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BOSTON (WBZ) ― After five days of deliberations, a jury has found the man known as Clark Rockefeller guilty of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter in Boston last July. The jury of eight women and four men read its verdict just before noon on Friday.

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”...

With his famous name, ostentatious display of wealth and upper-class accent, Clark Rockefeller was a pillar of respectability in the smart society of the American East Coast. Yet police hunting Mr Rockefeller for abducting his daughter, who lives in London with her mother, admitted yesterday that they could find no trace of his existence before the early 1990s. Detectives described Mr Rockefeller, 48, as a “ghost” who appears to have laid a false trail of clues as he planned the abduction of his daughter, Reigh Boss, 7, on Sunday. His former wife of 12 years, Sandra Boss, 41, moved to...

Breaking - child is fine.