LOS ANGELES (AP) — Something seemed strange about the emails Christopher Ryan Smith was sending while on vacation in Africa last year. The 32-year-old adventurer's chatty tone was muted and responses were uncharacteristically terse.
"The emails were short and sweet," said Jim Amormino, an Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman. "They were just too generic."
The reason Smith didn't seem like himself is because it wasn't him. Authorities say Smith never went to Africa at all, but had been murdered in his Southern California office by his business partner Edward Younghoon Shin, who hijacked Smith's email account and pretended he'd gone overseas.
Shin's arraignment has …
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