A man who has been in touch with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies regarding Clark Rockefeller and the strange disappeareance of John and Linda Sohus, got in touch with me Thursday.  He sent me this copy of a painting done by Linda Sohus as “Cody” in 1984.

Sohus sold the painting at Worldcon ’84 a gathering of Sci Fi and fantasy fans that took place near Disneyland in the fall of ’84.

Rockefeller took the name Christopher Chichester when he lived with John and Linda Sohus in San Marino in the mid 1980s.

Bones, believed to be those of John Sohus were discovered in the backyard fo the Lorain Road home in 1994.

Linda has never resurfaced. The owner of the painting believes she met an untimely end. 

John Sohus’ truck is the likely the key piece of evidence investigators have linking Clark Rockefeller to the Sohus disappearance and possible homicide. On Wednesday, Rockefeller’s attorney tied him to the truck.

Here’s the top of our story:

The attorney for Clark Rockefeller aka Christian Gerhartsreider said a truck linked to a 23-year-old missing persons case was sold to his client in the late 1980s.

“He bought the truck from the mother, he agreed to do the truck payments through the mother, but the mother never sent the title,” Hrones said.

“He gave it (the truck) to someone,” Hrones said, because Rockefeller didn’t have the title. Rockefeller, using the identity of Hollywood producer Christopher Crowe, was pulled over in Greenwich, Conn., in 1988 driving the truck after he attempted to sell it to the son of a minister, officials said.

 

It’s amazing what a reward can’t do.

For months I wondered why the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors didn’t offer a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of killers who took the life of Sammantha Salas in January.

The board blamed the lack of a reward on detectives with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau.

Detectives said they needed time to solve the case, using tried and true methods before turning to a reward.

Salas was killed in a hail of gunfire Jan. 28 outside an apartment complex in the 2500 block of Peck Road in an unincorporated county section near Monrovia called “No Man’s Land.”
An unidentified friend of Salas was seriously wounded in the assault that also left a stucco apartment building riddled with bullet holes.

Two suspects in the shooting were described as African Americans in their 20s. They were wearing dark-colored bandannas or hooded sweatshirts and are probably members of the Du Rock Crips gang, authorities said.

By June, leads that detectives could pursue ran thin, and the supes put up a $10,000 reward. It was set to expire on Sept. 2.

Today the board will extend the reward in hopes of catching Salas’ killers.

“It’s been slow,” Sheriff’s Lt. Dan Rosenberg said. “But it’s going to get active again. What’s happened here isn’t from a lack of trying.”

Reporters did a stunning job tracking down the missing link in a mystery that has vexed detectives for 23 years.

When John and Linda Sohus disappeared from their San Marino estate in 1985, their mysterious tenant, identified as Chris Chichester, vanished as well.

In 1994, when bones were unearthed at the Lorain Road property, Chichester became a person of interest in the homicide investigation.

From then until Monday, investigators said they had no idea what Chichester’s real name might be.

It all began unraveling on July 27, when Boston socialite Clark Rockefeller and his seven-year-old daughter Reigh “Snooks” Boss disappeared. Rockefeller was accused of child abduction and the trail led to Baltimore, where he was arrested.

The girl was returned to her mother. Rockefeller was taken into custody and extradited to Boston. A fingerprint linked him to Chichester. A photograph tied him to a twentysomething foreign exchange student named Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who lived with the Savio family in Berlin, Conn. in the early 1980s.

From there it was only a matter of time until reporters connected the dots back to Alexander Gerhartsreiter, who said Christian was his long-lost brother.

Three days later authorities confirmed the link, pointing out on a wanted poster that Clark Rockefeller is Chris Chichester is Christian Gerhartsreiter.