Business man convicted of killing his partner over a $1.2million debt says he’s taking the fall for the REAL killer – but refuses to name the person
- Convicted killer Ed Shin sits down in a two-hour Dateline interview with Keith Morrison on Friday at 9p/8c ET
- Shin was convicted of killing his business partner Chris Smith in 2010, and later posing as him in emails to his family to make it seem that he was in Africa
- In the interview with Dateline, Shin is asked who really committed the murder, and he replies that it’s something he can’t talk about
- In a follow up question on whether he was taking the fall for the real killer, Shin replies, ‘Absolutely’
A businessman convicted of murdering his partner over $1.2million unpaid debt has revealed that he took the fall for the real killer.
Ed Sin was convicted for the 2010 for the beating death of Chris Smith, 32, who was his business partner in a debt-consolidating company, 800XChange.
Shin was found to have hijacked Smith’s identity and for months sent emails to his partner’s family to make it seem he was traveling in Africa to throw them off the scent.
Ed Shin, convicted of beating his business partner to death over $1.2million in unpaid debt, says he took the fall for the real killer
Chris Smith, 32, of Laguna Beach, California, in 2010 appeared to be sending emails to his parents telling them he was traveling in Africa, when in fact he had been murdered
Now, in a Dateline segment that’s airing Friday, Shin says he’s covering for the real killer, but won’t give up who that person is.
Dateline’s Keith Morrison asks Shin about getting rid of Smith’s body, and that if he wasn’t the person who discarded his partner’s remains, ‘then who did’?
‘That’s something I can’t talk about’, Shin answers. ‘That’s — that’s the big issue’.
‘So you’re taking the fall for this guy’? Morrison asks Shin.
‘Absolutely’, Shin answers.
It was unclear whether the bombshell revelation will have any bearing on Shin’s case.
Authorities said that Smith’s family had not suspected anything unusual when they started receiving emails telling them he decided to go on an adventure holiday to Africa.
Smith, of Laguna Beach, California, was sending emails to his parents telling them how much fun he was having and of all the places he had visited.
But it was later revealed that Smith was actually dead and had been murdered by Shin.
Then age 33, Shin was accused of beating Smith to death in their San Juan Capistrano office to gain control over his partner’s shares in their company, and later disposing of the body
Then age 33, Shin was accused of beating Smith to death in their San Juan Capistrano office to gain control over his partner’s shares in their company, and later disposing of the body.
He was charged with murder after confessing to the killing and convicted in December 2018.
Shin received a life sentence with no possibility of parole on July 26.
In the Dateline interview, Morrison tells Shin he was ‘terribly cruel’ in allowing Smith’s family to believe he was alive, all the while he was dead.
‘I know’, Shin replies. ‘I definitely know that those things that I did were terrible and beyond wrong. And — you know, and I know that ultimately that there’s a price to be paid for all that’.
In a Dateline interview, journalist Keith Morrison tells Shin he was ‘terribly cruel’ in allowing Smith’s family to believe he was alive, all the while he was dead. ‘I definitely know that those things that I did were terrible and beyond wrong’, Shin answers