Crime & Safety
‘Dateline’ to Highlight ‘Rockefeller’ Charged With San Marino Murder
One of the many news outlets to cover the story of a serial impostor charged with 1985 San Marino murder, Dateline will delve deeper Friday night into the mystery and history of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, aka "Clark Rockefeller."
Writers and reporters for publications in Boston, Los Angeles, New York and a locally based German news outlet watched over two dozen witnesses give testimony at the Alhambra Courthouse in the recent hearing for German national
The where Sohus lived and Gerhartsreiter—known as Christopher Chichester in San Marino—rented a guesthouse.
Meanwhile, NBC's news magazine show Dateline, which was also at the hearing that ended Tuesday, will interview witnesses about the case and Gerhartsreiter’s several alleged identities over the years in their program “Buried Secrets,” which airs Friday at 10 p.m. on NBC.
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“Mike Taibbi reports on Clark Rockefeller, who made headlines in 2008 when he was arrested for the parental kidnapping of his daughter who was living in Boston,” said the Dateline program listing. “Police quickly figured out he was a fraud who had conned not only high society, but his wife of 12 years.”
See a video preview of the Dateline program “Buried Secrets” here.
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