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Like a lot of other people, I\u2019ve been following the \u201cClark Rockefeller\u201d kidnapping case and its sequelae, bemused by the net of false identities that the guy seems to have woven around himself (partly because I\u2019ve had a very annoying identity thief of my own <\/a>in the past), and also now grimly interested by his linking to an unsolved missing persons \/ murder case in California.<\/p>\n

But this article that I stumbled across in the Boston Globe<\/em><\/a>\u00a0this morning brought me up short\u2026 because the interviewee is an old business associate and friend.<\/p>\n

Turns out one of the missing persons, Linda Sohus, used to work at the SF bookstore Dangerous Visions on Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks, which most Los Angeles-based science fiction fans would have known well. And Lydia Marano, to whom the postcard in the article was sent, ran the bookstore, and also worked closely with Brynne Stephens and me when we were story-editing the animated series \u201cDinosaucers\u201d for the Valley-based\u00a0production company DiC. To discover\u00a0that the missing woman worked for Lydia\u00a0is beyond strange, and makes me wonder whether (while passing in and out of\u00a0DV over my time in LA)\u00a0I may have\u00a0met her.\u00a0 And now no one knows where she is, or even if she\u2019s alive.<\/p>\n

How weird life is sometimes\u2026<\/p>\n

(ETA: Apparently “Rockefeller’s” brother in Germany has ID’d him.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Tags: Clark+Rockefeller<\/a>, Dangerous+Visions<\/a>, Linda+Sohus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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