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.
laughs reporter while a rockefeller courted his soontobe 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 couldnt be officially identified, and the coroner wouldnt rule it a homicide. Police could only speculate about how the body came to be buried in the backyard of the onetime sohus residence. Reporter the
If you had nothing to do with the death of john sohus, why wouldnt 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 heres what Mihoko Manabe said at trial he told me that next time he calls, that, you know, he wasnt there and that i didnt know where he was. He had told her i wasnt a police officer, i wasnt 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 allens call, we moved to another apartment. He grew a beard. I helped color his hair. We never came out of the buildin
we got a lot of phone calls, a lot of people did not come up and forward in 94, came forward in 2008. so there were some new pieces of information that we got as a result of the publicity. for suit kaufman, best friend of the still missing linda, it was reason to hope after all of these years. oh my goodness, this is really an answer, it may not be definitive, but this guy knows something. if he did, he certainly was not telling the police. but he did have plenty to say to natalie morales in a televised interview. are you a mystery man? i would like to be known as a good man, if anything. i would like to be known as a quiet man, living a quiet life. he admitted using a string of fake names. christian karl gerhartsreiter one of them. you assume different identities? for purposes, much like a writer would take a pen name. what about the murder of john sohus? did he have anything to say