she was so well hidden for so long. where sandi s remains were recovered added another piece to the investigative puzzle. it fit the m. o. of the notorious green river killer, gary ridgway, he murdered scores of women in washington, and disposed of some of them in the area of where sandi s bones were found. ridgway s victims were almost all believed to be prostitutes, and now king county cops had to make sure there wasn t something they had missed earlier about sandi. was it ever posed to her family, did she ever engage in prostitution, a hard question, but. i believe that someone, a detective, asked her mom that, and it was not well received, as you can imagine. sandi was not a prostitute, and that would be heart ripping to hear a question like that, even though it had to be asked. police then ruled out the green river killer. detectives circled back to the secret boyfriend, jeff kane. they came
was that the polygraph was inconclusive, so i guess at that point they thought it was me. they probably thought it was me before the polygraph. the police actually said you failed the polygraph. yeah, i m sure they did. so, you re disputing that. i am. it was inconclusive results on the polygraph. cops felt he failed it, and the results made them even more certain they were on the right track. king county prosecuting attorneys kristin richardson and carla carlstorm. greg had not done well on a polygraph test. so they asked if he would take another test. so, he called a lawyer and the lawyer said you need to stop talking to police right now. and so, he did. must have been a big red flag for police? yes, i think it was. i think whenever someone flunks a polygraph test, police get suspicious and want to go at that person harder. greg may have lawyered up, but the detectives used the polygraph tests to turn up the pressure. they told your sister you
he was one of the last people to have spoken to her on that friday. in fact, she had spoken to him more recently than her husband. when they interviewed sandi s friend, they grew more suspicious. it turned out kane hadn t been totally candid with them about the nature of his relationship with sandi. he initally held back that they had had a romantic or sexual relationship. that came out a little bit later. which was suspicious to police that he wasn t up front from the beginning. why would he hold back on that? maybe he was concerned, in general, she was a married woman, he didn t want that to get out. as they had with greg, cops put kane on polygraph machine. he passed the test and offered an alibi. cops told him he could go home, for now. when they laid out the time line, detectives discovered jeff kane wasn t the only man sandi was supposed to meet. there was another guy, a former coworker named cliff reed, who had befriended sandi. sandi planned to stop by reed s home t
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 the next few years, the couple s life was hectic, but happy. bit in early 1996, 4 months before sandi disappeared, they hit a rough patch. greg moved out of the house. greg told police there were money
two small children, essentially just dropped off the radar screen. was it baffling to the whole police department what happened to sandi? yeah, her disappearance became a priority the with sheriff s office right away. sandi s friends and family put up flyers and joined search parties in the greater seattle area, but there was one notable exception. were you participating in the search. not too much? why not? i just couldn t do that. i just pretty much stayed around the house with the kids and family. did anyone question that? why isn t he out looking for her? they never questioned me. 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 s