Oliver Lee
Appearances
Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Under the Bay Bridge
Do you believe that? That's when I started talking to the media. Whenever we were going to try, we were trying to stay out of the spotlight. But that was too much. It was too much. I felt that she was trying to get on the stand and claim this position as some widow or trying to take this whole, oh, I knew Bob so well. I'm heartbroken by this. And I felt she was trying to take that.
Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Under the Bay Bridge
And the reason I started talking to the media is because I was not going to let her take that from our family. Because, no, no, we're heartbroken. You helped cause this to happen. You made this happen, right? It is like she, very few things have angered me more. And it was so hard to be able to see that. And so to her trying, like, your brother already killed my brother, right?
Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Under the Bay Bridge
Now you're trying to take our grief away to repair your self-image and to repair your image in society in San Francisco? Absolutely not. We're not doing this.
Dateline NBC
Under the Bay Bridge
It gave him freedom to be more of who he was, right? And so I don't think it changed him. After 10 years of marriage, Bob and Krista split up.
Dateline NBC
Under the Bay Bridge
I mean, that just seems inconceivable. I mean, I think murder is always the last thing you expect.
Dateline NBC
Under the Bay Bridge
Constantly, you see him helping somebody else. There was an investment in a hair salon and another investment in a restaurant. These were not investments he expected to get back. And so it was more of, I met this cool person who's doing this cool thing. How can I help them to do that?
Dateline NBC
Under the Bay Bridge
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Dateline NBC
Under the Bay Bridge
That is the most... far out story I think I've ever heard in my life.
Dateline NBC
Under the Bay Bridge
No. He would tend to be, you know, more outgoing, like when he was on drugs, but he would never be violent. So when you heard that at trial, Absolutely insanity, right? It is the most opposite thing of what Bob was.
Dateline NBC
Under the Bay Bridge
Yeah, absolutely. It was such a relief that they had come to the decision to have justice for Bob. And we think it is justice for Bob.
Dateline NBC
Under the Bay Bridge
Yeah, very, very proud of my brother. And he continually amazed me with things. Oliver Lee was Bob's younger brother by just 18 months.
Dateline NBC
Under the Bay Bridge
Louis, Missouri. You can imagine, you know, two boys close in age. Growing up in the Midwest, we built a lot of forts in the woods. You know, we did everything together. Their dad, Rick Lee, an engineer, sparked an interest in technology.
Dateline NBC
Under the Bay Bridge
He saw it as like an investment in us. And so we started messing around with that computer and then we just built from there. And your parents encouraged this because you're explorers. Absolutely. It's like if they take it apart, they'll probably put it back together, right?
Dateline NBC
Under the Bay Bridge
Yeah, it was a wild west of many parts of tech. And he wanted to go solve problems on his own.
Dateline NBC
Under the Bay Bridge
But instead of monetizing it, he just made it open source code and basically gave it to the world for free because that was the fastest way to be able to create the best good with it.