1 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:08,241 - In the criminal justice system, 2 00:00:09,309 --> 00:00:12,278 detectives and prosecutors face daunting challenges 3 00:00:12,312 --> 00:00:14,748 when money is the motive for murder. 4 00:00:14,781 --> 00:00:16,516 [dramatic sting] 5 00:00:16,549 --> 00:00:20,620 - A call come in as the possibly missing couple. 6 00:00:20,653 --> 00:00:23,890 He said that they had gone to New York on a secret mission. 7 00:00:23,923 --> 00:00:25,625 They just vanished. 8 00:00:25,658 --> 00:00:27,894 - Years after a young couple goes missing, 9 00:00:27,927 --> 00:00:31,631 new evidence reignites a bizarre and twisted case. 10 00:00:31,664 --> 00:00:34,434 - They found the remains of a human. 11 00:00:34,467 --> 00:00:36,569 - Could the discovery of a body 12 00:00:36,603 --> 00:00:39,272 be the key to unlocking both a cold-case murder 13 00:00:39,305 --> 00:00:41,274 and a con man's true identity? 14 00:00:41,307 --> 00:00:42,776 - He kept changing his name, 15 00:00:42,809 --> 00:00:45,779 so we were one step behind him the whole way. 16 00:00:45,812 --> 00:00:48,882 - And it becomes national news because of the last name-- 17 00:00:48,915 --> 00:00:50,250 Clark Rockefeller. 18 00:00:50,283 --> 00:00:52,619 Suddenly, it's everywhere. 19 00:00:52,652 --> 00:00:54,454 - This was a master manipulator. 20 00:00:54,487 --> 00:00:56,790 This is someone who had to run. 21 00:00:56,823 --> 00:01:00,727 - These men and women dedicate their lives to law and order. 22 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,496 - There's a lot of unanswered questions yet. 23 00:01:03,530 --> 00:01:06,833 - These are their true stories. 24 00:01:06,866 --> 00:01:11,137 * * 25 00:01:11,171 --> 00:01:12,939 - Of all the cases that I've worked on, 26 00:01:12,972 --> 00:01:16,109 the Sohus case really stands out because of the mystery. 27 00:01:16,142 --> 00:01:20,146 There's this Agatha Christie-esque tale. 28 00:01:20,180 --> 00:01:22,148 There's a great con artist involved. 29 00:01:22,182 --> 00:01:24,217 There's wealthy people. 30 00:01:24,250 --> 00:01:26,720 There's a community that's seeing something 31 00:01:26,753 --> 00:01:29,089 it's never seen before... 32 00:01:31,124 --> 00:01:35,261 A community that enabled it. 33 00:01:36,129 --> 00:01:38,131 [dramatic sting] 34 00:01:38,164 --> 00:01:41,101 [soft music] 35 00:01:41,134 --> 00:01:44,471 * * 36 00:01:44,504 --> 00:01:48,975 - April '85, I was a patrol officer in San Marino. 37 00:01:49,009 --> 00:01:53,446 And I was inside the police department, 38 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,217 and a call come in as a possibly missing person 39 00:01:57,250 --> 00:02:00,186 or missing couple-- John and Linda Sohus, 40 00:02:00,220 --> 00:02:02,522 down on Lorain Road. 41 00:02:02,555 --> 00:02:04,891 They'd been missing for a couple of months. 42 00:02:04,924 --> 00:02:07,327 They just vanished. 43 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:09,929 I did some more digging, and I did 44 00:02:09,963 --> 00:02:12,565 personal interviews with some of the people 45 00:02:12,599 --> 00:02:15,869 that knew John and Linda Sohus. 46 00:02:15,902 --> 00:02:20,140 - In July of 1982, Linda met John Sohus. 47 00:02:20,173 --> 00:02:22,742 Linda was a smart individual. 48 00:02:22,776 --> 00:02:24,711 She was really interested 49 00:02:24,744 --> 00:02:27,547 in the art world and science fantasy. 50 00:02:27,580 --> 00:02:31,217 John was a Dungeons & Dragons freak. 51 00:02:31,251 --> 00:02:33,086 They started going to games together, 52 00:02:33,086 --> 00:02:34,387 and she may not have played, 53 00:02:34,421 --> 00:02:35,889 but she was there hanging out with him. 54 00:02:35,922 --> 00:02:40,427 And then out of the blue, they were engaged. 55 00:02:40,460 --> 00:02:42,762 - It was an odd match. 56 00:02:42,796 --> 00:02:46,166 But in my opinion, there is a lid for every pot. 57 00:02:46,199 --> 00:02:49,002 I believe she was happy, 58 00:02:49,102 --> 00:02:52,505 but Linda and I did not have the kind of relationship 59 00:02:52,539 --> 00:02:55,108 where we would call each other and say, how you doing? 60 00:02:55,108 --> 00:02:56,676 We did not have that. 61 00:02:56,710 --> 00:03:00,380 - This book is the chronology of everything 62 00:03:00,413 --> 00:03:04,484 about John and Linda that I've kept through the years. 63 00:03:04,517 --> 00:03:08,421 On Halloween 1983, they got married. 64 00:03:08,455 --> 00:03:11,591 There they are on their wedding day. 65 00:03:11,624 --> 00:03:13,793 - As the newlyweds got on their feet, 66 00:03:13,827 --> 00:03:17,664 they moved in with John's adoptive mother, Didi. 67 00:03:17,697 --> 00:03:21,334 - John's mom, his adopted mom, Didi Sohus, 68 00:03:21,368 --> 00:03:24,070 was a socialite in the '40s and '50s. 69 00:03:24,104 --> 00:03:26,940 Really high on the echelon there. 70 00:03:26,973 --> 00:03:29,075 It was an awesome house. 71 00:03:29,075 --> 00:03:31,611 - Some of the homes that these people live in 72 00:03:31,644 --> 00:03:34,280 are some of the largest mansions on the West Coast, 73 00:03:34,314 --> 00:03:36,616 if not even in the United States. 74 00:03:36,649 --> 00:03:38,685 When they moved in with Didi, 75 00:03:38,718 --> 00:03:42,322 they're living in basically a guest bedroom in the house. 76 00:03:42,355 --> 00:03:44,591 But this house has a granny flat, 77 00:03:44,624 --> 00:03:46,993 but they can't move in there 78 00:03:47,093 --> 00:03:51,097 because there's a renter there named Christopher Chichester, 79 00:03:51,131 --> 00:03:54,534 who's kind of persuaded their mom 80 00:03:54,567 --> 00:03:56,536 that he's going to pay the rent 81 00:03:56,569 --> 00:03:59,939 and help her keep her home together. 82 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,842 Linda wanted to be with her husband alone. 83 00:04:02,876 --> 00:04:04,344 The income wasn't there 84 00:04:04,377 --> 00:04:06,680 for them to be able to make that move. 85 00:04:06,713 --> 00:04:11,284 Then this dream job sort of falls out of the sky. 86 00:04:11,317 --> 00:04:14,654 - The last time I saw John and Linda was when they came over 87 00:04:14,688 --> 00:04:18,658 to my house in Orange County in their new car... 88 00:04:18,692 --> 00:04:21,628 a white Nissan truck. 89 00:04:21,661 --> 00:04:25,298 And she says, I have to go to New York. 90 00:04:25,331 --> 00:04:27,534 John had an opportunity to interview 91 00:04:27,567 --> 00:04:31,438 for a high-level, high-security government job, 92 00:04:31,471 --> 00:04:33,306 and she was going with him. 93 00:04:33,340 --> 00:04:35,975 * * 94 00:04:36,076 --> 00:04:37,377 Okay, it's a little odd, 95 00:04:37,410 --> 00:04:39,145 but you guys have always had an odd life. 96 00:04:39,179 --> 00:04:40,714 Why not? 97 00:04:40,747 --> 00:04:43,383 - It seemed like it was going to be a good thing. 98 00:04:43,416 --> 00:04:46,353 They would be back in a week or so. 99 00:04:46,386 --> 00:04:47,854 Okay, great. 100 00:04:47,887 --> 00:04:51,791 [dramatic music] 101 00:04:51,825 --> 00:04:55,161 - March 1985, I call Linda and John 102 00:04:55,195 --> 00:04:58,331 at home in San Marino. 103 00:04:58,365 --> 00:05:01,134 His mom, Didi, informs me that they have gone away, 104 00:05:01,167 --> 00:05:04,838 and she doesn't know if they will ever come back. 105 00:05:04,871 --> 00:05:08,308 - Sue and I had a conversation on the phone. 106 00:05:08,341 --> 00:05:11,344 You know, we shared what we each knew. 107 00:05:11,378 --> 00:05:14,347 We thought if we put our heads together, 108 00:05:14,381 --> 00:05:17,183 we could figure it out. 109 00:05:17,217 --> 00:05:20,954 It's hard to imagine, you know, two adults just going missing. 110 00:05:22,822 --> 00:05:27,093 - I wanted to chat with Didi, John Sohus's mother. 111 00:05:27,127 --> 00:05:29,162 * * 112 00:05:29,195 --> 00:05:32,665 She said they were gone on a secret mission. 113 00:05:32,699 --> 00:05:34,734 I thought that was kind of unusual, 114 00:05:34,768 --> 00:05:37,871 so I went ahead and wrote that in my notes. 115 00:05:37,904 --> 00:05:40,740 - I spoke with Didi several times. 116 00:05:40,774 --> 00:05:44,177 The conversations were unreasonable, 117 00:05:44,210 --> 00:05:46,546 because she was a drinker. 118 00:05:46,579 --> 00:05:49,082 I said, can you give me contact information? 119 00:05:49,082 --> 00:05:51,751 She said, I cannot contact them. 120 00:05:51,785 --> 00:05:55,155 This third party is the only one 121 00:05:55,188 --> 00:05:56,923 who contacts me. 122 00:05:56,956 --> 00:05:58,625 It seems as though the third party 123 00:05:58,658 --> 00:06:01,461 was Christopher Chichester, 124 00:06:01,494 --> 00:06:04,397 who was living in the guesthouse. 125 00:06:04,431 --> 00:06:07,167 - He was half-British, half-American royalty, 126 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:09,903 somewhere between a baron 127 00:06:09,936 --> 00:06:12,372 and an earl. 128 00:06:12,405 --> 00:06:15,108 He was the 13th Baronet of Chichester. 129 00:06:15,141 --> 00:06:16,609 - Chichester, 130 00:06:16,643 --> 00:06:18,878 because of his social status in the community, 131 00:06:18,912 --> 00:06:21,948 had grown to be a trusted confidant of John and Linda. 132 00:06:22,048 --> 00:06:24,484 Officer Yankovich made his way to the guesthouse 133 00:06:24,517 --> 00:06:26,252 to follow up on this lead. 134 00:06:26,286 --> 00:06:28,588 - I knocked on the door, 135 00:06:28,621 --> 00:06:32,158 and this little short guy 136 00:06:32,192 --> 00:06:33,927 answered the door, 137 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,563 and he was nude. 138 00:06:36,596 --> 00:06:39,933 And I said, can I come in? And he said, yeah. 139 00:06:39,966 --> 00:06:41,935 And I asked him to put some clothes on. 140 00:06:41,968 --> 00:06:45,138 He said, no. He says, I'm a nudist. 141 00:06:45,171 --> 00:06:48,274 I prefer to stay nude. 142 00:06:48,308 --> 00:06:50,276 I've been on calls before 143 00:06:50,310 --> 00:06:53,780 where you encounter both male and female, nude. 144 00:06:53,813 --> 00:06:56,683 Some of them would put a robe on or grab a towel. 145 00:06:56,716 --> 00:06:58,985 Some of them would just stay nude. 146 00:06:59,085 --> 00:07:02,122 It's something you have to put up with in police work. 147 00:07:02,155 --> 00:07:05,425 He was pale, kind of skinny-looking. 148 00:07:05,458 --> 00:07:07,193 He was sweaty. He was dirty. 149 00:07:07,227 --> 00:07:08,561 His hair was messed up. 150 00:07:08,595 --> 00:07:12,198 Looked like he'd been out gardening. 151 00:07:12,232 --> 00:07:15,035 I asked him where John and Linda Sohus were. 152 00:07:15,035 --> 00:07:17,671 He said that they had gone to New York on a secret mission. 153 00:07:17,704 --> 00:07:19,572 I said, what type of secret mission? 154 00:07:19,606 --> 00:07:22,642 He goes, it's something involving satellites. 155 00:07:22,676 --> 00:07:25,311 But that was, like, two months ago 156 00:07:25,345 --> 00:07:27,647 that they were supposed to be back. 157 00:07:27,681 --> 00:07:29,315 And I asked him if he had any ID, 158 00:07:29,349 --> 00:07:31,117 and he showed me his driver's license. 159 00:07:31,151 --> 00:07:33,553 It said Christopher Chichester on it, 160 00:07:33,586 --> 00:07:36,556 and Christopher Gerhartsreiter. 161 00:07:36,589 --> 00:07:38,558 He was going by a different name. 162 00:07:38,591 --> 00:07:41,594 And I didn't notice any accent. 163 00:07:41,628 --> 00:07:43,930 Things just didn't make sense. 164 00:07:43,963 --> 00:07:47,267 I was with him for probably a good 15, 20 minutes, 165 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:48,868 then we walked outside. 166 00:07:48,902 --> 00:07:51,271 On the way back out the driveway, 167 00:07:51,304 --> 00:07:53,707 I saw a Nissan truck. 168 00:07:53,740 --> 00:07:55,075 We ran the license plate. 169 00:07:55,075 --> 00:07:58,345 It come back to John and Linda Sohus. 170 00:07:58,378 --> 00:08:00,013 So I came back to the office 171 00:08:00,013 --> 00:08:04,551 to run Christopher Chichester's driver's license number. 172 00:08:04,584 --> 00:08:06,619 - While Christopher was, at the very least, 173 00:08:06,653 --> 00:08:09,356 an eccentric character, a check on both names-- 174 00:08:09,389 --> 00:08:12,926 Christopher Chichester and Christopher Gerhartsreiter-- 175 00:08:13,026 --> 00:08:16,629 showed no criminal history. 176 00:08:16,663 --> 00:08:20,033 - My mom did receive a postcard. 177 00:08:20,033 --> 00:08:23,203 "Looks like we made a wrong turn. 178 00:08:23,236 --> 00:08:25,138 Linda." 179 00:08:25,171 --> 00:08:26,539 Not "Love, Linda." 180 00:08:26,573 --> 00:08:30,744 Not "See you soon, Linda." 181 00:08:30,777 --> 00:08:34,948 And the handwriting looked like her handwriting. 182 00:08:35,048 --> 00:08:38,885 My mom's reaction to the postcard was confused. 183 00:08:38,918 --> 00:08:42,055 She didn't understand what was happening 184 00:08:42,088 --> 00:08:46,292 and how come Linda wasn't calling on the phone. 185 00:08:46,326 --> 00:08:49,896 * * 186 00:08:49,929 --> 00:08:51,965 I do think it was odd, 187 00:08:52,065 --> 00:08:55,735 and I have a suspicion that... 188 00:08:55,769 --> 00:08:59,072 she was forced to do that. 189 00:08:59,072 --> 00:09:03,877 I don't know what he was telling John and Linda, 190 00:09:03,910 --> 00:09:07,414 but whatever it was, apparently they were falling for it. 191 00:09:07,447 --> 00:09:11,818 * * 192 00:09:11,851 --> 00:09:13,420 - Didi calls the police 193 00:09:13,453 --> 00:09:16,656 and files a missing persons report of her own, 194 00:09:16,690 --> 00:09:20,326 because now Chris, who lived in back, is gone, 195 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:22,028 and so is John's truck. 196 00:09:22,028 --> 00:09:25,165 She's now sufficiently concerned. 197 00:09:25,198 --> 00:09:28,301 Chris was the connection that she had to her son, 198 00:09:28,335 --> 00:09:30,804 or at least to news about her son. 199 00:09:30,837 --> 00:09:34,140 Now everybody's gone. 200 00:09:34,174 --> 00:09:36,609 - Now we have a missing couple, 201 00:09:36,643 --> 00:09:38,445 a missing tenant, 202 00:09:38,478 --> 00:09:41,047 and a missing pickup truck 203 00:09:41,047 --> 00:09:43,683 that were not to be found anywhere. 204 00:09:43,717 --> 00:09:46,119 - Three grueling years pass by 205 00:09:46,152 --> 00:09:50,623 with no sign of Linda, John, or Christopher Chichester. 206 00:09:50,657 --> 00:09:53,059 Refusing to let the case go cold, 207 00:09:53,059 --> 00:09:55,762 Officer Yankovich combs through reports 208 00:09:55,795 --> 00:09:57,931 and uncovers that John and Linda's truck 209 00:09:57,964 --> 00:10:01,034 was recently sold in Greenwich, Connecticut. 210 00:10:01,067 --> 00:10:03,670 - That's when I contacted detectives 211 00:10:03,703 --> 00:10:05,805 from Greenwich, Connecticut. 212 00:10:05,839 --> 00:10:08,808 - Detective Yankovich, he had given a couple of addresses-- 213 00:10:08,842 --> 00:10:10,477 John and Joann Bishop, 214 00:10:10,510 --> 00:10:15,382 who supposedly had purchased the truck in July of 1988. 215 00:10:15,415 --> 00:10:19,352 So I responded there. 216 00:10:19,386 --> 00:10:20,754 - The Bishops didn't know 217 00:10:20,787 --> 00:10:22,856 a Chichester or a Gerhartsreiter 218 00:10:22,889 --> 00:10:24,824 but said they had bought the truck 219 00:10:24,858 --> 00:10:26,659 from a hedge-fund manager at their church 220 00:10:26,693 --> 00:10:28,495 named Chris Crowe. 221 00:10:28,528 --> 00:10:30,730 - Now that I have a name, Chris Crowe, 222 00:10:30,764 --> 00:10:33,099 I am trying to run him down. 223 00:10:33,133 --> 00:10:36,770 * * 224 00:10:36,803 --> 00:10:38,872 Found out he had a mailbox address 225 00:10:38,905 --> 00:10:42,108 in Berlin, Connecticut. 226 00:10:42,142 --> 00:10:45,045 So I reached out to the Berlin Police Department, 227 00:10:45,078 --> 00:10:49,482 and that's when I found out that Christopher Chichester, 228 00:10:49,516 --> 00:10:51,217 Christian Gerhartsreiter, 229 00:10:51,251 --> 00:10:54,220 and Chris Crowe were all one person. 230 00:10:54,254 --> 00:10:57,724 * * 231 00:10:57,757 --> 00:10:59,459 - Never had a case like this. 232 00:10:59,492 --> 00:11:03,863 Where is this guy? Where's John and Linda Sohus? 233 00:11:03,897 --> 00:11:06,866 We knew this case wasn't over. 234 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:10,670 - It was just this constant-- where is she? 235 00:11:10,704 --> 00:11:12,472 Where are they? What happened to them? 236 00:11:12,505 --> 00:11:15,075 - Forensic investigators spent the morning 237 00:11:15,075 --> 00:11:16,776 pulling out every possible piece of evidence 238 00:11:16,810 --> 00:11:18,378 they could find. 239 00:11:18,411 --> 00:11:20,547 - The head had been covered with two plastic bags 240 00:11:20,580 --> 00:11:22,182 and then buried. 241 00:11:22,215 --> 00:11:23,950 - And I'm like, I can't believe this. 242 00:11:23,983 --> 00:11:26,553 We need to find out where this guy is. 243 00:11:32,391 --> 00:11:33,258 - Three years after the disappearance 244 00:11:33,792 --> 00:11:35,861 of John and Linda Sohus, 245 00:11:35,894 --> 00:11:37,863 detectives in Connecticut had uncovered 246 00:11:37,896 --> 00:11:41,300 that the truck owned by the couple was sold by Chichester 247 00:11:41,333 --> 00:11:43,535 under the alias of Chris Crowe. 248 00:11:43,569 --> 00:11:46,472 Police quickly traced Crowe's mailing address 249 00:11:46,505 --> 00:11:47,539 to his residence. 250 00:11:47,573 --> 00:11:50,109 [dramatic sting] 251 00:11:50,109 --> 00:11:52,544 - A local homeowner had a garage apartment 252 00:11:52,578 --> 00:11:54,713 on his property, 253 00:11:54,747 --> 00:11:56,415 and he rented it to Mr. Crowe. 254 00:11:56,448 --> 00:11:59,118 His landlord did mention that he appeared there 255 00:11:59,118 --> 00:12:01,086 with a white pickup truck. 256 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:03,422 After speaking with his landlord, 257 00:12:03,455 --> 00:12:06,759 I learned that Mr. Crowe had worked for a hedge fund 258 00:12:06,792 --> 00:12:08,394 in downtown Greenwich. 259 00:12:08,427 --> 00:12:12,965 [dramatic music] 260 00:12:13,065 --> 00:12:14,566 So I drive into the city 261 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:16,769 to meet up with him in the office. 262 00:12:16,802 --> 00:12:18,737 I'm going to surprise him with a surprise visit. 263 00:12:18,771 --> 00:12:20,439 I'm there at 7:00. 264 00:12:20,472 --> 00:12:23,175 Security take me upstairs to his desk, 265 00:12:23,208 --> 00:12:25,244 and I'm sitting there waiting and waiting. 266 00:12:25,277 --> 00:12:27,579 Never shows up. 267 00:12:27,613 --> 00:12:30,082 His boss tells me that he got a call from Chris 268 00:12:30,115 --> 00:12:34,420 saying that his mother and father had been kidnapped... 269 00:12:34,453 --> 00:12:36,088 in Pakistan 270 00:12:36,088 --> 00:12:38,590 and that he was going to have to take two months off 271 00:12:38,624 --> 00:12:40,893 to go look for them. 272 00:12:40,926 --> 00:12:42,861 Just a little common sense would say, 273 00:12:42,895 --> 00:12:45,764 there's something wrong here. 274 00:12:45,798 --> 00:12:47,399 His boss indicated 275 00:12:47,433 --> 00:12:50,469 that because Mr. Crowe was going to become a broker, 276 00:12:50,502 --> 00:12:52,971 the U.S. Securities and Exchange 277 00:12:53,005 --> 00:12:55,240 required fingerprints. 278 00:12:55,274 --> 00:12:58,944 And I said, so did you take his fingerprints? 279 00:12:58,977 --> 00:13:01,213 He said, yes, I did. 280 00:13:02,548 --> 00:13:05,617 His boss also gave me a few telephone numbers, 281 00:13:05,651 --> 00:13:08,721 because sometimes he stayed with these individuals. 282 00:13:10,055 --> 00:13:12,524 I reached out to a New York number. 283 00:13:12,558 --> 00:13:16,228 Mihoko Manabe picked up the phone that I had called. 284 00:13:16,261 --> 00:13:19,765 She indicated that Chris Crowe was not there, 285 00:13:19,798 --> 00:13:22,201 and she would give him the message 286 00:13:22,234 --> 00:13:25,337 that I was looking to speak with him. 287 00:13:25,371 --> 00:13:27,506 He never returned the phone call. 288 00:13:29,274 --> 00:13:30,976 The fingerprint card I got 289 00:13:31,076 --> 00:13:33,479 was placed in the national database. 290 00:13:33,512 --> 00:13:35,881 So, if Christopher ever got arrested anywhere, 291 00:13:35,914 --> 00:13:38,384 it would automatically show up 292 00:13:38,417 --> 00:13:40,085 that he was wanted in connection 293 00:13:40,085 --> 00:13:42,388 with the missing persons. 294 00:13:42,421 --> 00:13:44,923 With no other additional information 295 00:13:44,957 --> 00:13:47,226 to locate him or reach out to him, 296 00:13:47,259 --> 00:13:50,896 I ended up having to close our case. 297 00:13:50,929 --> 00:13:52,898 - Where is she? Where are they? 298 00:13:52,931 --> 00:13:54,266 What happened to them? 299 00:13:54,299 --> 00:13:56,435 I would have dreams almost every night 300 00:13:56,468 --> 00:13:58,604 where she would walk into a room, and I'd go, 301 00:13:58,637 --> 00:14:00,039 where the hell have you been? 302 00:14:00,072 --> 00:14:01,674 And she goes, I just had a trip. 303 00:14:01,707 --> 00:14:03,942 I'll tell you about it in a minute. 304 00:14:04,043 --> 00:14:06,378 - I need to wait for the detectives 305 00:14:06,412 --> 00:14:09,048 to get more information. 306 00:14:09,048 --> 00:14:11,684 I had nothing else to offer. 307 00:14:11,717 --> 00:14:14,787 I tucked Linda away. 308 00:14:14,820 --> 00:14:17,356 - In February of 1988, 309 00:14:17,389 --> 00:14:19,892 three years after John and Linda's disappearance, 310 00:14:19,925 --> 00:14:21,827 Didi passed away, 311 00:14:21,860 --> 00:14:25,364 never having learned what happened to her son. 312 00:14:25,397 --> 00:14:28,701 Without answers, Linda's disappearance left her family 313 00:14:28,734 --> 00:14:31,170 in a state of ambiguous loss. 314 00:14:31,203 --> 00:14:32,838 - Over the course of time, 315 00:14:32,871 --> 00:14:34,707 my mother didn't talk about it. 316 00:14:34,740 --> 00:14:38,344 And it only came up again 317 00:14:38,377 --> 00:14:43,349 when the house Didi was living in was sold 318 00:14:43,382 --> 00:14:47,920 and the new owners were putting in a pool. 319 00:14:47,953 --> 00:14:49,922 [dramatic sting] 320 00:14:49,955 --> 00:14:53,892 * * 321 00:14:53,926 --> 00:14:56,729 - In May of '94, 322 00:14:56,762 --> 00:15:00,866 the owner of Didi Sohus's home on Lorain Road in San Marino 323 00:15:00,899 --> 00:15:04,603 decided to build a swimming pool in the backyard. 324 00:15:04,636 --> 00:15:06,872 - As they're digging, 325 00:15:06,905 --> 00:15:09,742 they found the remains of a human. 326 00:15:09,775 --> 00:15:12,411 * * 327 00:15:12,444 --> 00:15:14,580 The head had been covered with two plastic bags 328 00:15:14,613 --> 00:15:18,717 and wrapped around his neck with a telephone wire. 329 00:15:18,751 --> 00:15:20,753 The arms and legs, torso, 330 00:15:20,786 --> 00:15:24,456 were wrapped in, like, a Saran Wrap material 331 00:15:24,490 --> 00:15:27,359 and then buried. 332 00:15:27,393 --> 00:15:30,763 - My friend Mary was watching the news, 333 00:15:30,796 --> 00:15:32,765 and she calls me up, and she goes, 334 00:15:32,798 --> 00:15:34,600 you won't freaking believe this! 335 00:15:34,633 --> 00:15:35,934 I'm like, what? 336 00:15:35,968 --> 00:15:37,302 She goes, they found bones in the backyard 337 00:15:37,336 --> 00:15:38,771 where John and Linda lived! 338 00:15:38,804 --> 00:15:40,372 And I went, what? 339 00:15:40,406 --> 00:15:42,775 - Forensic investigators spent the morning 340 00:15:42,808 --> 00:15:44,710 pulling out every possible piece of evidence 341 00:15:44,743 --> 00:15:46,078 they could find. 342 00:15:46,111 --> 00:15:48,614 - My whole body was just like, oh, my God, 343 00:15:48,647 --> 00:15:50,149 that's what has happened. 344 00:15:50,182 --> 00:15:51,784 Someone was killed. 345 00:15:51,817 --> 00:15:54,153 - Investigators believed 346 00:15:54,186 --> 00:15:56,088 that they might have finally recovered 347 00:15:56,088 --> 00:15:58,457 the bodies of John and Linda Sohus. 348 00:15:58,490 --> 00:16:00,793 Looking for signs of foul play, 349 00:16:00,826 --> 00:16:04,029 sheriff's deputies processed the entire property, 350 00:16:04,063 --> 00:16:05,431 including the guesthouse 351 00:16:05,464 --> 00:16:07,566 that the elusive Christopher Chichester 352 00:16:07,599 --> 00:16:09,234 had once lived in. 353 00:16:09,268 --> 00:16:11,303 - During the luminol process, 354 00:16:11,337 --> 00:16:15,274 they found four spots on the floor that were blood... 355 00:16:15,307 --> 00:16:18,077 and wiping details in the blood. 356 00:16:18,110 --> 00:16:20,045 [camera beeps, shutter clicks] 357 00:16:20,045 --> 00:16:22,047 * * 358 00:16:22,047 --> 00:16:24,516 This confirms a crime scene. 359 00:16:24,550 --> 00:16:26,719 No blood was taken, because at the time, 360 00:16:26,752 --> 00:16:29,822 DNA was not as sophisticated as it is now. 361 00:16:29,855 --> 00:16:32,224 * * 362 00:16:32,257 --> 00:16:35,127 - When the human remains are found in the backyard, 363 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:38,063 I knew they had to be one or both of them. 364 00:16:38,097 --> 00:16:40,499 So I have to have that mindset. 365 00:16:40,532 --> 00:16:43,635 They are dead and gone, and I will not see my friends, 366 00:16:43,669 --> 00:16:44,837 personally, ever again. 367 00:16:44,870 --> 00:16:47,606 * * 368 00:16:47,639 --> 00:16:50,376 - There was strong evidence in this case 369 00:16:50,409 --> 00:16:53,245 that these were the bones of a male 370 00:16:53,278 --> 00:16:55,748 and that this individual died 371 00:16:55,781 --> 00:16:58,517 from blunt-force head trauma. 372 00:16:58,550 --> 00:17:00,519 So one here in the frontal area, 373 00:17:00,552 --> 00:17:03,255 and the others were here on the right side of the skull, 374 00:17:03,288 --> 00:17:06,558 but extending into the temporal bone. 375 00:17:06,592 --> 00:17:09,128 But there was an issue as to whether or not 376 00:17:09,161 --> 00:17:11,430 he might also have been stabbed. 377 00:17:11,463 --> 00:17:15,434 The clothing showed some slits. 378 00:17:15,467 --> 00:17:18,170 One of these shows what appears to be 379 00:17:18,203 --> 00:17:22,408 a well-defined, small slit in the fabric. 380 00:17:22,441 --> 00:17:25,077 There was another such slit 381 00:17:25,110 --> 00:17:29,114 consistent with stab wounds. 382 00:17:29,148 --> 00:17:31,116 [dramatic sting] 383 00:17:31,150 --> 00:17:35,220 * * 384 00:17:35,254 --> 00:17:37,890 - You know, it's a reasonable assumption 385 00:17:37,923 --> 00:17:40,092 that those remains would be John's. 386 00:17:40,125 --> 00:17:42,728 Sadly, they were not identified, 387 00:17:42,761 --> 00:17:44,897 because he's adopted. 388 00:17:44,930 --> 00:17:46,865 Biological mother is deceased. 389 00:17:46,899 --> 00:17:51,403 There's no biological dad that we know of. 390 00:17:51,437 --> 00:17:54,106 - Without any biological evidence or dental records 391 00:17:54,139 --> 00:17:55,607 to work from, 392 00:17:55,641 --> 00:17:57,376 investigators took another dive 393 00:17:57,409 --> 00:17:59,645 into Christopher Chichester's background 394 00:17:59,678 --> 00:18:02,748 to figure out what might have caused this con man 395 00:18:02,781 --> 00:18:04,717 to turn into a killer. 396 00:18:04,750 --> 00:18:09,922 - Gerhartsreiter came to Connecticut in '79 397 00:18:10,022 --> 00:18:12,257 as a German exchange student. 398 00:18:12,291 --> 00:18:13,826 He was 16 years of age. 399 00:18:13,859 --> 00:18:15,861 And he stayed with residents there 400 00:18:15,894 --> 00:18:19,331 who are accustomed to taking in exchange students. 401 00:18:19,365 --> 00:18:21,934 They hadn't heard from him in years. 402 00:18:22,034 --> 00:18:24,870 - In Berlin, Connecticut, we found that 403 00:18:24,903 --> 00:18:26,872 Christopher Gerhartsreiter 404 00:18:26,905 --> 00:18:30,943 left for the University of Milwaukee, Stevens Point, 405 00:18:31,043 --> 00:18:33,946 and he had shortened his name while he was in school 406 00:18:34,046 --> 00:18:35,848 to Christian Gerhart. 407 00:18:35,881 --> 00:18:40,652 And then he showed up at the USC film school as Chichester. 408 00:18:40,686 --> 00:18:43,555 * * 409 00:18:43,589 --> 00:18:47,626 - At some point, USC film student Christopher Chichester 410 00:18:47,659 --> 00:18:48,794 became a baronet 411 00:18:48,827 --> 00:18:50,929 and then later became Chris Crowe, 412 00:18:50,963 --> 00:18:54,867 a former movie producer turned finance manager. 413 00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:59,805 - Every time he wanted to reinvent himself as somebody-- 414 00:18:59,838 --> 00:19:04,009 as somebody of importance, somebody of wealth. 415 00:19:04,009 --> 00:19:06,011 - We clearly know it's a murder, 416 00:19:06,011 --> 00:19:08,013 and we have a person of interest. 417 00:19:08,013 --> 00:19:10,482 But he kept changing his name, 418 00:19:10,516 --> 00:19:14,353 so we were one step behind him the whole way. 419 00:19:14,386 --> 00:19:16,021 And so the case went cold. 420 00:19:16,021 --> 00:19:18,824 * * 421 00:19:18,857 --> 00:19:22,027 Fast-forward to 2008. 422 00:19:22,027 --> 00:19:25,397 - Clark Rockefeller allegedly grabbed his daughter Reigh 423 00:19:25,431 --> 00:19:28,033 during a supervised visit in Boston. 424 00:19:28,033 --> 00:19:30,269 - July 27, 2008, 425 00:19:30,302 --> 00:19:32,171 a man going by the name Clark Rockefeller 426 00:19:32,204 --> 00:19:36,041 is going through a bad divorce with his wife, Sandra Boss, 427 00:19:36,041 --> 00:19:38,344 and he kidnaps his daughter. 428 00:19:38,377 --> 00:19:40,913 - And then fled in this SUV to New York, 429 00:19:40,946 --> 00:19:44,049 where they were last seen at Grand Central Station. 430 00:19:44,049 --> 00:19:46,051 - And it becomes national news 431 00:19:46,051 --> 00:19:48,053 because of the last name, Rockefeller. 432 00:19:48,053 --> 00:19:50,055 Suddenly, it's everywhere. 433 00:19:55,462 --> 00:19:57,330 - 23 years after the unsolved disappearance 434 00:19:57,864 --> 00:19:59,899 of John and Linda Sohus, 435 00:20:00,066 --> 00:20:02,135 authorities would finally catch a break 436 00:20:02,168 --> 00:20:05,805 when a seemingly unrelated case broke national headlines. 437 00:20:05,839 --> 00:20:08,141 [dramatic sting] 438 00:20:08,174 --> 00:20:09,809 - She's believed to be in danger 439 00:20:09,843 --> 00:20:12,178 and may be traveling with Clark Rockefeller. 440 00:20:12,212 --> 00:20:14,914 - Days after Clark Rockefeller kidnapped his daughter, 441 00:20:14,948 --> 00:20:17,650 we get a call from a real-estate agent. 442 00:20:17,684 --> 00:20:21,454 She watched the "Today" show with Clark Rockefeller, 443 00:20:21,488 --> 00:20:23,123 and she said, I immediately recognized him. 444 00:20:23,156 --> 00:20:24,858 That's Chip Smith. 445 00:20:24,891 --> 00:20:26,226 I just sold him a house. 446 00:20:26,259 --> 00:20:28,395 So she calls the FBI. 447 00:20:28,428 --> 00:20:32,599 [dramatic music] 448 00:20:32,632 --> 00:20:34,834 - The FBI are able to get him 449 00:20:34,868 --> 00:20:35,969 out of this apartment 450 00:20:36,002 --> 00:20:37,037 on a ruse. 451 00:20:37,070 --> 00:20:38,838 And as he walks out onto the street, 452 00:20:38,872 --> 00:20:40,340 thinking he's Chip Smith, 453 00:20:40,373 --> 00:20:43,176 an FBI agent hollers out, hey, Clark! 454 00:20:43,209 --> 00:20:44,678 And he turns around. 455 00:20:44,711 --> 00:20:47,347 * * 456 00:20:47,380 --> 00:20:49,683 - Chip Smith, aka Rockefeller, 457 00:20:49,716 --> 00:20:52,052 is immediately grabbed by the FBI, 458 00:20:52,085 --> 00:20:55,488 and so he is arrested for parental kidnapping. 459 00:20:55,522 --> 00:20:58,725 When he is fingerprinted back in Boston, 460 00:20:58,758 --> 00:21:01,895 bells and whistles go off because the fingerprint card 461 00:21:01,928 --> 00:21:05,398 collected by Detective Allen had been put in the system 462 00:21:05,432 --> 00:21:07,867 as Gerhartsreiter. 463 00:21:07,901 --> 00:21:11,204 - This man, who had eluded investigators for decades 464 00:21:11,237 --> 00:21:14,507 by changing his identity from Christian Gerhartsreiter 465 00:21:14,541 --> 00:21:18,411 to Chris Gerhart to Christopher Chichester 466 00:21:18,445 --> 00:21:21,314 to Chris Crowe to Clark Rockefeller 467 00:21:21,348 --> 00:21:23,283 was finally in custody. 468 00:21:23,316 --> 00:21:26,553 - The fact that this new Rockefeller-- 469 00:21:26,586 --> 00:21:28,321 I call him Crockefeller-- 470 00:21:28,355 --> 00:21:32,525 is all of a sudden linked to this creepy guy 471 00:21:32,559 --> 00:21:36,930 that Linda mentioned in an offhand comment back in 1983, 472 00:21:36,963 --> 00:21:41,901 and it all rolls back to him, I'm just flabbergasted. 473 00:21:41,935 --> 00:21:45,305 - So you go through all sorts of different emotions. 474 00:21:45,338 --> 00:21:49,476 Anger, frustration, sadness. 475 00:22:03,390 --> 00:22:05,358 - I've seen him on photos, 476 00:22:05,392 --> 00:22:06,359 but here he is. 477 00:22:06,393 --> 00:22:07,594 He's living flesh. 478 00:22:22,475 --> 00:22:25,145 - The man of many names was sentenced 479 00:22:25,178 --> 00:22:29,115 to five years in prison for parental kidnapping. 480 00:22:29,149 --> 00:22:32,619 As he sat behind bars, authorities in Los Angeles 481 00:22:32,652 --> 00:22:35,922 were finally able to start building a murder case. 482 00:22:35,955 --> 00:22:37,857 * * 483 00:22:37,891 --> 00:22:40,160 - I was given the file and said, 484 00:22:40,193 --> 00:22:41,695 you're going to Major Crimes. 485 00:22:41,728 --> 00:22:43,163 And by the way, we got a good case for you. 486 00:22:43,196 --> 00:22:44,431 You're prosecuting a Rockefeller. 487 00:22:44,464 --> 00:22:45,799 I'm like, a Rockefeller? 488 00:22:45,832 --> 00:22:47,434 They're like, well, it's not a real Rockefeller. 489 00:22:47,467 --> 00:22:48,968 - George said that when he interviewed him, 490 00:22:49,002 --> 00:22:51,671 he was going by the name of Chris Chichester. 491 00:22:51,705 --> 00:22:53,973 - It's easy to get confused when there's so many names 492 00:22:54,007 --> 00:22:55,842 for one person. - I understand. 493 00:22:55,875 --> 00:22:59,179 - They let me know, this is going to be a long road. 494 00:22:59,212 --> 00:23:00,880 This is a complicated case. 495 00:23:00,914 --> 00:23:02,549 And I told them, 496 00:23:02,582 --> 00:23:05,051 I'm absolutely in on this case. 497 00:23:05,051 --> 00:23:07,687 And the next time... both: He surfaces... 498 00:23:07,721 --> 00:23:09,356 - He's Rockefeller. - He's this guy right here. 499 00:23:09,389 --> 00:23:11,124 - Mr. Rockefeller. - Right. 500 00:23:11,157 --> 00:23:13,460 - As the team built their case, 501 00:23:13,493 --> 00:23:17,330 a clear motive came into focus--money. 502 00:23:19,065 --> 00:23:22,202 - When John and Linda Sohus went on this "trip" 503 00:23:22,235 --> 00:23:25,572 for a secret government job interview in New York, 504 00:23:25,605 --> 00:23:27,474 they left Didi behind. 505 00:23:27,507 --> 00:23:28,842 And Didi was older. 506 00:23:28,875 --> 00:23:31,845 She was of ill health, and she was alone. 507 00:23:31,878 --> 00:23:35,615 - Didi was convinced John had abandoned her 508 00:23:35,648 --> 00:23:37,217 for this new wife. 509 00:23:37,250 --> 00:23:41,087 She wrote him out of her will. 510 00:23:41,087 --> 00:23:43,490 The San Marino house was valuable. 511 00:23:43,523 --> 00:23:47,827 I believe $310,000 in 1985. 512 00:23:47,861 --> 00:23:50,530 - With John and Linda Sohus out of the way, 513 00:23:50,563 --> 00:23:52,832 Christopher Gerhartsreiter, 514 00:23:52,866 --> 00:23:56,536 aka Chris Chichester, 515 00:23:56,569 --> 00:23:59,906 would have been home alone with Didi Sohus-- 516 00:23:59,939 --> 00:24:03,576 a vulnerable old woman sitting on a large property 517 00:24:03,610 --> 00:24:06,780 in a wealthy San Marino neighborhood. 518 00:24:06,813 --> 00:24:09,249 - Though Didi had never gone through with it, 519 00:24:09,282 --> 00:24:11,051 prosecutors theorized 520 00:24:11,084 --> 00:24:13,219 that she had been compelled to leave her estate 521 00:24:13,253 --> 00:24:15,955 to the only person who had stood by her side-- 522 00:24:16,056 --> 00:24:17,857 Chichester. 523 00:24:17,891 --> 00:24:20,260 To help ensure a conviction, 524 00:24:20,293 --> 00:24:22,696 prosecutor Balian had investigators review 525 00:24:22,729 --> 00:24:24,831 all the evidence associated 526 00:24:24,864 --> 00:24:27,233 with John and Linda Sohus's disappearance. 527 00:24:27,267 --> 00:24:29,703 * * 528 00:24:29,736 --> 00:24:31,738 - Sue, Linda's mother, 529 00:24:31,771 --> 00:24:33,573 all got postcards from Paris, France. 530 00:24:33,606 --> 00:24:36,209 They're all dated the same day. 531 00:24:36,242 --> 00:24:37,577 "Kinda missed New York-- 532 00:24:37,610 --> 00:24:40,747 oops--but this can be lived with." 533 00:24:40,780 --> 00:24:42,282 Some of the language in it 534 00:24:42,315 --> 00:24:45,452 doesn't sound like English as a first language, 535 00:24:45,485 --> 00:24:48,254 like "this can be lived with." 536 00:24:48,288 --> 00:24:51,091 Those postcards could have been written under duress. 537 00:24:51,091 --> 00:24:53,293 We thought he was the guy who mailed them. 538 00:24:53,326 --> 00:24:55,628 - You know, maybe somebody says to them, 539 00:24:55,662 --> 00:24:57,464 hey, we're going on a secret mission, 540 00:24:57,497 --> 00:25:01,434 but we need to make sure that nobody knows where you are. 541 00:25:01,468 --> 00:25:03,036 So, if you don't mind, 542 00:25:03,036 --> 00:25:05,905 can you write out a couple of postcards for me? 543 00:25:05,939 --> 00:25:07,907 Well, who wouldn't do that? 544 00:25:07,941 --> 00:25:09,943 You're already buying into the secret mission. 545 00:25:10,043 --> 00:25:12,679 Why not a little bit of James Bond cover? 546 00:25:12,712 --> 00:25:14,647 [dramatic sting] 547 00:25:14,681 --> 00:25:16,950 * * 548 00:25:17,050 --> 00:25:19,285 - I was still working the case, 549 00:25:19,319 --> 00:25:21,721 trying to run down leads. 550 00:25:21,755 --> 00:25:25,225 We went into the city to interview Mihoko 551 00:25:25,258 --> 00:25:27,060 at the FBI office. 552 00:25:27,093 --> 00:25:30,797 She goes, before we say anything, I have to, uh-- 553 00:25:30,830 --> 00:25:33,333 I have to apologize to Detective Allen. 554 00:25:33,366 --> 00:25:35,835 And I said, why would you have to apologize to me? 555 00:25:35,869 --> 00:25:37,804 And she says, well, the day you called 556 00:25:37,837 --> 00:25:39,939 and I told you he wasn't there, 557 00:25:39,973 --> 00:25:42,776 he was standing next to me. 558 00:25:42,809 --> 00:25:45,478 She continued to say that he had told her 559 00:25:45,512 --> 00:25:47,814 that I was not a detective, 560 00:25:47,847 --> 00:25:51,184 that I was a hired hit man out to kill him. 561 00:25:53,086 --> 00:25:55,622 - There's this bad man. He's not the police. 562 00:25:55,655 --> 00:25:57,557 They kidnapped my parents. 563 00:25:57,590 --> 00:26:00,026 We're probably going to have to go on the run, 564 00:26:00,026 --> 00:26:02,595 so you need to go on the run with me. 565 00:26:11,071 --> 00:26:12,138 - While Clark Rockefeller was sitting behind bars 566 00:26:12,939 --> 00:26:15,141 for the kidnapping of his daughter, 567 00:26:15,175 --> 00:26:17,911 investigators continued to track the backstory 568 00:26:17,944 --> 00:26:20,480 of the shapeshifting suspected murderer 569 00:26:20,513 --> 00:26:23,049 of John and Linda Sohus. 570 00:26:23,083 --> 00:26:26,152 [dramatic sting] 571 00:26:26,186 --> 00:26:29,923 Investigators learned that Rockefeller, as Chris Crowe, 572 00:26:29,956 --> 00:26:33,660 had tricked Mihoko Manabe into going on the run with him. 573 00:26:33,693 --> 00:26:36,863 - So he dyes his hair, grows a beard. 574 00:26:36,896 --> 00:26:40,333 They threw their trash, you know, in dumpsters. 575 00:26:40,367 --> 00:26:43,069 They would walk on opposite sides of the street 576 00:26:43,069 --> 00:26:44,871 in case they were being followed. 577 00:26:48,842 --> 00:26:51,277 - After eight years of life on the run, 578 00:26:51,311 --> 00:26:53,079 the two finally split up. 579 00:26:53,079 --> 00:26:56,483 [dramatic music] 580 00:26:56,516 --> 00:26:59,919 Mihoko married another man, but gave Clark 581 00:27:00,020 --> 00:27:03,757 her Upper East Side New York apartment in 1992. 582 00:27:06,393 --> 00:27:08,862 - I met Clark Rockefeller for the first time 583 00:27:08,895 --> 00:27:11,865 when he moved into my building. 584 00:27:11,898 --> 00:27:13,867 He was kind of paranoid. 585 00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:18,204 He was kind of an odd duck but a very nice person. 586 00:27:18,238 --> 00:27:20,540 I just took it in stride, of this is-- 587 00:27:20,573 --> 00:27:24,210 the eccentricity of Clark Rockefeller. 588 00:27:24,244 --> 00:27:27,681 Soon after I'd met him, Clark rings me up on the phone. 589 00:27:27,714 --> 00:27:29,082 [line trilling] 590 00:27:29,115 --> 00:27:31,584 Says, you know, Martha, I need your advice. 591 00:27:31,618 --> 00:27:34,220 He says, you know, I've inherited some paintings. 592 00:27:34,254 --> 00:27:38,725 I said, okay, Clark. So tell me, what do you have? 593 00:27:38,758 --> 00:27:41,327 And he says, well, I have this artist, you know. 594 00:27:41,361 --> 00:27:42,962 I don't know if you've ever heard of him. 595 00:27:43,063 --> 00:27:46,132 His name is Jackson Pollock. 596 00:27:46,166 --> 00:27:49,402 And I've got, you know, somebody named Rothko, 597 00:27:49,436 --> 00:27:52,405 oh, and then there's this artist named Mondrian. 598 00:27:52,439 --> 00:27:55,208 Have you ever heard of these artists? 599 00:27:55,241 --> 00:27:56,676 So I'm like-- 600 00:27:56,710 --> 00:27:58,211 I had already been sitting down, 601 00:27:58,244 --> 00:28:00,347 because if I hadn't been, I would have been on the floor. 602 00:28:00,380 --> 00:28:03,416 And he said, can you come over right now and take a look? 603 00:28:03,450 --> 00:28:07,721 So, you know, like, in ten seconds, I'm next door. 604 00:28:07,754 --> 00:28:10,123 And there they were. 605 00:28:10,156 --> 00:28:12,826 They were, you know, hanging on the walls. 606 00:28:12,859 --> 00:28:14,427 And I said, how did you get these? 607 00:28:14,461 --> 00:28:17,030 And he said, well, you know, my great-aunt Blanchette, 608 00:28:17,030 --> 00:28:20,033 you know, died recently, and maybe you've heard of her. 609 00:28:20,066 --> 00:28:21,434 You know, she started that little old museum 610 00:28:21,468 --> 00:28:24,037 on 53rd Street-- the Museum of Modern Art. 611 00:28:24,037 --> 00:28:25,905 I said, oh, yeah, yeah. 612 00:28:25,939 --> 00:28:28,708 So of course she would own paintings like this. 613 00:28:28,742 --> 00:28:31,845 And she had died within this timeframe. 614 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:35,615 [dramatic sting] 615 00:28:35,648 --> 00:28:38,184 I invited Clark to an opening 616 00:28:38,218 --> 00:28:41,154 of a contemporary artist that I was showing. 617 00:28:41,187 --> 00:28:44,891 This was the first time Clark came out 618 00:28:44,924 --> 00:28:47,327 as an art collector. 619 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,964 - These are purportedly famous paintings. 620 00:28:51,064 --> 00:28:53,400 Turned out, they were all fraudulent. 621 00:28:53,433 --> 00:28:55,068 - I've never doubted they were real, 622 00:28:55,068 --> 00:28:56,903 and I'm not the only person to say that. 623 00:28:56,936 --> 00:28:59,305 The director of Knoedler Gallery, 624 00:28:59,339 --> 00:29:01,141 one of the heads of Sotheby's-- 625 00:29:01,174 --> 00:29:05,345 they agree that the art that they saw in his home was real. 626 00:29:05,378 --> 00:29:09,015 So he was able to open up 627 00:29:09,049 --> 00:29:14,054 all kinds of new social circles for himself. 628 00:29:14,087 --> 00:29:17,390 - Detectives learn that these affluent social circles 629 00:29:17,424 --> 00:29:20,827 is how Clark Rockefeller met Sandra Boss. 630 00:29:20,860 --> 00:29:23,263 * * 631 00:29:23,296 --> 00:29:25,832 - Clark Rockefeller met Sandra Boss 632 00:29:25,865 --> 00:29:28,335 at a party he threw, 633 00:29:28,368 --> 00:29:31,805 and they formed a relationship and fell in love. 634 00:29:31,838 --> 00:29:33,506 - Ultimately, they get married. 635 00:29:33,540 --> 00:29:37,210 Sandra Boss is a smart and beautiful woman. 636 00:29:37,243 --> 00:29:40,513 She went to Stanford and then Harvard Business School. 637 00:29:40,547 --> 00:29:44,184 She worked for a large engineering company. 638 00:29:44,217 --> 00:29:46,519 She made a couple million dollars a year. 639 00:29:46,553 --> 00:29:48,688 And then Sandra got pregnant. 640 00:29:48,722 --> 00:29:50,957 * * 641 00:29:51,057 --> 00:29:52,792 When the daughter came around, 642 00:29:52,826 --> 00:29:54,894 he became the caretaker of the daughter. 643 00:29:54,928 --> 00:29:58,365 So he was Mr. Mom while she went to work. 644 00:29:58,398 --> 00:30:01,034 - Clark Rockefeller, financially, didn't contribute 645 00:30:01,067 --> 00:30:03,503 anything to their household. 646 00:30:03,536 --> 00:30:06,706 - He told her the family was tied up in litigation 647 00:30:06,740 --> 00:30:08,408 over a submarine contract 648 00:30:08,441 --> 00:30:11,544 and can't access his money for a while, 649 00:30:11,578 --> 00:30:15,148 but any day now, the millions would come rolling in. 650 00:30:15,181 --> 00:30:17,083 And the whole time they were married, 651 00:30:17,117 --> 00:30:19,452 he had full control of her money. 652 00:30:19,486 --> 00:30:22,255 - Investigators learn that after years 653 00:30:22,288 --> 00:30:25,125 of funding her husband's extravagant lifestyle, 654 00:30:25,158 --> 00:30:28,294 Sandra eventually filed for divorce. 655 00:30:28,328 --> 00:30:29,562 [dramatic sting] 656 00:30:29,596 --> 00:30:32,465 - During the divorce process, Sandra Boss found out 657 00:30:32,499 --> 00:30:35,235 that Clark Rockefeller didn't exist. 658 00:30:35,268 --> 00:30:37,537 * * 659 00:30:37,570 --> 00:30:39,172 She's hired a private detective 660 00:30:39,205 --> 00:30:42,575 who cannot find a trace of Clark Rockefeller. 661 00:30:42,609 --> 00:30:46,913 So they're in a custody battle in the city of Boston, 662 00:30:46,946 --> 00:30:49,215 and she's very insistent with the judge 663 00:30:49,249 --> 00:30:50,984 that he not have visitation, 664 00:30:51,017 --> 00:30:52,952 'cause he will disappear with his daughter 665 00:30:52,986 --> 00:30:55,588 and she will never be able to find him. 666 00:30:55,622 --> 00:30:57,791 So he gives up the battle for custody, 667 00:30:57,824 --> 00:31:00,060 and he is bought off for $800,000 668 00:31:00,060 --> 00:31:02,195 by Sandra Boss in the divorce. 669 00:31:02,228 --> 00:31:05,532 The judge orders monitored visitation. 670 00:31:05,565 --> 00:31:07,901 - During one of those monitored visits, 671 00:31:07,934 --> 00:31:10,070 he kidnapped his daughter 672 00:31:10,070 --> 00:31:12,505 right in front of the monitor and drove away 673 00:31:12,539 --> 00:31:17,077 and took on a new identity-- Chip Smith. 674 00:31:17,110 --> 00:31:20,313 - And then he is arrested for parental kidnapping. 675 00:31:20,347 --> 00:31:22,248 * * 676 00:31:22,282 --> 00:31:24,117 - As investigators piece together 677 00:31:24,150 --> 00:31:26,753 decades' worth of aliases and cons, 678 00:31:26,786 --> 00:31:31,091 identifying John Sohus's body still remained an obstacle. 679 00:31:32,158 --> 00:31:35,128 - John Sohus was adopted. 680 00:31:35,161 --> 00:31:39,099 We had to unseal the adoption records. 681 00:31:39,132 --> 00:31:41,134 But then his biological mother-- 682 00:31:41,167 --> 00:31:43,937 she had since passed and was cremated. 683 00:31:43,970 --> 00:31:46,106 The father on the birth certificate-- 684 00:31:46,139 --> 00:31:48,441 track him down... 685 00:31:48,475 --> 00:31:49,976 take his DNA. 686 00:31:50,010 --> 00:31:52,178 However, it was not a match. 687 00:31:52,212 --> 00:31:57,017 So then found a half-sibling 688 00:31:57,117 --> 00:31:59,486 with the same biological mother. 689 00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:02,822 She agreed to provide DNA samples. 690 00:32:02,856 --> 00:32:07,861 The DNA from the half-sibling matched the skull. 691 00:32:07,894 --> 00:32:11,664 Finally, we had a positive identification 692 00:32:11,698 --> 00:32:13,500 on John Sohus. 693 00:32:21,507 --> 00:32:23,208 - More than two decades after he disappeared, 694 00:32:24,143 --> 00:32:27,312 the remains found in Didi Sohus's backyard 695 00:32:27,346 --> 00:32:30,649 had finally been identified as her son, John. 696 00:32:30,683 --> 00:32:32,651 [dramatic sting] 697 00:32:32,685 --> 00:32:35,654 [dramatic music] 698 00:32:35,688 --> 00:32:37,890 * * 699 00:32:37,923 --> 00:32:41,226 - It was pretty apparent that Christian Gerhartsreiter, 700 00:32:41,260 --> 00:32:43,195 also known as Clark Rockefeller, 701 00:32:43,228 --> 00:32:46,965 killed this couple to protect his lifestyle. 702 00:32:46,999 --> 00:32:50,269 They were a young couple, recently married, 703 00:32:50,302 --> 00:32:52,504 living in Mom's home, 704 00:32:52,538 --> 00:32:54,473 when there's a guesthouse just a few feet away 705 00:32:54,506 --> 00:32:56,608 that they could be living in. 706 00:32:56,642 --> 00:32:59,678 And he occupied that guesthouse, 707 00:32:59,712 --> 00:33:02,948 and I'm sure he felt challenged that he might lose 708 00:33:03,048 --> 00:33:05,584 that residence in San Marino. 709 00:33:05,617 --> 00:33:08,854 He loved his position in San Marino. 710 00:33:08,887 --> 00:33:12,624 He loved being the 13th Baronet of England. 711 00:33:12,658 --> 00:33:15,260 And John and Linda Sohus, 712 00:33:15,294 --> 00:33:17,696 who likely wanted to live in that guesthouse, 713 00:33:17,730 --> 00:33:20,699 challenged his status in that community. 714 00:33:20,733 --> 00:33:24,336 And that likely played into this confrontation 715 00:33:24,370 --> 00:33:26,138 which led to death. 716 00:33:26,171 --> 00:33:28,140 [camera shutter clicking] 717 00:33:28,173 --> 00:33:30,843 There was no DNA, no fingerprints, 718 00:33:30,876 --> 00:33:34,079 no hair fibers, no forensic evidence whatsoever 719 00:33:34,113 --> 00:33:37,116 connecting this man to the crime. 720 00:33:37,149 --> 00:33:38,617 That's not surprising. 721 00:33:38,650 --> 00:33:41,086 Too much time had passed. 722 00:33:41,086 --> 00:33:44,089 What we did find is that whoever 723 00:33:44,123 --> 00:33:46,125 wrapped this body in plastic 724 00:33:46,158 --> 00:33:49,261 used two bags to cover the body's head. 725 00:33:49,294 --> 00:33:50,996 One of the bags was from 726 00:33:51,096 --> 00:33:54,400 the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee bookstore, 727 00:33:54,433 --> 00:33:58,470 and the other was from the USC bookstore. 728 00:33:58,504 --> 00:34:03,042 Only one person lived at 1920 Lorain Road, 729 00:34:03,075 --> 00:34:05,678 attended the University of Wisconsin 730 00:34:05,711 --> 00:34:07,746 and attended USC. 731 00:34:07,780 --> 00:34:10,916 * * 732 00:34:10,949 --> 00:34:12,885 I believe the clear motive in this killing 733 00:34:12,918 --> 00:34:15,387 was to protect his status and his identity 734 00:34:15,421 --> 00:34:17,322 in the San Marino neighborhood. 735 00:34:17,356 --> 00:34:19,692 I believe Christian Gerhartsreiter 736 00:34:19,725 --> 00:34:23,462 killed John and Linda Sohus in cold blood. 737 00:34:23,495 --> 00:34:28,067 He then fled, and he entered a new life of deceit, 738 00:34:28,067 --> 00:34:31,704 manipulation, and greed. 739 00:34:31,737 --> 00:34:34,073 - The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department 740 00:34:34,073 --> 00:34:35,774 charged Christian Gerhartsreiter 741 00:34:35,808 --> 00:34:37,776 for the murder of John Sohus. 742 00:34:37,810 --> 00:34:42,314 * * 743 00:34:42,348 --> 00:34:44,783 - I knew that Linda had disappeared with John 744 00:34:44,817 --> 00:34:48,087 and was never seen again, 745 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:49,955 but I didn't have her body. 746 00:34:49,988 --> 00:34:54,993 We made a tactical decision not to charge the defendant 747 00:34:55,094 --> 00:34:56,795 with the murder of Linda Sohus. 748 00:34:56,829 --> 00:35:00,766 * * 749 00:35:00,799 --> 00:35:05,938 This is just a small fraction of what our large poster wall 750 00:35:06,038 --> 00:35:09,041 would have looked like when we were unraveling 751 00:35:09,041 --> 00:35:12,044 these identities. 752 00:35:12,044 --> 00:35:13,512 So this man went 753 00:35:13,545 --> 00:35:18,117 from German immigrant Christian Gerhartsreiter 754 00:35:18,150 --> 00:35:20,552 to Christopher Chichester, 755 00:35:20,586 --> 00:35:23,389 the 13th Baronet of England, 756 00:35:23,422 --> 00:35:25,924 to Chris Crowe, the bond trader 757 00:35:25,958 --> 00:35:28,927 who worked at Kidder, Peabody, 758 00:35:28,961 --> 00:35:32,564 to Clark Rockefeller, the wealthy scion 759 00:35:32,598 --> 00:35:34,833 of the great Rockefeller family. 760 00:35:34,867 --> 00:35:36,835 * * 761 00:35:36,869 --> 00:35:39,805 The common thread behind all of these alter egos 762 00:35:39,838 --> 00:35:41,607 that he took on 763 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,109 is that they were all based 764 00:35:44,143 --> 00:35:47,346 on wealth and power. 765 00:35:47,379 --> 00:35:48,847 This was not a situation 766 00:35:48,881 --> 00:35:51,583 of someone who just wanted to start a new life. 767 00:35:51,617 --> 00:35:54,086 This is someone who had to run, 768 00:35:54,086 --> 00:35:56,088 who had to change his identity 769 00:35:56,088 --> 00:35:57,856 because he was escaping murder. 770 00:35:57,890 --> 00:36:00,092 * * 771 00:36:00,125 --> 00:36:02,261 [dramatic sting] 772 00:36:02,294 --> 00:36:04,863 - The murder trial of a con man-- 773 00:36:04,897 --> 00:36:08,867 he's a German-born scam artist whose best known alias 774 00:36:08,901 --> 00:36:10,769 is Clark Rockefeller, 775 00:36:10,803 --> 00:36:12,638 and now he's on trial in California 776 00:36:12,671 --> 00:36:14,707 for a lurid cold-case killing. 777 00:36:14,740 --> 00:36:18,310 - The main trial happened in March of 2013. 778 00:36:18,344 --> 00:36:20,846 So I attended the trial. 779 00:36:20,879 --> 00:36:23,882 There was no way I was going to look over at Gerhartsreiter, 780 00:36:23,916 --> 00:36:25,451 because I didn't want to ever, 781 00:36:25,484 --> 00:36:27,286 like, mistakenly get eye contact. 782 00:36:27,319 --> 00:36:29,621 But he hardly ever looked up. 783 00:36:29,655 --> 00:36:31,590 * * 784 00:36:31,623 --> 00:36:34,460 - I knew when this case began that I was going to explain 785 00:36:34,493 --> 00:36:37,629 to this jury that this was a con man 786 00:36:37,663 --> 00:36:39,631 who thought he was smarter than them, 787 00:36:39,665 --> 00:36:42,901 a fabulist who told wild stories 788 00:36:42,935 --> 00:36:45,871 to convince people of whatever he wanted to, 789 00:36:45,904 --> 00:36:50,175 a master manipulator who always had a lie in his back pocket 790 00:36:50,209 --> 00:36:53,212 to pull out when he needed to. 791 00:36:53,245 --> 00:36:56,515 But we didn't want to let the defendant's lies 792 00:36:56,548 --> 00:36:59,918 and who he was overshadow what had happened. 793 00:37:00,019 --> 00:37:04,156 This was a brutal, cold-blooded murder. 794 00:37:04,189 --> 00:37:06,925 It's about John Sohus, 795 00:37:07,026 --> 00:37:10,629 who was brutally bludgeoned repeatedly in the head. 796 00:37:10,662 --> 00:37:12,698 We knew that from the very beginning. 797 00:37:12,731 --> 00:37:16,702 The defense had one choice, and that's to tell this jury 798 00:37:16,735 --> 00:37:18,937 that Linda Sohus was the master killer. 799 00:37:19,038 --> 00:37:22,574 She killed her husband, she buried him in her backyard, 800 00:37:22,608 --> 00:37:24,810 and she fled to Paris, France, 801 00:37:24,843 --> 00:37:27,379 where she mailed these postcards. 802 00:37:27,413 --> 00:37:30,849 So I started with Linda, not the defendant's lies, 803 00:37:30,883 --> 00:37:33,852 and I told the jury who she was. 804 00:37:33,886 --> 00:37:36,355 This is not a killer, ladies and gentlemen. 805 00:37:36,388 --> 00:37:40,459 This is a fun, silly, nonviolent person 806 00:37:40,492 --> 00:37:43,195 with a great sense of humor. 807 00:37:43,228 --> 00:37:45,664 She was all about having fun 808 00:37:45,698 --> 00:37:48,634 with those she loved best, 809 00:37:48,667 --> 00:37:50,703 with John. 810 00:37:50,736 --> 00:37:53,205 This was a happy couple, ladies and gentlemen. 811 00:37:53,238 --> 00:37:54,973 This was a happy couple. 812 00:37:55,074 --> 00:37:58,644 And I told that story to the jury from the very beginning, 813 00:37:58,677 --> 00:38:01,013 before I even mentioned Christian Gerhartsreiter, 814 00:38:01,013 --> 00:38:03,115 because I wanted the jury to understand 815 00:38:03,148 --> 00:38:07,019 who these people were and how nonsensical it would be 816 00:38:07,019 --> 00:38:08,454 that Linda Sohus, 817 00:38:08,487 --> 00:38:11,690 when her relationship with John was blooming, 818 00:38:11,724 --> 00:38:16,395 would just kill him for no reason 819 00:38:16,428 --> 00:38:18,897 and disappear and abandon her friends, 820 00:38:18,931 --> 00:38:23,602 abandon her family, which she loved dearly. 821 00:38:23,635 --> 00:38:26,038 To me, this case was clear-- 822 00:38:26,038 --> 00:38:29,942 the vast amount of circumstantial evidence, 823 00:38:30,042 --> 00:38:34,613 coupled with his manipulation, lies, and deceit. 824 00:38:34,646 --> 00:38:39,351 Was it Linda Sohus, the loving wife of the victim, 825 00:38:39,385 --> 00:38:43,255 or was it this masterful manipulator 826 00:38:43,288 --> 00:38:46,525 who lies incessantly? 827 00:38:46,558 --> 00:38:49,428 Which one of those two killed John Sohus? 828 00:38:49,461 --> 00:38:50,896 I think the choice was clear. 829 00:38:57,237 --> 00:38:59,673 - LA County DA Balian presented a powerful case 830 00:39:00,607 --> 00:39:03,209 that showed a career con man covering up 831 00:39:03,243 --> 00:39:06,312 a murder motivated by greed. 832 00:39:06,346 --> 00:39:09,182 To prove it, he highlighted previous testimony 833 00:39:09,215 --> 00:39:12,152 from Clark Rockefeller's high-powered ex-wife, 834 00:39:12,185 --> 00:39:13,653 Sandra Boss. 835 00:39:13,687 --> 00:39:15,655 - He made a big effort of borrowing 836 00:39:15,689 --> 00:39:18,324 some expensive jewelry from his family. 837 00:39:18,358 --> 00:39:19,693 He was very intelligent. 838 00:39:19,726 --> 00:39:21,227 He was one of the most intelligent people 839 00:39:21,261 --> 00:39:22,562 that I'd ever known. 840 00:39:22,595 --> 00:39:25,598 He told me that his parents 841 00:39:25,632 --> 00:39:29,135 were George Rockefeller 842 00:39:29,169 --> 00:39:33,039 and Mary Roberts. 843 00:39:33,073 --> 00:39:35,041 - Sandra Boss testified 844 00:39:35,075 --> 00:39:37,744 that sometimes people are vulnerable, 845 00:39:37,777 --> 00:39:40,547 and they can be really smart in one part of their life 846 00:39:40,580 --> 00:39:43,750 and not as smart in other parts of their life. 847 00:39:43,783 --> 00:39:47,554 This was a very brilliant woman, 848 00:39:47,587 --> 00:39:52,959 well-educated, with an extremely high-powered job, 849 00:39:53,059 --> 00:39:55,562 and she was duped. 850 00:39:55,595 --> 00:39:57,831 - But Sandra Boss was not alone. 851 00:39:57,864 --> 00:40:00,066 There were many others who had fallen victim 852 00:40:00,100 --> 00:40:02,369 to Gerhartsreiter's slippery avarice. 853 00:40:02,402 --> 00:40:04,571 It was only a matter of time 854 00:40:04,604 --> 00:40:06,806 before he would trip over his own lies. 855 00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,276 - Is there a real name that we should be calling you? 856 00:40:10,310 --> 00:40:12,012 - Clark Rockefeller. 857 00:40:12,045 --> 00:40:14,581 - Clark Rockefeller, you say, is still your real name? 858 00:40:14,614 --> 00:40:16,082 - I believe so. 859 00:40:16,116 --> 00:40:18,051 - So you believe you grew up in the United States? 860 00:40:18,084 --> 00:40:19,719 - I believe I grew up in New York. 861 00:40:19,753 --> 00:40:21,988 I'm quite sure I grew up in New York City. 862 00:40:22,022 --> 00:40:25,592 - Clark Rockefeller is still your real name? 863 00:40:25,625 --> 00:40:26,993 No, it's not. 864 00:40:27,027 --> 00:40:28,495 You're Christian Carl Gerhartsreiter. 865 00:40:28,528 --> 00:40:30,497 You were born in Bergen, Germany, 866 00:40:30,530 --> 00:40:32,198 to two Catholic parents. 867 00:40:32,232 --> 00:40:34,501 One was a sign painter. One stayed at home. 868 00:40:34,534 --> 00:40:37,904 [dramatic music] 869 00:40:37,937 --> 00:40:39,673 That's where you were raised. 870 00:40:39,706 --> 00:40:41,875 * * 871 00:40:41,908 --> 00:40:43,910 Lies. Lies. 872 00:40:43,943 --> 00:40:46,112 And this is really the only time the jury 873 00:40:46,146 --> 00:40:49,983 could see him convincingly tell his bald-faced lies. 874 00:40:50,016 --> 00:40:52,752 - Did you kill John and Linda Sohus? 875 00:40:52,786 --> 00:40:56,322 - My entire life, I've always been a pacifist. 876 00:40:56,356 --> 00:40:58,591 I am a Quaker... 877 00:40:58,625 --> 00:41:01,695 and I believe in nonviolence. 878 00:41:01,728 --> 00:41:06,232 And I can fairly certainly say 879 00:41:06,266 --> 00:41:08,702 that I have never hurt anyone. 880 00:41:08,735 --> 00:41:10,870 - In our estimation, 881 00:41:10,904 --> 00:41:14,074 he confessed during that tape. 882 00:41:14,107 --> 00:41:17,110 What did you never hear in response to that question-- 883 00:41:17,143 --> 00:41:19,746 did you kill John and Linda Sohus? 884 00:41:19,779 --> 00:41:22,682 He couldn't even say no. 885 00:41:22,716 --> 00:41:25,852 He couldn't even say no. And what reason does he give? 886 00:41:25,885 --> 00:41:27,654 Uh-oh. 887 00:41:27,687 --> 00:41:29,556 "I didn't kill them because I'm a Quaker." 888 00:41:29,589 --> 00:41:30,623 You're not even a Quaker. 889 00:41:30,657 --> 00:41:32,359 You turned Quaker to get married 890 00:41:32,392 --> 00:41:34,661 so you didn't have to have an officiant at your wedding. 891 00:41:34,694 --> 00:41:37,597 He never said no, because he killed them. 892 00:41:37,630 --> 00:41:40,166 - Gerhartsreiter killed them 893 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,736 to preserve the life he claimed to have at the time 894 00:41:42,769 --> 00:41:44,571 as the 13th Baronet, 895 00:41:44,604 --> 00:41:49,009 and the potential inheritance of Didi's six-figure estate. 896 00:41:49,109 --> 00:41:52,779 - Ladies and gentlemen, the evidence is clear. 897 00:41:52,812 --> 00:41:54,347 He's gotten away with it long enough. 898 00:41:54,381 --> 00:41:56,116 I'm asking you-- 899 00:41:56,149 --> 00:41:57,717 I'm going to stand here right now, 900 00:41:57,751 --> 00:41:59,853 on behalf of the people of the state of California, 901 00:41:59,886 --> 00:42:03,723 and I'm going to ask you, for once and for all, tell him, 902 00:42:03,757 --> 00:42:08,194 you are accountable for your actions. 903 00:42:08,228 --> 00:42:10,430 - Even though we all know all of these things, 904 00:42:10,463 --> 00:42:11,931 they're going to say, 905 00:42:11,965 --> 00:42:14,200 yeah, but it doesn't absolutely make him the murderer. 906 00:42:14,234 --> 00:42:18,705 I got a sense of, I hope he's proven guilty. 907 00:42:18,738 --> 00:42:22,442 But this is really old stuff, 908 00:42:22,475 --> 00:42:24,077 and it's all circumstantial, 909 00:42:24,077 --> 00:42:26,680 which doesn't necessarily lead to guilty. 910 00:42:26,713 --> 00:42:31,518 * * 911 00:42:31,551 --> 00:42:33,920 [dramatic sting] 912 00:42:33,953 --> 00:42:35,755 - We the jury, in the above entitled action, 913 00:42:35,789 --> 00:42:38,425 find the defendant... 914 00:42:38,458 --> 00:42:41,795 Christian Gerhartsreiter... 915 00:42:41,828 --> 00:42:44,230 guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree 916 00:42:44,264 --> 00:42:45,932 of John Sohus. 917 00:42:45,965 --> 00:42:47,901 - Christian Gerhartsreiter was sentenced 918 00:42:47,934 --> 00:42:50,103 to 27 years to life in state prison-- 919 00:42:50,103 --> 00:42:53,106 25 years for the premeditated murder 920 00:42:53,106 --> 00:42:55,108 and one year for each of the weapons-- 921 00:42:55,108 --> 00:42:57,243 the blunt object and the knife. 922 00:42:57,277 --> 00:43:01,247 - I want him to be convicted on the murder of Linda, 923 00:43:01,281 --> 00:43:04,451 but I don't think that's going to happen. 924 00:43:04,484 --> 00:43:07,087 But he's going to jail. 925 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:11,424 You know, he's not a young man, and hopefully he'll die there. 926 00:43:11,458 --> 00:43:14,260 I'm sorry to be so blunt, 927 00:43:14,294 --> 00:43:16,496 but... 928 00:43:16,529 --> 00:43:18,598 okay. 929 00:43:18,631 --> 00:43:20,266 - Every time I've made an entry 930 00:43:20,300 --> 00:43:23,570 and I thought it was done, I was proven wrong. 931 00:43:23,603 --> 00:43:25,672 So this is an open book. 932 00:43:25,705 --> 00:43:28,241 This continues until my death. 933 00:43:28,274 --> 00:43:30,276 * * 934 00:43:30,310 --> 00:43:33,079 I still have that little, itty-bitty spark that says, 935 00:43:33,113 --> 00:43:36,282 you don't see her dead body, and until you do, 936 00:43:36,316 --> 00:43:40,120 there's always a chance that she is alive somewhere. 937 00:43:40,153 --> 00:43:44,991 * *