Clark Rockefeller probe points to Germany
Boston Herald
By Laurel J. Sweet, Jessica Van Sack and Jessica Fargen
The web of lies spun by the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller may be close to unraveling, as a school transcript possibly linked to him leads not to any grand American, British or European lineage, but to a small resort town in Germany’s Bavarian Alps.
A 1978 10th-grade report card obtained by the Herald yesterday for a Christian Gerhartsreiter of Siegsdorf, who would now be 47, an apparent German national the FBI suspects is accused Boston kidnapper Clark Rockefeller, suggests the youth described by acquaintances as a snooty, self-aggrandizing exchange student was a mediocre scholar.
Under the German educational tracking system that placed him in a business trade school, he might have been bound for an unremarkable career in middle management, rather than international notoriety.
But a seemingly prescient note on the transcript adds that Gerhartsreiter was “interested in many facets of life.” Police and agents from California to Germany are now interested in many facets of the tight-lipped Rockefeller’s life. The man being held for allegeldy abducting his 7-year-old daughter in Boston last week has been linked to Christopher Chichester of San Marino, Calif., named as a person of interest in a young couple’s 1985 disappearance there. Chichester is linked to the student variously known as Gerhartsreiter, Streiter and Reiter, as well as to would-be Wall Street broker Christopher Crowe.
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Dave Copeland, who knows something about criminals and New York, makes some calls to learn about "Rockefeller's" less than illustrious career on Wall Street back in the Gordon Gekko days:
... But after two days at Lehman, Rockefeller told his supervisors that he needed to take time off to search for his parents, who he said had gone missing in Afghanistan. Sources said Rockefeller – who told co-workers at Nikko he was film director Christoher Crowe – was dismissed by Lehman. Rockefeller even invited co-workers to the Greenwich, Conn. guest house he was renting for screenings of “his” movies. Rockefeller claimed he was living in the guest house because his own home was being renovated, a claim that co-workers assumed was one of his tall tales.
Within days of his dismissal from Lehman, Connecticut State Police detectives arrived at the offices of both Lehman and Nikko looking to question Rockefeller. ...
One guess what they might have wanted to question him about. Yep.
The Boston Herald Article Continues:
Rockefeller’s attorney Stephen Hrones said his captured client only remembers “bits and pieces, here and there” of his life prior to appearing on New York’s social scene in the early 1990s, posing as a scion of the wealthy American clan. But Hrones said he has no plans to have Rockefeller tested by mental-health experts.
“It’s early in the game,” Hrones said. “I’m sure things are going to play out. The strategy is going to have to change as we go along.”
Hrones, meanwhile, is denying cops and the feds access to Rockefeller at Nashua Street Jail.
FBI Boston Special Agent Damon Katz called it “a very interesting story, in part because of the details,” but otherwise declined to comment yesterday on the case, citing a “pending investigation.”
The German Foreign Office is trying to determine whether Gerhartsreiter is in fact German, according to a spokeswoman.
He told his hosts in Berlin, Conn., in the late 1970s and early 1980s he was the son of a German industrialist, though one host was told by an investigator later his father was a house painter. His German transcript, on file at Berlin High School, portrayed him as a graduate of a three-year business school in Traunstein, near Siegsdorf, of the sort German students headed for management jobs would attend after middle school instead of going to a formal high school. It graded him as merely “sufficient” in commerical math and economics - fourth on a six-grade scale, just above “deficient” and “unsatisfactory,” but below “very good,” “good,” and “satisfactory.”
His “English and Commerical English” was marked “good,” his history and sociology “very good,” and other business-related subjects only “satisfactory.”
The German transcript states he was born Feb. 21, 1961, in Siegsdorf, a small Bavarian ski resort.
Rockefeller, who has no Social Security number, birth record or driver’s license and never filed his 1995 marriage certificate, declares his date of birth to be Feb. 29, 1960.
Locally, police and prosecutors are said to be assisting Los Angeles-area detectives in trying to pinpoint if Rockefeller is also Christopher Chichester, a man sought for questioning since 1985 in the disappearance of San Marino, Calif., newlyweds John and Linda Sohus and John’s presumed murder. A body thought to be his was found in 1994 but has never been positively identified.
“The investigation remains very active and grows more focused by the day,” said Jake Wark, spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley, whose office is holding Rockefeller without bail in the July 27 kidnapping of his daughter, Reigh “Snooks” Storrow Mills Boss, from the Back Bay.
As for how Snooks and Rockefeller’s ex-wife, Sandra Lynne Boss, 41, both of London, are coping, Wark said Boss has “requested their privacy. We’re accommodating that request.”
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