It turned out he had been the one who was telling her about John’s supposed secret job interview and without him, she had no way to reach her son. In July 1985, a frantic Didi called police because Chichester had suddenly moved out of her guest house without warning. “Kinda missed New York (oops) - but this can be lived with - John & Linda,” the postcard to Coffman read.īut the relief wouldn’t last long. The story about the couple’s whereabouts even gained credibility after Coffman and others received postcards from France hand-written by Linda. “I mean she truly believed that he was off on a secret mission job and that’s what she had been told,” Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Dolores Scott said. San Marino Police briefly investigated the report, but they didn’t have much to go on, especially with Didi’s insistence that her son and his new wife were on a secret job interview.įamily's Suspicious Behavior After Colorado Rancher Disappeared Leads to Disturbing Confession To Coffman, the explanation seemed unusual and she decided to report John and Linda to police as missing persons. “ Her cats were the absolute loves of her life,” she said.Ĭoncerned, Coffman went to talk to Didi, but an intoxicated Didi insisted the couple was fine and had traveled to Paris, France. Linda’s cats were abandoned at a pets hotel, which just didn’t seem right to Coffman. You know, it was a lot of fun to hang out with him,” Chichester’s friend Dana Farrar recalled.ĭespite the close living quarters, friends said John and Linda were enjoying their new married life and were planning to go with Coffman on a trip to a sci-fi convention in a new pickup truck that they proudly just bought.īut before the date of the convention approached in 1985, Coffman said Linda called and told her the couple was going to New York because John had an “interview with a government job.” They planned to return to California before the trip to the sci-fi convention - but the couple never came back. “He was very interesting to talk to on many subjects, he was very bright, he knew about a lot of things. The home’s spacious guest house in the back could have been the perfect arrangement to give the new couple a little space and privacy, but it was already occupied by a tenant who called himself Christopher Chichester.Ĭhichester claimed to be a baronet, a minor member of British royalty, and said he was in California to study theater at University of Southern California. While Linda described her mother-in-law as a “poor old lady,” she also admitted to Coffman that she tried to “avoid her like crazy.” RELATED: Who Killed A Popular Aspen Socialite Found Stuffed In A Closet? The arrangement was difficult for Linda who allegedly told her close friend Sue Coffman, “His mom is a drunk and a smoker and I don’t really like being around her and the smoke and everything.” With little money of their own, the couple was beginning their new life in John’s childhood San Marino home with his mother, Didi Sohus, a woman known to overindulge in her cocktails. “I certainly had the sense that they were soulmates,” John’s childhood friend Patrick Rayermann recalled. While they shared common interests like a love of sci-fi and fantasy, Linda’s more outgoing personality was a complement to her husband’s more quiet demeanor. To friends, John and Linda had been well-suited. But even now, there are some unanswered questions about what happened to the newlyweds, who vanished after telling friends they were going on a trip to see about a “secret” job offer, according to Dateline: Secrets Uncovered. It would take investigators nearly three decades to unravel the mysterious disappearance of California couple John and Linda Sohus. Watch Dateline: Secrets Uncovered on Oxygen Wednesdays at 8/7c.
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