hello. i m andrea canning. and this is dateline. i was just like, oh my god this is really an answer. it may not be definitive, but this guy knows something. a young couple vanishes. then, nearly a decade later, a discovery in their own backyard turns the mystery into a murder. they find a back, and inside the back is a human skull. detectives had a suspect. and then, he disappeared, too. his trailhead just stopped. until this please, please, bring him back. he kidnapped his own daughter right from this boston straight, after claiming to be a rockefeller clark rockefeller. i hired a private investigator, trying to find out who i was married to. and they couldn t find out. now, a second chance for investigators to prove that this mysterious con man was also a killer. but was this case as clear cut as it seemed? there was no motive. there was no reason he would have done this. we will hear from detectives who helped crack this puzzlin
this is really an answer. it may not be definitive, but this guy knows something. a young couple vanishes. then, nearly a decade later, a discovery in their own backyard turns the mystery into a murder. they find a back, and inside the back is a human skull. detectives had a suspect. and then, he disappeared, too. his trailhead just stopped. until this please, please, bring him back. he kidnapped his own daughter right from this boston straight, after claiming to be a rockefeller clark rockefeller. i hired a private investigator, trying to find out who i was married to. and they couldn t find out. now, a second chance for investigators to prove that this mysterious con man was also a killer. but was this case as clear cut as it seemed? there was no motive. there was no reason he would have done this. we will hear from detectives who helped crack this puzzling case. and from his ex-wife. i thought he was very intelligent, funny, very charming.
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( laughs ) reporter: while a rockefeller courted his soon-to-be wife in new york, back in san marino, the mystery of john sohus disappearance was about to take a sharp turn. the owners of didi sohus house at 1920 lorraine decided to put in a swimming pool. and during the excavation of the pool, the bulldozer operator struck something hard, and it turned out to be human bones. reporter: the gravesite was directly behind the guest house where a young man named chichester once lived. the body was found. it was inside of a fiberglass container. reporter: l.a. sheriffs detective tim miley. inside the container, the arms, legs and torso were wrapped in saran wrap, hands were covered in bags, and the hands, feet and head were covered in plastic bags. reporter: the remains were so decomposed that they couldn t be officially identified, and the coroner wouldn t rule it a homicide. police could only speculate about how the body came to be buried in the backyard of the
i was. reporter: why did it take so long? there is so much backlogged d.n.a., and it just waited and waited and waited. reporter: in july of 2011, an excited detective schoneman called jeff with the results. she just says, are you sitting down? do i need to be? and she says, i don t know. she goes, you might want to. i said, it s her, jeff. we found her. it s her. it wasn t good news at all. i mean, but it was good news for me to know that we found her. we knew where she was at. and i just started shaking. just shaking, shaking, shaking. he called me, and we cried together. you were glad to know that you had an answer, but then it was permanent, you know? it was like she just died, because you just found out. to you, she had just died. reporter: after 30 years, there was no longer any question amy hurst had been murdered. and for amy s family, no question who did it. we knew absolutely it was bill. but we have no way to prove it. i thought