it was a big story, huge story. frank gerardo is the editor of the pasadena star news. it s may 1994. the cable news networks are taking off as a 24-hour news cycle. and a body buried in the backyard is newsworthy. there was no question it was murder. and if john had been killed and buried in his own backyard, where linda s remains in a shallow grave of their own, the police looked but found no signs in the yard. found nothing. and i think is that after all that, they had one body, and nothing else. two key questions remain unanswered. where was linda? and where was the other person who lived on the lorain road property then? the guesthouse tenant christopher chichester early on, the police decided that they needed to find linda, and they needed to find chris. it was only a couple of options for how john s body got back there, and how it got buried. and those two options were not accounted for. chris and linda. either one of them either
By snatching his seven-year-old daughter from her mother's custody, after a bitter divorce, the man calling himself Clark Rockefeller blew the lid off a lifelong con game, which had culminated with his posing as a scion of the famous dynasty. MARK SEAL learns how the impostor charmed his way into exclusive communities, clubs, and financial institutions marrying a Harvard M.B.A.; working at Kidder, Peabody; and showing off an extraordinary art collection until his arrest brought him face-to-face with his past and with questions regarding skeletal remains dug up in a California backyard.
investigators to prove that this mysterious conman was also a killer. but was the case as clear-cut as it seemed? there was no motive. there was no reason he would have done this. for the first time, hear from the detectives who helped crack this puzzling case and from his ex-wife. i thought he was very intelligent, funny, very charming. for decades, he got away with a web of lies. would he also get away with murder? i can fib, certainly, but i have never hurt anyone. tonight the mystery of the man with so many faces. i m lester holt, and this is dateline, behind closed doors. here s mike taibbi. it was a brutal crime, buried over the years by dirt and lies, but there he was finally in a los angeles county courtroom to stand trial for it all. he came here with nothing, and then he ended up as a fake rockefeller. the world first came to know him as a phony rockefeller, who made headlines for duping a string of bright, if gullible women. they couldn t tell
gee made national headlines impersonate ago rockefeller. is he also hiding a murder tku murderous past? rick has more. reporter: this trial is in the second weak. he is charged in the decades old murder of a man whose remains were found back in 1994. this is the guy who had been living the high life. as you mentioned passing himself off as a rockefeller. he had also pretended to be a british baron, a famous movie director among other made up identities. prosecutors say that he killed john sohus whose mother owned the property that they both lived on, that is the house. his wife linda lived there too and she went missing at the same time that john did and she has never been found. that is the central part of what the defense will argue that linda sohus killed her husband and then took off. the prosecutors are trying to convince the jury that the
bill: the faa closing control towers due to sequester cuts. let s put congress on a couple of the planes and make them sit on the runway until they come to an agreement. [applause] bill: that is one way. jaime: that might work actual leave. bill: we re going to land this plane but before we do it. jaime: no, no, no more snacks. bill: we need the control tower to be working. nice to see you too, enjoy your time off, your vacation. jaime: great to be with you, happy easter and passover as well. bill: right on, all that stuff. we are checking all the boxes. jaime: happening now underway right now. jon: we begin with brand-new stories and breaking news. jenna: italy s highest criminal court overturns the acquittal of amanda knox in the murder of her roommate and orders a brand-new trial here in the united states they call that double jeopardy. the breaking new details just ahead in a live report. plus, while white house tours are still on hold we are learning vice president bid