meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Dateline NBC

In a Lonely Place

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

After California entrepreneur Chris Smith abruptly leaves his business, his family initially believes he is traveling the world until the shocking truth comes to light. Keith Morrison reports.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

My brother, he always had a vision.

0:04.0

I could feel just his energy, his passion for life.

0:09.0

I could tell something was wrong.

0:12.0

My suspicions were there.

0:14.0

All of a sudden in one second, everything makes sense.

0:20.0

It didn't seem weird that Chris would just up and leave because he was single and he loved to travel.

0:26.6

He talked about going to Galapagos Islands.

0:29.6

He would go from one place to another.

0:31.6

I'm in Austria.

0:32.6

I'm in India.

0:35.6

Month after month, you were getting these emails.

0:38.3

No phone calls.

0:39.3

No.

0:40.3

Whoever was emailing us, I felt like this wasn't my son.

0:43.3

Who is this?

0:44.3

To torture his family like this, it's awful.

0:48.3

There's blood on the ceiling, blood on the carpet, there's blood on the walls.

0:53.3

This case was about greed at its most diabolical.

0:57.0

It was tough.

0:58.0

You know, I hit you right in the gut.

1:00.0

It's as if we were working with a double himself.

1:08.0

Again and again, he rode them, as if they were his waves, and this is his own private ocean,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NBC News, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NBC News and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.