Sep 1, 2008 8:07 am US/Eastern
Search Of Yard In Rockefeller Case 'Productive'
SAN MARINO, Calif. (WBZ) ―
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Christian Gerhartsreiter in a jailhouse interview with the Boston Globe last month.
John Tlumacki, Boston Globe Staff photographer
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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.
Pasadena Star News
Homicide investigators called their two-day search of a southern California home where the man known as Clark Rockefeller once lived as "productive."
Los Angeles County sheriff's officers are trying to determine if the bones of a missing couple may be buried in the backyard. They scoured the area with ground-penetrating radar, which identifies anomalies in the soil.
"It doesn't tell you what is down there, but it tells you if something doesn't fit," sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore told
KCBS-TV.
According to KCBS, the radar "indicated something unusual in at least two spots" in the yard.
Whitmore said investigators ended their search before noon Saturday. He declined to discuss whether they found anything, saying only that the search was "productive."
Newlyweds Jonathan and Linda Sohus lived in the house before vanishing in 1985. Nine years later, workers building a pool for the new owners found a man's bones in the yard. Those bones have not been formally identified, although investigators believe they are the remains of Jonathan Sohus.
The investigation was reignited last 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 Boston after allegedly trying to kidnap his daughter in the Back Bay. He's not been charged with any crime in California.
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