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[Music] this week's 48 hours investigates the kidnapping and murder of a tech executive turned cannabis entrepreneur
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his name is tushar altre he was attacked he was kidnapped in his multi-million dollar california home this was back in
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october of 2019 hours later found dead on his cannabis farm just 14 miles away from his home as
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48 hours correspondent tracy smith shows us some grainy surveillance video played
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a key role in this case he loved the ocean he just loved surfing when tushar atrey wasn't surfing the
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waves just steps from his beach house in santa cruz he was working on producing medicinal cannabis products says his
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girlfriend and business partner rachel emerly we've gotten it to the point where we felt like this is the product
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we were trying to make rachel says she learned tushar had been kidnapped when investigators called her on october 1st
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2019. i was trying to piece together what this all meant over the phone what do you
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mean he didn't seem like he was in danger the crime scene provided few clues but several people in tushar's
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house heard the intruders says mary fulginiti a former federal prosecutor and 48 hours consultant one witness
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hears three different voices the unknown voices were heard asking about a safe tushar kept in his bedroom that
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investigators say contained 80 thousand dollars in cash put your hands behind your back where is the safe and what's
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the combination nearly six hours later at his cannabis farm sheriff's deputies discovered the bloody body of tushar
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atre former california police chief and 48 hours consultant steve circone his hands
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were handcuffed in the back with flex ties an apparent gunshot wound to the back of the head he'd been stabbed
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multiple times this was a whodunit from the start investigators hoped surveillance footage showing three
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shadowy figures approaching tushar's home would help them crack the case as you'll see here mr artre breaks from
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the driveway and he runs and he's pursued by one of the suspects he tackles him right here and as you can
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see there's a struggle if this was a robbery why chase him tackle him and take him away if this is truly just a
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simple robbery once he runs away you let him go this is about more than just money it's definitely about more than
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money where are you two sir what happened and tracy smith and tracy smith joins us now what a
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story tracy from that beautiful home to the bloody crime scene and that grainy surveillance video it makes me wonder if
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authorities had video like that were they able to identify suspects quickly well actually no because even though you
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could see what happened in that video it was tough to see who did it because it was so grainy so investigators spent
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months analyzing digital data looking at more surveillance video until finally they were able to piece together what
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happened go ahead well do investigators think it was related to the cannabis business because
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you've got the safe in the house but then they take them to the farm right you know
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we were told that tushar did everything by the book but some investors did accuse him of dealing in the black
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market so this was something else that investigators had to look into just a really grisly story and a
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fascinating mystery looking forward to it tracy smith thank you very much and you can see tracy's report who shot the
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tech exec on 48 hours tomorrow night at 10 9 central right here on cbs and on our streaming service paramount plus
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we'll be right back