Hi, guys, I'm Blaine Alexander, and today we are talking Dateline. I've got the pleasure of being

joined by my dear friend Keith Morrison. Hi, Keith. Hi, Blaine. How are you? I am so fantastic. I'm

excited to talk with you today. Today's episode, this one was a good one. It's called In a Lonely Place,

and it's the story of Chris Smith,

a charismatic California entrepreneur who seemed to have it all. But when Chris suddenly vanished

on around the world adventure, the truth turned out to be much darker and much closer to home.

The man who claimed to be his business partner and friend, Ed Shin, had murdered him. If you haven't listened to the episode yet, you can find it right below this podcast, or of course you can go and watch it on Peacock, and then come right back here. And when you come back, we'll share more of Keith's interview with private investigator Joe DeLoo, who says he kind of stumbled upon this case. Later, we'll answer some of your

questions from social media. All right, Keith, let's talk Dateline. Okay, happy too. Yes, it was a

fascinating story, and it took a long time to sort it out, as many of these stories do.

Well, this one had me all over the place from the beginning because it was only about,

what, halfway through the episode when we kind of realized, okay, there's a crime that's been committed

here, right? I mean, you're watching and obviously we know it's a dateline story, so something had to

have gone awry. But usually it's in the first few minutes that we know, okay, someone who has been killed, now we need to figure out who it is. But there was a mystery before we even got to the crime. Well, you know, people asked us along the way after this case was adjudicated. How could the family not know for that length of time? How could they believe that he was off on some sort of world tour having fun?

Well, the fact is they were very concerned, very worried, but these emails were done so skillfully,

and the play that Ed Chin made was so skillful, that the family truly was, you know, as any family would be.

You want your loved one to be alive, and every email that came along was one that

supported that idea.

And on top of that, it wasn't necessarily out of his character, right?

He was already someone who kind of went against

the conventional. I mean, if I emailed my family and said, hey, guys, I've taken off around the

world, they say, no, you didn't. That's a lie. Like, you know, that's clearly not you. Clearly,

there's something going on, right? But when Chris sent an email like this, I said, okay, that's actually something that he would do.

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