Lester Holt

I'm Lester Holt.

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This is murder by bombing.

I can't believe he's telling me this story.

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Yeah, I mean, that's the amazing thing.

This is an amazing crime story, except for the fact that there was no crime.

And that's what we ultimately get to in this hour.

But this is a case.

Guy, you know, picks up the phone and calls the police station in his town, Fontana, California.

And says, look, my pop didn't come home last night.

He went out to pick up the mail down the street.

You know, his keys are here, his wallet is here, but no sign of dad.

So they talk to him on the phone for a while.

They send out a police officer, a community resources officer who speaks to him, goes inside the house, is a little bit shocked by his wardrobe, or maybe we should say lack of wardrobe.

He says they were moving and thus things were out of order.

He seemed a little confused.

But as they spent more time and called more officers to this house, the more their spidey sense kind of went off to the fact that, you know, could this be a crime scene?

I'll defer to Dan on this.