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

[mollymalone]

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1111587
The man known as Christopher Chichester in this posh southern California enclave was an eloquent, enthusiastic young Brit who led people to believe he was the heir to a vast fortune. Berkeley Johnston said he knew Chichester from the San Marino Rotary Club, where Chichester, then apparently in his early 20s, spoke with a refined British accent and oozed class. “He was younger than most of the members and brought a youthful presence with him that I remember. That British accent, we just loved it,” Johnston told the Herald yesterday.We thought he was the heir to some fortune. He came across as a fairly well-off guy wandering around looking for something to do, as many heirs to fortunes do,” he added. Johnston said Chichester tried his utmost to mingle in San Marinos cash-soaked social circles. “He was really ingratiating himself to members of the club,” said Johnston, who now lives in Wyoming. “He had this British accent and seemed friendly. He had a nice personality.” Chichester became heavily involved in the club and was close friends with some members, Johnston recalled. “He wanted to be as involved as he could with the club. Then he literally just vanished. I don’t remember there being any suspicion that he was involved in the missing people at the time,” Johnston said. “Christopher Chichester was the only name we knew him by, and we had no reason to think he was called anything else,” he added.

 

[Knoxx]

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/re...me_suspected_skeletons_in_dad’s_closet/

Some suspected skeletons in dad’s closet

 

[mollymalone]

pfffft! La-di-da

Several friends of his have called and offered their support,” said his defense attorney, Stephen Hrones. “They’ve even asked to bring tea by the jail.”

 

[mollymalone]

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1111594
But those who have known Rockefeller over the years long suspected secrets and say there are rough edges under his smooth veneer. “I’ve seen his demeanor go from charming to acidic if he didn’t get what he wanted,” said Merilynn Bourne, chairwoman of the board of selectmen in Cornish, N.H., where Rockefeller lived before his divorce. “I’ve seen the boil beneath the surface.”

Bourne said she was suspicious of him from the beginning because he claimed to belong to the Rockefeller clan but spoke with an accent. So when he offered to buy the town a backhoe, Bourne rebuffed him, suspecting that he would expect the town to use it to work on his property. “I said, ‘Am I wrong?’ He said, ‘No, you are not wrong,’ ” she said. “I just remember his glare.

 

[mollymalone]

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/reg...icleid=1111594
Even when he did get his way, Bourne said, he could be ruthless. He convinced the owner of a historic church to sell it to him for $1 on the conditions that he donate $110,000 to the town for a new police station and that the public continue to have access to the church, Bourne said. But once the deed was signed and members of the local historical society asked for some of Trinity Anglican Church’s artifacts, she said, he told them not to set foot on the property. And in May, the church’s most important portraits - a painting of one of its founders - suddenly vanished. “The mental image of Clark Rockefeller - or whoever he is - sitting in a . . . jail would be poetic justice,” Bourne said

 

[mollymalone]

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/r...k_to_cops_on_whodunit/srvc=home&position=also
Meanwhile, the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., confirmed it is investigating whether Rockefeller is also an elusive German national known as Christian Gerhart Streiter, who also has used the name Reiter. Law enforcement officials suspect Streiter, a onetime exchange student in Connecticut, is the same man as Rockefeller and Chichester. “We have knowledge of this case by U.S. authorities and we are checking possible connections to Germany,” said an embassy spokesman.

Linda Sohus’ stepsister, Katherine Jacoby, 47, told the Herald she never met Chichester, and Linda never mentioned him. The last time she spoke to Sohus, in 1985, Jacoby said Sohus told her she and John were taking a trip to Connecticut so he could interview for a job in the computer field, “and they were going to be gone for a week or two.”Soon after, Jacoby said, the family received a cryptic postcard with a Paris postmark, allegedly from Linda, saying, in effect, “Looks like we never made it to Connecticut.”
A month later, her mother was contacted by the boarding kennel where Linda had left her four cats. “They said she never came to get them,” Jacoby recalled. Jacoby went directly to San Marino police and filed a missing person’s report. Until now, her only knowledge of Chichester has come from investigators raising his name to her over the years.“The way that it was presented to me was that he ran under lots of different names, but they didn’t have a whole lot of information on him,” Jacoby said. “My own opinion is that she’s dead, so I’ve come to grips with that. The reason I think there was foul play is because she didn’t take her cats. She intended to come home.”

 

[mollymalone]

Knoxx
after reading all the newspaper articles and comments this morning I will say yes, "Snooks" and Sandra are lucky to be with us. He sure had me fooled....I wonder how his dog "Shelby" fits into this...


If this guy really is responsible for the disappearance/deaths of the Sohus and other crimes yes, I'd say both of them are very lucky.

 

[Knoxx]

http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-Engl...t-to-Boston-with-Rockefeller-/1217968511.html

NEW ENGLAND: Passengers describe flight to Boston with Rockefeller

 

[mollymalone]

Knoxx
Connecticut families recall irksome, ‘odd’ visitor
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/reg...ome&position=0

Wow! What a peice of work.
For the Savios, Reiter was the last foreign exchange student they took a chance on. Steve Savio, now 39, remembers Reiter as an eccentric who slept in their basement. The last straw? The brothers said Reiter locked their little sister out of their house in the dead of winter for four hours. “He was bent out of shape with my sister,” Steve Savio said.

 

[Knoxx]

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/re...rticleid=1111587&format=comments#CommentsArea

Sleuthy
http://www.zimbio.com/Linda Sohus/polls Same or different, you decide. In 1985, "Christopher Chichester" was a 24 year old male. If he was 18-19yo in the 'Berlin, CT high school' exchange program, he had been in the USA since 1979-80. That's six years: in calls to his old host family years later, the Savios, he claims to have lived in Minnesota and California (between 1980-1988?) The Savios and other Berlin, CT. residents who knew "Christian Gerhart Reiter" at the start of his American charade found out his background was poor & working-class (despite pretensions otherwise.) Back to San Marino CA in 1984: where did this flamboyant young man get money to support himself & flashy lifestyle? Surely you must ALL have guessed by now, dear readers ... hustling.

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[mollymalone]

CROOKAFELLER CONS - these are culled from various news articles

Chip Smith - Rockefeller contacted Obsidian Realty late last year, saying he wanted to buy a home because he and his daughter were moving from Chile. Obsidian managing partner Julie Gochar said Monday her firm arranged for temporary housing and gave Rockefeller access to its offices so he could use the Internet

Chip Smith bought the carriage house at 618 Ploy Street in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore with $450,000 in cash. Smith did not present any identification during the sale, but told the realtor that he planned to move to Baltimore with his daughter and enroll her in school. Day said he did not ask for ID because the sale was negotiated through a second party that told him Rockefeller was in Switzerland and could not attend the closing.

Chip MacLaughlin - Boswell, who sold him the boat, recalled meeting Rockefeller in Obsidian's Fell's Point offices over the summer as they negotiated transferring the vessel. To Boswell, the man said his name was Chip MacLaughlin and claimed to own the Obsidian Real Estate firm. In her statement, Gochar said that he "is not an owner, investor or employee of Obsidian Realty. She also said he is not related to anyone at the firm.

 

[mollymalone]

CROOKAFELLER CONS - these are culled from various news articles

Clark Rockefeller-a self-proclaimed art dealer who pretended to be from the famed family.

Charles "Chip" Smith- He was a weird but worldly guy,'' Day said, adding that Smith spoke with a strange British accent and boasted of spending time sailing and traveling abroad to countries like Japan Rockefeller had been coming to the complex at 618 Ploy St. for several years and had identified himself as Charles 'Chip' Smith to the residents.

Harry MacLaughlin- The marina manager said Rockefeller's catamaran had been docked there for about nine years and although he never seemed to sail it, he came by to check on it a few times a year.[1] Records show it was owned by Harry MacLaughlin. Rockefeller pitched a bizarre scheme that he had heard about in California in which immigrant women would be brought to a ranch the East Coast to carry children for men who didn't want the hassle of a surrogate mother.

 

[mollymalone]

CROOKAFELLER CONS - culled from various news articles

Clark Rockefeller- At the Algonquin Club in Boston, where he served as a director, his demeanor was aloof and remote -- as though he wanted to keep his family connections private.

To some he said he had been trained as a physicist, but had long ago given up the workaday routine.

In Cornish, N.H. he appeared to many as a man of leisure.

He showcased his wealth, once kicking around art tubes on the floor of his home and saying they contained Rothkos and other works by famed painters.


Christopher Crowe,
Chris Chichester
Christopher Crowe Mount Batten

Christopher "Chris" Chichester- claimed to be a computer programmer, a film producer, and a stock broker.
Chris Chichester dressed well and was articulate and knowledgeable about whatever subject he happened to be talking about at the time.

Chichester had moved to the New York area. He had tried to get a license as a stockbroker because you have to take a test. I don't think he passed that first one, but we had a record of him going back East.

 

[mollymalone]

Prolific conman wasn't he?

 

[Trino]

Gosh. People are gullible. It's hard to believe very few thought he might not be all he said he was.

 

[Knoxx]

http://www.myfoxboston.com/myfox/pa...n=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=5.7.1

Who Is Clark Rockefeller?

Stories
Dad Charged in Girl Abduction Arrives to Mass.

BOSTON (myfoxboston, FOX25) -- It appears the man known as Clark Rockefeller has led an intentionally deceptive lifestyle.
CITIES/NAMES

Boston, MA - Clark Rockefeller
Baltimore, MD - Charles "Chip" Smith
KNOWN ADDRESSES

Boston, MA - lived here
Cornish, NH - had a home
Baltimore, MD - bought a home
Manhattan, NY - listed address
IDENTIFICATION

Michael Brown - Passport
EMPLOYMENT

Claimed to own Scientific Companies in Canada
Claimed to own Magnetic Propulsion Company in upstate New York
"P10Y Street Company," Nevada - used the limited liability company to purchase Baltimore home
SCHOOLING

Claimed to be an MIT graduate

 

[Knoxx]

CAN YOU BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!! GOLLEE DAY SHEEEESH!!!!! I AM SICK
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/re...for_Rockefeller_expands_/srvc=home&position=2

Performing in ‘Masque of the Golden Bull’ in Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in New Hampshire, and his daughter, Reigh.

 

[Knoxx]

CAN YOU BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!! GOLLEE DAY SHEEEESH!!!!! I AM SICK
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/re...for_Rockefeller_expands_/srvc=home&position=2

Performing in ‘Masque of the Golden Bull’ in Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in New Hampshire, and his daughter, Reigh.[/QUOTe



GOSH, that looks like him, but that sure is not "Snooks" What is going on here?

 

[Knoxx]

http://www.edithwharton.org/about/06ANFR_web.pdf

Photo of Sandra

 

[capoly]

CAN YOU BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!! GOLLEE DAY SHEEEESH!!!!! I AM SICK
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/re...for_Rockefeller_expands_/srvc=home&position=2

Performing in ‘Masque of the Golden Bull’ in Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in New Hampshire, and his daughter, Reigh.[/QUOTe



GOSH, that looks like him, but that sure is not "Snooks" What is going on here?

The very first photo in the newspaper of this picture carried a small insert photo of Reigh. Looks like someone clipped photo to exclude Reigh but forgot to correct wording.

Nice work getting all these stories here so early! Like reading a mystery novel.