Drunken didi isolated in the main house. and as the chichester tenant left, she was an old woman rocked by loneliness and lost hope, fading fast. you want to talk about taking sales and leaving her in the doldrums. it certainly did. she died a few years later, by many, a broken woman. and san marino, meanwhile, life went on. the property found buyers, and in may 1994, almost a decade after john and linda disappeared, then you owners decided to install a pool, to clear the old backyard, they started digging. until the work suddenly stopped and police were summoned to the scene. and they said they discovered a body. well, initially, of course, we thought, no, that doesn t happen in san marino. patricia was a san marino detective when human skeleton was found. they said, there is a missing person and that address. so, there was a live a lot of information coming together on that first day.
The truck of john and linda sohus. after the call, he was markedly different. how is he markedly different? the further in us, the cutting off of all social ties. the defendant told my nabi it was not a detective called, but someone out to get him and his family. you said he suggested a merry, and go into hiding. he grew a beard, and a mustache. what else? and he started to wear contacts. i helped color his hair. and while he was still living with her, he picked a new phony name out of thin air. and it was a beauty. at first, it was just east at a table in a packed restaurant. and i said, who can make the reservation for? and he says clark rockefeller. she dumped him, but he never dumped the rockefeller name. it would help women s biggest catch ever, his gold plated wife, sandra vos, and keep us secret safe for years. who did he introduce himself
Life. but detectives could not erase the nagging questions but linda, the victims wife. was she still alive? and remember those postcards from paris? she had apparently sent all of them after the couple had disappeared. also, we could not eliminate the wife, who was also missing, and whose remains and body has not themselves been found? yes, obviously that is something we had to look at. however, the more we dug into linda sohus, we just could not find anything sinister, or any part plausible reason why she would do this, where she had the means to disappear and start a new life. was the case trial ready? the answer was at hand. christian karl gerhartsreiter, extradited from boston to california, now officially a defendant in the case of murder. coming up. the woman he wooed and fooled as clark rockefeller takes the stand. how even tricked a harvard and be. i loved him, i thought he was very intelligent, funny.
Paradise, the couple s friend, sue kaufman, linda, desperate to move out of her mother in law s house? you knew that linda was frustrated about the living situation, those are words that you have used, correct? yes, she was frustrated. she shared that frustration with you, didn t she? yes, she did. kaufman seethed, side, appalled i what was being suggested. i was like dude, you are so far off base, i can t even answer your questions with anger. so i will just answer your questions. but it was not just a motive, the defense said. wasn t it also clear linda had survived whatever had happened to john, since she was the one, handwriting experts have said, sent postcards to friends weeks later from paris? linda sohus is the writer of the two postcards that you examined? yes. that supports the theory that linda was alive after the death of john sohus. as for the testimony of sandra boss, hails that seemed
Years old. we were concerned. it was going to take a smart jury to put those together, so we gerhartsreiter pleaded not guilty, and hired a pair of prominent boston attorneys to defend, by bailey, and jeff figure. there was no motive, no reason why he would ve done. this we are with people versus gerhartsreiter. stu when the trial opened, the prosecutor confidently offered a series of friends and neighbors with tales from around the time that john and linda sohus disappeared. jurors, about the bloodstains found years later inside the guesthouse. and then, testimony from a neighbor, suggesting the tenant has been trying to destroy possible evidence. i called him and said chris, what are you burning in the fireplace? what was his response? i am burning carpet. when a church friend said the defendant tried to sell him a rug with a strange spot. i felt it looked a little like blood. whose chainsaw was? it it was mine. they heard the story about