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Dateline NBC

Behind Closed Doors: The Phony Rockefeller

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, young newlyweds, John and Linda Sohus simply vanish. There was no reason to suspect foul play until an eerie discovery tied to a case that made international headlines, and was linked to the name of one of America’s most famous families. Mike Taibbi reports. Originally aired on NBC on January 27, 2012. Justice came in August 2013 for John Sohus. His wife Linda is still missing.

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I was just like, oh my god, this is really an answer.

0:05.0

It may not be definitive, but this guy knows something.

0:11.0

A young couple vanishes, then nearly a decade later,

0:15.0

a discovery in their own backyard turns the mystery into a murder.

0:20.0

They find a bag and inside the bag is a human's home.

0:23.0

Detectives had a suspect, then he disappeared too.

0:27.0

His trail had just stopped.

0:29.0

Until this.

0:30.0

Please, please bring snakes back.

0:33.0

He'd kidnapped his own daughter after claiming to be a Rockefeller,

0:38.0

Clark Rockefeller.

0:40.0

I had a private investigator try to find out who I was married to

0:43.0

and they couldn't find out.

0:45.0

Now, a second chance for investigators to prove that this mysterious con man

0:50.0

was also a killer.

0:52.0

But was the case as clear cut as he'd seen?

0:56.0

There was no motive, there was no reason he would have done this.

0:59.0

Here from the detectives who helped crack this puzzling case

1:03.0

and probably his ex-wife.

1:05.0

I thought he was very intelligent, funny, very charming.

1:09.0

For decades, he got away with a web of lies.

1:12.0

Would he also get away with murder?

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