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Aug 29, 2008 2:44 pm US/Eastern

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SAN MARINO, Calif. (AP) ― Homicide investigators have converged on a San Marino house with ground-penetrating radar to determine if the bones of a long-vanished couple may be buried in the backyard.

Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says sheriff's and coroner's officials arrived Friday morning and plan to use the radar to scan the yard for anomalies.

Newlyweds Jonathan and Linda Sohus lived in the home before vanishing in 1985. Nine years later, workers building a pool for the new owners unearthed a man's bones that remain unidentified.

The investigation was reignited this month with the kidnapping arrest in Baltimore of Christian Gerhartsreiter, who once lived in a guest house on the San Marino property.

Gerhartsreiter, who calls himself Clark Rockefeller, is being held in Massachusetts after allegedly trying to kidnap his daughter off a Boston street. He's not been charged with any crime in California.

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: Christian Gerhartsreiter in a jailhouse interview with the Boston Globe last week.
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: Linda and Jonathan Sohus
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: Three plastic bags containing human bones were found by workers digging a swimming pool in this yard in San Marino, Calif.in 1994.
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