The Prince, The Whiz Kid & The Millionaire

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🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Josh Mankiewicz reports on the disappearance of a retired art collector and Palm Springs socialite, one of the longest and most expensive missing-persons investigations in California history.

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline.
0:02.0	I got death threats in this case.
0:04.0	They spent months coming after me.
0:07.0	They had killed.
0:09.0	I did not want to be the next.
0:11.0	I filed a police report, and I did tell them.
0:15.0	My friend is missing, and this is not normal.
0:18.0	It looked like he came from wealth.
0:21.6	He was definitely kind of in this old Hollywood crowd.
0:25.6	He had all these pictures in his house with all these famous people like icons.
0:30.6	You go to the house, no indication that any crime had been committed.
0:34.6	Exactly nothing.
0:35.6	It was the informant that started to put the pieces in place.
0:41.6	There's a lot of people involved in this.
0:44.3	You have a self-proclaimed computer WISCid.
0:47.0	He identified himself as the Prince of Nepal.
0:49.5	The heavy.
0:50.5	He is the muscle.
0:53.0	This plot sounds like something out of a movie.
0:55.0	This isn't something from Hollywood.
0:57.0	This was real.
0:59.0	I just realized, oh my God.
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