hello. i m andrea canning. and this is dateline. i was just like, oh my god 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 puzzlin
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 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
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