CA CA - Linda Sohus, 28, San Marino, 8 February 1985

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fran said:
I've only caught a little of the reports about this man and his kidnapping and arrest and now the possible link to this California case. I remember from way back when they discovered the remains, it was a mystery. It sort of dropped from public view.

I grew up just a few miles from San Marino, where this couple disappeared from. Ultra, ultra rich area, like a diamond in the rough. Many people have absolutely no idea the money these residents have. They were like an island all to themselves and very unobtrusive.

Gosh, when and IF I have more time, I'll have to read up on this. My bet this Rockefeller guy is the one. LAPD is in the east talking to him now, per our local news last night.

JMHO
fran
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Fran, my husband grew up in Pasadena in a large Victorian mansion built in 1896 and of course YOU know that's right next door to San Marino.

He had an Aunt who lived in San Marino who I only met once. Very old money (Standard Oil) and very wealthy. She was soft spoken but eloquent.

I alway's felt these poeple had an aura of genteelness, and knowing that area fairly well (I lived there for 6 months) and spending some time at the marvelous old Huntington Hotel where these people go to "see and be seen".....I leaned that you do not ask these people questions. Crimes do not get committed in their neighborhood.
People do not file bankruptcy in their neighborhood.

You get my point. These people in San Marino take for granted their money and they do not flaunt it.

Having grown up in So. CA AND the beach, it was a whole new world for me.......but it sure was interesting.

xxxoooo
mama
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LOL, the way I am reading this, this guy could have gotten away with this indefinately but instead got tripped up in his own web.

He didn't file a marriage certificate. Thus when the 'divorce' came, it was determined that a divorce wasn't needed because there was no marriage. No marriage means that he had no claim to the child unless paternity was established. Paternity meant DNA. He refused DNA (lol, possibly thinking it could connect him to Cal?) No paternity means he had no claim to his daughter. At least he appears to have a strong emotional connection to his daughter. It is especially funny because even if he had had his DNA taken and used in the paternity, it wouldn't have been entered into the database. It would have taken a search warrant to access it. And since no one had connected him to his previous life, the likelyhood of that happening was small. And DNA testing doesn't seem to have been a priority in this case anyway.

I do find it odd that from what I have read there hasn't been any real attempts to ID the bones that were found. I read that DNA testing wasn't available at that time on bones. But there also wasn't any dental record comparisons made. Perhaps too much damage after the backhoe, but I don't know for sure. This was a substantial person from the same area, I would have thought that since they had apparently done some studies on the bones that they would have later tried to pull some DNA from it.
 
Chichester arrived with a British accent, but some were suspicious of him because of his fantastical claims to fame and fortune, Cornwall said. He told people he was related to a famous British sailor who had navigated the globe and was also related to the Mountbatten family, a wealthy and influential British line.

http://www.am1500.com/categoryfolders/Stories/S536838.shtml
 
FAMILY: WE KNOW WHO FAKE ROCKEFELLER IS

"At the time he stayed with them he was about 20, Savio said, which would make him somewhere around 48 now. Clark Rockefeller is believed to be 48, authorities have said.

Streiter ended up with the family after he met one of the Savios' neighbors aboard a train in Germany the year before. They had given the young man their address and told him to look them up if he ever came to the United States, Savio recalled.

Streiter then just "showed up at their door" one day in the fall, but the family was unable to take him in. Feeling charitable, the Savios took him in, and he ended up staying with them for seven months.

"They couldn't keep him so they put an ad in the paper looking for someone to take him in as an exchange student so my mother took him in. She had done that before."

But the man "was creepy," Savio said, and the family ultimately asked him to leave.

"He was very quirky and a bit strange. I once took a three-hour hike with him and I don't really recall exactly what happened or the conversation but I came back thinking I don't ever want to be alone somewhere with that guy again," he said."


http://www.nypost.com/seven/0807200...y__we_know_who_fake_rockefeller_is_123454.htm
 
Immigration officials join search for Rockefeller's identity

Federal immigration authorities confirmed today that they have joined the search for the true identity of accused kidnapper Clark Rockefeller, an investigation that has stretched from coast to coast and now overseas to Germany.

A law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation told the Globe that authorities are trying to determine whether Rockefeller is a German national who overstayed his visa. Christian Gerhard Streiter is another of the many aliases authorities suspect may have been used by Rockefeller.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has joined the growing probe, spokeswoman Paula Grenier said today in a telephone interview. She would not discuss specifics of the case because federal privacy law bars the agency from disclosing an individual’s immigration status.

“We are assisting law enforcement in the investigation,’’ Grenier said. “We do not have a detainer on him.’’


http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/08/immigration_off.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed4
 
Former Peru resident helped FBI catch alleged child kidnapper

A year earlier, Rockefeller's boat had taken on water, and he had rushed to the marina when he was told of the problem.

"He told me that he loves this boat, and I knew using this again would help get him out of the apartment," said Ruscoe, who lived in Peru for a time several years ago.

http://www.pressrepublican.com/homepage/local_story_219230036.html
 
Knoxx said:
Former Peru resident helped FBI catch alleged child kidnapper

A year earlier, Rockefeller's boat had taken on water, and he had rushed to the marina when he was told of the problem.

"He told me that he loves this boat, and I knew using this again would help get him out of the apartment," said Ruscoe, who lived in Peru for a time several years ago.

http://www.pressrepublican.com/homepage/local_story_219230036.html
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More than anything else, this makes me wonder how much Sandra (and others) knew.

He loved the boat, it stands to reason that he would have spent a lot of time there. If he spent a lot of time there, it stands to reason that Sandra spent at least some time there. Did she not notice that people there knew him as Skip, called him Skip? Did they not notice that she called him Clark? Wasn't he using other alias's other places? Did she not run across those other names anywhere?
 
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/07/national/main4326919.shtml?source=mostpop_story

answers to a couple more points that have been discussed:

'Jonathan Sohus was adopted, so there was no obvious way of comparing the bones' DNA to that of family members, half-brother Chris Sohus said.

No sign of Linda Sohus was ever found, but investigators have searched for Chichester for years. "It was really thrilling to see that maybe we've got him and maybe we're going to come to some kind of resolution for John and Linda," Hadsell said. Authorities came close to Chichester in the late 1980s when he was pulled over in Greenwich, Conn., driving Sohus' truck. But by the time the Department of Motor Vehicles had confirmed it was Sohus' truck, Chichester and the vehicle had vanished. '
 
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/

In a cold case, chilling details
Two Los Angeles County homicide detectives were turned away from the Suffolk County Jail on Nashua Street yesterday by inmate Clark Rockefeller, even as vivid similarities continued to emerge between the accused kidnapper in Boston and the possible murder suspect from the 1980s in San Marino, Calif. (Boston Globe)
 
I read that John's mother died heartbroken, there was some talk that she was an alcoholic. But she allegedly died still believing that John was off on some secret mission. Allegedly she had some secret contact who was reportedly giving her some secret info about John's activities.

What if the alias guy used an alias and contacted her offering to be a liason between her and John? What if she thought she was sending money to John?
 
Knoxx said:
I know its not the time for HUMOR so if you want me to, I will delete it.
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No, leave it, Knox. It's humorous in one way yet may also be beneficial to someone. Though I think it applies to both men and women as I've read of cases where women were the deceptive ones in a relationship.
 
mysteriew said:
LOL, the way I am reading this, this guy could have gotten away with this indefinately but instead got tripped up in his own web.

He didn't file a marriage certificate. Thus when the 'divorce' came, it was determined that a divorce wasn't needed because there was no marriage. No marriage means that he had no claim to the child unless paternity was established. Paternity meant DNA. He refused DNA (lol, possibly thinking it could connect him to Cal?) No paternity means he had no claim to his daughter. At least he appears to have a strong emotional connection to his daughter. It is especially funny because even if he had had his DNA taken and used in the paternity, it wouldn't have been entered into the database. It would have taken a search warrant to access it. And since no one had connected him to his previous life, the likelyhood of that happening was small. And DNA testing doesn't seem to have been a priority in this case anyway.

I do find it odd that from what I have read there hasn't been any real attempts to ID the bones that were found. I read that DNA testing wasn't available at that time on bones. But there also wasn't any dental record comparisons made. Perhaps too much damage after the backhoe, but I don't know for sure. This was a substantial person from the same area, I would have thought that since they had apparently done some studies on the bones that they would have later tried to pull some DNA from it.
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I read somewhere that the suspected murder victim, Sohus, was adopted, so there was no DNA to match to the bones from Sohus or his relatives. They would need blood relatives for that.
ETA - oops someone else said this. Guess I should learn to read all posts before answering!
 
capoly said:
No, leave it, Knox. It's humorous in one way yet may also be beneficial to someone. Though I think it applies to both men and women as I've read of cases where women were the deceptive ones in a relationship.[/QUOTE

I know..Thanks
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