Police say Clark Rockefeller is a person of interest in the disappearance of John and Linda Sohus who went missing in 1985.
Police to look at yard again where human bones were found
San Marino police said Friday they again plan to search the backyard of a Lorain Road home where human remains were found 14 years ago. San Marino police Lt. Steve Johnson said investigators will use equipment that can X-ray through concrete when they search the property where John and Linda Sohus were living when they disappeared in February 1985. Human bones, believed by coroner's investigators to be those of John Sohus, were unearthed in the backyard in May 1994 by workers installing a swimming pool. Linda Sohus' remains unaccounted for, officials said... ...Alexander Gerhartsreiter identified Rockefeller as Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, the son of an artist and homemaker in Upper Bavaria who felt like he was better than his modest upbringing. Rockefeller, linked by fingerprint evidence to the disappearance of John and Linda Sohus, appears to have had a chameleon-like ability to change identity. Chichester's various identities included Christian Gerhartsreiter, Christopher Crowe and Christopher Crowe Mountbatten, according to a bulletin issued by sheriff's homicide Detective Bob Carr in 1994. Shown a picture from Carr's bulletin, Alexander Gerhartsreiter said: "It seems you found my brother. It is really a shock." He said his older brother was born Feb. 21, 1961, in Siegsdorf, Germany, and was raised until 1978 in the same house where his family still lives. Gerhartsreiter said his brother moved to Connecticut as a student and never returned. Initially, he kept in contact, but he last called his parents in 1985 - the year the Sohuses and their tenant Chichester disappeared.... Gerhartsreiter said his brother had told his family he had taken the name Christopher Chichester because his given name was too difficult for Americans. "I think Germany was too small for him," Gerhartsreiter told a Boston Globe reporter. "He wanted to live in the big country and maybe get famous. Now that I see all this, he's really famous."... ....After leaving San Marino, Chichester was not seen again until police found him in Greenwich, Conn., in the late 1980s. Police learned that the truck he was driving belonged to John Sohus, but before they could question him, Chichester and the truck disappeared again... ....Amy Jersild Palmer, 48, of Janesville, Wis., said she was interviewed by Los Angeles County sheriff's homicide detectives who had mistaken her for a woman of the same maiden name who married Christian Gerhartsreiter in 1981 and provided him with a green card. "They wanted to know if I knew where he was in February of 1981," Palmer said. "I told them I had no idea where he was then, because I've never met him." Palmer said her husband got angry with the detectives when they insisted the woman knew more than she would admit. "I just kept telling them, I don't recognize these pictures at all," Palmer said. "Finally they left." The woman who actually married Christian Gerhartsreiter, Amy Jersild Duhnke, 49, of Milwaukee, was unavailable for comment. In a telephone interview Friday, her husband, Eric Duhnke, confirmed that the marriage took place, but said it lasted only a day. Public records obtained by the Associated Press indicate Amy Duhnke waited 11 years before filing for divorce from Gerhartstreiter..... ============================================ Please send your comments to GreenwichRoundup@gmail.com
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