Lester Holt

Okay, Rudolph.

So we came on at 10.16.

And I remember earlier that morning I was on the Today Show.

to promote the program and al goes to read the the tagline and he says that's you know dateline and what lesser hold 10 16 and he goes 10 16 i said that's the dateline mystery as it is to us i don't know i just to pull down pull back the curtain a little bit for the audience

In his initial conversation with police, I think he floated the idea that he might have some dementia, but that was later proven not to be the case.

Tom Sr.

They found him at Los Angeles Airport.

The time where this happened, Fontana is about, oh, maybe an hour, hour, 15 minutes east of Los Angeles.

But apparently his name was on a list of people the police wanted to talk to, in this case, as a potential victim.

So they got a call from, I believe it was TSA, but certainly some officials at LA Airport that said, we have a Tom Perez Sr.

here that we think you want to talk to.

Yeah, his daughter was in Northern California.

You know, I only take from that is he was, you know... I don't know.

Actually, that's a good question.

I've been trying to piece that one together.

I think that was again in that...

area of where he was trying to be helpful and and they're thinking it's a you know in the lake perhaps but he's like well no it would it would it would be floating if that was the case um but again really ill-advised kind of a conversation to have with police if you didn't do it weird right i think lester's description of it is exactly right knowing this guy the way we met him it's just kind of like well he can't be here right because somebody's float but he was just like

Wow.

I don't know why they would want to, but I don't have an answer to that question.

I mean, I think they can lie to anybody.