Did push-ups and disrespect lead to murder?

48 Hours Did push-ups and disrespect lead to murder? .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-48-hours.jpg'); } By Richard Fetzer Updated on: August 16, 2023 / 2:21 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google When Tushar Atre was abducted in the predawn hours of October 1, 2019, from his home perched on the oceanside cliffs in Santa Cruz, California, his friends and neighbors in the usually quiet surf community were in disbelief. Confusion over who would kidnap the successful tech executive and cannabis entrepreneur turned to fear after he was found dead hours later on one of his cannabis properties — having sustained stab wounds and a fatal gunshot wound to the back of the head. Tushar Atre Rachael Emerlye "Everyone was spooked. You could really see the fear in people's eyes," says CBS San Francisco, KPIX reporter Maria Cid Medina.Investigators with the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office cast a wide net for suspects, but according to Cid Medina, they initially did not have much to go on. "48 Hours" contributor Tracy Smith explores the ensuing seven-month long investigation in "Who Shot the Tech Exec?" "There were not immediate suspects," says Cid Medina. "You got a sense that investigators did not have any leads in this case. That all changed when detectives began to dig deeper into Atre's cannabis business. As they interviewed his employees and associates, there were two names they heard more than once. "Two of the names that kept popping up were Stephen Lindsay and Kaleb Charters," says former police chief and "48 Hours" consultant Steve Cercone. Kaleb Charters, left, and Stephen Lindsay working on Tushar Atre's Summit property in August 2019, just a couple months before Tushar Arte's murder. Santa Cruz County Court Both men had worked for Atre in August of 2019 on one of his cannabis properties — doing mostly manual labor putting up fence posts and planting. Investigators interviewed both men in December 2019...