{"id":2740,"date":"2018-12-12T17:05:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T22:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/press.nbcnews.com\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2018-12-12T17:05:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T22:05:05","slug":"dateline-nbc-airs-two-hour-special-on-california-entrepreneur-murder-mystery-that-made-national-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2018\/12\/12\/dateline-nbc-airs-two-hour-special-on-california-entrepreneur-murder-mystery-that-made-national-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"DATELINE NBC AIRS TWO-HOUR SPECIAL ON CALIFORNIA ENTREPRENEUR MURDER MYSTERY THAT MADE NATIONAL HEADLINES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"news-details-headers\">\n<div class=\"large-medium-txt black-color news-details-subheading\">\n<p><strong>Broadcast Airs at a Special Time &#8211; 9 p.m. ET\/PT, 8 p.m. CT &#8211; on Friday, December 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Family Members of Murdered Entrepreneur Speak Out For the First Time<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"press-release-body 1\">\n<p>December 12, 2018 \u2013 The family members of murdered California entrepreneur Chris Smith speak out in their first television interview to NBC News\u2019 Keith Morrison in Friday\u2019s all-new two-hour<em>\u00a0Dateline NBC.<\/em>\u00a0Smith\u2019s mother tells Morrison about the emails she received from her son, leading her to believe that he had sold his company, broken up with his girlfriend via text and was traveling the world with a Playboy Playmate, explaining: \u201cAs his mom, yes, I was shocked \u2026 I think the hard part as a parent and a mom, you know your kids, is thinking this is weird. I mean, why would he ever do that?\u201d She added, \u201cAnd I remember telling Steve [Chris\u2019 father], \u2018this is wacky.\u2019&#8221; To watch the exchange, click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/dateline\/video\/family-of-murdered-california-entrepreneur-speak-out-for-first-time-1396250179984\">here.<\/a>\u00a0The broadcast airs Friday, December 14 at a special time &#8211; 9 p.m. ET\/PT, 8 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s program also features interviews with: private investigator Joe Dalu, Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Department\u2019s Sergeant Don Voght and Sergeant Ray Wert, Smith\u2019s former colleague Christina Gries and prosecutor Matt Murphy. Dateline has reported on this story since 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EXCERPT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DEBI SMITH: As his mom, yes, I was shocked. And I thought \u2013<\/p>\n<p>KEITH MORRISON: What kind of treatment of a woman was that, just &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>STEVE SMITH:\u00a0Well, it&#8217;s not Chris.<\/p>\n<p>DEBI SMITH:\u00a0It&#8217;s not Chris. I think the hard part as a parent and a mom, you know your kids, is thinking\u00a0this is weird. I mean, why would he ever do that?\u00a0And this isn&#8217;t &#8211; we had just seen him two months prior. And he had just asked us to come down again, and stay with him at his new condo. So it threw me. And I remember telling Steve, &#8220;this is wacky.&#8221; And then the Playboy Playmate, he didn&#8217;t ever talk about those kinds of girls.\u00a0He didn&#8217;t talk about those. So that threw me too. I mean, the kind of girls he dated were nothing, not anything like that. So, for me, it was suspicious. And throughout the next few months, everything was suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT DATELINE NBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Dateline NBC<\/em>\u00a0is the longest-running series in NBC primetime history. Now in its 27th season,<em>Dateline<\/em>\u00a0is anchored by Lester Holt and features correspondents Andrea Canning, Josh Mankiewicz, Keith Morrison and Dennis Murphy. Airing Fridays at 9 p.m. ET\/8 p.m. CT, the #1 most-watched Friday newsmagazine reaches more than 18 million people every week through its broadcast, and millions more through its social media platforms. David Corvo is the senior executive producer, and Liz Cole is the executive producer. 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