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.

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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



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