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(ominous music plays )
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- Ed Shin and Chris Smith
wanted to make a lot of money.
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- Chris is a very laidback
kind of a guy.
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Ed was surrounding himself
with Playboy models.
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He wanted to escape from reality.
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- He had this plan
to sell gold coins in Rwanda.
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Something is terribly wrong.
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- To the point to where the hair
on the back of your neck stands up.
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- Did Chris open the door
to his killer?
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- And allow this monster to enter?
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- (theme music plays)
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- San Juan Capistrano
is a smaller city
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in the southern portion
of Orange County,
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which lies in between
San Diego Counties
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and Los Angeles Counties
in California.
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- It's a beach community.
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A very trendy place to go to,
a lot of families, tourists.
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- It's one of the safest cities
in Orange County,
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with a violent crime rate of 44%
less than the national average.
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- San Juan Capistrano is attractive
for businesses.
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There's business office space,
commercial areas,
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as well as residential areas,
which makes it a attractive balance
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for families to come and live.
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- 2009, Ed Shin and Chris Smith
got together
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and developed a company,
800 Exchange.
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- The 800 Exchange would
buy airtime for marketing ads
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for a host of companies
throughout, really, the country.
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Ed Shin and Christopher Smith
grew the 800 Exchange
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to be an extremely profitable
company in less than a year.
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- (eerie music plays)
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- Chris Smith, you could say,
has it all.
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I mean, starting as an entrepreneur
that's just rocketing
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and really successful.
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Chris was involved
with his girlfriend
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in this incredible relationship
that was really blossoming.
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- Chris and his girlfriend
were very close to getting married
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and spend the rest
of their lives together.
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- But by June of 2010,
Chris was ready to leave
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the corporate world behind.
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- Chris was a very serious surfer
and had the goal
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of getting away from it at all,
travelling the world,
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living a life without all
the distractions of the busy,
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everyday business end of his life.
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Chris decides to sell his portion
of the company to Ed,
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which was estimated to be
around a million dollars.
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A goal of his was to leave
the corporate world at some point
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but it was not expected
to be this soon.
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- That very same day,
Chris writes to his attorney saying,
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"Ed and I worked everything out.
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I'm going to be paid
this amount in shares
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and this amount in gold coins,
and we've come to that agreement."
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And that was sent
on Friday, June 4th,
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around 6 p.m.
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RAY: Chris writes to his family
that he is going to charter
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a yacht and travel the world,
and he's gonna leave behind
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his cell phone
and communication devices.
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- Chris sends a text
to his girlfriend
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and breaks up with her
prior to leaving on this trip,
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which to his family is,
this is not Chris.
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- Chris's family gets another
bombshell email from Chris
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stating he's now travelling
to the Galapagos Islands
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with a Playboy playmate
named Tiffany Taylor.
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- The family were all questioning
his decision making,
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but they also embraced the fact
that maybe he was going through
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a lot with the business and wanted
to escape from reality
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for a short period of time.
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- (dramatic music plays)
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- October 2010, Ed Shin takes
Paul Smith, Chris's brother,
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and other employees of 800 Exchange,
to Las Vegas
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as a networking type trip.
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Paul runs into Tiffany Taylor,
the same Tiffany Taylor
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that allegedly is with Chris
on this adventure that he's taking.
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- Paul approaches Tiffany,
who is supposed to be
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travelling with his brother
and asks her,
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"How's my brother doing?
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Have you seen him lately?
Do you know where he is?"
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Tiffany looks at Paul and has
no idea what he's talking about.
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- Paul was left with many questions
at this point,
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and he just knew that something
was not right.
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- The dad suspects something.
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Steve Smith is a former
law enforcement
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and he's also a fire captain.
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So, his senses are heightened.
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It just doesn't seem right to him,
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and he starts to question
whether these emails are,
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in fact, Chris.
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At one point, Steve emails Chris
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and states, "Chris, if this is you,
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tell me what lake you grew up on
and what boat towed you skiing."
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- Steve Smith receives an email back
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and it says the name of the lake,
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Kelly Lake, but it ignores
the question about the boat,
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which Steve believes is suspicious.
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- The day after Christmas, the Smith
family received an email from Chris
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saying that he was in Rwanda
and he had this plan
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to sell gold coins
to a dealer there.
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That was when the family
became very worried.
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This does not sound like their son,
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and they became very concerned
about his wellbeing.
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- In early 2011, Steve contacts
the State Department
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to see if they could check
and determine if Chris's passport
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has been used
to not only leave the country,
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but also if there's any indication
as to where Chris
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could possibly be
or could have possibly travelled to.
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- Chris's family is originally under
the belief
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that he's travelling abroad,
but ultimately it's determined
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that there's no record
of his passport clearing
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any exit controls.
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The State Department has a record
of every time a US passport is used
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coming in
or going out of the country.
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So, unless he's smuggled
himself out
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through some underground means,
there's no way that Chris is abroad.
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- The Smith family knows
that something is terribly wrong.
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If Chris never left the country,
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who have they been communicating
all this time with over email?
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- On April 11th, 2011,
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Steve filed
a missing person's report
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on Chris with the Laguna Beach
Police Department.
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JOE: In late 2010,
800 Exchange closes their business.
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On January of 2011,
they vacate their,
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their office space,
and at this point
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are thousands of dollars in debt
for back rent.
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So, the property manager
now hires us to track down Ed Shin
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for payment, but I'm having
a real hard time finding him.
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The property manager
came back to us
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and said that Laguna Beach PD
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was in the area looking for Ed
as well,
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because his partner,
Chris Smith,
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has been missing
and his father filed
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a missing person's report.
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So, now I reach out
to Chris Smith's father
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and immediately we started
working the investigation.
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So, at this point
in our investigation,
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we're still conducting interviews
with various people.
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But I wanted to look in the office.
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We learned that it was still vacant,
it wasn't occupied,
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and we requested the manager,
if we could take a look.
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When I walked into the office,
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I noticed that certain walls
were painted
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and others were not,
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and including Chris's office,
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the entire office
was painted in his space.
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And the entryway
from the outside door
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leading into the office,
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that wall was all painted.
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So, there was some contrast in it
that didn't look right to me.
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And I go back into Chris's office.
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As I'm scanning, I look down
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and notice on the door frame
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a dark brownish colour
that looks like blood
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that's been dried.
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I look in the break room
and I found on the light switch
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a brighter colour red,
of like, a thumbprint
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consistent that could be
what, like blood.
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At that point I remember going,
this has got to be evidence.
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So, I backed myself
out of that to secure it.
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Once I found the blood, I knew
something had to happen
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in this office,
whether he died there
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or whether the initial attack
was in that office.
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As a former police officer
and seasoned investigator,
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I notify local law enforcement
about what appears to be blood
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in the office.
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Because 800 Exchange is located
in San Juan Capistrano,
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which is the Orange County Sheriff's
jurisdiction,
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Detective Ray Wert
was assigned to the case.
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- At this point, it's been almost
a year since anyone
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has seen Chris at all.
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And with the discovery of,
what is believed to be blood,
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raises our suspicion
that there is
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possibly foul play that occurred.
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We decide we need to go and examine
the office
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as soon as possible.
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- Chris's case is one of those
circumstances
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where police initially investigate
it as a missing person's file,
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but very quickly the red flags
start adding up
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whereby foul play
has to be considered.
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So, you're really running
a homicide investigation
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baked within
a missing person's investigation,
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in which case they have a much
more complicated road ahead.
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- We meet with
the property manager
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who lets us into the office,
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which has now been vacant for nearly
a year, and is well preserved.
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And we start to walk
into various offices,
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and we come to an office
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where Chris used to work.
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I noticed a small droplet
of what appeared to be blood
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on the inside of the door jamb
of Chris's office.
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When I look up at the ceiling,
I see what also appears
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to be another blood droplet
on the ceiling panel
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in the middle of the office.
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I see additional apparent blood
on the baseboard
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and near a wall switch
on the inside of Chris's old office.
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There's apparent blood spatter
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on the inside of his door,
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which would indicate higher
velocity type blood.
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We decide to start pulling up
the carpet to check
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to see if the underside,
as well as the padding,
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and even the concrete below,
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possibly has blood stains
or staining on it.
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We notice
a lot of apparent blood stains
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and large areas that appear
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to be pooling of apparent blood.
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After our examination of the office,
it becomes apparent to me
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that there was a very
serious assault, if not a murder,
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that occurred in this office.
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Our crime scene forensics team
begins to photograph,
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as well as swab all the areas
where there's apparent blood
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for testing in the laboratory.
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- The carpet in the office was
removed and collected as evidence
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and the door in Chris's office
was actually taken off the hinges
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and brought in for further analysis.
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The crime lab was able
to do a presumptive test
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on all of the blood droplets
and stains
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that were found at the scene
and they were able to identify
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that those were from a human being.
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- And at this point we need to try
to establish
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also a DNA profile for Chris Smith
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to see if this apparent blood
belongs to Chris, or not.
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Since we don't have a DNA profile
for Chris,
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we need to reach out
to Chris's family
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and collect their DNA
to establish a profile
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through familial DNA
to determine
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if the blood from the office
is Chris's, or not.
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This is going to take some time.
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- While Chris was a laidback,
free spirit,
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Ed was a devoted family man
and a member of a Christian church.
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Growing up in Orange County,
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Shin had played
the violin in high school,
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he was a member of many clubs,
and was even on the golf team.
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Shin graduated from
the University of California,
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San Diego in 2001.
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- Chris is a very laidback
beach dude, kind of a guy,
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who is just low key
in how he lives his life.
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Whereas Ed
enjoys driving higher-end cars,
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having higher-end meals,
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dressing in flashy,
designer clothing.
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- For all their differences,
Chris and Ed were one common goal:
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they were very ambitious,
very smart,
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and they wanted to make
a lot of money.
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Laguna Beach PD
talk to Ed to find out
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what he knew about his former
business partner, Chris Smith.
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Ed tells them at this point that
they had a separation agreement.
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And he tells him that,
"Hey look, Chris is outgoing.
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He just basically, 'I'm tired of it.
I want to see the world.'"
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- Ed tells us that he has no idea
where Chris is.
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He has not heard
from Chris at all.
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- So, at this they conclude
their interview with Ed,
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and Laguna Beach release
Ed for no further questions.
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- The blood found in the office
is determined to be
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from a single source
and is a match
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to being a close family member
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of Steve and Paul Smith.
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The blood belongs to Chris Smith.
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MICHAEL: Every criminal
investigation involving a crime
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against a person,
particularly a homicide,
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involves a practice
known as victimology.
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And it's basically
who is your victim?
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What does the victim
have in common with the offender,
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or what is the link
between the victim
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and the offender?
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So, really, the victim is where
the crime begins and ends.
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RAY: I went to Chris's
former apartment
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and met with the property manager
who was responsible
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for renting the apartment to Chris.
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The manager tells me
that there's a man living
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in Chris's apartment
named Kenny Kraft,
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who told him that he's just
taking care of Chris's apartment
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while he's out of town.
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- So, to an investigator,
we're looking at this,
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how does this even occur?
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They still don't know what happened
to Chris.
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He was still living there.
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So, it brings up many red flags,
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to the point to where the hair
on the back of your neck stands up.
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- Investigators learn that Kenny
is actually working for Ed Shin
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as his personal assistant.
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- (suspenseful music plays)
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- Kraft began working for Ed Shin.
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And Kenny basically did,
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like, gopher type work.
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He would go to the dry cleaner,
he would drive Ed places,
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he would pick up Ed's wife
at different locations.
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Kenny Kraft is a grifter type
of a person
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who I would classify
as a couch surfer.
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He would go from place to place
if somebody had a couch
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he could sleep on.
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- Most of the time he was working
as a doorman or a bouncer
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at local bars down there.
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So, he didn't really have
a particular career at this point.
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- (mysterious music plays)
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- Kenny landing in Chris's
$4,000 a month apartment
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was a huge find for Kenny.
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Kenny was just going from
place to place
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trying to find his next dollar.
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So, I found out that Kenny was
selling some of Chris's property,
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some of Chris's surfboards,
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and was also keeping
some of Chris's personal property
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for himself.
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- So, investigators at this point
look at Kenny Kraft,
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and they have to ask themselves
a question,
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does he have something to do
with the blood found in the office?
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Is he connected
to Chris's disappearance?
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So, they're going
to take a step back
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and really look
into Kenny Kraft.
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- I reach out to Kenny Kraft
and I explain to him
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that I am involved
in a missing persons case
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and I would like to have
a meeting with him.
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Kenny indicated to me
that he was a little unsure
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and worried about meeting with me
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and asking if he might
need an attorney?
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And that was very unusual
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based on my experience
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with a witness
who has no involvement in a case.
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I told Kenny that he's more
than welcome
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to consult with an attorney
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and the attorney could even join us
for our meeting.
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But it was important to try to meet
sooner than later.
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We scheduled a time to meet.
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Shortly thereafter,
Kenny called me back
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and cancelled our appointment.
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I never heard back from Kenny.
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This further raised suspicions
that Kenny
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could very well be involved
with Chris's disappearance.
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- So, we began checking
licence plate reader databases,
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toll road databases,
to see locations
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where the licence plate
to the Range Rover
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had been picked up.
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- In the vast majority
of successfully prosecuted
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no-body homicides,
a forensic analysis
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of the victim's vehicle
has almost always been
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a cornerstone of the case.
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Vehicles, where they're left,
where they're serviced,
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where they show up on automatic
plate readers or on traffic cameras,
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and what the onboard GPS
and infotainment system
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onboard computer can tell
investigators, is significant.
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Everything from
when the radio was turned on,
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to when the seatbelt was fastened,
to the speed the vehicle reached,
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to when the brake was initiated,
it is essentially a black box
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that can be used
to confirm the vehicle's movements,
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and by extension,
the victim's final movements.
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- I wanted to be very careful
about keeping our investigation
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very secretive
because if Ed found out,
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there could be a destruction
of evidence,
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or if Ed was, in fact, involved,
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he could flee the country
or the area.
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I've also flagged
Ed Shin's passport
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so that if he attempts to leave
the United States,
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I will be immediately notified.
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- Ed Shin tells Steve
that the last time he saw Chris
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was when he decided
to sell the shares to his company
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in the office at 800 Exchange
back in June of 2010.
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Ed Shin now tells Steve
that leading up to when he left,
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that Chris had been drinking
heavily, got drunk, urinated,
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vomited in the office, had spilled
red wine on the walls
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and all over the, the office floor.
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And therefore, he had to have
a professional cleaning company
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come in there, repaint,
clean the carpets
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for it to be presentable
for everyone else
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that worked in that environment.
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- Steve enquires with Ed
about Chris's passport
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because Chris had never left
the United States,
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according to the State Department.
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Ed's explanation for that is
that Chris had gone to Los Angeles,
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obtained a fake passport,
and then went with Tiffany Taylor,
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this model that he met in Las Vegas,
and left the country.
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Ed Shin explains to Steve
that he doesn't know what name
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or what assumed name
Chris was using on the passport.
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- Ed says Chris just wanted
to go off the grid.
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He didn't want to be found.
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He wanted to just embrace life
and just get away from everything.
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- Ed Shin insists
he does not know where Chris is.
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He tells Chris's father that Chris
sold his shares
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and he left to go travel.
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- The stories that Ed is giving,
that we're learning,
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are highly suspicious
and don't make a lot of sense.
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- It's important, I think,
for people to remember
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that as much
as criminal investigations
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have become
scientifically standardised,
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and there's, you know,
rules and regulations,
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and levels of oversight,
and scrutiny,
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a lot of effective detective work
boils down
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to an unquantifiable hunch.
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- Ed has this persona
in one aspect of his life,
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of being a good father,
a good husband, a hard worker,
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entrepreneur, going to church,
and just a,
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a real outgoing family guy.
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But now, you have this other area
of Ed's life
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that is very secretive, very dark.
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- When Ed would go to Las Vegas,
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he lived a very
luxurious lifestyle
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with getting high-end hotels.
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Ed was surrounding himself
with models,
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Playboy models.
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Coworkers reported seeing
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Ed Shin gambling in Las Vegas
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and losing, at times,
hundreds of thousands of dollars
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at a card table.
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And this money
was from company profits.
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This is 800 Exchange money
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financing these trips to Las Vegas.
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Ed Shin had contacts in Las Vegas
who would assist him
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with getting private jets,
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stays at casinos,
dinner reservations,
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as well as female escorts
for his trips.
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One of these associates
was named Jack Valero.
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We look into Mr Valero
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and we discover that he has
an outstanding arrest warrant
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for larceny in Nevada.
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We're not able to find Mr Valero,
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so, we ask Nevada officials
to flag his arrest warrant
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so that when law enforcement
contacts him,
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they will also immediately notify me
that they have found him,
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and I could go and attempt to
interview him as soon as possible.
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- The more I learned about Ed Shin,
I discovered he owed
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a lot of people money.
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He defrauded a lot of people.
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Detectives also learn that Ed Shin
had faked his own kidnapping
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in order so he can extort
a large sum of money in ransom
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from his own parents.
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This was all orchestrated
by Ed Shin.
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Ironically, his parents
didn't want to press charges.
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- Investigators dig deeper
into Ed Shin's past
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and they learn that he had actually
embezzled money
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from a former employer,
LG Technologies,
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and he pled guilty to that crime
in May of 2010.
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- In order to avoid
going to prison,
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Ed Shin took a plea agreement
to pay back $700,000
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in restitution.
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- Detectives think that this sounds
like a possible motive
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for Ed Shin to kill Chris Smith.
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This way he can get Chris
out of the way
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and have access
to the company money
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in order to pay the restitution
to avoid going to state prison.
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This would give Ed Shin
unlimited access
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to the company finances,
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which Chris had recently
wanted to put limits
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and controls on.
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- Police are always on the lookout
for signs of deception
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00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:57,080
or evasion, and one of the foremost
recurring indicators of deception
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is when a story changes.
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00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,120
- Ed Shin claimed
that Tiffany Taylor
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was travelling with Chris,
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but later when Paul met Tiffany,
she denied it.
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- So, now we are even more baffled,
confused,
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and becoming worried
that there's something amiss here.
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It didn't make sense.
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00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,040
Tiffany is a very attractive woman
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and happens to be a former
Playmate model.
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She would accompany Ed during
his business trips in Las Vegas
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and act, as we would call it,
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arm candy for Ed.
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Tiffany tells me
that she has never met Chris
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and doesn't know who he is.
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She did remember meeting
Paul Smith in October of 2010
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in Las Vegas.
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Tiffany told me that when
she met Paul,
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he had told her
that his brother Chris
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had advised he was travelling
with Tiffany.
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00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,200
Tiffany thought
this was very strange
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because she didn't have any idea
who Chris was
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and she expressed that
to Paul.
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- Police further investigate
Tiffany's passport
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and they learn that Tiffany's
never left the country
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or even travelled to any
of the countries
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that Chris claimed
through emails.
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00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,120
- After doing a investigation
on Tiffany
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and interviewing her,
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I determined that she has
no involvement whatsoever
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00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:42,920
in Chris's disappearance,
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nor does she know his location.
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00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,520
Tiffany Taylor is not a suspect
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in the disappearance of Chris Smith.
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On August 12th of 2011, we
were notified by a police officer
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in northern California
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that Chris's car had been located
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at a car dealership
in the city of San Jose.
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00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,800
We canvassed the neighbourhood
where Chris's car had been found,
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and we located a witness.
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Our investigators showed
this witness a photograph
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of Kenny Kraft and that witness
identified the photo
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as being the person
responsible for dropping
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Chris's car off.
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00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,200
- We believe Chris's body had been
placed in the back
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of the Range Rover
for a period of time.
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We were able to obtain cell phone
records for Ed Shin's phone,
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00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:58,440
and in our analysis
of those records,
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we saw that in the week
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00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:06,160
following Chris's
last-known sighting,
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00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:10,120
that Ed had gone to
a very remote area
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along the California and Mexican
border
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00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,800
late in the evening
on two different occasions.
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- Financial records reveal
that Ed Shin
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also rented a truck from U-Haul
at this time.
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- When we located
that rental car,
495
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:33,440
we discovered that the mileage
matched the distance
496
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,760
between Chris's and Ed's office
497
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,440
and the remote area
498
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,640
where Ed's cell phone had gone to.
499
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:50,880
We believe that Ed Shin
had done a scouting mission
500
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,880
of the remote area
near the Mexican border,
501
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,200
and then went back
after the pickup truck
502
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,760
had been rented,
this time with Chris's body,
503
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,640
where Chris's body
was disposed of.
504
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:12,960
On August 28th, 2011,
I was alerted
505
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:18,040
that Ed Shin's passport was flagged
506
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,040
at Los Angeles International Airport
507
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:26,640
and it was related to a flight
going to Toronto, Canada.
508
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:31,520
Upon learning of this development,
I became very concerned
509
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,120
that Ed Shin was possibly
fleeing the country.
510
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:41,800
I had about one hour to intercept
Ed Shin at the airport
511
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,720
before he could get on the flight.
512
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:48,000
I contacted
Los Angeles Airport Police.
513
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,960
- Detectives rush to arrest Ed Shin
at LAX,
514
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,760
but it might already be too late.
515
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,240
They learn that he's already boarded
the plane.
516
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,600
LAX police find Ed Shin
and a business colleague
517
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,280
sitting on the plane
as it's about to leave.
518
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:10,200
- Ed Shin and his companion
were escorted off the plane
519
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:11,360
before it took off.
520
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,720
- Ed Shin's business colleague
was questioned
521
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:17,160
and his bags were searched,
522
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,880
and there was no indication
that he had any involvement
523
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,680
in Chris Smith's disappearance.
524
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,360
Ed Shin, being on probation,
525
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,400
was not allowed
to leave the country,
526
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,520
and the fact that they caught him
on a plane headed for Canada
527
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,040
gave the police the authority
to arrest him
528
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:34,720
for that probation violation.
529
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,000
Shin is transported back
to Orange County headquarters
530
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,800
where he is interviewed
for several hours.
531
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:47,760
- When Ed is back in our interview
room at the Sheriff's Department,
532
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,560
his demeanour is very relaxed.
533
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,120
Ed isn't flustered at all.
534
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,680
And for a person who's just been
pulled off a plane
535
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,760
he's very calm.
536
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:10,520
- At first Ed Shin tells me
he has nothing to do
537
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:14,040
with Chris's disappearance
or death.
538
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,560
- And he doesn't want to talk
to us anymore.
539
00:34:25,240 --> 00:34:26,960
Soon after leaving the room,
540
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,960
Ed indicates that he would like
to speak to me again
541
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,280
and he has something to tell me.
542
00:34:36,720 --> 00:34:37,720
RAY WERT: OK.
543
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,040
- (ominous music plays)
544
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,240
- Ed admits to me
that he is responsible
545
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:49,520
for Chris's death.
546
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,880
Ed's version of the story
is that he and Chris
547
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:58,760
were speaking about their separation
in the business.
548
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:03,280
During this discussion,
an argument broke out
549
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:09,200
and Chris became very agitated
and aggressive toward Ed.
550
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,800
- He's also talking about
this knockdown drag out fight
551
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,000
that he had with Chris.
552
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,160
And in the course of that,
at one point
553
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,160
he talks about jumping
on the desk
554
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,200
and they both hit
each others heads like rams.
555
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,360
And then at one point
Chris fell and hit his head
556
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:30,880
on the corner of the desk
557
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,640
and dropped right there.
558
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,080
- However, detectives know
from the evidence
559
00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:40,320
that there was no fist fight
or accidental death.
560
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:47,280
- I was able to actually locate
Chris's desk, examine it,
561
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:51,000
and there was no physical way
562
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:56,040
this desk could hold two men
fighting on top of it.
563
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,080
- With regards to Ed Shin,
564
00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:01,680
his colleagues stated
they didn't see any injuries
565
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:02,840
on him whatsoever.
566
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,520
I don't care what kind
of fighter you are,
567
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:08,520
you're going to end up with some
type of scratch,
568
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,800
bruising, red marks,
some type of injury.
569
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,920
It's going to happen
in any struggle like that.
570
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,760
So, in order for Ed to have
no marks on him whatsoever
571
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:23,360
in this event that he described
was so violent and a struggle,
572
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,880
tells me
and tells seasoned investigators
573
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,280
that Chris was caught off guard.
574
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:31,720
- There's no doubt in my mind
575
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,800
that Ed Shin walked through
Chris's door
576
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,640
with the intent to kill him.
577
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:42,560
We know that Ed Shin was
in the sports memorabilia business
578
00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:44,160
and actually kept
579
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,280
a baseball bat in his office.
580
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,040
And we also know
that after June 4th,
581
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,680
this baseball bat had never been
seen again,
582
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,160
indicating to us that the bat
583
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,520
could have been
the actual murder weapon.
584
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:03,880
- (sinister music plays)
585
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:14,080
- On Friday, June 4th at 6:01,
Ed Shin now writes
586
00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:18,880
to Chris's attorney
as Chris stating,
587
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,200
"We've settled.
Everything is good."
588
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,200
- This proves that Ed Shin
was lying in wait.
589
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,320
That's a legal term that means
that he set up that meeting
590
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,360
for the sole purpose
of killing Chris.
591
00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:38,720
- After the murder, Shin transported
the body to a remote location
592
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:42,320
in the California desert
near the Mexican border.
593
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,680
- Cell phone pings showed
that Ed Shin's cell phone
594
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:52,400
was located at that place
that night.
595
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:56,480
- Ed Shin tells me
that he did not touch the body
596
00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:00,600
or move the body,
and that he called Jack Valero
597
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:04,720
to find someone to help do that.
598
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:09,160
Ed Shin was put in contact
with a man,
599
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:13,280
described as a Eastern European,
600
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,320
to do this task.
601
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,720
- Jack Valero denies
this ever happened
602
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,640
and Shin's claim
is never substantiated.
603
00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:26,400
- After the killing,
Ed spends months
604
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:30,960
impersonating Chris to his family
and friends and business colleagues,
605
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,640
that he was alive and well,
and travelling the world.
606
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,840
- On Friday, June 4th, 2010,
607
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,680
Ed Shin agrees to meet
Chris Smith
608
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,560
at the office of 800 Exchange.
609
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,800
Shin arranges this meeting
for after 5 p.m.
610
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:54,280
when he knows no other staff
will be at the office.
611
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:57,480
- Tensions had been escalating
612
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:59,400
between the two business partners.
613
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:06,280
- Ed did not allow Chris
to have access to their books
614
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:10,720
because what Ed was doing,
he was taking money from the company
615
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,560
and hiding it or using it.
616
00:39:13,720 --> 00:39:15,920
- The term often used
in many investigations
617
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:19,520
is follow the money,
but the same logic applies
618
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:21,640
when there is no money
to be found.
619
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:23,960
That's as much a red flag
for investigators.
620
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,080
And in this case,
it turns out Chris's partner
621
00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:28,360
is in financial dire straits.
622
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:32,080
Immediately right there, given that
they are partners in this business,
623
00:39:32,240 --> 00:39:33,600
provides motive.
624
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,600
With Chris out of the way,
he remains the sole shareholder,
625
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:38,760
the controlling officer
of the company.
626
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:42,040
He can draw shareholder loans,
he can sell the company,
627
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,760
he can take any number of steps
that Chris may have prevented
628
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,000
in order to ameliorate
or mitigate this,
629
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,200
this terrible financial situation.
630
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,000
- Chris wanted to put limits
and controls
631
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:54,360
on the company spending.
632
00:39:55,240 --> 00:39:58,240
Chris was frustrated
with the amount of money
633
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,240
that Ed was spending.
634
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,480
- Ed Shin did not have the money
to pay out Chris
635
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:08,080
because he needed $700,000
to pay the restitution
636
00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:09,560
for the embezzlement case.
637
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:18,000
RAY: Between 5 p.m. and 6:01 p.m...
- (blows)
638
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:23,240
- Ed Shin kills Chris Smith
in their 800 Exchange office.
639
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:28,120
- Ed continued to write family
and friends of Chris,
640
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:29,280
impersonating him
641
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,280
until the blood was found
in the office,
642
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:36,240
and at that point,
that's when Shin's whole world
643
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,640
started to come undone.
644
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,720
- In December of 2018 Ed Shin
645
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:44,760
is convicted
of first degree murder
646
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,720
with special circumstances
in the killing
647
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,160
of his business partner Chris Smith.
648
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:54,800
- Special circumstances are
circumstances that,
649
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,960
if attached to a murder,
increase the penalty
650
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:01,120
to where you could actually
potentially get the death penalty
651
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,000
or life without parole.
652
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:05,120
And in this particular case,
653
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:10,240
the special circumstance
was murder for financial gain.
654
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:14,480
Ed Shin is now serving life
without the possibility of parole
655
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,360
in a California state prison.
656
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:22,320
- Chris's family
is extremely relieved
657
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,640
that the person responsible
for their son's death
658
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:27,400
has been arrested.
659
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,360
Although many questions
still remain,
660
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,840
they're relieved that the person
responsible is now in jail.
661
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:40,760
Shin has never indicated
where Chris's body is
662
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,840
and he's indicated
that there are secrets
663
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,920
that a man can never give up.
664
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,800
I think he's still hoping
to use it down the road to get out.
665
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:59,040
It's like his only remaining card
that he has.
666
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:03,600
- The one thing that lives with me
is getting to know Chris
667
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,920
through his family and friends
and not having the opportunity
668
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,520
to have met him.
669
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,360
I feel that I have,
but there were so many good things
670
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:16,440
that I found about him
that it would've been an honour
671
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:20,640
to meet someone like him,
just being vibrant in life.
672
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:26,760
- Chris went into
this business partnership
673
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,080
with great intentions
674
00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:33,760
and had no idea the person
675
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:35,680
that Ed Shin really was.
676
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:41,920
- Basically Chris opened the door
to his life
677
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,640
and allowed this monster,
Ed Shin, to enter it
678
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,480
in the most intimate settings,
679
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:51,880
where Chris would be vulnerable
and Ed Shin took advantage of that.
680
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,240
Ed Shin is a predator,
there's no doubt.
681
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:29,960
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