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Tech mogul's alleged killer takes the stand. Dentist's murder trial set to begin. Plus safety tips for holiday travel.
Thu, 21 Nov 2024
Listen to this week's episode of the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast with Andrea Canning. Tech exec Bob Lee's accused killer takes the stand for three dramatic days in San Francisco. In suburban Denver, dentist James Craig who stands accused of spiking his wife's protein shakes with potassium cyanide is headed to trial. And Susan Smith, convicted of drowning her children 30 years ago, asks for parole. Plus, Vicky Nguyen is back with helpful tips — this time for safe holiday travel. To get new episodes every Thursday, follow here on Apple and Spotify:Apple: https://apple.co/3Vx5THGSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5utP1NZyMUlyaUUv7XNq7jFind out more about the cases covered each week here: www.datelinetruecrimeweekly.com
Chapter 1: What happens in the trial of Bob Lee's accused killer?
But these are things that you should know in advance and you should know how to use them.
Yeah. And also that you always have enough gas. I've gotten caught in bumper to bumper traffic on the highway and you're just sitting there. It's not the time that you want to run out of gas. Good point. Okay. So if you're flying, any tips on how to book holiday travel with regards to making sure... Everything goes smoothly. You're not scammed in some way.
It's funny because some people have this fear of flying, but statistically speaking, we know it is a very safe form of transportation. The most dangerous part of booking an air travel vacation or holiday is that scam that you mentioned, Andrea. There's a cybersecurity site called Guardio, and they say that over the last 18 months, travel scams have gone up online 900%. Wow.
And that is due in large part to AI. AI has made it so easy for scammers to design really sophisticated looking websites that also show up in Google searches, right? So you want to make sure anytime you're booking with a site that you've never used before, that you've actually gone to the URL.
You're looking in that little website address line for HTTPS, S as in security to make sure it's a secure site. Don't just click on links that are sent to you via email, via social media. Go to the actual hotel or the airline that you are looking for and make sure that you always pay with a credit card, not Zelle, not Venmo, not crypto, not gift cards. Those are all red flags for scammer sites.
And if the price is just too good to be true, that should also get your spidey senses going. My final tip here, Andrea, is consider working with a travel agent. That is a great way to protect yourself from scams.
Yeah. So we've all seen footage or we've been in airports during the holidays. It can be crazy. Have there been any security changes that people should be aware of? I know the driver's licenses, the real ID is going to be a mandatory soon, things like that.
Yeah. If you haven't been to the airport recently, you might be surprised by all the facial recognition technology that is now being used by TSA as well as airlines like Delta, where they ask if you want your face scanned so that they can recognize and verify who you are. It definitely speeds up the process of getting through. those security lines.
And here's my answer to folks who are worried about this idea that, oh my gosh, my picture is being taken. What happens with all that data? Well, the companies say that they delete it, that it's just taken, it's verifying your identity, and that they get rid of it. I trust in the system. I understand people have hesitancy.
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Chapter 5: What safety tips are shared for holiday travel?
Next up, we're off to Florida, where there's a new charge in the case of Ana Konezovic, the Colombian-American woman who went missing in February from her apartment in Madrid.
Yeah, at the time, Ana was in the midst of a nasty divorce from her husband, David Konezovic, and had moved from Florida to Spain for a fresh start. But in early February of this year, Ana stopped responding to her family and her friends, and so they actually got in contact with authorities in Madrid to report her missing.
That was just the beginning of what's become really an international investigation with Spanish and U.S. authorities working together to find her. They zeroed in pretty quickly, Rachel, on her estranged husband, David.
According to the prosecution, he was actually in Madrid at the time of Ana's disappearance. And prosecutors say that video from security cameras in the hallway of Ana's apartment shows a man who looks a lot like David entering the building the night before she disappeared, spray painting a security camera, and then leaving the building about an hour later with a rolling suitcase.
Federal prosecutors charged him with honest kidnapping back in May. Do we have any idea if Ana is still alive?
Well, her body has never been found. But the big news last week was that David was charged with her murder as well. David's defense team has told NBC6 in Miami that he is not guilty and that they're, quote, dumbfounded by the new charge because they say that there's no new evidence in the case.
OK, we'll keep watching that one. For our final story, we're off to Texas, where there was a consequential ruling in the case of Robert Roberson, a man who's facing execution for the 2002 death of his daughter, Nikki Curtis. What's going on with that, Rachel?
Roberson was convicted in 2003 of beating and shaking his two-year-old daughter so violently that he induced a serious brain injury that led to her death.
But Roberson's defense team says that they have proof that Roberson's daughter actually died from natural causes, complications from pneumonia. Exactly. Roberson has garnered wide support. So in October, Roberson was hours away from execution when Texas lawmakers issued a last-minute subpoena summoning him to testify at the Texas Capitol on the day after he was scheduled to be executed.
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