Detectives spill their secrets on solving high profile murder of Silicon Valley CEO Bob Lee

San Francisco Police person revealed wherefore they didn't fuss to dispel the societal media robbery rumors surrounding Cash App CEO Bob Lee's death.

Early on, online sleuths speculated that the 43-year-old tech titan had been a unfortunate of a fatal robbery on April 4, 2023, aft shadowy CCTV footage showed a antheral wheeling a suitcase distant arsenic Lee laic dying yards away. 

Police declined to accidental whether oregon not the alien was a imaginable fishy successful Lee's execution oregon if helium had been a unfortunate of robbery. 

Now, constabulary person revealed their reasoning down keeping the nationalist successful the dark. 

'If that's the communicative radical are gonna tally with, that is an vantage for america due to the fact that the radical who are responsible, we don't privation to cognize what we know,' San Francisco Police Sergeant Brent Dittmer told Dateline in an occurrence owed to aerial tonight. 

'Let everybody deliberation that this is whatever's connected Twitter astatine that time. We'll enactment connected what really happened.' 

Nima Momeni was recovered blameworthy of second-degree murder successful December for stabbing Lee to death.  

Lee allegedly had casual enactment with Momeni's sister Khazar aft helium separated from his wife. 

At a party, connected the nighttime of the murder, Momeni confronted Lee astir his sister, asking if she was doing drugs oregon 'anything inappropriate.' According to a witness, Lee told Momeni that thing inappropriate had happened.

Nima and Lee met up again aboriginal that nighttime astatine Khazar's luxury flat successful Millennium Tower.

Surveillance footage showed the 2 getting into Nima's achromatic BMW astatine astir 2am connected April 4 and permission the scene.

He drove Lee to a secluded country respective streets over, wherever helium stabbed the Cash App laminitis aggregate times with a room weapon and near him to bleed out. 

The tech mogul was recovered staggering connected a deserted downtown street, dripping a way of humor and calling for help. Lee aboriginal died successful hospital. 

Prosecutors argued that Momeni took Lee's beingness connected the 300 artifact of Main Street successful the ritzy Rincon Hill vicinity aft proceeding that his drug-dealing person plied his younger sister with GHB and different drugs and sexually assaulted her.

Khazar, the woman of a salient California integrative surgeon, was agelong believed to beryllium having an matter with Lee and attending 'sex-swinging' parties with him.

In lengthy testimony, she accused the alleged cause dealer, Jeremy Boivin, of giving her the 'date rape' cause GHB, pulling her pants down and sexually assaulting her portion she remained unconscious.

Khazar stated that Lee brought Boivin to her location connected the greeting of April 3, 2023, the time earlier the fatal stabbing.

'I did not cognize he's a cause dealer, arsenic we don't get adjacent to our cause dealers oregon invitation them upstairs even. He was introduced to maine arsenic a friend,' she said. '[H]e brought maine a large vessel of nitrous and helium had a large vessel of a liter of GHB.'

Khazar aboriginal went to Boivin's home, wherever Lee and different person besides stopped by. After Lee and is person left, she claimed she passed retired aft consuming drugs.

She told the tribunal that she had consumed 3 shots of a portion mixed with GHB earlier 'passing out.'

'He asked maine astir GHB and gave me, like, this saccharine small drink, a small shot. And I drank it. I thought I could spot him,' Khazar said.

'I retrieve waking up twice: One clip helium (Boivin) pulled down my pants and slapped my ass. And different clip helium grabbed my a**, but I couldn't determination oregon bash anything.'

Momeni's defence attorneys claimed Lee was connected a multi-day cause bender of cocaine and ketamine that made him agitated and violent, and that helium attacked the suspect with a knife.

 They said Momeni was forced to usage his Krav Maga martial arts skills successful the aboriginal greeting hours of April 4, 2023, aft 'making a 'bad joke' that upset Lee - and did not recognize helium had stabbed him.

The adjunct territory lawyer mocked Momeni's defence saying helium grilled Lee earlier successful the evening astir what happened to his sister astatine the cause dealer's apartment, and sent substance messages saying that the 2 men were creeps and intersexual predators.

Lee's ex-wife, Krista Lee, said her erstwhile spouse could person fixed anyone the 'shirt disconnected his back.' 

'Had Bob been approached by idiosyncratic that was trying to mug him, helium would’ve fixed him, them, the garment disconnected his back, his wallet, his keys, his clothes. He would’ve said: "Hey, man, fto maine bargain you a meal. Please don’t wounded me,"' she told Dateline.  

Momeni faces up to 16 years to beingness successful prison. 

Friday’s occurrence of Dateline features an in-depth look astatine the timeline starring up to Lee’s murder, extended and melodramatic surveillance video, and exclusive interviews with his member and children and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. Dateline airs Fridays astatine 9pmET.