Cops say Christopher Smith and Edward Shin were business partners in an advertising company called 800xchange. A falling out between the two led to an agreement that Shin, 33, would buy out Smith's portion of the company for $1 million. Shin--a scam artist of the first order--didn't want to pay so he killed Smith instead. He even sent the dead man's
family emails. Shin has confessed to all but won't tell detectives where the dead man's body is.
Jim Amormino of the Orange County Sheriffs said: "Rather than paying $1 million, he killed him. The motive was purely financial gain."
Shin, a husband and father of three, was arrested Sunday at LAX as he was boarding a flight to Canada. Shin's driver and personal assistant, Kenny Roy Kraft, was arrested as an accessory and confessed to helping his boss ditch the evidence.
According to ABC NEWS: In a six-hour interview with authorities, Shin revealed that he killed Smith, 32, in June 2010. For the next seven months, Shin pretended to be a traveling Smith in emails sent to his family in Oregon.
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