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For three decades, the man born Christian Gerhartsreiter claimed to be someone else. He posed as a British baronet, a cardiologist in Las Vegas, a Hollywood producer, a bond broker in New York, and, finally, as a member of the famous Rockefeller family.
Gerhartstreiter was arrested in 2008 after a weeklong FBI hunt for him and his daughter, whom he abducted during a scheduled custody visit. Within days of his arrest, Rockefeller’s true identity was discovered and word spread that he was the primary suspect in an unsolved 1985 murder in California.
SOURCES
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal
https://www.npr.org/2011/07/10/137624164/30-year-con-from-german-kid-to-rockefeller-scion
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/18/clark-rockefeller-murder-charge
https://www.oxygen.com/dateline-secrets-uncovered/crime-news/christian-gerhartsreiter-convicted-of-john-sohus-murder
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/autumn-s-oddities--5307439/support.
Gerhartstreiter was arrested in 2008 after a weeklong FBI hunt for him and his daughter, whom he abducted during a scheduled custody visit. Within days of his arrest, Rockefeller’s true identity was discovered and word spread that he was the primary suspect in an unsolved 1985 murder in California.
SOURCES
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal
https://www.npr.org/2011/07/10/137624164/30-year-con-from-german-kid-to-rockefeller-scion
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/18/clark-rockefeller-murder-charge
https://www.oxygen.com/dateline-secrets-uncovered/crime-news/christian-gerhartsreiter-convicted-of-john-sohus-murder
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/autumn-s-oddities--5307439/support.
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