjoyed himself.

951
00:44:30,453 --> 00:44:32,588
What was Khazar's
relationship with Bob?

952
00:44:32,689 --> 00:44:35,391
I knew that they were friends,
um, for the past few years,

953
00:44:35,491 --> 00:44:38,061
on and off again,
just seeing each other casually,

954
00:44:38,161 --> 00:44:41,097
nothing sexual,
just actual friendship.

955
00:44:41,197 --> 00:44:42,965
And that day,
Jeremy says

956
00:44:43,066 --> 00:44:45,835
he felt a connection
with Khazar.

957
00:44:45,935 --> 00:44:50,106
She has some, you know,
pretty captivating qualities.

958
00:44:50,206 --> 00:44:51,874
You know, not just
her physical looks,

959
00:44:51,975 --> 00:44:54,777
but at times she can be
pretty, pretty funny

960
00:44:54,877 --> 00:44:56,145
and fun to hang out with.

961
00:44:58,214 --> 00:45:00,683
After an hour or so,
Bo told police

962
00:45:00,783 --> 00:45:03,453
that Khazar stayed
at Jeremy's

963
00:45:03,553 --> 00:45:05,455
while he and Bob left.

964
00:45:05,555 --> 00:45:07,323
Here they are
in the elevator.

965
00:45:07,423 --> 00:45:09,092
It looks as though
they wanted to continue

966
00:45:09,192 --> 00:45:11,494
the party together.

967
00:45:11,594 --> 00:45:14,530
Their next stop was
the bar at Bob's hotel

968
00:45:14,630 --> 00:45:16,899
and later up to his room

969
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,769
where they started calling
family and friends.

970
00:45:21,371 --> 00:45:22,939
The last time
I spoke to him,

971
00:45:23,039 --> 00:45:24,874
I had missed
a FaceTime call.

972
00:45:24,974 --> 00:45:27,877
And so I called him back
and he was with our friend Bo.

973
00:45:27,977 --> 00:45:29,946
And it was just sweet
and loving, you know,

974
00:45:30,046 --> 00:45:31,981
hey, baby, talking
about you, miss you,

975
00:45:32,081 --> 00:45:33,049
come meet up with us.

976
00:45:33,149 --> 00:45:35,184
And at this point in time,
it was already

977
00:45:35,284 --> 00:45:36,452
about 8 o'clock at night.

978
00:45:36,552 --> 00:45:39,689
And the last words that we
actually spoke to each other

979
00:45:39,789 --> 00:45:42,859
were "I love you,
good night."

980
00:45:42,959 --> 00:45:46,696
From Bo, police learned
Bob got another call later,

981
00:45:46,796 --> 00:45:48,898
this one from Nima.

982
00:45:48,998 --> 00:45:52,068
Bo is a witness to Bob's side
of that conversation.

983
00:45:52,168 --> 00:45:53,236
Correct.

984
00:45:53,336 --> 00:45:56,072
And what he hears is
Bob defending himself

985
00:45:56,172 --> 00:45:58,241
or trying to calm down

986
00:45:58,341 --> 00:45:59,942
someone who's
clearly pretty upset.

987
00:46:00,043 --> 00:46:01,010
That's right.

988
00:46:01,110 --> 00:46:03,980
What sort of things
does Bo overhear?

989
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:07,617
Bo overhears, uh,
Bob telling Nima

990
00:46:07,717 --> 00:46:11,120
that nothing happened,
everything's okay.

991
00:46:11,220 --> 00:46:13,456
He wasn't there, but, you know,
everything's fine.

992
00:46:14,724 --> 00:46:17,894
Bo told police
Nima was upset with Bob.

993
00:46:17,994 --> 00:46:20,797
It wasn't clear why.

994
00:46:20,897 --> 00:46:23,332
Bo said they moved on
after the call,

995
00:46:23,433 --> 00:46:25,702
stopping for drinks
at the Battery Club

996
00:46:25,802 --> 00:46:27,737
and then to Bo's condo.

997
00:46:27,837 --> 00:46:30,139
By then, it was
after midnight,

998
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,475
and Bo was ready
to call it a night.

999
00:46:34,010 --> 00:46:37,413
Bob didn't want
the party to end.

1000
00:46:37,513 --> 00:46:40,817
Bo said that he thought Bob
was gonna go see Khazar,

1001
00:46:40,917 --> 00:46:43,453
who lives at
the Millennium Tower.

1002
00:46:43,553 --> 00:46:45,221
In a lot of
the stories we cover,

1003
00:46:45,321 --> 00:46:48,524
there is a moment that
stands out in hindsight.

1004
00:46:48,624 --> 00:46:50,893
For Bob Lee,
this was that moment,

1005
00:46:50,993 --> 00:46:53,629
the one that seemed
to seal his fate.

1006
00:46:53,730 --> 00:46:56,265
There is a reason
parents who set curfews

1007
00:46:56,366 --> 00:46:58,868
tell their kids
nothing good happens

1008
00:46:58,968 --> 00:47:01,571
between midnight
and 6:00 AM.

1009
00:47:01,671 --> 00:47:02,939
If Bob had
called it a night

1010
00:47:03,039 --> 00:47:05,408
when his pal Bo did
and gone home,

1011
00:47:05,508 --> 00:47:09,112
odds are there would be
no Dateline story to talk about.

1012
00:47:09,212 --> 00:47:11,881
Instead, Bob headed
to Khazar's.

1013
00:47:13,516 --> 00:47:15,685
By then, Khazar
had left Jeremy's

1014
00:47:15,785 --> 00:47:17,520
and was back home.

1015
00:47:18,688 --> 00:47:20,857
Investigators dug
frame by frame

1016
00:47:20,957 --> 00:47:24,394
through video from
the Millennium Tower,

1017
00:47:24,494 --> 00:47:27,397
eventually finding
the moment Bob arrived,

1018
00:47:27,497 --> 00:47:30,466
just after 12:30 AM.

1019
00:47:30,566 --> 00:47:33,403
Then a little more
than an hour later,

1020
00:47:33,503 --> 00:47:35,004
Bob left.

1021
00:47:35,104 --> 00:47:37,607
And this time,
he wasn't alone.

1022
00:47:37,707 --> 00:47:40,877
There's Nima Momeni
next to him,

1023
00:47:40,977 --> 00:47:43,913
wearing a black beanie.

1024
00:47:44,013 --> 00:47:46,382
It's a little weird
watching the two of them

1025
00:47:46,482 --> 00:47:48,918
walk out of
the Millennium Tower together.

1026
00:47:49,018 --> 00:47:50,820
Yeah, it's always
strange to watch

1027
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:54,057
someone's last moments
on a video.

1028
00:47:54,157 --> 00:47:55,958
And there was more.

1029
00:47:56,059 --> 00:47:58,027
The two men did not go
their separate ways

1030
00:47:58,127 --> 00:48:00,763
when they left
Khazar's apartment.

1031
00:48:00,863 --> 00:48:02,565
Investigators found
this video

1032
00:48:02,665 --> 00:48:06,336
of them getting
into Nima's white BMW.

1033
00:48:06,436 --> 00:48:09,272
A clearer picture of
what happened that night

1034
00:48:09,372 --> 00:48:11,107
was starting to emerge.

1035
00:48:11,207 --> 00:48:12,809
That first moment,
we wanna make sure

1036
00:48:12,909 --> 00:48:14,677
Nima's the person
who drove Bob

1037
00:48:14,777 --> 00:48:16,145
to where
this killing happened.

1038
00:48:16,245 --> 00:48:18,047
And, you know, we're
trying to kind of piece

1039
00:48:18,147 --> 00:48:19,549
everything together
right then.

1040
00:48:19,649 --> 00:48:23,586
It was time for police
to start tailing Nima Momeni.

1041
00:48:23,686 --> 00:48:26,556
What that surveillance
would capture on video

1042
00:48:26,656 --> 00:48:29,258
would shift the course
of this investigation.

1043
00:48:29,359 --> 00:48:31,461
I think he's showing
exactly what he did.

1044
00:48:44,273 --> 00:48:47,076
Police were one step closer
to figuring out

1045
00:48:47,176 --> 00:48:49,212
what had happened
to Bob Lee.

1046
00:48:49,312 --> 00:48:50,913
Bob's friend Bo is
the one who really ends up

1047
00:48:51,014 --> 00:48:52,849
pointing you guys
in the right direction.

1048
00:48:52,949 --> 00:48:55,418
That's a huge part
of this case, yes.

1049
00:48:55,518 --> 00:48:57,487
That interview sets us
on the path.

1050
00:48:57,587 --> 00:48:58,955
He tells you
who the players are.

1051
00:48:59,055 --> 00:49:00,590
- He did.
- And he's the first person

1052
00:49:00,690 --> 00:49:03,726
to identify somebody
who didn't like Bob.

1053
00:49:03,826 --> 00:49:05,762
And it was Nima.
- Right.

1054
00:49:06,929 --> 00:49:09,265
That phone call
Bo witnessed one end of

1055
00:49:09,365 --> 00:49:12,769
coupled with the video evidence
connecting Nima to Bob,

1056
00:49:12,869 --> 00:49:17,407
had turned Nima Momeni
into the prime suspect.

1057
00:49:17,507 --> 00:49:20,476
Investigators still were
not ready to bring him in

1058
00:49:20,576 --> 00:49:22,178
for questioning.

1059
00:49:22,278 --> 00:49:25,915
They did put
a tail on Nima.

1060
00:49:26,015 --> 00:49:29,118
Initially, uh,
I write a warrant

1061
00:49:29,218 --> 00:49:31,254
to put a tracker
on his car.

1062
00:49:31,354 --> 00:49:34,724
We go to his house,
try and find this white BMW,

1063
00:49:34,824 --> 00:49:36,726
which we don't see anywhere.

1064
00:49:36,826 --> 00:49:39,962
Uh, we see a different vehicle
that's registered to him.

1065
00:49:40,063 --> 00:49:42,832
And officers start
following Mr. Momeni.

1066
00:49:42,932 --> 00:49:44,000
And what's he doing?

1067
00:49:44,100 --> 00:49:46,903
They see him, uh,
in a parking lot,

1068
00:49:47,003 --> 00:49:49,472
and he's talking with
someone we later learn

1069
00:49:49,572 --> 00:49:52,208
is a private investigator.

1070
00:49:52,308 --> 00:49:54,143
Nima's on the right here.

1071
00:49:54,243 --> 00:49:57,480
Keep in mind, he had not been
interviewed, arrested,

1072
00:49:57,580 --> 00:50:00,483
or charged with any crime,

1073
00:50:00,583 --> 00:50:02,118
but he had
already retained

1074
00:50:02,218 --> 00:50:04,654
a criminal defense attorney.

1075
00:50:04,754 --> 00:50:07,256
As he spoke with
his lawyer's PI,

1076
00:50:07,357 --> 00:50:11,060
the undercover officer
tailing him hit record.

1077
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:12,595
What do you see
in that video?

1078
00:50:12,695 --> 00:50:15,598
I think I see him
pantomiming

1079
00:50:15,698 --> 00:50:16,933
stabbing Mr. Lee.

1080
00:50:17,033 --> 00:50:19,435
That's Nima showing
somebody else what he did.

1081
00:50:19,535 --> 00:50:21,237
It is.

1082
00:50:21,337 --> 00:50:25,041
Remember, Bob was stabbed
twice in the chest.

1083
00:50:25,141 --> 00:50:27,510
On the video, police
believe Nima makes

1084
00:50:27,610 --> 00:50:30,780
some stabbing motions
toward the PI's torso.

1085
00:50:33,883 --> 00:50:35,985
Then Nima does this.

1086
00:50:36,085 --> 00:50:38,154
To investigators, he seemed
to be demonstrating

1087
00:50:38,254 --> 00:50:41,057
how to throw the murder weapon
over that fence.

1088
00:50:43,459 --> 00:50:46,262
A suspect reenacting the crime
for your surveillance

1089
00:50:46,362 --> 00:50:48,331
is something that doesn't
happen every day.

1090
00:50:48,431 --> 00:50:51,100
That was a first
for me, yeah.

1091
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,736
It was all suggestive.

1092
00:50:53,836 --> 00:50:56,606
But would it be enough
to convince a jury

1093
00:50:56,706 --> 00:50:58,675
or the D.A.?

1094
00:50:58,775 --> 00:51:00,943
We wanted to make sure
that at the point

1095
00:51:01,044 --> 00:51:04,347
at which Momeni was arrested
that we did have a solid case.

1096
00:51:04,447 --> 00:51:07,183
And so we asked that
the San Francisco police

1097
00:51:07,283 --> 00:51:08,785
make sure that
they collected

1098
00:51:08,885 --> 00:51:11,154
every ounce of
evidence that they could

1099
00:51:11,254 --> 00:51:12,889
prior to that.

1100
00:51:12,989 --> 00:51:16,225
And they did find
some more evidence.

1101
00:51:16,325 --> 00:51:19,195
In this case,
we were able to see

1102
00:51:19,295 --> 00:51:22,065
texts on Bob's phone.

1103
00:51:22,165 --> 00:51:25,802
Specifically messages
Khazar sent to Bob

1104
00:51:25,902 --> 00:51:28,338
hours after he left
her home that night.

1105
00:51:39,148 --> 00:51:40,750
These are texts that
Khazar sends to Bob

1106
00:51:40,850 --> 00:51:42,051
not knowing he's
already dead.

1107
00:51:42,151 --> 00:51:43,119
That's right.

1108
00:51:43,219 --> 00:51:45,855
So I think
at that point, we knew

1109
00:51:45,955 --> 00:51:48,257
Bob has left
the Millennium Tower

1110
00:51:48,358 --> 00:51:50,727
and gone to the place
where he's killed with Nima.

1111
00:51:50,827 --> 00:51:53,863
And then we have Khazar
sending Bob messages

1112
00:51:53,963 --> 00:51:56,099
that her brother
came down way hard on him

1113
00:51:56,199 --> 00:51:57,567
the night before.

1114
00:51:57,667 --> 00:51:59,202
At that point,
I felt comfortable

1115
00:51:59,302 --> 00:52:01,437
and said, okay, it's-it's
time to arrest this guy.

1116
00:52:03,172 --> 00:52:05,341
Nine days after
Bob's murder,

1117
00:52:05,441 --> 00:52:07,977
SWAT officers arrived
at Nima's condo

1118
00:52:08,077 --> 00:52:11,881
outside San Francisco
to make the arrest

1119
00:52:11,981 --> 00:52:14,951
and execute
a search warrant.

1120
00:52:15,051 --> 00:52:17,820
So simultaneous to that,
we served warrants

1121
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:21,424
at Khazar Momeni's apartment

1122
00:52:21,524 --> 00:52:23,159
and her husband
Dino's apartment

1123
00:52:23,259 --> 00:52:24,727
at the Millennium Tower.

1124
00:52:24,827 --> 00:52:27,096
I'm looking for
Joseph Joseph knives.

1125
00:52:27,196 --> 00:52:29,999
I was also seeking
to speak with Khazar,

1126
00:52:30,099 --> 00:52:33,303
uh, and/or Dino to see
if-if they would

1127
00:52:33,403 --> 00:52:35,338
give up any kind of
an interview with us.

1128
00:52:35,438 --> 00:52:36,873
How willing were
Khazar and her husband

1129
00:52:36,973 --> 00:52:37,974
to speak with you?

1130
00:52:38,074 --> 00:52:39,876
Uh, Khazar said that
we had to speak

1131
00:52:39,976 --> 00:52:41,244
with her attorney,

1132
00:52:41,344 --> 00:52:44,347
and Dino refused
to even provide his name

1133
00:52:44,447 --> 00:52:47,116
to the officers
searching the apartment.

1134
00:52:47,216 --> 00:52:49,385
In that search,
police did find

1135
00:52:49,485 --> 00:52:53,156
a Joseph Joseph knife
in Khazar's kitchen,

1136
00:52:53,256 --> 00:52:55,792
the same brand
as the murder weapon.

1137
00:52:55,892 --> 00:52:58,828
You think Nima takes that knife
from Khazar's kitchen

1138
00:52:58,928 --> 00:53:00,229
and carries it with him
when he leaves

1139
00:53:00,330 --> 00:53:01,264
the apartment with Bob,

1140
00:53:01,364 --> 00:53:03,132
and his plan is
to stab Bob?

1141
00:53:03,232 --> 00:53:05,134
I believe that's
the case, yes.

1142
00:53:05,234 --> 00:53:06,369
We start out with
our breaking news

1143
00:53:06,469 --> 00:53:07,437
out of San Francisco.

1144
00:53:07,537 --> 00:53:09,105
A person accused
of fatally stabbing

1145
00:53:09,205 --> 00:53:12,075
local tech executive Bob Lee
is under arrest.

1146
00:53:12,175 --> 00:53:14,377
When you heard there was
an arrest, do you feel better?

1147
00:53:14,477 --> 00:53:16,446
Yes, absolutely.

1148
00:53:16,546 --> 00:53:17,981
I was very relieved
at the arrest

1149
00:53:18,081 --> 00:53:19,682
because at least
we-we knew we were gonna

1150
00:53:19,782 --> 00:53:21,751
start getting answers.

1151
00:53:21,851 --> 00:53:23,586
I was shocked.

1152
00:53:23,686 --> 00:53:27,190
I was shocked.
I didn't know what to do.

1153
00:53:27,290 --> 00:53:31,160
I became like
a dead person walking.

1154
00:53:33,696 --> 00:53:36,399
I'm sorry.

1155
00:53:36,499 --> 00:53:38,301
You wanna stop a second?

1156
00:53:41,004 --> 00:53:42,939
Yeah, I, um...

1157
00:53:43,039 --> 00:53:45,475
There's-there's nothing
harder, is there?

1158
00:53:45,575 --> 00:53:48,177
Yeah, it was
very, very difficult.

1159
00:53:49,512 --> 00:53:51,547
The thing that
still eluded police

1160
00:53:51,647 --> 00:53:54,317
was any clear motive.

1161
00:53:54,417 --> 00:53:58,087
Why would Nima
want Bob dead?

1162
00:53:58,187 --> 00:54:00,690
When you arrest Nima,
what's your theory of the crime?

1163
00:54:00,790 --> 00:54:02,992
The theory is
he's upset with Bob

1164
00:54:03,092 --> 00:54:05,328
over something that happened
with his sister.

1165
00:54:05,428 --> 00:54:06,429
We don't know exactly what?

1166
00:54:06,529 --> 00:54:08,197
We don't know
exactly what happened.

1167
00:54:08,297 --> 00:54:10,633
In my job, I see
the best and worst

1168
00:54:10,733 --> 00:54:12,535
of family dynamics.

1169
00:54:12,635 --> 00:54:15,538
The reality is people,
not infrequently,

1170
00:54:15,638 --> 00:54:18,141
get their family members
into serious trouble,

1171
00:54:18,241 --> 00:54:20,143
sometimes inadvertently.

1172
00:54:20,243 --> 00:54:23,379
Khazar Momeni turned out
to be a textbook example.

1173
00:54:24,914 --> 00:54:26,482
Khazar is
sort of the engine

1174
00:54:26,582 --> 00:54:29,519
that made
this whole thing happen.

1175
00:54:29,619 --> 00:54:31,721
Khazar's relationship
with her brother

1176
00:54:31,821 --> 00:54:33,523
and her relationship
with Bob is what puts

1177
00:54:33,623 --> 00:54:36,626
the two of them on
kind of a collision course.

1178
00:54:49,272 --> 00:54:51,074
It had been 1.5 years
since Bob Lee

1179
00:54:51,174 --> 00:54:54,043
was stabbed to death
under the Bay Bridge.

1180
00:54:54,143 --> 00:54:57,847
Now, Nima Momeni,
a man who barely knew Bob,

1181
00:54:57,947 --> 00:55:00,750
was about to stand trial
for his murder.

1182
00:55:00,850 --> 00:55:02,719
He pleaded not guilty.

1183
00:55:02,819 --> 00:55:04,754
We have thought
it was going to be

1184
00:55:04,854 --> 00:55:07,523
a difficult case
for various reasons.

1185
00:55:07,623 --> 00:55:10,126
Cameras were not allowed
inside the courtroom

1186
00:55:10,226 --> 00:55:13,463
in which prosecutors
Omid Talai and Dane Reinstedt

1187
00:55:13,563 --> 00:55:15,832
would present their case.

1188
00:55:15,932 --> 00:55:19,769
The one person who can
truthfully tell us

1189
00:55:19,869 --> 00:55:21,437
what happened isn't with us.

1190
00:55:21,537 --> 00:55:22,905
There's no live eyewitnesses.

1191
00:55:23,006 --> 00:55:24,173
There's no witness.

1192
00:55:24,273 --> 00:55:27,543
So that allows
the defendant and the defense

1193
00:55:27,644 --> 00:55:30,279
to tell any type
of fantastical story

1194
00:55:30,380 --> 00:55:31,948
they can come up with.

1195
00:55:32,048 --> 00:55:34,717
Prosecutors argued
this was simple.

1196
00:55:34,817 --> 00:55:38,021
Nima Momeni was
the last person to see Bob Lee

1197
00:55:38,121 --> 00:55:40,256
before he was stabbed.

1198
00:55:40,356 --> 00:55:42,759
And they had plenty
of security video

1199
00:55:42,859 --> 00:55:44,794
to prove their case.

1200
00:55:44,894 --> 00:55:46,796
We have them on
great surveillance

1201
00:55:46,896 --> 00:55:48,798
getting into the elevator
at the Millennium,

1202
00:55:48,898 --> 00:55:50,800
walking through the lobby,

1203
00:55:50,900 --> 00:55:53,336
walking out to
Nima Momeni's car.

1204
00:55:53,436 --> 00:55:55,371
Either Nima is aware
that there are cameras

1205
00:55:55,471 --> 00:55:57,740
and he's concealing
how furious he is at Bob,

1206
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:00,043
or he wasn't furious
at Bob yet.

1207
00:56:00,143 --> 00:56:01,110
Correct.

1208
00:56:01,210 --> 00:56:03,780
He quite possibly
was very furious.

1209
00:56:07,016 --> 00:56:09,686
Prosecutors first
played that 9-1-1 call.

1210
00:56:12,255 --> 00:56:14,524
In court, that was
a painful moment

1211
00:56:14,624 --> 00:56:16,092
for Bob's family.

1212
00:56:16,192 --> 00:56:18,461
They had never heard
that call before.

1213
00:56:18,561 --> 00:56:22,065
The 9-1-1 call just keeps,
like, ringing in my head.

1214
00:56:22,165 --> 00:56:25,068
Being so in shock that he
can't say anything else.

1215
00:56:25,168 --> 00:56:27,937
And he just keeps
repeating, "help"

1216
00:56:28,037 --> 00:56:30,807
over and over again.

1217
00:56:30,907 --> 00:56:32,709
Where are you stabbed, man?

1218
00:56:32,809 --> 00:56:35,645
And they played for jurors
that body cam video

1219
00:56:35,745 --> 00:56:37,714
showing officers
trying to revive

1220
00:56:37,814 --> 00:56:40,817
a close to lifeless
Bob Lee.

1221
00:56:40,917 --> 00:56:44,854
Nima Momeni is driving home
in his nice BMW

1222
00:56:44,954 --> 00:56:46,723
and hoping to go on
with his life

1223
00:56:46,823 --> 00:56:48,524
like nothing ever happened.

1224
00:56:48,624 --> 00:56:51,494
One question,
had Nima's sister and mother

1225
00:56:51,594 --> 00:56:54,063
helped him go on
with his life?

1226
00:56:54,163 --> 00:56:56,599
That's because
in those first few days,

1227
00:56:56,699 --> 00:57:00,970
police were not able
to find that white BMW.

1228
00:57:01,070 --> 00:57:04,507
We eventually found the car
about a month later

1229
00:57:04,607 --> 00:57:07,477
at a BMW dealership
where his family

1230
00:57:07,577 --> 00:57:09,746
was attempting to sell it
on his behalf.

1231
00:57:09,846 --> 00:57:11,314
You think this is
the family trying to help him

1232
00:57:11,414 --> 00:57:12,849
dispose of evidence?

1233
00:57:12,949 --> 00:57:15,685
I-I feel confident
this is one of many ways

1234
00:57:15,785 --> 00:57:18,054
in which the family was
trying to help him.

1235
00:57:18,154 --> 00:57:21,891
Then jurors watched that
undercover police video of Nima

1236
00:57:21,991 --> 00:57:25,094
speaking with his attorney's
private investigator.

1237
00:57:25,194 --> 00:57:28,564
The court required
Nima's mouth to be blurred

1238
00:57:28,664 --> 00:57:31,934
so the jury couldn't try
to make out the conversation.

1239
00:57:32,035 --> 00:57:35,538
I've, uh, never had
a piece of evidence

1240
00:57:35,638 --> 00:57:38,641
where a suspect
is reenacting

1241
00:57:38,741 --> 00:57:40,176
his or her crime.

1242
00:57:40,276 --> 00:57:43,146
Beyond the reenacting,
prosecutors believed

1243
00:57:43,246 --> 00:57:45,748
they had a powerful piece
of evidence,

1244
00:57:45,848 --> 00:57:48,418
video of the actual killing.

1245
00:57:48,518 --> 00:57:50,086
It's low quality.

1246
00:57:50,186 --> 00:57:52,422
Police recovered it from
a building right across

1247
00:57:52,522 --> 00:57:54,557
from the crime scene.

1248
00:57:54,657 --> 00:57:56,392
You see two figures,

1249
00:57:56,492 --> 00:57:59,295
and we are able to make out
who those two figures are

1250
00:57:59,395 --> 00:58:01,631
given the color
of the clothing

1251
00:58:01,731 --> 00:58:05,401
Bob and Nima Momeni
are wearing in the elevator.

1252
00:58:05,501 --> 00:58:07,804
There they are at
the bottom of the screen.

1253
00:58:07,904 --> 00:58:10,907
It's hard to make out,
so we put a spotlight on them.

1254
00:58:11,007 --> 00:58:14,210
Prosecutors believe
the darker figure is Bob.

1255
00:58:14,310 --> 00:58:16,813
The lighter one is Nima.

1256
00:58:16,913 --> 00:58:18,848
Talai says the video
shows Nima

1257
00:58:18,948 --> 00:58:21,517
lunging forward toward Bob

1258
00:58:21,617 --> 00:58:24,287
and then throwing the knife
over the fence

1259
00:58:24,387 --> 00:58:26,356
to dispose of it.

1260
00:58:26,456 --> 00:58:28,157
That video is pretty blurry.

1261
00:58:28,257 --> 00:58:29,792
That's an understatement.

1262
00:58:29,892 --> 00:58:32,562
You're confident that
that's Bob and that's Nima?

1263
00:58:32,662 --> 00:58:37,133
I'm confident, um, given
that the-the car that we see

1264
00:58:37,233 --> 00:58:39,769
the two of them get into
is perfectly tracked

1265
00:58:39,869 --> 00:58:42,472
to that exact location
of the incident.

1266
00:58:42,572 --> 00:58:45,908
Together, the security videos
prosecutors played in court

1267
00:58:46,009 --> 00:58:48,578
captured Bob's encounter
with his attacker

1268
00:58:48,678 --> 00:58:52,348
before, during,
and after his stabbing.

1269
00:58:52,448 --> 00:58:54,550
That is extremely rare.

1270
00:58:54,651 --> 00:58:57,186
It's basically
a royal flush of evidence.

1271
00:58:57,286 --> 00:59:00,490
However, most criminal attorneys
will tell you,

1272
00:59:00,590 --> 00:59:04,260
betting on a jury's perception
is a sucker's game.

1273
00:59:05,294 --> 00:59:07,063
While prosecutors
argued the videos

1274
00:59:07,163 --> 00:59:09,098
placed Nima at the scene,

1275
00:59:09,198 --> 00:59:12,168
the backbone of their case
was the forensics.

1276
00:59:12,268 --> 00:59:16,172
Those DNA tests ordered
on the knife had come back.

1277
00:59:16,272 --> 00:59:20,243
99% Of the DNA
from that handle

1278
00:59:20,343 --> 00:59:22,979
comes back to Nima Momeni.

1279
00:59:23,079 --> 00:59:27,483
From the blade of that knife,
it comes back to Bob Lee.

1280
00:59:27,583 --> 00:59:29,452
The state is not
required to prove motive,

1281
00:59:29,552 --> 00:59:32,822
but prosecutors wanted to
address the burning question,

1282
00:59:32,922 --> 00:59:35,725
why would Nima
wanna kill Bob?

1283
00:59:37,327 --> 00:59:39,562
Khazar, how do you feel
about testifying today?

1284
00:59:39,662 --> 00:59:43,499
To answer that,
they called Khazar Momeni,

1285
00:59:43,599 --> 00:59:47,437
Bob's friend,
and the defendant's sister.

1286
00:59:47,537 --> 00:59:49,372
Khazar's testimony was

1287
00:59:49,472 --> 00:59:51,808
the most awaited part
of the trial.

1288
00:59:51,908 --> 00:59:53,910
There were cameras
everywhere.

1289
00:59:54,010 --> 00:59:57,347
Reporter Eleni Balakrishnan
was in the courtroom.

1290
00:59:57,447 --> 00:59:59,415
She's very well dressed.

1291
00:59:59,515 --> 01:00:04,053
Um, she showed up in court
and was the star of the show.

1292
01:00:04,153 --> 01:00:05,655
The cameras would be
following her.

1293
01:00:05,755 --> 01:00:08,057
She's dressed in
all Valentino,

1294
01:00:08,157 --> 01:00:11,561
and wears these big sunglasses
to cover her eyes.

1295
01:00:11,661 --> 01:00:14,263
Through a subpoena,
Khazar was forced to testify

1296
01:00:14,364 --> 01:00:16,599
against her own brother.

1297
01:00:16,699 --> 01:00:19,936
It was clear she did not
wanna be there.

1298
01:00:20,036 --> 01:00:22,205
She was very soft spoken.

1299
01:00:22,305 --> 01:00:25,408
She kind of looked down
a lot of the time.

1300
01:00:25,508 --> 01:00:29,379
Because Khazar refused to give
a formal statement to police,

1301
01:00:29,479 --> 01:00:31,547
prosecutors were
not sure exactly

1302
01:00:31,647 --> 01:00:34,517
what she would
testify to in court.

1303
01:00:34,617 --> 01:00:35,952
They hoped she
would talk about

1304
01:00:36,052 --> 01:00:38,588
that party at
Jeremy Boivin's place.

1305
01:00:38,688 --> 01:00:40,089
And she did.

1306
01:00:40,189 --> 01:00:43,026
She told jurors
she was high on LSD,

1307
01:00:43,126 --> 01:00:45,962
cocaine and nitrous oxide.

1308
01:00:46,062 --> 01:00:49,632
After Bob left,
Jeremy gave her GHB,

1309
01:00:49,732 --> 01:00:51,968
known as a date rape drug,

1310
01:00:52,068 --> 01:00:54,237
and she willingly took it.

1311
01:00:54,337 --> 01:00:58,007
Then Khazar said
something horrible happened.

1312
01:00:58,107 --> 01:01:01,077
Khazar on the stand
described being on Jeremy's bed

1313
01:01:01,177 --> 01:01:03,446
and having taken
a bunch of GHB

1314
01:01:03,546 --> 01:01:06,916
and being unable to move,
and that he was grabbing her,

1315
01:01:07,016 --> 01:01:08,384
that her pants were down,

1316
01:01:08,484 --> 01:01:11,654
and that he was
slapping her butt.

1317
01:01:11,754 --> 01:01:14,057
Prosecutor Dane Reinstedt.

1318
01:01:14,157 --> 01:01:15,958
She testified
that she told Nima

1319
01:01:16,059 --> 01:01:18,728
she had been sexually assaulted
at Jeremy Boivin's.

1320
01:01:18,828 --> 01:01:21,097
That's a pretty clear
indication of motive.

1321
01:01:21,197 --> 01:01:24,033
In fact, that tense
phone call Bo witnessed

1322
01:01:24,133 --> 01:01:26,135
between Bob and Nima

1323
01:01:26,235 --> 01:01:29,305
was all about
the alleged sexual assault.

1324
01:01:29,405 --> 01:01:31,507
What kinds of things is Nima
saying in that phone call?

1325
01:01:31,607 --> 01:01:32,942
He's interrogating Bob.

1326
01:01:33,042 --> 01:01:35,611
He's questioning him about
what was happening

1327
01:01:35,712 --> 01:01:38,047
at Jeremy Boivin's place.

1328
01:01:38,147 --> 01:01:40,416
When Bob visited
Nima and Khazar

1329
01:01:40,516 --> 01:01:43,052
at The Millennium Tower
later that night,

1330
01:01:43,152 --> 01:01:46,990
Prosecutors believe
Nima was furious.

1331
01:01:47,090 --> 01:01:51,227
We have the text messages
from Khazar to Bob

1332
01:01:51,327 --> 01:01:53,196
talking about
her brother coming down

1333
01:01:53,296 --> 01:01:55,665
way hard on Bob.

1334
01:01:55,765 --> 01:01:58,434
It's clear that there
was more hostility.

1335
01:01:58,534 --> 01:02:00,870
Some sort of argument
or Nima yelling at Bob.

1336
01:02:00,970 --> 01:02:02,105
Correct.

1337
01:02:02,205 --> 01:02:04,841
But it would appear that
by the time they departed,

1338
01:02:04,941 --> 01:02:06,709
he had made nice.

1339
01:02:06,809 --> 01:02:08,544
Prosecutors
confronted Khazar

1340
01:02:08,644 --> 01:02:12,181
with those text messages
she'd sent to Bob.

1341
01:02:12,281 --> 01:02:13,950
Her explanation
as to many texts,

1342
01:02:14,050 --> 01:02:15,918
that she was
high out of her mind

1343
01:02:16,019 --> 01:02:17,320
and didn't know
what she was saying.

1344
01:02:17,420 --> 01:02:19,689
And that was her attempt
to help her brother.

1345
01:02:19,789 --> 01:02:22,725
On the stand,
at least, Khazar insisted

1346
01:02:22,825 --> 01:02:26,496
there was no beef
between Bob and Nima.

1347
01:02:26,596 --> 01:02:28,231
According to Khazar,
everything was fine,

1348
01:02:28,331 --> 01:02:30,166
there-- that there had
actually never been

1349
01:02:30,266 --> 01:02:32,735
an issue between
Nima and Bob.

1350
01:02:32,835 --> 01:02:36,539
Still, prosecutors believed
they had enough evidence

1351
01:02:36,639 --> 01:02:39,075
to piece together
their motive.

1352
01:02:39,175 --> 01:02:42,445
Nima understood Khazar
to have been sexually assaulted

1353
01:02:42,545 --> 01:02:44,280
because she told him that.

1354
01:02:44,380 --> 01:02:45,682
Comes to a conclusion that

1355
01:02:45,782 --> 01:02:49,952
the people responsible were
Jeremy Boivin and Bob Lee.

1356
01:02:50,053 --> 01:02:51,554
And when he gets
an opportunity later that night

1357
01:02:51,654 --> 01:02:54,357
to act against one of
those two people, he does.

1358
01:02:54,457 --> 01:02:56,993
That's a very
convoluted motive

1359
01:02:57,093 --> 01:02:59,595
that Nima is
angry enough at Bob

1360
01:02:59,696 --> 01:03:01,497
to want to kill him
for something

1361
01:03:01,597 --> 01:03:03,466
Bob wasn't even present for.

1362
01:03:03,566 --> 01:03:04,801
Why isn't he going
after Jeremy?

1363
01:03:04,901 --> 01:03:06,069
Why is he going after Bob?

1364
01:03:06,169 --> 01:03:07,236
That's a great question.

1365
01:03:07,337 --> 01:03:08,938
I don't know what he
planned to do with Jeremy

1366
01:03:09,038 --> 01:03:10,173
at some point.

1367
01:03:10,273 --> 01:03:13,710
What happened in
Jeremy Boivin's apartment

1368
01:03:13,810 --> 01:03:15,878
is not important.

1369
01:03:15,979 --> 01:03:19,916
What Nima Momeni
thinks happened

1370
01:03:20,016 --> 01:03:22,051
in that apartment,

1371
01:03:22,151 --> 01:03:24,520
that's what is important.

1372
01:03:24,620 --> 01:03:26,756
Now it was
the defense's turn,

1373
01:03:26,856 --> 01:03:30,259
and they were about
to challenge the State's motive

1374
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:32,462
and Khazar's credibility.

1375
01:03:32,562 --> 01:03:34,731
You believe anything
comes out of Khazar's mouth?

1376
01:03:34,831 --> 01:03:36,632
No, no, no, I don't.

1377
01:03:49,012 --> 01:03:52,148
For nearly a month,
Nima Momeni's mother, Mahnaz,

1378
01:03:52,248 --> 01:03:54,784
watched prosecutors
portray her son

1379
01:03:54,884 --> 01:03:57,487
as a cold-blooded killer.

1380
01:03:57,587 --> 01:04:00,556
My son is not
that type of person.

1381
01:04:00,656 --> 01:04:04,427
I have raised
a very kind son.

1382
01:04:04,527 --> 01:04:06,729
Both of my kids,
they are very kind.

1383
01:04:06,829 --> 01:04:08,064
They are very giving.

1384
01:04:08,164 --> 01:04:12,802
And my son has not been
any aggressive person

1385
01:04:12,902 --> 01:04:15,638
to hurt someone, never.

1386
01:04:15,738 --> 01:04:18,841
Defense attorney
Saam Zangeneh came from Miami

1387
01:04:18,941 --> 01:04:20,710
to represent Nima.

1388
01:04:20,810 --> 01:04:21,811
He is innocent.

1389
01:04:21,911 --> 01:04:25,648
The DA here, right, had
unbelievable pressure

1390
01:04:25,748 --> 01:04:26,983
on this case.

1391
01:04:27,083 --> 01:04:29,786
And you think charging Nima
is a sort of reaction to that?

1392
01:04:29,886 --> 01:04:32,388
I think that they
jumped the gun, right?

1393
01:04:32,488 --> 01:04:33,756
They found somebody,
they went in

1394
01:04:33,856 --> 01:04:34,924
and they made an arrest.

1395
01:04:35,024 --> 01:04:37,560
They say something happened
and Bob Lee died.

1396
01:04:37,660 --> 01:04:38,928
That's it.

1397
01:04:39,028 --> 01:04:42,065
He insists Bob Lee's stature
in the tech business

1398
01:04:42,165 --> 01:04:44,934
added a different layer
to the case.

1399
01:04:45,034 --> 01:04:47,904
There's powers that
are not normally in play

1400
01:04:48,004 --> 01:04:49,405
when the decedent is

1401
01:04:49,505 --> 01:04:51,841
the kind of person
that Bob Lee is, right?

1402
01:04:51,941 --> 01:04:54,977
I call-- not a regular victim.
We call it victim plus, right?

1403
01:04:55,078 --> 01:04:57,547
When you have someone who's
in that victim plus era--

1404
01:04:57,647 --> 01:04:58,948
- That's Bob Lee.
- That's Bob Lee.

1405
01:04:59,048 --> 01:05:01,451
He's victim plus,
squared, right?

1406
01:05:01,551 --> 01:05:04,554
He sought to take apart
the prosecution's case,

1407
01:05:04,654 --> 01:05:07,457
starting with
the murder weapon.

1408
01:05:07,557 --> 01:05:10,093
The blade's this big.
It's a little parrot knife.

1409
01:05:10,193 --> 01:05:12,261
Okay, but you can be killed
with a blade that big.

1410
01:05:12,362 --> 01:05:13,796
Of course you can, right?

1411
01:05:13,896 --> 01:05:15,365
That's not the kind of
blade you take

1412
01:05:15,465 --> 01:05:17,367
to hurt somebody, right?

1413
01:05:17,467 --> 01:05:20,370
If you're in a kitchen,
there's a-a ton of knives there.

1414
01:05:20,470 --> 01:05:22,205
You're gonna pick
the smallest, weakest one?

1415
01:05:22,305 --> 01:05:24,874
The defense went
after that grainy video

1416
01:05:24,974 --> 01:05:28,845
prosecutors say showed
Nima stabbing Bob.

1417
01:05:28,945 --> 01:05:31,314
There's this nest cam
which shows, like,

1418
01:05:31,414 --> 01:05:33,616
these two blurry dots
on Main Street.

1419
01:05:33,716 --> 01:05:36,252
They've taken that video,
and they have sped it up,

1420
01:05:36,352 --> 01:05:38,688
slowed it down,
changed the lighting

1421
01:05:38,788 --> 01:05:42,225
to make something
that occurred

1422
01:05:42,325 --> 01:05:45,128
look different than
what actually occurred, right?

1423
01:05:45,228 --> 01:05:47,764
Smoke and mirrors, my man.
Smoke and mirrors.

1424
01:05:47,864 --> 01:05:50,299
Also not credible
to the defense,

1425
01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:52,869
that undercover police video
of Nima speaking

1426
01:05:52,969 --> 01:05:55,238
with his attorney's PI.

1427
01:05:55,338 --> 01:05:56,673
What's happening
in that video?

1428
01:05:56,773 --> 01:05:59,842
Well, I'll tell you what's
not happening in that video

1429
01:05:59,942 --> 01:06:02,712
is that he's not
pantomiming anything.

1430
01:06:02,812 --> 01:06:04,847
They don't have any evidence
of what's going on there.

1431
01:06:04,947 --> 01:06:06,115
So what are
they gonna do?

1432
01:06:06,215 --> 01:06:07,517
They're going to
assume and speculate

1433
01:06:07,617 --> 01:06:10,286
and try to force a square peg
into a round hole.

1434
01:06:10,386 --> 01:06:13,556
And Zangeneh said there was
a reasonable explanation

1435
01:06:13,656 --> 01:06:15,692
why Nima's family
tried to sell

1436
01:06:15,792 --> 01:06:19,395
his white BMW
after his arrest.

1437
01:06:19,495 --> 01:06:21,664
They have
a power of attorney.

1438
01:06:21,764 --> 01:06:23,299
They took the car
to the dealership

1439
01:06:23,399 --> 01:06:24,934
where they purchased it

1440
01:06:25,034 --> 01:06:26,869
because he had
legal bills coming.

1441
01:06:26,970 --> 01:06:28,705
They could have junked it.
They could have lit it on fire.

1442
01:06:28,805 --> 01:06:29,772
They didn't do
any of that stuff.

1443
01:06:29,872 --> 01:06:32,241
They took it back
to the dealership.

1444
01:06:32,342 --> 01:06:34,777
According to the defense,
the weakest part

1445
01:06:34,877 --> 01:06:38,114
of the prosecution's case
was the motive.

1446
01:06:38,214 --> 01:06:42,418
What reason would Nima Momeni
have to wanna kill Bob Lee?

1447
01:06:42,518 --> 01:06:45,621
Their story was
that Nima killed Bob Lee

1448
01:06:45,722 --> 01:06:49,726
because Bob Lee's friend
touched his sister's ass.

1449
01:06:49,826 --> 01:06:51,194
Didn't make any sense.

1450
01:06:51,294 --> 01:06:53,262
2 And 2 didn't
equal 4, right?

1451
01:06:53,363 --> 01:06:56,499
Why would he go after Bob Lee
for something his friend did?

1452
01:06:56,599 --> 01:06:58,601
Nima's motive might be
to take out his anger

1453
01:06:58,701 --> 01:07:00,570
on Jeremy Boivin
and not on Bob.

1454
01:07:00,670 --> 01:07:02,505
Right, but he doesn't.

1455
01:07:02,605 --> 01:07:06,576
The defense argued Nima was
not furious with Bob at all

1456
01:07:06,676 --> 01:07:08,711
and pointed to
those security videos

1457
01:07:08,811 --> 01:07:11,748
of Bob and Nima leaving
the Millennium Tower

1458
01:07:11,848 --> 01:07:15,618
showing two people who
looked friendly and calm.

1459
01:07:15,718 --> 01:07:17,520
They didn't leave
in a hurry, Josh.

1460
01:07:17,620 --> 01:07:20,123
They went and hung out
in the front of the valet.

1461
01:07:20,223 --> 01:07:21,858
Didn't appear
to have any issues.

1462
01:07:21,958 --> 01:07:24,193
Is that the video of
two guys who have settled

1463
01:07:24,293 --> 01:07:26,029
whatever dispute they had,

1464
01:07:26,129 --> 01:07:29,198
or is that Nima
concealing his anger

1465
01:07:29,298 --> 01:07:32,869
until a time when he can
take out that anger on Bob

1466
01:07:32,969 --> 01:07:34,270
without anyone watching?

1467
01:07:34,370 --> 01:07:35,705
Anyone what?
Brother, this--

1468
01:07:35,805 --> 01:07:39,008
The-the fight happened on
a place called Main Street.

1469
01:07:39,108 --> 01:07:40,877
This wasn't in, like,
a little cul de sac

1470
01:07:40,977 --> 01:07:42,512
or a little hidden place.

1471
01:07:42,612 --> 01:07:44,380
The prosecution's like,
oh, it's under a bridge.

1472
01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:46,282
Bro, it's on a place
called Main Street.

1473
01:07:46,382 --> 01:07:48,718
It is a busy street.

1474
01:07:48,818 --> 01:07:51,387
And in a very odd moment,

1475
01:07:51,487 --> 01:07:53,523
even though Khazar Momeni
and her husband

1476
01:07:53,623 --> 01:07:55,925
helped bankroll
Nima's defense,

1477
01:07:56,025 --> 01:07:59,329
Zangeneh told jurors
she had no credibility

1478
01:07:59,429 --> 01:08:02,265
and to disregard
her version

1479
01:08:02,365 --> 01:08:04,467
of what happened that night.

1480
01:08:04,567 --> 01:08:06,669
You believe anything
comes out of Khazar's mouth?

1481
01:08:06,769 --> 01:08:08,571
No, no, no, I don't.

1482
01:08:08,671 --> 01:08:09,872
And let me tell you why.

1483
01:08:09,972 --> 01:08:12,208
Because she's
an addict, okay?

1484
01:08:12,308 --> 01:08:14,043
You can't ask the jury
to believe something

1485
01:08:14,143 --> 01:08:17,680
that doesn't really pass
the smell test, right?

1486
01:08:17,780 --> 01:08:20,416
On the stand, Khazar said
she had sought help

1487
01:08:20,516 --> 01:08:22,752
for her substance abuse problems

1488
01:08:22,852 --> 01:08:26,255
and completed
a rehab program.

1489
01:08:26,356 --> 01:08:29,993
Jeremy Boivin was never
called to testify.

1490
01:08:30,093 --> 01:08:32,962
While he admits smacking
Khazar's backside,

1491
01:08:33,062 --> 01:08:35,798
he denies
ever assaulting her.

1492
01:08:35,898 --> 01:08:37,533
Did you abuse Khazar?

1493
01:08:37,633 --> 01:08:39,435
No, not once.

1494
01:08:39,535 --> 01:08:42,438
We had a physical relationship
after the fact

1495
01:08:42,538 --> 01:08:44,907
and continued to have
a physical relationship

1496
01:08:45,008 --> 01:08:46,909
for many months after that.

1497
01:08:47,010 --> 01:08:49,212
So her saying
these allegations

1498
01:08:49,312 --> 01:08:54,417
is just baseless
and really unfounded.

1499
01:08:55,585 --> 01:08:57,553
In court,
Khazar acknowledged

1500
01:08:57,654 --> 01:09:01,090
Jeremy stayed in her apartment
after Bob's death.

1501
01:09:01,190 --> 01:09:02,859
She didn't remember
for how long

1502
01:09:02,959 --> 01:09:05,395
and said it wasn't sexual.

1503
01:09:05,495 --> 01:09:07,997
After her testimony,
Jeremy claimed

1504
01:09:08,097 --> 01:09:10,233
Khazar apologized to him

1505
01:09:10,333 --> 01:09:12,902
for making
the assault allegation.

1506
01:09:13,002 --> 01:09:15,938
And she said, I'm sorry,
I shouldn't have said that?

1507
01:09:16,039 --> 01:09:17,640
- Yes.
- So to you, at least,

1508
01:09:17,740 --> 01:09:21,477
she's admitting to lying
on the witness stand.

1509
01:09:21,577 --> 01:09:26,516
Um, hey, it's none of
my business, really.

1510
01:09:26,616 --> 01:09:29,619
Bottom line is,
I didn't do it.

1511
01:09:29,719 --> 01:09:32,488
There was no sexual assault
at any point.

1512
01:09:32,588 --> 01:09:34,691
Whatever happened at
Jeremy Boivin's apartment

1513
01:09:34,791 --> 01:09:37,694
didn't matter,
argued Nima's attorneys.

1514
01:09:37,794 --> 01:09:40,430
They were about to offer
a whole new theory

1515
01:09:40,530 --> 01:09:42,999
about what happened
that night.

1516
01:09:43,099 --> 01:09:45,268
When we tell
our story and we explain

1517
01:09:45,368 --> 01:09:49,038
exactly how it transpired,
it's eye opening.

1518
01:10:00,416 --> 01:10:03,186
Criminal defense attorneys
have a fairly small playbook,

1519
01:10:03,286 --> 01:10:05,288
and at Nima Momeni's
murder trial

1520
01:10:05,388 --> 01:10:08,324
the evidence was stacked
against his team.

1521
01:10:08,424 --> 01:10:11,227
There was video putting Nima
at the scene of the stabbing.

1522
01:10:11,327 --> 01:10:13,496
His DNA was found
on the knife handle.

1523
01:10:13,596 --> 01:10:15,698
Bob's blood was
on the blade.

1524
01:10:15,798 --> 01:10:17,734
Facing all of that,
Nima's attorneys

1525
01:10:17,834 --> 01:10:19,869
were about to get creative.

1526
01:10:19,969 --> 01:10:22,605
They were going to blame
the victim.

1527
01:10:22,705 --> 01:10:24,807
When we tell our story
and we explain

1528
01:10:24,907 --> 01:10:28,511
exactly how it transpired,
it's eye opening.

1529
01:10:29,545 --> 01:10:31,614
The defense focused
on Bob's partying

1530
01:10:31,714 --> 01:10:34,450
in the days and hours
leading up to his death.

1531
01:10:34,550 --> 01:10:36,953
Bob, they said,
was sleep deprived

1532
01:10:37,053 --> 01:10:39,756
and full of
drugs and alcohol.

1533
01:10:39,856 --> 01:10:43,493
Nima's attorneys argued
a drug fueled bender like that

1534
01:10:43,593 --> 01:10:46,629
could have caused
Bob to become violent.

1535
01:10:46,729 --> 01:10:47,730
It's 2:00 AM.

1536
01:10:47,830 --> 01:10:49,932
His flight's in
seven, eight hours

1537
01:10:50,033 --> 01:10:53,836
and he is still
actively just

1538
01:10:53,936 --> 01:10:55,438
partying like
a rock star.

1539
01:10:55,538 --> 01:10:59,342
Which to me suggests
he had no plans on sleeping

1540
01:10:59,442 --> 01:11:02,412
and consuming, consuming.

1541
01:11:02,512 --> 01:11:05,181
Zangeneh said Bob,
not Nima,

1542
01:11:05,281 --> 01:11:07,150
was the one with a knife

1543
01:11:07,250 --> 01:11:09,352
and it could have
come from Khazar's

1544
01:11:09,452 --> 01:11:11,087
or somewhere else.

1545
01:11:11,187 --> 01:11:12,889
I don't think
he took the knife for,

1546
01:11:12,989 --> 01:11:14,791
uh, as a weapon.

1547
01:11:14,891 --> 01:11:16,025
Bob's doing coke.

1548
01:11:16,125 --> 01:11:18,728
He's been doing coke
for multiple days.

1549
01:11:18,828 --> 01:11:20,430
This is what you do,
you take the knife,

1550
01:11:20,530 --> 01:11:23,199
you use the-the-the bottom
to break up the bag.

1551
01:11:23,299 --> 01:11:25,101
And then...
[sniffing]

1552
01:11:26,436 --> 01:11:28,037
Even though he
pleaded not guilty,

1553
01:11:28,137 --> 01:11:29,639
Nima was about to admit

1554
01:11:29,739 --> 01:11:32,608
he was responsible
for Bob's death.

1555
01:11:32,709 --> 01:11:36,245
He said
it was self-defense.

1556
01:11:36,346 --> 01:11:37,680
He's been chomping
at the bit, man,

1557
01:11:37,780 --> 01:11:39,983
for so long to be able
to tell his story.

1558
01:11:40,083 --> 01:11:42,151
Prosecutors knew
a lot hung

1559
01:11:42,251 --> 01:11:45,388
on Nima's performance
on the stand.

1560
01:11:45,488 --> 01:11:47,924
We had great evidence,
like the DNA.

1561
01:11:48,024 --> 01:11:51,094
But ultimately,
if Nima Momeni is believable,

1562
01:11:51,194 --> 01:11:53,463
uh, credible, sympathetic--

1563
01:11:53,563 --> 01:11:55,431
- If he tells a good story...
- We lose.

1564
01:11:55,531 --> 01:11:57,333
- He walks away.
- I think so.

1565
01:11:57,433 --> 01:11:58,701
The three stab wounds...

1566
01:11:58,801 --> 01:12:01,537
Reporter Sergio Quintana
was in court

1567
01:12:01,637 --> 01:12:03,740
for Nima's testimony.

1568
01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:07,677
He went on the stand,
and on direct,

1569
01:12:07,777 --> 01:12:11,114
followed what seemed to be
a pretty tight script

1570
01:12:11,214 --> 01:12:14,484
as to what to say
and how the night went down.

1571
01:12:14,584 --> 01:12:17,420
Nima said the night
unfolded like this.

1572
01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:21,157
Yes, Khazar told him
Jeremy assaulted her.

1573
01:12:21,257 --> 01:12:23,359
At first he was upset.

1574
01:12:23,459 --> 01:12:25,895
But when he spoke
with others at that party,

1575
01:12:25,995 --> 01:12:29,866
he concluded his sister
was probably exaggerating.

1576
01:12:29,966 --> 01:12:33,136
He denied being
angry at Bob.

1577
01:12:33,236 --> 01:12:35,405
Nima also said
a couple of other things.

1578
01:12:35,505 --> 01:12:38,441
He confirmed his sister
had an open marriage

1579
01:12:38,541 --> 01:12:41,377
and he said
he, Khazar and Bob

1580
01:12:41,477 --> 01:12:43,813
all did coke together

1581
01:12:43,913 --> 01:12:47,316
before Nima and Bob left
the Millennium Tower.

1582
01:12:47,417 --> 01:12:50,186
They talked about
going on to a strip club,

1583
01:12:50,286 --> 01:12:53,122
and Nima offered
to give him a ride.

1584
01:12:53,222 --> 01:12:55,191
They start driving
because they're gonna go

1585
01:12:55,291 --> 01:12:56,993
towards where
the strip clubs are.

1586
01:12:57,093 --> 01:12:58,728
That's when they had
the little hiccup.

1587
01:12:58,828 --> 01:13:01,497
Nima's like, hey, he spilled
his beer all over him.

1588
01:13:01,597 --> 01:13:03,166
Nima told jurors
he pulled over

1589
01:13:03,266 --> 01:13:05,334
to that area underneath
the Bay Bridge

1590
01:13:05,435 --> 01:13:07,904
to help clean up the mess.

1591
01:13:08,004 --> 01:13:11,307
That's when Bob noticed
something in the back seat.

1592
01:13:11,407 --> 01:13:13,943
He found some-some
whippet canisters back there

1593
01:13:14,043 --> 01:13:16,446
because Khazar had
left it in his car.

1594
01:13:16,546 --> 01:13:18,147
He did a few hits,
took a few bumps,

1595
01:13:18,247 --> 01:13:19,482
and then got out
of the car.

1596
01:13:19,582 --> 01:13:20,450
He thought he was
gonna puke.

1597
01:13:20,550 --> 01:13:22,151
Nima went, they're outside.

1598
01:13:22,251 --> 01:13:23,920
And then that's when
the conversation went

1599
01:13:24,020 --> 01:13:27,090
from normal to adversarial.

1600
01:13:27,190 --> 01:13:31,094
Nima said he made a joke,
a bad one, he admitted.

1601
01:13:31,194 --> 01:13:34,097
He was like, well,
why would someone like you

1602
01:13:34,197 --> 01:13:35,665
with a family be out here?

1603
01:13:35,765 --> 01:13:37,266
Why wouldn't you just
be with them, right?

1604
01:13:37,367 --> 01:13:39,736
Go-- Instead of trying to
go to some strip club?

1605
01:13:39,836 --> 01:13:43,306
And that apparently,
according to Nima Momeni,

1606
01:13:43,406 --> 01:13:45,408
enraged Bob Lee.

1607
01:13:45,508 --> 01:13:49,278
At some point, Bob produces
a knife from his jacket,

1608
01:13:49,379 --> 01:13:52,215
and he lunges
at Nima Momeni.

1609
01:13:52,315 --> 01:13:57,086
And Nima manages
to redirect the knife.

1610
01:13:57,186 --> 01:13:58,888
The way he tells it
on the stand

1611
01:13:58,988 --> 01:14:01,958
is really a gloss over.

1612
01:14:02,058 --> 01:14:04,093
He barely even mentioned
that he happened

1613
01:14:04,193 --> 01:14:06,763
to have tapped him
twice in the chest, right?

1614
01:14:06,863 --> 01:14:09,065
Nima even had
an explanation about

1615
01:14:09,165 --> 01:14:11,734
why he threw the knife
over the fence

1616
01:14:11,834 --> 01:14:13,503
and drove away.

1617
01:14:13,603 --> 01:14:15,405
He thought Bob Lee
was fine.

1618
01:14:15,505 --> 01:14:18,307
It seemed from his testimony
that he didn't even realize

1619
01:14:18,408 --> 01:14:19,976
that Bob Lee was injured.

1620
01:14:20,076 --> 01:14:22,011
The defense team asks, well,
why did you toss the knife?

1621
01:14:22,111 --> 01:14:24,314
And I said, well, so he
couldn't get to it afterward.

1622
01:14:24,414 --> 01:14:26,983
Defense attorneys were
prepared to show jurors

1623
01:14:27,083 --> 01:14:31,688
exactly how they claim
Bob attacked Nima.

1624
01:14:31,788 --> 01:14:34,524
We had
a digital animation made.

1625
01:14:34,624 --> 01:14:37,593
That's Nima on the right,
wearing the beanie.

1626
01:14:37,694 --> 01:14:41,030
Bob's on the left
with the knife.

1627
01:14:41,130 --> 01:14:45,068
He swung, right, which is
what our animation shows,

1628
01:14:45,168 --> 01:14:47,003
that it was
a swinging motion.

1629
01:14:47,103 --> 01:14:48,938
The defense said
it was at this moment

1630
01:14:49,038 --> 01:14:51,140
that Nima grabbed Bob's arm

1631
01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:53,176
and pushed the knife
toward him.

1632
01:14:53,276 --> 01:14:55,578
That's how Bob got
stabbed in the chest.

1633
01:14:55,678 --> 01:14:57,180
And it shows him
walking backwards

1634
01:14:57,280 --> 01:14:59,916
with what appears to be
his hands up in the air, right?

1635
01:15:00,016 --> 01:15:02,218
And then goes to
the other side of the sidewalk

1636
01:15:02,318 --> 01:15:05,121
tracks in
the northerly direction.

1637
01:15:05,221 --> 01:15:08,157
It shows him bending down,
picking up the knife,

1638
01:15:08,257 --> 01:15:10,493
and then throwing it
over the fence.

1639
01:15:10,593 --> 01:15:14,564
And according to the defense,
that's how Nima's DNA

1640
01:15:14,664 --> 01:15:16,766
got on the knife handle.

1641
01:15:16,866 --> 01:15:21,004
Nima's attorneys had hoped to
play that animation in trial.

1642
01:15:21,104 --> 01:15:23,439
The judge did not allow it.

1643
01:15:23,539 --> 01:15:27,243
That is the most
far out story

1644
01:15:27,343 --> 01:15:29,479
I think I've ever
heard in my life.

1645
01:15:29,579 --> 01:15:31,981
Bob's brother Oliver
watched the trial

1646
01:15:32,081 --> 01:15:36,085
and thought Nima's story
was ridiculous.

1647
01:15:36,185 --> 01:15:38,121
You saw Bob on drugs.

1648
01:15:38,221 --> 01:15:40,023
Did he become
a violent, angry guy

1649
01:15:40,123 --> 01:15:41,524
when he was using drugs?
- No.

1650
01:15:41,624 --> 01:15:45,294
He would tend to be, uh,
you know, more outgoing,

1651
01:15:45,395 --> 01:15:46,763
like when he was
on drugs,

1652
01:15:46,863 --> 01:15:48,031
but he would
never be violent.

1653
01:15:48,131 --> 01:15:50,066
So when you heard that
at trial...

1654
01:15:50,166 --> 01:15:52,702
Uh, absolute insanity, right?

1655
01:15:52,802 --> 01:15:55,471
It is the most opposite thing
of what Bob was.

1656
01:15:55,571 --> 01:15:58,374
I thought he gave a...

1657
01:15:58,474 --> 01:16:01,044
pathetically comical story

1658
01:16:01,144 --> 01:16:03,146
that made no sense.

1659
01:16:03,246 --> 01:16:07,183
Then prosecutor Talai
cross examined Nima.

1660
01:16:07,283 --> 01:16:08,584
You know, I had
a strategy

1661
01:16:08,685 --> 01:16:10,553
coming into
the cross examination.

1662
01:16:10,653 --> 01:16:13,756
I am trying to provoke him.

1663
01:16:13,856 --> 01:16:15,958
And within about
five, ten minutes,

1664
01:16:16,059 --> 01:16:19,128
I could tell
he wasn't gonna be able

1665
01:16:19,228 --> 01:16:20,730
to control himself.

1666
01:16:20,830 --> 01:16:22,999
And you could see
on the stand

1667
01:16:23,099 --> 01:16:26,436
that his nature is
to get a little combative

1668
01:16:26,536 --> 01:16:30,606
and will turn and start
asking you questions.

1669
01:16:30,707 --> 01:16:33,543
Even Nima's own attorney
admits his client

1670
01:16:33,643 --> 01:16:37,413
lost his temper
during cross examination.

1671
01:16:37,513 --> 01:16:39,449
The prosecutor,
to his credit,

1672
01:16:39,549 --> 01:16:41,751
really quickly
got under his skin.

1673
01:16:41,851 --> 01:16:42,985
The same guy that
had been calling him

1674
01:16:43,086 --> 01:16:45,722
a coward and a dirtbag
for 18 months.

1675
01:16:45,822 --> 01:16:47,523
But here's
what I'll tell you.

1676
01:16:47,623 --> 01:16:50,226
His testimony didn't change.

1677
01:16:50,326 --> 01:16:52,195
Uh, it also
doesn't make any sense.

1678
01:16:52,295 --> 01:16:53,196
- What doesn't make sense?
- I mean...

1679
01:16:53,296 --> 01:16:54,564
Why don't you tell me
what you didn't--

1680
01:16:54,664 --> 01:16:56,099
What? Bob attacks him,

1681
01:16:56,199 --> 01:16:58,234
but Nima doesn't realize
that he stabbed him.

1682
01:16:58,334 --> 01:17:01,437
Then Bob walks away and then
I threw away this knife

1683
01:17:01,537 --> 01:17:03,339
that he tried to use on me.

1684
01:17:03,439 --> 01:17:05,041
Doesn't ask
for an ambulance.

1685
01:17:05,141 --> 01:17:07,577
That's not
the most credible story.

1686
01:17:07,677 --> 01:17:09,846
Well, I mean, listen,
leaving this-- the knife

1687
01:17:09,946 --> 01:17:11,814
within a few feet
of the scene, right?

1688
01:17:11,914 --> 01:17:14,584
Is maybe subjective of
someone that is panicking.

1689
01:17:14,684 --> 01:17:15,952
I don't think it's
as cut and dry

1690
01:17:16,052 --> 01:17:18,721
as you guys are making
it out to seem at all.

1691
01:17:18,821 --> 01:17:20,590
I don't, respectfully.

1692
01:17:20,690 --> 01:17:22,125
Uh, respectfully, to me,

1693
01:17:22,225 --> 01:17:23,993
those are the actions
of someone who knows

1694
01:17:24,093 --> 01:17:25,261
that they did
something wrong

1695
01:17:25,361 --> 01:17:27,430
and is trying
to avoid responsibility.

1696
01:17:27,530 --> 01:17:28,731
Yeah, but then
why would you leave

1697
01:17:28,831 --> 01:17:29,832
the knife at the scene?

1698
01:17:29,932 --> 01:17:31,100
Why wouldn't you
call the police

1699
01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:33,069
and say someone
tried to kill me

1700
01:17:33,169 --> 01:17:35,104
and I had
to defend myself?

1701
01:17:35,204 --> 01:17:37,840
Well, when you're dealing
with an immigrant like Nima,

1702
01:17:37,940 --> 01:17:40,977
someone that you know
is an average Joe

1703
01:17:41,077 --> 01:17:42,211
and then the person
that you're claiming

1704
01:17:42,311 --> 01:17:44,747
trying to kill you
is Bob Lee,

1705
01:17:44,847 --> 01:17:48,184
probably not something
you want to get yourself into.

1706
01:17:48,284 --> 01:17:51,120
Nima's attorneys thought
their case was strong enough

1707
01:17:51,220 --> 01:17:52,855
to sway the jury.

1708
01:17:52,955 --> 01:17:56,592
And they still had
one last card to play.

1709
01:17:56,693 --> 01:17:59,429
The defense attorney,
Saam Zangeneh says,

1710
01:17:59,529 --> 01:18:01,831
Look, that's the knife!

1711
01:18:01,931 --> 01:18:03,366
Very dramatic.

1712
01:18:14,577 --> 01:18:16,312
Jurors had heard
two different accounts

1713
01:18:16,412 --> 01:18:18,581
about what happened
in the early morning hours

1714
01:18:18,681 --> 01:18:21,884
of April 4th, 2023.

1715
01:18:21,985 --> 01:18:25,588
In one of them, Nima Momeni
was the attacker.

1716
01:18:25,688 --> 01:18:28,391
In the other,
he was the victim.

1717
01:18:28,491 --> 01:18:30,293
During his closing arguments,

1718
01:18:30,393 --> 01:18:31,894
defense attorney
Saam Zangeneh

1719
01:18:31,994 --> 01:18:34,097
had one more surprise.

1720
01:18:34,197 --> 01:18:36,199
From a strategic decision,
we held off.

1721
01:18:36,299 --> 01:18:39,602
We didn't talk about it.
We entered it in evidence.

1722
01:18:39,702 --> 01:18:42,672
Reporter Sergio Quintana
was in the courtroom

1723
01:18:42,772 --> 01:18:46,309
when the defense played
a new security video.

1724
01:18:46,409 --> 01:18:49,012
The video is
outside the battery,

1725
01:18:49,112 --> 01:18:52,048
and it's of Bo and Bob.

1726
01:18:52,148 --> 01:18:54,083
And they walk out
onto the street.

1727
01:18:55,585 --> 01:18:59,188
Bob does a motion
where he scoops something

1728
01:18:59,288 --> 01:19:02,325
and then does
this whole thing.

1729
01:19:02,425 --> 01:19:05,328
The defense told the jury
Bob was doing cocaine

1730
01:19:05,428 --> 01:19:08,164
using a small object.

1731
01:19:08,264 --> 01:19:11,567
The defense attorney,
Saam Zangeneh says,

1732
01:19:11,668 --> 01:19:13,870
Look! Look at the thing
that he's got.

1733
01:19:13,970 --> 01:19:15,171
Look, it's about as long

1734
01:19:15,271 --> 01:19:17,874
as what we know is
the murder weapon,

1735
01:19:17,974 --> 01:19:19,809
and he's using it to do--

1736
01:19:19,909 --> 01:19:22,278
That's it.
That's the knife.

1737
01:19:22,378 --> 01:19:24,414
Very dramatic.

1738
01:19:24,514 --> 01:19:26,516
The defense said
this was proof

1739
01:19:26,616 --> 01:19:29,752
Bob had a knife
that night, not Nima.

1740
01:19:29,852 --> 01:19:32,055
That looks to me
like a knife.

1741
01:19:32,155 --> 01:19:33,389
And you're convinced
that's the knife

1742
01:19:33,489 --> 01:19:35,158
that eventually became
the murder weapon.

1743
01:19:35,258 --> 01:19:36,259
What else would it be?

1744
01:19:36,359 --> 01:19:37,593
Because nothing else
was recovered

1745
01:19:37,694 --> 01:19:39,495
that looked
like that on him.

1746
01:19:39,595 --> 01:19:40,496
Nothing!

1747
01:19:40,596 --> 01:19:41,898
This is not
some TV legal show.

1748
01:19:41,998 --> 01:19:43,232
You-you knew
this was coming.

1749
01:19:43,333 --> 01:19:45,635
We watched the video
from The Battery.

1750
01:19:45,735 --> 01:19:48,237
We've watched hundreds
of hours of video.

1751
01:19:48,338 --> 01:19:52,842
You could watch that video
a thousand times,

1752
01:19:52,942 --> 01:19:54,610
and you will never
see a knife,

1753
01:19:54,711 --> 01:19:56,879
no matter how many times
you get in a jury's face

1754
01:19:56,980 --> 01:19:59,449
and yell, That's the knife.

1755
01:19:59,549 --> 01:20:01,951
That's not Bob Lee
doing cocaine

1756
01:20:02,051 --> 01:20:04,020
off the knife that ended up
being the murder weapon?

1757
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:06,422
That's correct, that's not
Bob Lee with the knife.

1758
01:20:06,522 --> 01:20:09,592
That just happens to be
a Joseph Joseph knife,

1759
01:20:09,692 --> 01:20:12,662
uh, that Khazar Momeni
had in her place.

1760
01:20:12,762 --> 01:20:15,131
Bo told us he never
saw Bob with a knife

1761
01:20:15,231 --> 01:20:17,767
that night or ever.

1762
01:20:17,867 --> 01:20:20,837
What would jurors believe?

1763
01:20:20,937 --> 01:20:23,306
As they filed into
the deliberation room,

1764
01:20:23,406 --> 01:20:27,243
all everyone could do
was wait and wait.

1765
01:20:27,343 --> 01:20:28,645
You feel confident?

1766
01:20:28,745 --> 01:20:31,881
I have had my heart broken
in this town before,

1767
01:20:31,981 --> 01:20:35,785
so confidence is, uh,

1768
01:20:35,885 --> 01:20:38,488
is always gonna be
limited on anything.

1769
01:20:38,588 --> 01:20:40,456
First day goes by,
there's no verdict.

1770
01:20:40,556 --> 01:20:42,091
You're not worried.
- Correct.

1771
01:20:42,191 --> 01:20:45,728
Second day, third day,
you're okay.

1772
01:20:45,828 --> 01:20:47,096
Correct.

1773
01:20:47,196 --> 01:20:48,398
You didn't answer
as quickly that time.

1774
01:20:48,498 --> 01:20:51,200
[chuckles]
- You know, around

1775
01:20:51,301 --> 01:20:55,738
the fifth, sixth day,
which was the deadline

1776
01:20:55,838 --> 01:20:58,741
that the judge had
previously given the jury

1777
01:20:58,841 --> 01:21:01,144
for when their service
would be done,

1778
01:21:01,244 --> 01:21:04,113
it's at that point
in time that I'm...

1779
01:21:04,213 --> 01:21:06,249
a little concerned.

1780
01:21:06,349 --> 01:21:10,486
Six days went by,
still no verdict.

1781
01:21:10,586 --> 01:21:12,221
I thought that it was
gonna be a mistrial.

1782
01:21:12,321 --> 01:21:13,222
- You did?
- Yeah.

1783
01:21:13,323 --> 01:21:14,557
I thought that
if they didn't come

1784
01:21:14,657 --> 01:21:16,726
to a decision
on that day,

1785
01:21:16,826 --> 01:21:18,428
they were gonna hang.

1786
01:21:18,528 --> 01:21:21,964
Um, and I thought that that's
what it was gonna be.

1787
01:21:22,065 --> 01:21:25,268
Finally, after
seven days of deliberations,

1788
01:21:25,368 --> 01:21:29,572
jurors sent word they
had reached a decision.

1789
01:21:29,672 --> 01:21:31,474
But it was late in the day.

1790
01:21:31,574 --> 01:21:34,410
Everyone would have
to return the next morning.

1791
01:21:34,510 --> 01:21:35,645
How'd you sleep that night?

1792
01:21:35,745 --> 01:21:36,779
I didn't.

1793
01:21:36,879 --> 01:21:39,282
Uh, honestly, I threw up
a couple times that morning.

1794
01:21:39,382 --> 01:21:40,416
And you gotta be
thinking to yourself,

1795
01:21:40,516 --> 01:21:43,252
why has it taken so long
and what does that mean?

1796
01:21:43,353 --> 01:21:44,454
All of that.

1797
01:21:44,554 --> 01:21:46,756
I don't think
anyone slept that night.

1798
01:21:46,856 --> 01:21:48,925
I just remember being
very, like, on edge

1799
01:21:49,025 --> 01:21:51,561
and just, like,
overly anxious.

1800
01:21:53,363 --> 01:21:56,232
The hallway was packed as
prosecutors and Bob's family

1801
01:21:56,332 --> 01:21:58,868
made their way into
the tense courtroom.

1802
01:21:58,968 --> 01:22:01,004
I find myself getting
the most nervous.

1803
01:22:01,104 --> 01:22:02,205
You know, you-you're
powerless.

1804
01:22:02,305 --> 01:22:03,506
You're sitting there
and you're waiting.

1805
01:22:03,606 --> 01:22:04,641
And you've done
all you can do.

1806
01:22:04,741 --> 01:22:06,876
I've done
everything I can do.

1807
01:22:06,976 --> 01:22:10,313
And perhaps
it wasn't enough.

1808
01:22:10,413 --> 01:22:12,048
Nima Momeni was found

1809
01:22:12,148 --> 01:22:16,019
not guilty
of first degree murder.

1810
01:22:16,119 --> 01:22:19,889
The moment when I heard
not guilty for first degree,

1811
01:22:19,989 --> 01:22:22,759
I just, like, felt
my stomach drop

1812
01:22:22,859 --> 01:22:25,762
and I felt like--
I, like--

1813
01:22:25,862 --> 01:22:27,864
I felt like
a ringing in my ear

1814
01:22:27,964 --> 01:22:30,033
and that, like,
I was gonna pass out.

1815
01:22:30,133 --> 01:22:32,235
Bob Lee's children were
sitting right behind me

1816
01:22:32,335 --> 01:22:33,436
as that verdict was read.

1817
01:22:33,536 --> 01:22:35,038
And I wanted them
to be able to walk out

1818
01:22:35,138 --> 01:22:37,006
and know that
their father's life

1819
01:22:37,106 --> 01:22:38,708
wasn't lost in vain.

1820
01:22:39,776 --> 01:22:42,311
Well, the jury wasn't done.

1821
01:22:42,412 --> 01:22:45,281
The verdict for
second degree murder?

1822
01:22:45,381 --> 01:22:47,250
Guilty.

1823
01:22:47,350 --> 01:22:50,420
Second degree.
You okay with that?

1824
01:22:50,520 --> 01:22:52,121
Yeah, absolutely.

1825
01:22:52,221 --> 01:22:55,725
It was such a relief that
they had come to the decision

1826
01:22:55,825 --> 01:22:57,660
to have justice for Bob.

1827
01:22:57,760 --> 01:23:00,063
And we think it is
justice for Bob.

1828
01:23:00,163 --> 01:23:02,265
When the verdict
came in, um...

1829
01:23:04,734 --> 01:23:07,203
You absorb it.
I wasn't happy with it.

1830
01:23:07,303 --> 01:23:08,237
I thought--
I think the jury,

1831
01:23:08,338 --> 01:23:11,941
I mean, I-I don't think
they got it right.

1832
01:23:12,041 --> 01:23:15,278
Nima Momeni will face
16 years to life

1833
01:23:15,378 --> 01:23:16,913
when he's sentenced.

1834
01:23:17,013 --> 01:23:19,248
He plans to appeal
the conviction.

1835
01:23:19,349 --> 01:23:21,050
His mother spoke
after the verdict.

1836
01:23:21,150 --> 01:23:23,353
But this is not
a fair trial.

1837
01:23:23,453 --> 01:23:26,556
And we will stand
and we will continue.

1838
01:23:26,656 --> 01:23:27,590
We are strong.

1839
01:23:27,690 --> 01:23:29,759
We have been in
difficult time together.

1840
01:23:29,859 --> 01:23:32,328
I was hoping for
my dad to get justice,

1841
01:23:32,428 --> 01:23:34,964
but also it was
a really, like,

1842
01:23:35,064 --> 01:23:37,400
bittersweet feeling
'cause I was waiting

1843
01:23:37,500 --> 01:23:38,801
for him to get--

1844
01:23:38,901 --> 01:23:41,204
Like, I was waiting for,
like, the murderer, obviously,

1845
01:23:41,304 --> 01:23:44,273
to, like, get
what he deserved.

1846
01:23:44,374 --> 01:23:47,410
But also, it really
sucked to, like, know

1847
01:23:47,510 --> 01:23:50,113
that, like, no matter
what the verdict was gonna be,

1848
01:23:50,213 --> 01:23:52,148
I was never gonna
get my dad back.

1849
01:23:54,083 --> 01:23:57,520
The Lee family sued
the Momenis in civil court

1850
01:23:57,620 --> 01:23:59,622
for wrongful death.

1851
01:23:59,722 --> 01:24:01,190
A ruling is pending.

1852
01:24:01,290 --> 01:24:02,625
What they did
to my children alone

1853
01:24:02,725 --> 01:24:04,460
is unforgivable.

1854
01:24:04,560 --> 01:24:07,997
Krista sees every day
how much Scout and Sirius

1855
01:24:08,097 --> 01:24:09,699
miss their dad.

1856
01:24:11,934 --> 01:24:14,337
This is not the way that
Bob Lee should have died ever.

1857
01:24:16,739 --> 01:24:18,608
He should have died
an old man,

1858
01:24:18,708 --> 01:24:20,410
a more successful man.

1859
01:24:22,445 --> 01:24:26,416
The murderer robbed
this world of a great mind.

1860
01:24:28,151 --> 01:24:30,653
And I will never, ever
forgive this family

1861
01:24:30,753 --> 01:24:32,422
for what they did to him.

1862
01:24:37,493 --> 01:24:39,495
Bob Lee was known
for his brilliance

1863
01:24:39,595 --> 01:24:41,064
and his generosity.

1864
01:24:41,164 --> 01:24:43,266
His mistake was believing
everyone else was

1865
01:24:43,366 --> 01:24:46,302
as nice a human as he was.
They aren't.

1866
01:24:46,402 --> 01:24:50,506
And even recreational drug use
comes with significant risks.

1867
01:24:50,606 --> 01:24:53,376
Partying at 2:00 AM
with a guy he barely knew

1868
01:24:53,476 --> 01:24:55,345
cost Bob his life.

1869
01:24:55,445 --> 01:24:57,380
His family lost
a devoted father

1870
01:24:57,480 --> 01:24:59,315
and beloved ex-spouse.

1871
01:24:59,415 --> 01:25:01,851
{\an8}And the rest of us
lost all the things

1872
01:25:01,951 --> 01:25:03,886
{\an8}Bob would have invented.