Posted on 08/10/2008 5:30:40 PM PDT by dighton
When Clark Rockefeller made news after he abducted his daughter, he was believed to be a member of one of America’s “royal’ families. But, as Philip Sherwell reveals, the man of many aliases turns out to be no more than a German exchange student who never returned home - and went on to lead a life of deception.
His calling card, embossed with its Latin family motto, boasted the upper-class credentials of a peer: Christopher Chichester, 13th baronet. But all was not as it seemed. Not only was the name of the bespectacled young man with the well-pressed suits and “English” accent bogus, but so, too, were his aristocratic claims. The so-called Chichester (just one of a string of aliases used by the man who also passed himself off as a member of the wealthy Rockefeller oil clan) is in a Boston prison charged with abducting his seven-year-old daughter, Reigh, a London schoolgirl, and embarking on his latest attempt to hide in plain sight, this time in Baltimore under the name Chip Smith.
As he awaits trial, the elaborate labyrinth of lies and devious deceits deployed by the serial imposter has led to his true identity being revealed. “Chichester’’ is, in fact, plain Christian Gerhartsreiter, 47, born in an impoverished region of Bavaria.
And his interest to the US authorities extends farther than the kidnapping case. Californian detectives want to question him about the disappearance of a couple in the affluent Los Angeles community of San Marino where the hoaxer had charmed residents and even landed himself a cable television show before vanishing.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Kidnap father Clark Rockefeller is a ghost, say bewildered detectives
This psychopath will be charged with murdering two people in California.
Mark my words.
Coverage by Boston media:
http://www1.whdh.com/news/specialcoverage/rockefeller/
http://wbztv.com/search/Default.aspx?N=4294594646&TabId=0&Dt=clark%20rockefeller
I’m Henry the 8th,I am.
A follow-up to articles you posted earlier.
wow!
wow!
If he drained the money out of the Calif couple it looks like they would know it
Apparently he didn’t charm too many people in Cornish, NH. Those who knew him thought he was weird, according to what I hear. But then, we’re used to people like Ed and Elaine Brown, J.D. Salinger and Justice Stephen Breyer so probably this goomer would fit right in.
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