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08/15/08 FBI confirms former Greenwich Residents identity


The FBI confirmed today that mystery man and former Greenwich resident Clark Rockefeller’s true identity is Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter.

HEADLINE:

THIS IS THE MOST INTERESTING GREENWICH STORY THAT REMINDS ONE OF THE MOVIE "CATCH ME IF YOU CAN", EXCEPT THERE IS A MURDER


GREENWICH RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN WATCHING AND WAITING FOR THE GREENWICH TIME TO COVER THE LOCAL ANGLE SINCE SINCE THIS STORY BEGAN TO UNRAVEL.


CHRISTIAN KARL GERHARTSREITER PLAYS SHIRADES WITH POLICE DETECTIVES AS THE GREENWICH TIME FAILS TO FIND OUT THE FACTS AND REPORT THEM TO THE CITIZENS OF THE GREENWICH AND THE WORLD

THE STORY:

FBI confirms former Greenwich resident's identity


FBI and Boston law enforcement authorities announced today they lifted a 27-year-old fingerprint off an aging immigration document to prove that Boston’s mystery man, Clark Rockefeller, is "the center of the largest con" they’ve ever seen.

His confirmed identity is Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, born in West Germany in 1961.

Investigators used a total of four fingerprints - one recently taken from a wine glass in Boston, two from his recent police booking in Baltimore and Boston, and one off of an immigration document Gerhartsreiter was required to fill out as a teen 27-years ago when he came over to America as a foreign exchange student.

By matching the major case prints Boston police took from this suspect 10 days ago to a piece of paper he touched 27 years earlier, the FBI’s fingerprint technicians brought science to bear where mere suspicion had prevailed," said Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley.

Gerhartsreiter, who used the aliases Clark Rockefeller, Chris C. Crowe, Chris Chichester, Charles Smith and Chip Smith, according to the FBI, allegedly kidnapped his 7-year-old daughter, Reigh “Snooks” Storrow Mills Boss, from a Back Bay street on July 27, touching off an Amber Alert and eventually raising questions about how he apparently faked a series of identities, from filmmaker to luxury ship captain to physicist - over the last three decades throughout the nation.

He is being held on charges of kidnapping and assault as authorities in California have named him as a person of interest in the San Marino, Calif. disappearance and presumed murders of a newlywed couple in 1985.

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