6. Left for Dead

Cutthroat Inc.

ABC News

True Crime

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The last person to see Chris Smith was his business partner, Ed Shin. But when he tells investigators his version of what happened, the story takes another unexpected turn. "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	It's a classic California weekend, 80 degrees sunny in one of the cars sailing down the I-5
0:07.7	freeway are some men just talking. Guy Talk, sports mostly.
0:13.4	Well, he played for the Padres, but he only played for like two or three years.
0:16.7	Okay.
0:17.7	I kind of followed his career.
0:18.7	Two of the guys in the car, are investigator Don Vode of the Orange County Sheriff's Department and Ed Shin
0:25.3	Just a short time ago Ed had been at the Los Angeles International Airport supposedly leaving on a business trip to Canada.
0:33.2	You remember that kid, Sean Burrows or whatever's name was,
0:35.6	from Long Beach?
0:36.7	You remember him?
0:38.0	Dude, that kid carried Long Beach.
0:41.2	Dunvote's strategy is to play things so low-key that Ed thinks he's spending the day with an errand-runner type of cop.
0:49.0	But Don Vote is, in fact, one of Orange County's most experienced investigators.
0:55.0	Ed Shin doesn't know that. He won't find out for hours and when he does
1:00.0	his world will be turned upside down.
1:04.0	I'm Matt Gutman from ABC News.
1:09.0	This is 2020's Cutthroat Inc.
1:17.0	It's August 28th, 2011, a little before 11 a 11 a.m.
1:28.0	Ed Chin is only minutes away from leaving California.
1:32.0	He's buckled in first row, first class. He's ready to take off for
1:37.6	Toronto. We contacted the LAX PD because we weren't sure if Ed was fleeing the country or what his purpose was.
1:45.0	That's Orange County Sheriff's Department homicide investigator Don Vote.
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