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 away convinced he had nothing to do with sandi s death. jeff kane was cleared. as for husband greg who had done so many things that raised suspicion early on, ultimately he had an alibi that checked out. he d clocked in and out of his job at boeing the day sandi went missing. colleagues had seen him there, and after work, he was with friends who vouched for him. finally, greg johnson was off the list. how well do you remember that moment, where the police came to see you and said, you re not a suspect anymore. i remember it very well. it was a relief. it was a good day for me. it really was. that left sandi s friend from work, cliff reed, cold case detective jim allen now retired decided to see if he could find some physical evidence tying cliff
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 failed a polygraph test. yes, they did. lots of people in town were turning in that direction. after the weeks sandi went missing, her dear friend vicky fulkerson thought greg was somehow involved. the police came to me and said things to me that think maybe he did. what did they tell you that made you suspect greg. well, he didn t pass test, people at a work party had heard them fighting, just enough, could he have done it? cops were starting to think so, especially when they considered the domestic incident that put greg in jail, that argument the dealership the night before sandi disappeared, and the possible money motive. given the history with greg,
johnson s death. we realized, could this similar scenario have played out at cliff s residence with 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
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 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
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. 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