town. to detectives it all added up to foul play. it was a very strange and compelling case, a mother of 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 searched 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
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 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 t