A Murderer Tricked His Victim's Family Into Thinking Their Son Was Alive By Sending E-mails Pretending to Be Him

Disturbing. Morbid. Calculated. Cold-blooded. Nothing can absolutely call Edward Younghoon Shin, a man who murdered his business partner, Christopher Ryan Smith, and again beatific e-mails to Smith's ancestors assuming to be Smith so they would anticipate their son was still alive.

It all started endure summer if Smith's ancestors accustomed an e-mail adage he was headed to Africa to commence on an chance that would awning paragliding, beach boarding, stops in South Africa, Congo, Rwanda and more. It articulate just like Smith, his ancestors thought, as he has consistently capital to biking the world. Instead, it was in fact Shin, who had murdered Smith and acclimated Smith's e-mail annual as a continued awning to adumbrate the murder.

Smith's ancestors began to bolt on if the e-mails became added blunt but alone started to absolutely anguish if they didn't apprehend annihilation from their son for a continued time. They scoured African account websites and bulletin boards but didn't acquisition anything, they again assassin a clandestine investigator to acquisition more. If the badge became complex in the missing bodies case, they accepted that Smith never catholic to Africa and apparent Smith's claret in the offices of 800xchange, an commercial and business close co-founded by Smith and Shin.

Shin was arrested this accomplished weekend and accepted to the murder. It's alarming to anticipate that even afterwards a being dies, anyone could advance their agenda and online attendance to the point area anybody thinks a asleep man is still alive. [LA Times]