{"id":8346,"date":"2025-10-08T18:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/?p=8346"},"modified":"2025-10-08T18:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:04:28","slug":"datelinefriday-reveals-new-details-in-murder-of-palm-springs-socialite-cliff-lambert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2025\/10\/08\/datelinefriday-reveals-new-details-in-murder-of-palm-springs-socialite-cliff-lambert\/","title":{"rendered":"DATELINE FRIDAY REVEALS NEW DETAILS IN MURDER OF PALM SPRINGS SOCIALITE CLIFF LAMBERT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>All-New<\/strong><\/em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><em><strong>Broadcast<\/strong><\/em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><em><strong>Features Never-Before-Reported Evidence<\/strong><\/em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>and Exclusive Interviews with Key Figures in Case<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/dateline\/video\/dateline-friday-preview-the-prince-the-whiz-kid-the-millionaire-249295429754\">Click Here<\/a>&nbsp;to Watch Preview; Airs Friday, October 10 at 9pm ET<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OCTOBER &nbsp;8, 2025 \u2013 This Friday at 9 p.m. ET\/8 p.m. CT,&nbsp;<em>Dateline NBC<\/em>&nbsp;will air an all-new two-hour broadcast on the murder of Cliff Lambert, a retired art collector and legendary Palm Springs socialite. Reported by Josh Mankiewicz, the broadcast includes exclusive interviews and new details on how a group of four&nbsp;conspirators,&nbsp;including a self-proclaimed Nepalese prince, defrauded and killed Lambert.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the broadcast, Mankiewicz speaks exclusively to a victim of Danny Garcia\u2019s, one of the men convicted for the murder of Lambert. Tyson Wrensch tells&nbsp;<em>Dateline&nbsp;<\/em>that Garcia stole his identity and drained his bank accounts&nbsp;but a detective dismissed his allegations, telling&nbsp;him that \u201cuntil someone gets hurt\u201d&nbsp;he&nbsp;didn\u2019t have the ability to do anything about it. Lambert&nbsp;was killed the next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/dateline\/video\/dateline-exclusive-tyson-wrensch-says-detectives-dismissed-his-fraud-allegations-before-cliff-lambert-s-murder-249361477669\">Click here<\/a><\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>to watch the exchange. Additional preview clips and transcripts are below.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Prince, The Whiz Kid &amp; The Millionaire&nbsp;<\/em>also features exclusive interviews with key players in the case, including a&nbsp;1990s adult film star and friend of Cliff Lambert\u2019s, prosecutor Lisa DiMaria, Garcia\u2019s cousin and more. Friday\u2019s broadcast is the culmination of years of reporting and comes just months after Garcia&nbsp;and two other men&nbsp;were&nbsp;convicted&nbsp;and sentenced to life without parole. The case&nbsp;remains&nbsp;one of&nbsp;the&nbsp;longest and most expensive missing-persons investigations&nbsp;in California history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">###&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CLIP 1 TRANSCRIPT EXCHANGE;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/dateline\/video\/dateline-exclusive-tyson-wrensch-says-detectives-dismissed-his-fraud-allegations-before-cliff-lambert-s-murder-249361477669\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;to watch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>JOSH MANKIEWICZ VOICEOVER: APPARENTLY, WHILE POSING AS TYSON<\/em><em>,<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>DANNY HAD ACQUIRED ALL NEW ATM CARDS<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>AND THEN USED THOSE TO DRAIN TYSON&#8217;S ACCOUNTS.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JOSH MANKIEWICZ:\u2002And you&#8217;re feeling what at this time? Anger? Betrayal? Or&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TYSON WRENSCH: All of the above&nbsp;\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JOSH MANKIEWICZ:&nbsp;&#8220;I&nbsp;should of&nbsp;known better?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TYSON WRENSCH:&nbsp;All of the above. All of those little things&nbsp;that should have triggered a flag, all of a sudden, &#8220;Oh yeah&#8211;&#8220;\u2002\u2002<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JOSH MANKIEWICZ:&nbsp;Danny, your pal. Danny, the victim. Danny, who&#8217;s so charming. Danny, who loves to live large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TYSON WRENSCH: Danny the sociopath. Danny the conman. Danny the liar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JOSH MANKIEWICZ VOICEOVER: THE BANK&#8217;S INSURANCE COVERED TYSON&#8217;S FINANCIAL LOSSES. BUT TYSON SAYS AFTER SEEING SECURITY CAMERA PHOTOS OF DANNY WITHDRAWING MONEY FROM HIS ACCOUNT,&nbsp;TYSON &nbsp;WANTED TO SEE HIS NOW EX-BEST FRIEND PUNISHED.&nbsp;BUT&nbsp;HE SAYS THE DETECTIVE ASSIGNED TO THE CASEBLEW HIM OFF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TYSON WRENSCH:&nbsp;He says, &#8220;Look, Tyson.&nbsp;Until someone gets hurt, we&#8217;re really just not gonna have the ability to do anything about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JOSH MANKIEWICZ:\u2002&#8221;Until someone gets hurt&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TYSON WRENSCH:&nbsp;\u201cUntil someone gets hurt.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JOSH MANKIEWICZ&nbsp;You know, it&#8217;s interesting, like, the cops are willing to let this drop. The bank&#8217;s willing to let it drop. You&#8217;ve got your money back. But you won&#8217;t let it drop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TYSON WRENSCH:&nbsp;I&#8217;m pissed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JOSH MANKIEWICZ:&nbsp;Because you were taken advantage of?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TYSON WRENSCH:\u2002And betrayed. And now, I had nothing but time and money. And I was gonna go get him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>TRANSCRIPT EXCHANGE;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/dateline\/video\/dateline-exclusive-prosecutor-lisa-dimaria-says-investigation-into-murder-of-cliff-lambert-was-like-alice-in-wonderland-falling-into-a-rabbit-hole-249360965957\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;to watch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>JOSH MANKIEWICZ VOICEOVER:<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>THE LAMBERT CASE INVOLVED SO MANY SCHEMES, CONS, GRIFTS, LIES AND BETRAYALS THAT AS SHE PREPARED FOR TRIAL, PROSECUTOR LISA DIMARIA HAD TROUBLE FIGURING OUT WHICH CHARACTERS AND CRIMES FACTORED INTO CLIFF LAMBERT&#8217;S MURDER AND WHICH DID NOT.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LISA DIMARIA:&nbsp;It was, like,&nbsp;<em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>, falling into a rabbit hole.&nbsp;It took months of me eating, living, sleeping, breathing this case to sort it all out.&nbsp;My life was this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>JOSH MANKIEWICZ VOICEOVER:<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>THAT VERY LINE COULD ALSO HAVE BEEN UTTERED BY DANNY AND KAUSHAL<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>&#8211;WHO WERE REPRESENTING THEMSELVES AND RELENTLESSLY BOMBARDING THE COURT WITH ONE PRE-TRIAL MOTION AFTER ANOTHER.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JOSH MANKIEWICZ:&nbsp;Danny Garcia and Kaushal Niroula decided to represent themselves. Why&#8217;d they do that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LISA DIMARIA:&nbsp;They represented themselves after they went through nine different tax-paid-for attorneys from the county.&nbsp;We went to court on this case 128 times before we ever went to trial, in a period of two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JOSH MANKIEWICZ:&nbsp;And why was that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LISA DIMARIA:&nbsp;Because the Defendants are con artists. And they conned the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JOSH MANKIEWICZ:&nbsp;Because time&#8217;s on their side, not on your side. That&#8217;s their thinking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LISA DIMARIA:&nbsp;I&nbsp;have no idea what their thinking was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Dateline NBC<\/em>&nbsp;is the longest-running series in NBC primetime history and in its 34<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;season.&nbsp;<em>Dateline<\/em>&nbsp;is anchored by Lester Holt and features correspondents Blayne Alexander, Andrea Canning, Josh Mankiewicz, Keith Morrison and Dennis Murphy. Airing Fridays at 9\/8c,&nbsp;<em>Dateline<\/em>&nbsp;also airs across NBC, cable and in broadcast syndication, with hundreds of hours available to stream on the global Dateline 24\/7 channel. Dateline 24\/7 can be viewed and\/or listened to on Peacock, Roku, YouTube, Samsung TV Plus, Tubi, Pluto TV, Local Now, Xfinity, Amazon Fire TV Channels and Prime Video, TuneIn, Xumo, TCLTV+ and SiriusXM. Additionally, the newsmagazine reaches millions through its #1 podcasts and its showcast. Liz Cole is the senior executive producer and Paul Ryan is the executive producer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Courtney Clawson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:Courtney.Clawson@nbcuni.com\">Courtney.Clawson@nbcuni.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All-New&nbsp;Broadcast&nbsp;Features Never-Before-Reported Evidence&nbsp;and Exclusive Interviews with Key Figures in Case Click Here&nbsp;to Watch Preview; Airs Friday, October 10 at 9pm ET OCTOBER &nbsp;8, 2025 \u2013 This Friday at 9 p.m. ET\/8 p.m. CT,&nbsp;Dateline NBC&nbsp;will air an all-new two-hour broadcast on the murder of Cliff Lambert, a retired art collector and legendary Palm Springs socialite. 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