we know that he was attending an english class at the university of southern california. he was not in london? he was not in london. that explains away the postcards. the evidence was in. although much of it was damning, it was almost all circumstantial. the defendant, his lawyers say, was confident on verdict day. if you went to the courtroom, he went and feeling upbeat, hopeful and optimistic. it was a miscalculation to say the least. the jurors only took a few hours to decide. we, the jury find the defendant christian karl gerhartsreiter guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree. a guilty verdict reached quickly, jurors said, and with little debate. for soup of men, it meant most if not all of the answers about what happened to her last friend, john and linda. in my heart, i know he is responsible for whatever happened to make those two gone. are you convinced that linda s death as well? yes.
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
About that? did you kill john and linda sohus? my entire life, i have always been a pacifist. i am a quaker. i believe in nonviolence. and i can fairly, certainly say i have never heard anyone. when i saw that i thought, that was the closest thing to a confession i had ever seen or heard. what did you say, did you kill john and linda sohus? i think i said no. but you don t say i am a quaker. even as clark rockefellers kidnapping case played out in boston, the california investigators were quietly at work building a case for murder. basically, we had to do cpr on this case and get it done, and get it running. to resuscitate the case, they went back to find those folks who had only suspect one he was calling himself the 13th barrett, christopher chichester. the episcopal truth, where he worked after sunday services.
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.