Upcoming Dateline special 9 pm EST Friday March 31:
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The parents of murdered Cal Poly student Kristin Smart give their first network interview since their daughter’s killer was sentenced in an upcoming episode of
NBC’s “Dateline.”
In the two-hour special “Justice for Kristin,” Stan and Denise Smart open up about their frustration over the university police department’s handling of the initial investigation into Kristin Smart’s disappearance in 1996, according to a news release.
“The Cal Poly police took me aside and said, ‘You know, your daughter was doing some things that would put her at risk,’” Stan Smart tells “Dateline” correspondent Josh Mankiewicz in the special. “He was portraying to me that our daughter disappeared, and if she was dead, she’d brought it onto herself, which was totally wrong.”