4. Red Flags

Cutthroat Inc.

ABC News

True Crime

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Chris Smith's family is convinced something terrible has happened to him, so they file a missing person report. Police get involved -- but the investigation seems to hit a dead end. "Cutthroat Inc." is produced by ABC's 20/20 and ABC Audio, makers of "The Dropout," "Truth and Lies: Jeffrey Epstein," "Have You Seen This Man?," "A Killing On the Cape," the daily ABC News podcast "Start Here," and more: http://www.abcaudio.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In April 2011, Sergeant Louise Kaluus takes on a new case.
0:05.0	Chris Smith, who'd been living in Laguna Beach, is missing.
0:10.0	He's supposedly on a trip around the world.
0:12.0	But while Chris's brother believes Chris is
0:14.7	likely stuck somewhere in Africa, Chris's father wonders if this trip is a
0:19.8	hoax and fears his son's former business partner might be somehow involved.
0:27.0	Steve Smith has spoken to Ed Shin already, but soon, Sergeant Louise Kaluus will get Ed
0:32.3	into the station for a talk. Soon,
0:33.0	Coulouse will get Ed into the station for a talk.
0:40.0	I'm Matt Gutman from ABC News.
0:42.0	This is 2020 Cut Throat Inc.
0:47.0	Sergeant Kaluus is a pretty big deal in the small Laguna Beach Police Department.
0:56.0	She's the supervisor of investigations with a lot of responsibility.
1:01.0	Captain Jason Kravitz is her boss. So Sergeant Cluse
1:05.6	would have been responsible for all of the detectives, the narcotics team, she
1:11.9	also was in charge of property evidence, the court liaison
1:15.6	activities presenting cases to court. Any special investigative internal
1:22.0	affairs cases she would have received.
1:24.0	Had about 15 people reporting to her.
1:26.0	Kloos is experienced.
1:28.0	She spent 27 years on the force and rose through the ranks.
1:32.0	In the 80ss she was vocally gay and tenaciously fought
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