The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor by Mark Seal

Author:Mark Seal
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Mystery, Non-Fiction, Contemporary, Adult, Biography, History
ISBN: 9781101515853
Publisher: Plume
Published: 2011-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

Part Two

CHAPTER 11

“San Marino Bones”

At roughly the same time that Clark Rockefeller launched his new life as the husband of Sandra Boss in New York City, a sign from the long-missing couple John and Linda Sohus rose up from the grave. Until then, John and Linda had been mainly forgotten, their disappearance unsolved and unnoticed by the world at large. Two people of little importance, they were soon erased from the memory of even those who had known and worked with them.

Only one person refused to forget them, Linda’s best friend, Sue Coffman. From the moment Linda and John went missing—with their cockamamie story about going to work for some top-secret government spy program and those subsequent bizarre postcards sent by Linda from Paris—Coffman knew in her heart that something wasn’t right. There was, as she would tell anyone who cared to listen, “a big hole in my life, a big question mark in my head.” At times she felt she was going crazy trying to answer the endless questions and piece together the puzzle of her friends’ disappearance.

“I’d have dreams,” she said as we sat in the living room of her house in Orange, California, not far from Disneyland. A thin, intense woman, a wife and the mother of a young son, she was still very much on a mission to find her best friend, and she printed chronologies she’d assembled of the mysterious case on her computer while showing me pictures and paraphernalia of the disappearance she had spent almost thirty years attempting to crack.

Linda Sohus was always central to her dreams, Sue Coffman said, and I tried to imagine the big, redheaded artist and science-fiction fanatic flying through her friend’s sleep like one of her fancifully drawn horses. “Linda would show up in my dreams and say, ‘What are you worrying about? I’m right here.’”

“Why didn’t you call me?” Coffman would ask her friend.

“Well, I was busy,” is all Linda would say.

Coffman came to feel that her dreams were omens, directives urging her to keep pressuring the cops to find out what had happened to Linda. “I was so excited in my dreams, because I thought I wasn’t dreaming. I felt like I was in the here and now.”

Several times the police responded to her incessant calls by saying they were reopening what was by then a missing persons case. But nothing new ever turned up. Sue read me a note from one detective early in the case. “He said, ‘She’s twenty-one. She can leave if she wants and go where she wants. There’s nothing to investigate.’ He said, ‘Don’t worry about it. Stop looking for them.’

“His research claims that Linda and John live in France and never want to be involved with their old lives again,” she told me, adding, “Did I believe it? No.”

Even the discovery of John and Linda’s pickup truck in Greenwich, where it was almost bought by a local minister’s son from the mysterious Christopher Crowe—who the authorities knew was really Christopher

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