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 building at the same time. Always walked down different sides of the street. Whose idea was it to do all that . It was his idea. Reporter crowe laid low for about three years, and, in that time, a rockefeller was born. According to Mihoko Manabe, they went out to a restaurant, and he couldnt get a reservation. And so, he just said, rockefeller. My names Clark Rockefeller. Suddenly, a table appeared. The name worked its magic, and would work its magic from that point forward. [ male announcer ] they were some pretty good moves. And the best move of all . Having the right partner at your side. Take the next step. Consider an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by Unitedhealthcare Insurance Company to be your partner. Go long. Still running in the morning . Yeah. Getting your vegetables every day . When i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] couldve had a v8. Two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. 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I cannot find anyone who knows anything real about mr. Gatsby. Reporter when you were growing up, did you get most of your ideas about america from watching movies and reading books . Books. Reporter books . Uhhuh. Im a big reader. Reporter you once mentioned the great gatsby. Yeah, thats one of them. Just sit right back and youll hear a tale. Reporter and of course, there was television, one program in particular. Gilligans island is one of my Favorite Television shows. Reporter why . Because its actually a religious show, and the characters represent the seven deadly sins. Gilligan is sloth, the skipper is anger, the professor is pride, maryanne is envy and ginger is lust. The millionaires wife is gluttony, and the millionaire is greed. Reporter theres a story that you modeled your accent after Thurston Howell iii. Thurston howell iii. Reporter is that true . Is that your idea of what a blue blooded american would sound like . Perhaps unconsciously. This is my darling wife, mrs. Thurston howell iii. How do you do . We only saw the clark that comes out on stage, but there was a lot of offstage time when he was dressing the set, making the props, adjusting the costume. I think he loved that. Reporter sometime in 1992, his riskiest, most outrageous identity was unveiled when the congregation at st. Thomas church on new yorks swanky 5th avenue met Clark Rockefeller. He would carry around a security device that he said was connected to the rockefeller offices because he was very paranoid about security and being kidnapped, which is pretty gutsy because that church has real rockefellers. Reporter it was through friends at church that Clark Rockefeller met a bright Young HarvardBusiness School student named sandra boss while playing a game that coincidentally involved Fake Identities and murder. Are you talking about the board game clue . The board game clue. Who did you go as . I was miss scarlet. Was the defendant in character . Yes. Who was he . He was professor plumb. Reporter boss and rockefeller quickly became an item and later moved in together. She says she simply accepted his odd and eccentric behavior. And he refused to set foot on the soil of connecticut because it was an evil state and that was where his parents had died. So, even if we had to drive between boston and new york, he would not actually allow stops in the state of connecticut. What about to use a restroom . That was not done. One waited. 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 tv show unsolved mysteries recreated the scene and even posted a picture of christopher chichester, calling him a person of interest, but no one called in with a tip. And when they didnt get anything back from that, then the case just went cold again. Reporter but who was then the main person of interest at the time the body was found . They were looking at both linda sohus, the wife, and christian gerhartstreiter. Reporter gerhartstreiter, who was now hiding out in plain sight as Clark Rockefeller and telling everyone that he had just inherited what they would all come to believe was a multimilliondollar art collection. Writer walter kirn remembers the first time he laid eyes on it. Standing unframed against the walls are what must have been 50 million, 60 million worth of mark rothkos, jackson pollocks, abstract expressionist masterpieces. Reporter that artwork was one reason that kirn never doubted rockefeller until years later, when the whole world would learn that the art was expertly forged. You wouldnt guess that the man is fake, the art is fake, the name is fake everything, you know. Reporter shortly after the art appeared, sandra boss married her rockefeller. Who supported your family financially after you got married . I did. Who controlled the finances . The defendant. Reporter kirn met the couple in 1998 when the marriage was already in trouble. I remember sitting there, thinking, this is a sad marriage. They dont love each other. It didnt seem like a happy place. Reporter but they stayed together and even had a daughter. In 2001, reigh storrow rockefeller was born. But five years later, sandra boss filed for divorce, and when things got contentious, her husbands con finally unraveled. I found out in august of 2007 that he was not Clark Rockefeller. She hires a detective, and he goes, we can find absolutely nothing on this individual. We dont know who he is. It was like he had materialized out of thin air. He called me up around christmastime, and he said, i just lost my daughter in a divorce. Well, i dont think im ever going to be able to see her again. My wifes taking her to england. An amber alert has been issued for a girl abducted in boston. Police say she may have been taken by her father. Reporter on july 27, 2008, f. B. I. Agent tammy hardy got a call from headquarters that a rockefeller living in boston had kidnapped his sevenyearold daughter during a supervised visitation. The social worker tried to prevent it, and he was dragged by the vehicle and was injured during the course of the abduction. There is still no sign of Clark Rockefeller and his seven yearold daughter, reigh. Reporter for six days, rockefeller eluded even the f. B. I. By changing his identity once again. He had set up an elaborate new identity in baltimore as chip smith, a high seas ship captain who has a daughter named muffy. It was very apparent that this was a wellthoughtout abduction, that he had planned this for a long time. It all happened so fast at marlborough and arlington streets. Reporter but it all came to an end when a Real Estate Agent in baltimore saw the fake rockefeller on the news. Shale reized he was the man she had just sold usa hoe to. The f. B. I. Surrounded that house, and, when they were certain the child was safe, they arrested her father without incident. The evidence will show that, in his mind, the rules do not apply to him. Reporter at his kidnapping trial, theld wor met Christian Karl gerhartstreiter, a german immigrant whod come to america as a young man and created a life that was complete fiction. Gerhartstreiter was tried and convicted. We, the jury, say that the defendant is guilty of offenses charged. Reporter . Although his defense team tried to argue that their client was delusional. The defendant is delusional. Reporter . And actually believed he was a rockefeller. But thats not the man federal agent tammy hardy met the night he was arrested. Did that ever open up doors for you . Plenty are you kidding . Everywhere. He knew. Im not a rockefeller. Im not christopher crowe. Im not count mountbatten, or whoever that was. laughs wa it azs aming. Works like a charm. Try it sometime. laughter im serious. 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Who did you like being the most . Clark rockefeller . Um, no, no, no, lets not get into that again. Erin, erin, erin. Reporter because were talking about how you would put on these personas, that it was fun. Lets go back to the trial testimony. Thats why were here. Reporter gerhartstreiter a. K. A. Clark rockefeller was serving a four to fiveyear sentence for kidnapping his daughter when he was suddenly on the move again, hauled from a massachusetts prison to a california jail, where he would now face cesharg t forhe murder of johhun sos. L. A. County sheriff detective tim miley and Dolores Scott led the cold case investigation. Did you know what you were getting into when you first started this investigation . No, we had no idea how bad it was, how difficult it was going to get. It took four years, four years of our lives, right . Yeah, yeah. Reporter the detectives had to determine exactly how john sohus died. The problem was, all they had to work with was the victims skull, and it was in pieces and had to be reconstructed by a special lab in hawaii. This is where the facial bones would be, but we never know. Reporter thats when forensic pathologist dr. Frank sheridan was finally able to determine how john sohus had died. He had been viciously bludgeoned. How do you know that . How can you tell . Partly, its based on looking at the edges of the fractures, the dark appearance. Reporter dark edges, says dr. Sheridan, mean a fracture has occurred at the time of death, and not when the body was unearthed. The decomposing scalp, blood, sinks down into the fracture lines. And thats one of the indications that these fractures occurred shortly before death. Reporter how many times do you think john sohus was hit here . In this area here, i believe at least twice. It takes a fair amount of force to cause this kind of injury. Reporter but now, how to prove the killer was gerhartstreiter. Sohus was buried just feet from the guest house where gerhartstreiter once lived. And his body, wrapped in plastic bookstore bags traced to colleges that gerhartstreiter had attended. Yet no d. N. A. , no fingerprints belonging to the defendant were found. But you have to understand, obviously, the bags and the body have been underground for nine years, and dirt just decomposes everything. Reporter right, but youve got a jury that might say reasonable doubt. All we can do is put on the best case we can. Reporter in an l. A. Courtroom in march of 2013, christian gerhartstreiter went on trial for the murder of john sohus. We are on the record, the matter of people versus gerhartstreiter. Reporter did you kill john sohus . No reporter did you kill linda sohus . No absolutely not. Shes around somewhere. Reporter you believe shes still alive . Absolutely. Reporter gerhartstreiters defense is that linda sohus is the one who killed her husband and is alive and hiding from authorities. The proof these postcards in lindas handwriting that were sent to her family and friends from europe after she disappeared. But to walter kirn, this was classic gerhartstreiter. The postcards were such an ingenious move. You know what i mean . Your common murderer doesnt try to cover a crime that way. Reporter like a scene from a hitchcock thriller, kirn says, the defendant carefully concocted the couples disappearance. To me, one of the most convincing pieces of evidence was the stories they told about going off on a secret mission. Going off on a secret mission was a clark idea. Now, obviously, that was to prepare people not to look for them, to prepare people for their absence. Reporter but even after nearly three decades, linda nor her body have been found. Isnt it possible that lindas out there just under a different name, doing what chris did . No, everything points to her being deceased. Reporter detective miley says linda couldnt have sent the postcards. D. N. A. Taken off the stamp doesnt match lindas, but it also doesnt match the defendants. It proves he has the ability to have somebody send a postcard from europe when hes not there. Reporter john sohus younger sister, ellen, attended the trial every day and says there is no way that linda would have killed her brother. Linda and john, if you could have seen them together, it would be very hard for you to believe that she would have done anything to hurt john. Reporter ellen says theres far more evidence that point to gerhartstreiter. All the things that i learned about how he changed identities, trying to sell my brothers truck, covering up all of these things. Reporter gerhartstreiter says didi gave him the truck. You dont believe that . No. She didnt touch the bedroom that they had slept in. All of his stuff and lindas stuff was left untouched. She wouldnt have done that and given the truck away. The truck was in my possession for three and a half years with its license plates attached, unaltered, unchanged, in excellent condition. Why would a person who. Who is aware of criminal liability preserve evidence . Answer that. No way. No way. Reporter thats how Lieutenant Dan allen of the greenwich p. D. Answered. It wasnt out in the open. As far as i could determine, no one ever saw that white pickup truck. Reporter and how did he miss someone burying the body right behind his house when, according to trial testimony, it would have taken the killer several hours . If linda, in fact, killed her husband, wouldnt you have seen her burying the body . Well, if you believe that im home every single second, that i never leave my house, that i never go out at all, that i dont go away on weekends. Reporter but wouldnt you notice if the ground was dug up . It was not a very wellkept property, lets put it that way. All jurors may be dismissed at all recesses. All right, mr. Bailiff. 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Reporter ellen sohus and another hebrothrr, cis, were just as worried. I was very worried that those key pieces would be enough to create doubt. Okay, is it correct the jury has reached a verdict . Yes. Reporter but in the end. We, the jury in the above entitled action, find the defendant, christian gerhartstreiter, guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree of john sohus. I started to cry because we finally got justice. Reporter but its a bittersweet victory because the painful questions still remains. Where is linda sohus . Do you believe, then, that christian gerhartstreiter also killed linda . Yes. Yeah. I believe she probably met a similar fate to my brother. Reporter do you think well ever know what happened to linda . Not unless he decides to confess. Reporter i was curious how the jury felt about linda and had the opportunity to ask the foreperson. Did you feel linda had anything to do with it . I. I didnt. Reporter so, did you believe at the end of the trial that if christian gerhartstreiter killed john, he probably killed linda, too . Yes. Reporter do you think well ever really know what happened to linda sohus