The Fake Rockefeller
from Autumn's Oddities Hosted by Autumn Grube
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. SOURCES 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 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/autumn-s-oddities--5307439/support.
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