Deadly Dream Trip

Red Collar

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True Crime

4.4 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In 2010, millionaire entrepreneur Chris Smith disappeared on what his family believed was a dream trip on a yacht with a stack of gold coins and a Playboy Playmate on his arm. But Chris wasn’t sailing around the world; he was dead. And police were about to uncover dark secrets connected to his business partner Ed Shin. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/

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0:00.0	In June 2010, professional weight-boarder turned businessman Chris Smith appeared to be living the dream.
0:10.0	Just 31 years old, Chris was in his prime.
0:13.5	He was young.
0:14.7	He was handsome.
0:16.0	An article in GQ written by James Blahose described him as a ringer for the actor Chris Pine.
0:22.2	He was rich, having just received a million dollar payoff from a buyout of his company.
0:26.8	And he was in love.
0:29.0	Then one day, he disappeared.
0:31.8	Chris did email friends and family to say that he was going off the grid.
0:35.3	He wrote that he had chartered a 45-foot yacht and was sailing around the world with a former
0:39.1	Playboy playmate named Tiffany.
0:41.6	It was a shock, but friends and family were happy for Chris, with long dreamed of escaping
0:45.9	the matrix of the working world and finding happiness and adventure.
0:49.7	It would take more than a year and the discovery of decomposing tissue under the carpet in an
0:53.9	office he used to share before they finally figured out the truth.
0:58.0	Chris Smith wasn't sailing to South America or surfing the Great Barrier Reef.
1:02.6	Chris Smith was dead.
1:04.8	I'm Katherine Townsend and this is RedColor.
1:35.8	At first, Chris Smith's family believed that he had sailed off on an around the world adventure.
1:41.6	But when he hadn't come back several months after receiving his good buy emails, his family
1:45.9	was growing increasingly confused and frightened.
1:48.9	According to the GQ article, Chris had talked for years about his fantasies of living off
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