Who Killed the Radio Star?

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🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, weekend boaters just off California’s fabled Catalina island discover a body floating in the water. The victim turns out to be a well-known radio personality. What happened to Steven B. Williams? Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on June 3, 2012.

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0:00.0	I'll hit 96kpke with a bird in the bee.
0:05.6	I had a huge crush on him.
0:07.1	He had this amazing voice, very gregarious, very charismatic.
0:10.8	And I think the passion that he had for people came through.
0:14.7	He was the guy, the whole town woke up to.
0:17.6	Morning DJ Stephen B.
0:19.9	He was so funny, and he had such a great love of music.
0:23.7	He's lovable.
0:24.4	I mean, you're just everybody loves Stephen B.
0:26.2	But soon it was fatally clear that not everybody did.
0:30.5	They came up on a body floating in water.
0:32.7	Shot him one time in the back of the head.
0:35.3	I felt like I was in some made for TV movies.
0:37.6	Like this can't be happening.
0:39.2	What did happen?
0:42.4	Tonight, the hunt is on, a gleaming yacht.
0:46.0	I thought, why did you get on that boat?
0:47.9	A scheming businessman.
0:50.1	And a missing fortune.
0:52.6	You're a multi-millionaire, and you don't have any money.
0:55.6	From high seas adventure to hard-stopping murder.
0:59.0	I don't think I'll ever get another case quite like this.
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