he said he was here by himself. did not really have a family. he was from england and was descendant of some royalty in england. cory and her family were thoroughly impressed by the young aristocrat, who after services at the church they attended together, were dazzled with his stories. he bought a castle in england. and he wanted to ship it over here brick by brick. so, we could have, you know, an authentic english, you know, chapel. the charming young wit had also became the town s resident rock on tour, sometimes hosting parties at the road. they noticed that he seemed to have the run of the entire property. i just said to him, why keep going in your landlords house, chris, it just seemed so off? and he said, i remember this so clearly, oh, they are away. they will not mind. and of course they, john and linda, were away, with only
this case that the chains are was used in connection with the murder, or disposal of the body of john sohus? no. so your answer is no, there s no proof of that? there is no proof of that. in the absence of proof, the defense offered an alternative theory of the crime. another suspect, their steppingstone towards reasonable doubt. the still missing linda. we are going to ask you, whether john sohus missing wife might have had just as much a pass to sneak up behind her husband and strike those blows. the defense pointed out that she was bigger, stronger than both of her husband and the man in the defendants chair. once more, the theory went, she, the wife might well have had a motive. even the prosecution declined to suggest any reason why the defendant wanted john sohus that. it made a lot more sense in terms of motive, in terms of reason to kill, that linda, had done. it wasn t their trouble in
marino in the early 19 80s wasn t the place. and the house on the lane road since we built hardly the ideal state. that s where quite john solace lived. he was probably reasonably shy and reserved. patrick raymond was john s childhood friend. he remembers john as a bit of a mama s boy, and as he was, a bit of a nerd. john and i both shared a love of star trek. we would compete with each other, trying to out-trivia the other individual, compare theories about travel, world. you guys are talking about well, without advanced mathematics. but, yes eventually, john s enthusiasm for science fiction morphed into a passion for another galaxy that was somehow accessible in the 80s, computers. and then, he discovered love. did you sense a connection between the two of them? i certainly had the sense that they were soulmates. her name was linda.
focused on their careers. they proudly made their first major purchase, a new truck they were sake when they showed up at my house. i don t remember if they called, or they just actually drove up one day, and said, look, we are in a car with a new ride and a bit of money, they planned the first road trip with sue, to a big sci-fi convention in phoenix. but in early 1985, weeks before the event, linda called sue with a puzzling announcement. first thing was, you know, we are going to new york. and i m going, what are you going to new york for? well, john looks like he has an interview with a government job or something. she says, we re gonna be back in two weeks. yeah, we re gonna be back in a couple of weeks, in time for us to get our stuff together, and get this trip on way. except, they didn t make it back in time. the weeks roldan with no word from her friend, sue naturally began to worry. she told john s mother i don t know they are in paris. and i am thinking
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