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Clark Rockefeller

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Clark Rockefeller

Clark Rockefeller is a suspected con man who disappeared from Boston on July 27, 2008, with his 7-year-old daughter Reigh Boss. The disappearance ignited a weeklong international hunt for him and his daughter that had law enforcement searching from New York to the Caribbean. Rockefeller, also known as Chip Smith and Chip MacLaughlin, is charged with kidnapping his daughter and assaulting a relative, according to court records.

Federal agents grabbed Rockefeller from his newly-purchased house in the Mount Vernon neighborhood in Baltimore, where he had made elaborate arrangements for himself and his daughter. Rockefeller recently divorced Sandra Boss, who is a partner with the manag...
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Clark Rockefeller is a suspected con man who disappeared from Boston on July 27, 2008, with his 7-year-old daughter Reigh Boss. The disappearance ignited a weeklong international hunt for him and his daughter that had law enforcement searching from New York to the Caribbean. Rockefeller, also known as Chip Smith and Chip MacLaughlin, is charged with kidnapping his daughter and assaulting a relative, according to court records.

Federal agents grabbed Rockefeller from his newly-purchased house in the Mount Vernon neighborhood in Baltimore, where he had made elaborate arrangements for himself and his daughter. Rockefeller recently divorced Sandra Boss, who is a partner with the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. He lived for several years in Boston telling people he was related to the monied Rockefellers, which the family has denied.
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    Aug 3, 2008 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  1. Fugitive father caught in Baltimore

    An international manhunt for a New England man accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter a week ago came to an end yesterday afternoon when FBI agents arrested the fugitive and rescued the girl in Mount Vernon, officials said.
    Baltimore Sun reporters
    An international manhunt for a New England man accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter a week ago came to an end yesterday afternoon when FBI agents arrested the fugitive and rescued the girl in Mount Vernon, officials said. FBI agents were...

    Tags: Long Island, Real Estate Agents, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Kidnapping, Mount Vernon

  2. Aug 9, 2008 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  3. The many faces of Clark Rockefeller

    Associated Press
    Clark Rockefeller might not be a real descendant of the oil tycoon, but if authorities and reports are to be believed, he sure was a lot of other things: •A German student named Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who lived with families in...

    Tags: Germany, Family, San Marino, Death, Juvenile Delinquency

  4. Aug 12, 2008 |Story| Associated Press
  5. Man known as Rockefeller now admits knowing Calif. family

    Associated Press Writer
    Blaming a faulty memory, the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller has repeatedly denied allegations of an alias-filled past and any link to a Southern California couple who disappeared 23 years ago. Now he says he's starting to remember. More than...

    Tags: Germany, Family, Kidnapping, San Marino, FBI

  6. Jan 26, 2012 |Story| Glendale News Press
  7. What became of Linda Sohus?

    Nearly three decades of whispering and wondering in San Marino spilled into the open this week when prosecutors aired their evidence that Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter killed John Sohus at a San Marino home in 1985. Witness after witness helped paint a...

    Tags: San Marino, Prosecution, Witnesses

  8. Jan 18, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  9. Rockefeller case: Witness says body parts wrapped in plastic

    L.A. NOW
    Forensic scientists who took the stand Wednesday at a preliminary hearing in the 1985 death of a San Marino man outlined gruesome details about the victim's remains found a decade later that led them to conclude the man had been......
  10. Jan 19, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  11. Rockefeller impostor: Missing couple sparked fears

    L.A. NOW
    The mother of a man who disappeared in 1985 first believed her son and daughter-in-law were in Paris working on a confidential assignment, but became increasingly worried as months passed....
  12. Jan 20, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  13. Rockefeller impostor borrowed chain saw, witness testifies

    L.A. NOW
    Witness in Rockefeller impostor's preliminary hearing in murder case says he asked to borrow a chain saw....
  14. Jan 20, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  15. Rockefeller impostor: Defense focuses on missing wife of victim

    L.A. NOW
    A defense attorney representing a one-time Rockefeller imposter accused in a three decades-old San Marino murder appeared to move toward blaming the man’s missing wife Friday, questioning a witness about tensions between the couple....
  16. Jan 23, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  17. Rockefeller impostor tried to sell rug with blood, witnesses say

    L.A. NOW
    A one-time Rockefeller impostor accused in a three decade-old San Marino cold case murder tried to sell a rug with what appeared to be a blood stain on it, witnesses said Monday, testimony the judge said he would allow as an “adoptive admission.&#...
  18. Jan 24, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  19. Rockefeller impostor to stand trial in cold-case slaying

    L.A. NOW
    Rockefeller impostor must stand trial in cold-case slaying...
  20. Jan 24, 2012 |Story| KTLA-LTV
  21. Phony 'Rockefeller' to Stand Trial in Cold Case Murder of San Marino Man

    ALHAMBRA, Calif. (KTLA) -- A German-born man who gained fame by pretending to be a Rockefeller has been ordered to stand trial in the gruesome murder of a San Marino man in 1985.
    KTLA News
    ALHAMBRA, Calif. (KTLA) -- A German-born man who gained fame by pretending to be a Rockefeller has been ordered to stand trial in the gruesome murder of a San Marino man in 1985. Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, 50, is already serving time for kidnapping...

    Tags: Rentals, KTLA, Germany, Kidnapping, Court Preliminary

  22. Aug 15, 2011 | Los Angeles Times
  23. Rare books collector claims to have Butch Cassidy's manuscript

    Jacket Copy
    Could "Bandit Invincible: The Story of Butch Cassidy" be a biography, not a work of fiction?...
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Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter , a German immigrant who...
(January 19, 2012)
Preliminary hearing
Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter , who calls himself Clark...
(January 18, 2012)
Hearing in 2010
Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, aka Clark Rockefeller
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Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, aka Clark Rockefeller