this is really an answer. it may not be definitive, but this guy knows something. a young couple vanishes. then, nearly a decade later, a discovery in their own backyard turns the mystery into a murder. they find a back, and inside the back is a human skull. detectives had a suspect. and then, he disappeared, too. his trailhead just stopped. until this please, please, bring him back. he kidnapped his own daughter right from this boston straight, after claiming to be a rockefeller clark rockefeller. i hired a private investigator, trying to find out who i was married to. and they couldn t find out. now, a second chance for investigators to prove that this mysterious con man was also a killer. but was this case as clear cut as it seemed? there was no motive. there was no reason he would have done this. we will hear from detectives who helped crack this puzzling case. and from his ex-wife. i thought he was very intelligent, funny, very charming.
it was a man skeleton. and that old missing persons report suggested to that man was. i didn t need the dna, i didn t need the dental records. i knew that was done. john s friend sue kaufman heard details of where the body had been dressed, and truth she dreaded at home. i said, that s exactly what john war, almost exactly all the time. that was the way he liked to dress. the remains told more of the story close to the head, six stab moves to the back, not just murder, but a brutal murder. a missing persons case that had gone permanently cold, transformed in that moment through the very act of super heated homicide investigation. there were two other people who lived at the road again, and were unaccounted for. john s wife linda, still missing. and the tenant in the guesthouse. exactly where were they, and was a possible one of them was killer? coming up detectives get to work on that
through it all. he came here with nothing, and then he ended up as a fake rockefeller. the world face came to know him as a phony rockefeller, who made headliners for bright, gullible woman. he couldn t tell me who i was married to as followers of his story came to know, he used his audacious talent for lying to live the good life. but was a more than just a clever con man? was he something darker, something evil? it adds up, circumstantially, to a picture of a guy who s probably committed, pretty brutal homicides. those inside the investigation reveal how they assemble the case for murder from jars of evidence gathered over 28 years and thousands of miles. there really isn t a smoking gun. it s a lot of pieces to the puzzle. with the pieces coming together to form the portrait of a color killer. if you are looking for a setting for a mystery, san
he somehow managed, and very polite, and a gentleman. rockefeller, new gentlemen friend, like to send weird and provocative text messages. once he claimed, while he was giving a private tour of the metropolitan museum of art. then, this one. in a submarine, crowded, strange, thought of you just a minute ago. the texts were so wild, and so farfetched, i would giggle and go, where does he come up with this stuff? there was something odd about him. was it his name? one of my friends could have sworn he was definitely a rockefeller because of his bone structure. it was a convincing cover that have lasted years. but by the time he was caught, six days into his flight with snooks, the fraud was exposed, and his real name, christian karl gerhartsreiter, in every front page top of the newscast story. in california, investigators immediately reopened the john solace homicide case, and the leads started pouring in.
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