Reporter she was a gorgeous girl. A model who became a mom. You made good looking kids. Reporter on the eve of her sons fifth birthday she vanished. The whole time were trying to talk without the kids hearing us about what happened. Reporter when a woman disappears, police will have questions about a man in her life and in this case that would not be so simple. There was the estranged husband who admitted to an argument that wants landed him in jail. She came at me and i grabbed her by the arms and then she called the police. Reporter then there was the secret boyfriend, he was not telling all he knew. He was not upfront from the beginning. Reporter and there was a third man. The former colleague, with a crush. Cliff shared with friends that he found the love of his life. You have three potential suspects. A tangle. Reporter could investigators unravel it . We ask ourselves what does this mean . Reporter would her family ever find justice. Hello and welcome today on. They say good thin
what happened. when a woman disappears, we know police will have questions for the man in her life. in this case, that wouldn t be so simple. in this case, there was the estranged husband who admitted to an argument that once landed her in jail. she came at me and grabbed her by the arms, then she called the police. then, there was the former colleague with a crush. cliff shared with friends that he had found the love of his life. so, you have three potential suspects. yeah it s a tangle. could investigators unravel it. we re asking ourselves what this means. would her family ever find justice. just 17 years of built up emotion, you know? hello, and welcome to dateline, they say good things come in small packages. sandi johnson s family and friends would agree. the young mom was petite, pretty, and devoted to her two kids. but when she went missing, police wondered if sandi s home life was as happy as it seemed. they quickly uncovered a web of romanti
To my sister and i, and then five years later, gone. She was a gorgeous girl. A model who became a mom. Said you guys made some good looking kids. Oh, they sure did. On the eve of her sons 5th birthday she vanished. The whole time were all try to talk about where is she, what happened. When a woman disappears, we know police will have questions for the man in her life. In this case, that wouldnt be so simple. There was the estranged husband who admitted to an argument that once landed her in jail. She came at me and grabbed her by the arms, then she called the police. Then, there was the former colleague with a crush. Cliff shared with friends that he had found the love of his life. So, you have three potential suspects. Yeah its a tangle. Could investigators unravel it . Were asking ourselves what this means. Would her family ever find justice. Just 17 years of built up emotion, you know . Hello, and welcome to dateline, they say good things come in small packages. Sandi johnsons fami
sandi johnson being the victim. and the motive? police say they found one, cliff reed was obsessed with sandi johnson. cliff shared with friends that he had found the love of his life. reed s friends used words like enthralled, head over heels, to describe to detectives reed s feelings about sandi. he said he was going to marry sandi and had even bought a bigger car to haul her kids around in, trouble was the feelings apparently weren t mutual. she had expressed to at least one of her friends that her frustration was growing that he wanted more than she wanted and it was never going to be that. it was just the day before she went missing that sandi had told a coworker, reed had become a problem, and he needed to understand that she was not interested. police wondered whether sandi had chosen that morning when she went to cliff s house to get that gift to set him straight and if so, had she paid for it with her life? i think that sandi was probably the first attractive
despite his apparent generosity, there was something about cliff the coworker the cops weren t buying. cliff looked to be doing everything he could to present himself to sandi as a normal and caring and concerned friend. we clearly found out as we looked closer into cliff reed that that was not the real cliff reed. in fact, reed had a troubling history with women. cliff didn t like women at all. cliff was a misogynist. and cliff had very bad names for women that he felt had done him wrong. and basically from what we could tell had a sort of generalized hatred for the female person, apart from being sort of self-centered and narcissistic. he constantly thought that women were doing him wrong. but none of that was against the law. cops had no reason to hold him. weeks went by without an arrest, and all detectives had was a trio of suspects. as