Convicted killer who posed as dead business partner: 'There's something bigger that I just can't talk about'

Ed Shin was convicted in 2018 of first-degree murder with special circumstances for killing his business partner Chris Smith.

"The first time I started playing, [I gambled] a couple thousand dollars," Shin said."And then, you get good at it. That's the problem with gambling ... most people tend to win early and then you're addicted to that win."Chris Smith disappeared in June 2010 and his family went looking for answers.By 2009, LG Technologies, a previous lead generation company Shin had been working for in Riverside County, California, discovered what he had done.

By early 2011, Shin's scheme started to unravel. A computer expert the Smith family brought in to analyze data in Chris’ emails had discovered the messages had all been sent within the U.S., not abroad, and forensic tests performed by police investigators at the former 800 Exchange office space had revealed large presences of blood.Months later, DNA tests confirmed the blood found in their former office belonged to Chris Smith.

During his interrogation, Shin claimed at first that the blood discovered in their former office space was from an injury Shin sustained while cutting an apple. But when detectives confronted Shin with proof they had it was Smith’s blood, Shin changed his story. Instead, he told police interrogators, the two men had engaged in a knock-down-drag-out fight, claiming Smith lunged at him and Shin was forced to defend himself.That was the story Shin stuck to when he testified at his murder trial.

Authorities said Smith’s blood was discovered in Smith's Range Rover, and that cellphone records revealed Shin’s mobile phone had pinged towers in Boulevard, California, a town near the Mexico border nearly 200 miles away, on June 7, 2010, and June 9, 2010 -- days after Smith disappeared. 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.

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