

“That really was probably the nail in the coffin. “Eventually Paul calls the hotel that they're actually supposed to go to, and he learns from the hotel that there's no reservation in the name of his brother,” Murphy said. The Smith family received emails from Chris saying he planned to journey through Africa, cross over to Spain and on to Costa Rica, where he said he would meet Paul in February 2011. “So I thought, ‘Oh, okay.’ But I still had feelings that something was wrong after that,” Steve Smith said. I just needed to get some - out of my head.” 17, 2010, Steve Smith received an email from Chris saying, “Dad, I'm fine. “I said, ‘If this is Ed Shin, if you hurt any one of my sons, I'm gonna - you up, and this is the start of your nightmare.’ But then I got a reaction to it,” Smith remembered. When he learned about the alleged incident, Steve Smith said he didn’t believe Shin and decided to step in, again reaching out to his son via email to ask if it was truly him, and to fire a warning shot in case it was not. I mean, to puke and pee? Urinate at the office? I mean, it's totally not normal, you know? He would never do something like that,” Paul Smith said. Shin claimed Chris Smith had come to the office extremely drunk and had vomited and urinated all over the floor. And, I looked down and I saw a big stain outside of Chris' office on the floor.” I needed to grab some stuff - and it smelled really bad.

“I went into the office when I wasn't supposed to that week. The same day Aldover received that email, employees of 800XChange were told by Ed Shin to not come in that week. “The following Monday on June 7th, 2010, I receive an e-mail from Chris: ‘The documents are still being prepared, but I'm going on vacation for a few weeks to South America, and… let me know if you need anything.’” “My first reaction was, ‘Well, why is he doing this? This isn't what we had been negotiating for the past two weeks,’” Aldover said. Instead, Aldover received an email from Smith that said Smith had sold his share of 800XChange to Shin. On June 4, 2010, Aldover said Shin and Chris Smith were supposed to meet to finalize the agreement.
