Tech mogul's alleged killer takes the stand. Dentist's murder trial set to begin. Plus safety tips for holiday travel.
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What happened in the trial of Bob Lee's accused killer?
Her body has never been found, but apparently prosecutors don't believe that she's alive.
Plus, if you're traveling for Thanksgiving, NBC's senior consumer investigative correspondent Vicky Nguyen has some safety tips for you.
AI has made it so easy for scammers. Make sure anytime you're booking with a site, you're looking in that little website address line for HTTPS, S as in security.
But before all that, we're heading to a San Francisco courtroom and three days of dramatic testimony in the trial of the man accused of stabbing tech exec Bob Lee to death. In April 2023, Bob Lee, a founder of Cash App and a father of two, was visiting his kids in the Bay Area. But at 2.30 on a Tuesday morning, he called 911. He said he'd been stabbed. When paramedics found him, Bob was unconscious on the sidewalk in front of an apartment building a block and a half from the Bay Bridge. He died in the hospital a few hours later. Our affiliate KNTV was on the scene.
People who knew him and people who live in this neighborhood are still stunned that a leader in San Francisco's tech community was murdered here.
The hunt for his attacker began immediately. A man named Nima Momeni was arrested within days, and his trial began last month. As we've talked about on the podcast before, Nima, who's pleaded not guilty, doesn't deny getting into a fight with Bob that night. But he is adamant Bob attacked him. And last week, the jury got to see Nima reenact the altercation in the courtroom as he testified in his own defense. Dateline producer Brittany Tom was there and is here to fill us in on what she saw and how the prosecution reacted to Nima's explosive testimony. Hey, Brittany. Hi, Andrea. Before we get to Nima's version of events, remind us what the prosecution is alleging.
Prosecutors have been arguing that Nima stabbed Bob Lee because he was angry that his sister Kazar may have been sexually assaulted by one of Bob's friends. Bob met up with Kazar and Nima later that evening at her apartment. The prosecutor alleged that Nima took a paring knife from the kitchen. He then drove Bob to a secluded area underneath the Bay Bridge and stabbed him. And if that sounds confusing, it is. I mean, everyone was also drinking and doing drugs throughout the day.
We don't always see defendants take the stand. But in this case, clearly, Nima's defense team thought it was important that he tell his own story in his own words.
Yeah, it's interesting, Andrea. Since his attorneys are arguing self-defense and there are no other eyewitnesses to this incident, the only person who can explain what happened on April 4th is the defendant himself. And you've covered cases, so have I, over my time at Dateline. It's pretty rare for this to happen. In his telling, Nima decided to call people who had been with Gazar earlier. So Nima ended up calling Bob Lee. And he told the jury the call actually calmed him down and he felt reassured. He was disappointed in his sister and he believed she was probably being dramatic to get attention. So Nima claims he wasn't angry at anybody. That's right. So on the stand, Nima talked through the videos of him and Bob leaving together. And he's explaining they were chummy that night.
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