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David Meyerhofer is a 20-something year-old lifelong Manhattan resident, a former Boy Scout and Marine who served
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in Vietnam. And he is back home now working as a self-employed carpenter in town. And David is someone who is known
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to them. This guy's always eager to help. He's curious, [music] constantly asking the deputies questions
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about the kidnapping investigations that they were working when he sees them at the local cafe.
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He was one of those local oddballs that actually came up in Susie's case. One of
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the guys that witnesses told the cops they should just look at early on. And they did, but David had been pretty
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cooperative. So back then, he's like kind of annoying, but not really suspicious. His name came up in Sandy's
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case, too, for two different reasons. One, he is actually the local man who just happened upon that blouse that he
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turned over to police by the ranch. Mhm. And two, apparently, he had gone on a date with Sandy just a few months ago.
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>> [music] >> And when he asked for a second date, Sandy turned him down. >> Okay, so there's a connection to Sandy,
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but how does he connect to Susie? >> I mean, only by her bones, or probably her bones, being found with Sandy and
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Sandy being socially connected to David. Like, it's not solid, but it's something.
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And they got to start somewhere. So agents actually go and pay David a visit at his warehouse in Manhattan, which is
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only like a half block from where Sandy lived. And he acts as if he has nothing to hide. He agrees to even take a
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polygraph test, and he passes. So the agents move on. But there's nothing to really move on
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to. The cases both just kind of hit a dead end, and they only heat back up because Agent Dunbar ends up going to
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Quantico, Virginia, for this routine FBI training that following spring. And he happens to attend this session that's
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being put on by some agents who have psychology backgrounds. And they're talking about this like brand new idea
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how studying a crime scene could give insight into the killer themselves.