( laughs ) reporter: while a rockefeller courted his soon-to-be wife in new york, back in san marino, the mystery of john sohus disappearance was about to take a sharp turn. the owners of didi sohus house at 1920 lorraine decided to put in a swimming pool. and during the excavation of the pool, the bulldozer operator struck something hard, and it turned out to be human bones. reporter: the gravesite was directly behind the guest house where a young man named chichester once lived. the body was found. it was inside of a fiberglass container. reporter: l.a. sheriffs detective tim miley. inside the container, the arms, legs and torso were wrapped in saran wrap, hands were covered in bags, and the hands, feet and head were covered in plastic bags. reporter: the remains were so decomposed that they couldn t be officially identified, and the coroner wouldn t rule it a homicide. police could only speculate about how the body came to be buried in the backyard of the
if you had nothing to do with the death of john sohus, why wouldn t you talk to detective allen? because detective allen never contacted me. reporter: he contacted mihoko. he never gave her a reason for the contact, did he? reporter: but you knew what they were there for. no. reporter: oh, you had no idea? how would i know? reporter: but here s what mihoko manabe said at trial: he told me that next time he calls, that, you know, he wasn t there and that i didn t know where he was. he had told her i wasn t a police officer, i wasn t a detective. i was a hit man out to kill him. reporter: and she believed that? and she believed that. reporter: now that crowe knew thheat t police were on to him, it was time once again to disappear, leaving allen at a dead end. did you ever meet him face to face? no. reporter: did you ever talk to him on the phone? no. fairly soon after detective allen s call, we moved to another apartment. he grew a beard. i hel
Some experts say speculation surrounding the case, fueled by photos of the alleged victim's body, shows why full autopsy reports should be public documents, as they are in several other states.
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