Danny Hohenstein /// Part 2 /// 287 | Forensic Files

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round grab a chair grab a beer let's talk some true crime [Music] Danny Hohenstein was just six years old
and he was last seen playing with a dog near his home in the afternoon hours of December 1st 1992 his mother Jackie was
inside preparing a meal for the boy when she went to call him in Danny was nowhere to be found
eventually she called the police and the search for Danny began after the case went cold about a year into the
investigation the FBI joined forces with the local detective we've been talking with special agent Jeffrey rynek a
30-year FBI agent who assisted in the search for Danny Hohenstein and as you guys are doing your investigation you're
actually gonna get a tip or a lead from Danny's sister Shannon I learned from the FBI the FBI was doing training and
because I was working these cases I was being sent for in-service training and I
was learning about the profiling stuff although I was not a profiler at this time
one thing that the FBI drove home to us was that a lot of times a person may have knowledge and not be aware of that
knowledge especially a family member so Bernie and I were constantly telling Jackie and Shannon to think of anything
and to add some I'm a practical joker I love humor I live on humor and I I you know I'm sure you can edit this out but
I said to Shannon Shannon if you have a fart that comes out the wrong cheek you call us about it we want to know what
happened yeah and sure enough at some point she called me and she said that her mother had a friend
and her friend had a son who was charged or associated with assaults on children
and she wondered if her mother's friend's son would have any meaning to danny's disappearance and so verna and i
we started working this up I couldn't find the kid at all he was a kid too he was he was in California the governor I
forget the government knew his name but at one point in California before I got here I think it was like in 1919 90s the
California governor enacted something that caused a lot of people in the mental institutions to be released this
boy the Chanin was talking about was one of those people he had been in a mental
institution and then he was released and because he was a minor his records were
sealed and I could not even identify a record that indicated he was alive Vern on the other hand through his contacts
and through his work and because he's so amazingly good he found them he found the boy and we didn't use his name in
the book because he wasn't charged so I forget what name we used for him in the book but Vern found him Jonathan and we
started working up Jonathan I started working up Jonathan from my angle he started working up Jonathan from his
angle and what we learned is that Jonathan had recently been taken into custody because he had assaulted a
six-year-old boy on a school bus and there was a time before that where Jonathan had assaulted a young six or
seven-year-old boy near some dumpsters in the apartments where he lived and so we were very interested and Vern and I
both we realized that Jonathan was in one of the state facilities for developmentally
delayed children and so we started making enquiries and Nick it was unbelievable we could not get any
information even in a situation like this where it was we had a six year old boy missing that the state would give us
nothing so Bernie and I we found one of the workers an investigator and we we both went there personally and just
begged for help and this investigator helped us and we learned that Jonathan had an extensive history of this and
that Jonathan was currently in the State Hospital he was originally at and she arranged for us to go down and meet him
and talk to him and at the time he was 17 I mean doesn't this feel like a gaudy moment guiding well in the interesting
thing about this information that comes to Special Agent rynek they're actually years into the investigation Danny has
been missing for years by this point by the time they tracked down Jonathan but who's now 17 years old living in a state
hospital but the other interesting angle about this information not only does Jonathan have a history of assaulting
other children and children younger than him Jonathan lived with his mother Diana
around the time that Danny went missing Brighton and the two of them lived near somewhat near Danny and Danny's mother
Jackie right and just when you hear them talk about how he attacked this six-year-old boy that lived by him by a
dumpster you go well is this the same thing it's not too far of a leap right from what possibly could have happened
regarding Danny in his situation Danny would have been about the same age as these other two boys that were assaulted
by this this older boy so you and your partner now have contact and now you're going to go
to the mental institution to question him and we invited his doctor to stay in the interview with us because we felt if
he said something doctor there wouldn't be an expectation of privilege since we were there we sat with him and started
talking to him and he said he knew Danny and he was talking about Danny the Danny
that he knew and Vern had a picture of Danny that was taken in a group before Danny had the scabies and so he had long
hair and he showed that picture to Jonathan and Jonathan said oh that's Danny and that's the way he looks now
that's strange now I could not have picked Danny out from that picture and Byrne got real
red-faced because at the time Danny disappeared or I'm sorry before Danny disappeared he would have had the
long hair and that's exactly how he would have looked so we started concentrating on Jonathan and we took a
statement from Jonathan and Jonathan told us that he and his mother knew Danny and went to Danny's house
frequently and then he would play with Danny and Danny's room where Danny had a video game and this is all accurate and
Vern knew to a greater degree than I did because he had drilled down to the details on the two of us you could just
feel a ball of electricity in your stomach start to rise and he says that they were driving past Danny's house one
day which would have been the day disappeared and they saw Danny in front of his house and they stopped and picked
him up and Danny went with them and then they went to a park and at the park Danny had to go to the bathroom and
Jonathan said he went with him and he hurt Danny we believe that he's telling us that he
assaulted them and might have you know killed them so this is just it's just unbelievable what's going on at the time
this is happening I'm in my mid-40s and Vern is about 20 years older and he's about 65 and we finished our interview
with Jonathan and we decided to head right up back to mahalia from down near LA where we were and I remember the two
of us I mean between the excitement and the exhaustion we eventually had to stop
and we got a room and slept for a few hours and then continued back up to Miguel yeah we found Jackie and asked
Jackie about this boy's mother and Jackie knew the mother but said she had never met the boy and so we asked her
explain to us now how he knew the layout so well and of course she couldn't and then we talked to Danny's sister and
Danny's sister explained to us that you know the mom may not want to talk about it if she realizes what might have
happened and then we found Jonathan's mother dun dun dun and we ended up polygraphing Jonathan's
mother and of course she did not do too well the statement that Jonathan had given us could not be used because he
had a very low IQ he was not aware of good and bad he did not know that what he might have done to Dani was bad and
we didn't even know if we could rely on what he said because he had such a low level of intellect so I remember I
called back to the FBI's behavioral science unit and I asked them for guidance a guy named Roy Hazelwood said
to me that you just have to keep going back and eventually there will be consistencies that you can pick out
Bernie and I ended up going back about eight or nine times and and just like we were told there are
consistencies another thing that we learned was we were able to talk to the people at the facility and learn about
the relationship between Jonathan and his mother Jonathan at 6 years of age had been sexually assaulted by a
boyfriend of his mother and cysts that time he started acting out sexually and he was acting out with other boys and
men sexually so his mother in the hope of bringing Jonathan back to being the way he should be started having a sexual
relationship with Jonathan so Jonathan and his mother started engaging in a regular behavior of having sex 1 this is
where the story gets pretty twisted yeah so just just a quick recap for myself here so I know that where were where
we're at in the stage Danny goes missing six years old missing for a few years before this lead from Danny's older
sister Shannon Falls to agent rynek and his partner Vern couch they follow up on
this lead they've had other good leads leads that they thought were good and they follow up on this lead even
tracking down this boy where it's almost impossible to track him down because the
state won't provide any information regarding this kid because he's only 17 by this point right but when they get in
contact with them they get a confession pretty quickly very quickly yes he's pretty much honest and after
seeing a picture or two of Danny the weird statement is this is how Danny looks now coming from Jonathan and then
you also find out that to dig a little deeper that this boy himself now at the age of 17 he's causing problems and has
been for years but he initially is a victim himself of molestation one has a low IQ and then you have to you know is
he saying is this this is what he looks like now and is that just because he's mixing up
present tense and past tense yeah I mean like is it something where it's like well this is what he looks like now or
did he mean that's what he looked like back then because it's like like they said he has a pretty low IQ it might
also be some indication of his comprehension of what is has actually taken place right so but then the fact
that we you know we have these detectives that interview the mother or she does bad on the polygraph test now
you start wondering did her son do something bad and is she covering up for her son the other thing that I want to
point out here and this is not super clear in our interview portion but when Jonathan the boy at the hospital states
that he had gone to Danny's home and played a game a video game with Danny in his room because you have these
situations where when you have investigators interviewing someone especially in this particular situation
you wonder could they be feeding information could there could this be a bad interview could this be a bad
confession maybe this kid doesn't fully comprehend the questions he's being asked one it's sad too because with
Danny's mother she doesn't even know how this other boy would know anything about
their house but we also know that she's very neglectful of her son I mean to the
point where yes when you have to shave your kid's head to try to get the you know some kind of a healthy hygiene
system going because you've neglected him so bad that's pretty awful yeah the but this is a little bit of truth in
information I believe in what Jonathan's statement is to the FBI and to the local
detective mm-hmm when he says that he had been in Don Danny's home and played a video game with Danny in his room
that's interesting to me because that's something that only someone who had actually been there would know that was
one of the things that the investigators knew about Danny that he he had very little in the way of
possessions as we stated he was neglected but one of the things that he held dear was he had like a Nintendo
video game right and that was in his room and that was something that he probably spent a lot of time playing at
night when his mother was not around right so of his babysitter this is your breadcrumb if you're the investigator to
know that hey there's there might be some truth in what this young man Jonathan who's only 17 is telling us we
learned that Jonathan and his mother would go to the bathroom together and they were caught several times having
sex and so this just all it was almost all too much but at the same time we felt like we had something we could work
with that we could try and work up as what happened to Danny in the process of talking to him Jonathan described that
after he hurt Danny in the bathroom his mother came in and checked Danny and said Danny was not alive anymore and
they took Danny's body back to his mother's car and they tried to find a place to leave Danny and Jonathan said
to leave Danny to sleep he said that one of the times they were doing this they ran into other people who had
flashlights who were calling out to them well Verne went back and reviewed the search-and-rescue records and found that
at one of the points in the search a couple of the rescue workers came upon a strange vehicle in the woods and when
they called out to the occupants the people got back in the car and drove away and this was right in the area of where
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we're we're Jonathan's mother lived and we went there and we went there we found
in the backyard there was what could be best described as a shrine and in the shrine which was to a little boy
there were keys in a plate nothing but our guts which isn't enough we learned from the shrine and from talking to
Jonathan that Danny's body was placed in that cart and this was the time when there was the explosion of forensic
science and they were doing mitochondrial DNA and trace evidence and we the FBI had just started off these
evidence teams called evidence response teams and we got the Sacramento evidence
response team we found the car that had belonged to Jonathan's mother and we took the evidence or we went a guy from
our office our fleet guy named Ralph Lux he went and we got a search warrant for
the car and we took the car and we took the card back to our Sacramento office and there our evidence response team
went through the car they recovered all the trace evidence from the trunk and backseat and all that there was nothing
that would flag this as a big development and they sent the trace evidence into the FBI laboratory and
they were working on it I was in contact with them and then in 1998 hikers in the area of where Danny
had disappeared came upon a skull and the skull taken to the California State University Chico
that had an unbelievable forensic anthropology department and they had developed special software that let them
superimposed the skull onto a picture of Danny and it fit so we began to think that this was Danny's skull I was in
touch with the FBI laboratory the DNA was a his name was Jonathan Jeb Stewart and he was working mitochondrial DNA and
I was trying to get him to look for DNN in the trace evidence recovered from the
car the FBI lab was really busy at the time and they they didn't have enough time or resources to go through every
little thing that was found so he said I sent him a picture of Danny and he picked out a few of the hairs that could
be construed or could be considered as part of Danny and he did mitochondrial DNA examinations on that the
mitochondrial DNA unlike nuclear DNA that's a DNA we get from our mother and it won't give us a
unique person identification like you can't sit there on the stand and say oh this DNA match this person and therefore
it's him it tells you that the person you have is an offspring of a certain woman and so the best we could do was to
say that the trace evidence recovered from the car belonged to the person who was an offspring of a woman and the they
did the mike mitochondrial DNA testing on the hairs and because Danny's remains were being recovered they are they had a
leg bone that they can compare it to and I remember I got a call one day from Jeb
and he says it's the same mitochondrial DNA between the hair the leg bone and Jackie
and I'm telling you this Nick now I mean I feel myself welling up I couldn't believe it
and then I I thanked them and then I hung up and I tried to compose myself and I called Vern and mmm I said fern
are you sitting down and he you know he's like yeah I'm sit down I said Vern I just got a call from
the lab and they said that the mitochondrial DNA from the leg bone that was recovered and the hair that was in
the car comes from Jackie and since we knew where Jackie's other offspring were we could say that it was Danny and I
said Vern it's him and just like I'm about to do with you he started not being able to talk and he's I heard a
lot of sighing and he said look I play back a few minutes and he hung up and I think the two of us were each sitting at
each phone crying and then he called me back and you know we just we just we just tried to accept the reality that we
had found them and we found out what happened to him of course the next step would be to
prosecute Jonathan for what he had done and his mother but the reality was Jonathan believed that when he left
Danny in the woods he left him sleeping he did not know the concept of death versus life and he didn't know the
concept of good and bad so he couldn't even understand what he had done and this meant that he would never be
competent to stand trial and because Jonathan's mother was an accessory the statute on that had
expired already so Jonathan was never prosecuted but the prosecutor sits with the files in his office and if they ever
decide in California to let these people out of the mental hospitals again don't prosecute Jonathan for what he did
well some of the things that I find interesting regarding the interaction between you and Jonathan and in his
statements during the course of your interview process is that he's able to accurately describe a few things that
you have to believe that only the person possibly responsible for his disappearance would be able to describe
and part of that is the shirt that Danny was wearing on the day that he went missing he also references a Nintendo
game inside of Danny's home he also accurately states that Danny had two different hairstyles two different
haircuts longer hair and then the buzz cut at the time of the disappearance what was the importance of the scabies
that we discussed earlier regarding this case well the important role of scabies
was that at the time Danny disappeared he had this shaven head Jonathan said to us and I probably left us out that when
he looked at the picture he said that was the way Danny used to look but not the way Danny looks now and and I don't
think I explained that well because but that was him the importance of the scabies was to give us the ability to
know that he had seen Danny in two different postures of appearance and on top of Dan Danny having scabies that
there's believed that Jonathan also had scabies around that time that Danny went
missing yes there was a strong indication that Jonathan also had scabies and we believe that was related
but it's one of those things Nick where you have to take what you can hold best first and everything else comes
afterward and the scabies yes is a very important thing but we could not prove that Jonathan had had scabies when Danny
disappeared now Jonathan and of course that's a made-up name a fake name for real person but yes to your knowledge he
still he's not out walking around on the streets no no and what was the aftermath
for this murder investigation with Jackie and with Danny's family this is when we get an answer like this it was
frustrating for the family because Jonathan could not be prosecuted and there could not be an actual event or
series of events in time that would acknowledge the information that we had learned and be able to say that Jonathan
was the person who had done this with the assistance of his mother but with all victims families and Jackie was no
different they do love the ones that are missing and Jackie and Shannon and Brandon the brother they wanted to have
a memorial for Danny they wanted to acknowledge his existence believe it or not because of the wife Danny had lived
he there was no pictures of Danny the only picture we had of him was a picture of him at the dentist's office with that
you know how they put that apron around your neck with the chain and so I got a hold of that picture and I took it to
our photo guys at the FBI and I asked them if they could crop out anything that would reveal the dentist office and
just give us the best picture they could and my intent was to take that picture and for Vern and I to have it framed and
for Vern and I to put a little plaque at the bottom of the picture saying that this was for you know Shannon from Bern
and Jeff or this is from for Brandon from Bern and Jeff and when the FBI found out what I was doing they
actually picked up the cost of it and our photo guys took you know did what they did
and and that was our way of marking it there's a wonderful newspaper article where Vern and I are at Danny's memorial
and Shannon you know hugs each one of us called us up and acknowledges us to the
crowd the people that had come and then Danny his burro Jackie died right around
that time of you know her her lifestyle caused a premature death and so Jackie and Danny are buried side orden not
there they're encased side-by-side in a mausoleum and ironically that mausoleum is right in the area where this campfire
happened so one thing settled down i I want to drive up there and see if it's intact
now did you become a profiler later in your career I did yes I I did and I'm very proud of that could you take us
through the process of becoming a profiler what that entails and what training is involved in that oh yeah
absolutely let me start off by saying that right now the profilers at the FBI they're in
a unit called the National Center for the analysis of violent crime it that's what what it's known as now and I've
been retired now for 12 years so that's that's what it was when I retired it used to be the Behavioral Analysis Unit
it used to be called the child abduction serial killer unit Cask you it's going through different names but the
beginning of the profiling started with John Douglas and his peers working at the FBI and they worked on the theory
that if they went around interviewing serial killers or serial rapists or these people that have committed crimes
that they might be able to identify certain things about them that would help identify other killers
so in TV now your listeners probably see that while they bring in the profilers and the criminal minds and all that
criminal profiling does not give you the person who did the crime it it gives you
the potential personal picture of that person so it's it's and it's based on in my opinion and this is my opinion it's
based on statistics as an example one of the things I did in my career to be a better investigator was once a month I
attended law enforcement meetings where offender sex offenders coming out on parole agreed to be interviewed by law
enforcement and if you take that and you compare it to what John Douglas and the
initial mind hunters as people like to call them were doing it's very similar they were going and talking to people
who were still in prison but they were talking to them about the crimes how they committed their crimes
why they committed the crimes how they chose their victims things like that and we were doing that here in Sacramento
with guys coming out on parole you learned there are certain things that you can identify with behavior one of
the examples I love to use is that when I was attending the parole interviews they would give us a document or a
briefing document that would describe what their crime was but it would also include their criminal history well I
learned from going to these things from interacting with the other guys that a lot of these guys that commit sexual
offenses will have a history of burglaries in their criminal record we're not talking about
two or three we're talking about 1015 a lot of them the question becomes or people say well why or burglaries
important when you consider a sexual offender and what I learned and there was another guy working with named Steve
Hill from the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office who made so much available to me but what I learned was
that a lot of these guys if not most of them they're pleading out their sex crimes down to burglaries these are guys
that are going into homes they're standing over a sleeping woman or child and they're fantasizing doing what
they're doing and they get caught and nobody wants to be charged as a sexual crime so they're allowed to plea bargain
it down and they get charged with the burglary there was one guy I remember that we interviewed who had about 20
burglaries on his rap sheet I asked the guy you know oh so you know these did you do these burglaries because oh yeah
yeah and he was proud of it I said but you know really if he did these 20 just what you probably did 40 right and he
goes yeah and so if you did 40 I said so um what did you do with all the money I
mean you must have really nice things at home if you did these 40 burglaries you've gotten several thousand dollars
not to mention the jewelry and things like that and the guys would say I don't have a cent to my name so then the next
question becomes logically well if you don't have the money and you were going into these homes why were you going into
those homes and that's where you know they don't want to tell you you know oh well I was going in and I just didn't
find anything whatever and then you're like you remind them you know you're here for a reason what did you do when
you went into the home and then they start describing what they did and how they did it and you learn that a bunch
of these guys will stand outside windows and they'll look in we call them peeping
toms but you learned that where you a lot of reporting's of a peeping tom sometimes you'll find that they urinated
or defecated outside the window that they're looking in at I don't know what the reason is or I don't understand the
sexual motivation but they do it so this is an example where you know a normal or
not a normal you you know a behavior that someone will do while they're doing something wrong and you can look for it
and it helps you understand things so this is an example of your understanding what motivates the person um you take a
sexual offender for instance and in my opinion what I learned from the profiling training and from going to
these meetings is that a sexual offender offender has a fantasy and I'm talking about mostly guys right now and that
mostly these guys will have this fantasy in their head of what they want now if it's a fantasy of doing something
illegal like a murder or a rape they realize that their fantasy is of behavior that is criminal and they'll
make a conscious decision not to do it but some guys will also make a conscious decision to do it so then what becomes
important in terms of the profiling is understanding what their fantasy is what is their fantasy and this is where you
find we you where your listeners watch the shows and they see like with the victim there might be a breast that's
bitten or or the victim is posed in a certain way this is part of the offender's fantasy and this gives you
certain information about the offender they learn statistically that most offenders that do serial murders like
this they're normally white they're normally middle-aged they have very good intelligence
some of them function normally in society and have their own families if you look at the BTK killer he's a great
example if you read the information about BTK and what he did you'll learn about his fantasy but
you'll also learn that he had a fantasy in fact I mean he had a family and I think my wife gets People magazine and I
saw recently there on the cover there was a headline you know I was raised by a serial killer and I think it's BTK
Dennis Rader's daughter being interviewed and talking about her background and so these this is examples
of and so it also leads you to come in to crime scenes and make certain you know suspicions based on the crime
scenes if you go into a crime scene and the victim is posed well you know you have a sexual fantasy guy if you go into
a crime scene and the victim their face is covered well that's a person who may or may not have known the victim most
times the the killer will know the victim or have seen them before and so these are things that all come into play
when they then take this and they process it and they come out with okay this is what we think your fender is all
about I hope that was helpful Jeff we want to thank you for joining us here in the garage and discussing the
missing persons case of Danny Hohenstein today before we wrap up could you tell us a little bit about your book that you
put out okay the title of the book is in the name of the children and it's of course it's written by myself and my
co-author Marilee strong this book was not intended to be a book my wife Laurie who is the keystone of my life asked me
to write an accounting of myself for my sons and for the members of our family that come later so they'll have
something to have to know about me and I sat there for several months with a laptop and I crying and I wrote an
of my life as if I was speaking to my sons themselves so if you read my book you'll you'll get the feeling that I'm
talking to you and what I do in my book is I tell to everyone in a way of explaining my life I talk about my
childhood how it felt to be bullied and beat up all the time how I felt when I had my surgery and I was angry most
importantly working these crimes against children caused a lot of emotional damage to me and I didn't know it at the
time but I learned that it caused a lot of emotional damage to my family and I try and describe in the book The effect
of this crimes on me and what I learned from my family and what I learned that I
did to my family I got to the point where I became a a danger to myself I became suicidal in the book I described
two incidences where I did try and take my life but I also try and help the reader understand why I reached this
point and when I finished writing this manuscript and I gave it back to Lori to read she believed that if we did make
this a book it might help other first responders or other investigators like me that worked these cases because Lori
and I are at our best when we're helping people and we thought maybe this book can help and I can't begin to tell you
Nick the calls and contacts I've gotten from other law enforcement and even from
victims the I've been contacted by victims in other states who said that this book too spoke to them on the level
that they had never experienced before and it has helped them there if your readers get the book and I recommend
they do there's a chapter named the 22 and in that chapter there is a girl that's described
who was you know various assaulted and I gave the manuscript to every victim family I could find that was in the book
I would not have agreed to the publishing of the book if I didn't have the approval of the people in this
instance we gave the book to this one girl and she got back to his feet several weeks later just crying and she
said she was obsessively reading the chapter and over and over again and the reason was because she never realized
how I saw her and I saw her as a warrior queen and it made her feel better about
herself that made her it made her understand that even though she was a victim that she had fought her
victimization and she had a lot to be proud of and these children in the 20 to the chapter 22 my wife Lori and I are
still in contact with them we attend their weddings and their baby showers and their graduations at one point
during the case one of them said you know are we just another case to you or and you're going to go away or and I
promised them I would be there for them for the rest of my life and Lori and I have have made that promise and we've
been living up to it if your readers read the book they'll see that each chapter is named after a victim the
first chapter is me I described myself as a victim for what I experienced from my birth defects and my cerebral palsy
and then after that the chapters are names of the cases that I worked that provided transition in my life in terms
of working these cases the final chapter is named Lori Jo and Jordan and this is
my wife and my two sons and it describes the harm I caused to them and how proud
I am of them and we are still very close as a family Lori and I Laurie retired this past year and sin
she's been retired it's been the happiest time of my life and the thoughts in my mind are still there the
post-traumatic stress but I'm better able to deal with it because I have the love of my family and of my wife Lori so
I think that your readers will experience what it's like to be in the head of an investigator not only in
working the case but how the case affects them whatever struggles you are facing from depression and anxiety to
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Brief Summary

The episode details the investigation of missing boy Danny Hohenstein and the challenges faced by FBI agents in solving his case.

Key points

The Disappearance of Danny Hohenstein. Danny went missing at just six years old, prompting a long and complex investigation.
A Shocking Confession. Jonathan, a boy with a troubled past, reveals details about Danny's disappearance.
The DNA Match. A breakthrough in the case reveals a match between Danny's remains and his family.
Danny's Memorial. The family holds a memorial for Danny, honoring his existence and memory.
The Book's Impact. The author shares how his book has helped victims and their families.
The Final Chapter. The last chapter of the book is dedicated to family and personal pride.

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