CA CA - Linda Sohus, 28, San Marino, 8 February 1985

[martin walkerdine]

On Feb. 20, 1981, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, 19, moved almost 1,000 miles west to Elm Grove, Wis., where he married a US citizen, Amy Jersild, 22, in a civil ceremony at the Dane County courthouse in Madison, records show. After that point, he obtained a green card, granting him legal residency in the United States.

 

[martin walkerdine]

Gerhartsreiter lived in a tiny brick cottage with flowing drapes, china, candles, and a fancy rug, recalled Beth Litza, Amy's older sister, in an interview yesterday.
"He had a kind of a rich-person, kind of distance thing going on," Litza said. As quickly as Gerhartsreiter appeared in Amy's life, he disappeared, she said, but she could not remember when and how they divorced.
Amy Jersild Duhnke, who is remarried and still living in Wisconsin, could not be reached yesterday.

 

[Knoxx]

From Bavaria To Boston, Rockefeller Leads Chased

BOSTON -- From a small town in Bavaria, to an alleged kidnapping in Boston, federal investigators are following a tangled trail of leads as they try to uncover the true identity of Clark Rockefeller

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/17129577/detail.html

 

[Knoxx]

CONN. CLAN GOT SNOOK-ERED

There was a "Snooks" in bogus blueblood Clark Rockefeller's life way before he gave the odd moniker to his daughter, Reigh, a Connecticut man revealed yesterday -

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08082008/news/nationalnews/conn__clan_got_snook_ered_123555.htm

 

[Knoxx]

Peter Burling, a New Hampshire state senator and neighbour of the Rockefellers, said: “He was one of the most difficult, pathological personalities I’ve ever known. Everybody was immediately led to assume that he was one of the Rockefeller family, that there was lots of money, lots of power.”

Friends described him as a devoted father and main carer for Reigh while his wife was away on business. But another Cornish resident, Don McLeay, said that Reigh “never had a normal life” and was not allowed to play with other children because her father feared she would “catch something”.

http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/category/neofeudalism/


Sorry this is old news July 31 2008....

 

[capoly]

Gerhartsreiter lived in a tiny brick cottage with flowing drapes, china, candles, and a fancy rug, recalled Beth Litza, Amy's older sister, in an interview yesterday.
"He had a kind of a rich-person, kind of distance thing going on," Litza said. As quickly as Gerhartsreiter appeared in Amy's life, he disappeared, she said, but she could not remember when and how they divorced.
Amy Jersild Duhnke, who is remarried and still living in Wisconsin, could not be reached yesterday.

First thing that came to mind when I read this was:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o1V2uiagpU

 

[tuppence]

It kinda amazes me. He worked his way into the money crowd on the west coast, then again on the east coast. And in this day and age he never crossed paths from the west to the east? Never ran into old friends or acquaintances? This guy was eccentric, nerdy and also sounds obnoxious. It isn't like people he used to know wouldn't remember him. Those are the kind that stand out in memory.

Agree - especially given that he worked on wall street as Christopher Crowe - - and then met his wife in NY when she was an at Merril (finance). I can't believe he wouldn't have run into someone he worked with on wall street given the crowd he would socialized in with his wife.

One thing I am surprised about. We aren't hearing that Alias man took John's identity after John allegedly disappeared. He could have most likely ran around Europe for years, using his income for years before getting caught.

Good point.

 

[Knoxx]

Authorities were developing evidence yesterday that Clark Rockefeller's true identity is Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a native of the small Bavarian village of Siegsdorf, Germany, who has spent the last three decades in the United States as a high-society con man, marrying at least two women, working on Wall Street, and perhaps committing violent crime.

"I think we're getting close, but I wouldn't want to come out and say definitively who this person is," said Noreen Gleason, an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston office.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/08/08/many_layered_identity_is_emerging/

 

[tuppence]

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1111807&srvc=next_article

Local TV producer Don Appleby recalled how Chichester affected a British accent on his monthly public access cable TV show, which aired between 1982 and 1983.

 

[tuppence]

some updates

• 1961: Christian Gerhartstreiter is born in the small Bavarian village of Siegsdorf, Germany.
• 1978: Christian Gerhartstreiter Graduates from a German Business School
• 1978-81: in Merdian and Berlin, CT as Christian Gerhart Reiter a Bavarian German exchange student. (This is the most recent name from the family/transcript but earlier there were other versions). Records show a Social Security number associated with the name Christian Gerhart Streiter — not Reiter — was issued in Connecticut about the same time.
• 1978?: Christian Gerhartstreiter lived for a time with the Roccapriore family in Meriden, Conn. as an exchange student
• 1978-81?: attends high school in Berlin CT
• 1979-80 or 80-81?: lives with Gwen Savios family in Berlin, CT who answers an ad in newspaper
• 1981: Moves to Wisconsin, marries a US Citizen Amy Jersild, 22 and obtains green card
• 1982-85: San Marino, CA. "Christopher Chichester" (Chichester was name of Berlin, CT teacher he admired) rented apartment from John and Linda Sohus who were married around 1983
• 1982-83: San Marino, CA. "Christopher Chichester" appears on public television show in San Marino
• 1983-84: San Marino, CA. posed as a USC student and attended film classes
• Feb 1985: John and Linda Shous disappear.
• April 1985: Missing persons report filed by Linda’s sister. Chichester disappears shortly after.
• 1985-87: ??? He mentioned time in Minnesota when he called people he stayed with as foreign exchange student
• 1987-88: Lives in Greewich CT, works in NY as "Christopher Montbattan Crowe" "Christopher Crowe" worked for S.N. Phelps and Co., a Greenwich brokerage firm (Stan Phelps was one of the early vulture capitalists) for six months then worked for Nikko Securities International. fired for incompetence. worked at Kidder Peabody as international sales manager but left after two days. day after he left a Connecticut State Police detective and an FBI agent came looking to question him (people believe about Sohus)
• 1988: Tries to sell a truck belonging to John Sohus in Greenwich Conn as a Christopher Crowe (probably what precipitated the police visit to Kidder Peabody)
• 1991 (in some places 1993): Rented apartment on NY upper east side as Clark Rockefeller
• 1993: Meets Sandra Boss
• 1994: Bones found in John Sohus yard. ‘Chichester’ wanted for questioning but cannot be found.
• 1993-2008: In Boston MA, Cornish NH, Nantucket MA. "Clark Rockefeller" "Clark Mill Rockefeller" "Clark M. Rockefeller III" "James Frederick" "Chip MacLaughlin" "Michael Brown." All mentioned as aliases.
• 1995: Clark Rockefeller Marries Sandra Boss – no marriage certificate filed
• 2001: Reigh Rockefeller born
• 2007: Divorce filed (Jan) and completed (Dec)
• 2007-08: Established 2nd life in Baltimore MD while still in Boston as Rockefeller. "Charles 'Chip' Smith." “Clark Rock”, Chip MacLaughlin
• Late 2007:approached Baltimore’s Obsidian Realty in late 2007 using the alias Chip MacLaughlin. He asked real estate agents to help him find a two-or three-bedroom home for him and his daughter while he relocated from Chile
• July 2008:finalized purchase of Baltimore home in mid-July.

[/LIST]

 

[Knoxx]

The Federal Criminal Police Office in Germany said it had no information on the man.

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Aug08/0,4670,RockefellerMystery,00.html

 

[capoly]

The pieces of who-he-is seem to be fitting together. Wonder where Linda fits in? And, of course, the big question, where is she?

 

[capoly]

Didn't the mother Savio say in one of the articles that CG had received numerous checks from his mother who was living in South Africa? Wonder how these checks were cashed and if the Savios ever noticed the stampmarks?

 

[Knoxx]

Rockefeller revelation: ’It seems you found my brother’

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/r..._revelation:__It_seems_you_found_my_brother_/

 

[Knoxx]

Appearing tearful at times, Alex spent an hour sifting through pictures and American newspaper articles to learn about his only sibling’s life as a nation-crossing chameleon.

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/r..._revelation:__It_seems_you_found_my_brother_/

 

[Knoxx]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/08/german_man_iden.html

His brother -- Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter -- left their home to be an exchange student in Connecticut and never returned. He initially kept in occasional touch with his family, but has not made contact since he called his parents in 1985.

 

[capoly]

Appearing tearful at times, Alex spent an hour sifting through pictures and American newspaper articles to learn about his only sibling’s life as a nation-crossing chameleon.

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/r..._revelation:__It_seems_you_found_my_brother_/

Thanks, Knoxx, for posting.

 

[Knoxx]

The family home of Cristian Gerhartsreiter.

http://www.bostonherald.com/

 

[Knoxx]

wondering if they have a record on him before he left Germany

 

[Knoxx]

One of the employees said he saw Crowe's apartment, a converted garage on a large estate in Greenwich that was beautiful, but empty, except for a cot and some magazines. "He might have been a little embarrassed about it," the employee said. "He claimed he'd ordered some furniture that hadn't arrived yet."

But colleagues recalled yesterday that Crowe was not what he professed to be. He drove a beat-up 1965 Chevy, grew angry easily with others in the office, and made very few sales. He was terminated sometime around 1989, they said.

"He was a sales manager and never made a sale, so eventually he was fired," said Barnett. "He just didn't do anything."

Another former colleague recalled Crowe telling a customer who accidentally sat at his desk, "If anybody touches my stuff, I'll bring my German Luger."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/08/08/many_layered_identity_is_emerging/