Matt Murphy

For him, it almost made sense.

You know, it was, you know, he had talked about, you know, Chris talked about his concern about, you know, hey, what if the monetary system collapses?

That was one of the things that he kind of talked about.

He was a rational guy, but he, you know, this is part of his, you know, his sort of fantasy of leaving.

And so when he heard fake passport, it struck him as being very odd, but it wasn't 100% unbelievable, if that makes sense.

Right.

So he they basically skipped out.

So they they they've got a year lease.

And he, you know, nine months later, soon after Chris left for this trip, supposedly, he had packed up the business and moved to a different location and stiffed the landlord for many months rent.

So

The landlord, actually one of the other tenants, is a private investigator named Joe DeLue, who's a former officer at Laguna Beach Police, and he makes his living as a PI.

So the landlord is essentially complaining to him one day about this tenant, and he's got this big empty office space, and doesn't know where the guy is, and would Joe be willing to help track him down?

And Joe, of course, was happy to do it, and he starts poking around, and

And one of the first things he did is he went and he talked to the dad, and he got these emails between him and Chris.

And he looked at the question about the boat and the lake, and he saw the answer, that it was just –

that he just answered with the lake and that struck him as being very odd.

So he decided to actually go in and ask for permission to enter the business and it's been abandoned.

Okay, so there's no reasonable expectation of privacy if you rent a business from somebody or you rent a home.

And you abandon it, the landlord has a right to go back inside.

So Joe DeLue walks in and very soon after making entry, he sees what appears to be blood on a light switch.