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Ed Shin, who was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the death of his business partner Chris Smith, speaks to ABC News' Matt Gutman.
To throw everyone off his trail, just minutes after killing Chris, Shin sent an email posing as his slain business partner to an attorney, falsely claiming he had agreed to sell off his shares of the company to Shin.
In a twisted story of murder and greed, a California man was convicted of killing his business partner in a violent attack and then posing as the slain man in email messages for months—writing his victim’s family and business associates about a supposed trip around the world.
Where is Ed Shin Today? Shin was convicted of first-degree murder with special circumstances and was awarded a life sentence without the possibility of parole. He still claims that he had never intended to kill Chris and that it happened in the heat of the moment.
In 2018, Shin was sentenced to life in prison, for the first degree murder of Christopher Smith, without the possibility of parole, per ABC News. At the age of 42, he remains in Wasco State...
Ed Shin and Chris Smith were business partners before a murder and elaborate cover-up drew a national spotlight on Smith’s disappearance and landed Shin behind bars for the rest of his life.
An Orange County jury on Friday convicted Edward Younghoon Shin of first-degree murder in the death of his business partner, Chris Smith, in 2010.
