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
shooting suspects have been detained. now, back to dateline. k to datele.in welcome back to dateline. welcome back to dateline. i m craig melvin. sandi johnson was missing, and detectives had been looking into her estranged husband greg. i m craig melvin. sandi johnson was missing and detectives had been looking into her estranged husband, greg. the couple s crumbling marriage and money problems pointed to a possible motive. but as investigators retraced sandi s steps in the hours before she vanished, they discovered a stunning secret and an entirely new person of interest. here again is andrea canning with the disappearance of sandi johnson. the search for the person responsible for the disappearance of sandi johnson from a seattle suburb was widening. we had to look at everyone close to sandi at that point in time. investigators discovered
maybe amongst themselves, i don t know. but detectives were already taking a good long look at sandi johnson s husband. digging for details about the state of the couple s marriage. the first thing you re doing is looking at those people that are closest to the person that is missing. you have to. so it made perfect sense to focus on the husband early on. it always seems like the spouse. in this particular case, we really didn t know the dynamics of what had happened in their marriage. i mean, it s up to us to find out what are the details. detectives learned that sandi met greg at a hockey game in 1990. she pursued him and he fell fast. she had a lot of energy. a lot of spunk. you seem like you might be a little more low key. i am. was she a good complement to you? a good fit? i think so, yeah. in late 1990, the couple got married. sean was born in 1991, daughter katie followed. for