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Rockefeller Identified as Gerhartsreiter by German Family
Friday, August 8, 2008 at 1:39 pm
From the Boston Globe:
"I think Germany was too small for him," Alexander Gerhartsreiter said. "He wanted to live in the big country and maybe get famous. Now that I see all this, he's really famous."
Enterprising American reporters have tracked down the real family of German national Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who may just be the man known to U.S. authorities as Clark Rockefeller. At least that's one of the names he's used. Several papers have also confirmed what I first reported here, two days ago -- that Gerhartsreiter (Rockefeller) apparently moved to Wisconsin in 1981 and married Amy Jersild. That marriage permitted Gerhartsreiter to obtain a green card and made him a legal resident of the United States.
According to the Globe, Gerhartsreiter left his home and family in Bavaria in 1978, when he was 17. He first landed in Connecticut, where he attended one year of high school as an exchange student. Then he was off across the U.S., marrying in Wisconsin in '81 before moving on to San Marino in the mid-80s. Gerhartsreiter adopted the Christopher Chichester pseudonym then. It was the last fake name his birth family knew about, for Gerhartsreiter stopped calling in 1985.
John and Linda Sohus vanished in February of that year, and Christopher Chichester seemed to vanish a few months later.
Though the real story of how a boy from Bavaria became a fake member of the American gentry and then a fugitive on the run with his daughter is becoming clearer with each passing day, the man who wanted to be known as a Rockefeller still isn't talking to police from Boston or Los Angeles. He may never crack. He's had a lot of practice keeping his secrets. [Boston.com]
Tags: Christian Gerhartsreiter, Christopher Crowe Mount Batten Chichester, Clark Mill Rockefeller, J.P. Clark Rockefeller, James Frederick, John Sohus, kidnapping, Linda Sohus, Reigh Rockefeller, Sandra Boss
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