Rockefeller Impostor's Extradition Delayed

Extradition has been delayed at least a month for Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller and is charged with the 1985 murder of San Marino man John Sohus, the Pasadena Star-News reported Monday.

Attorneys for both sides expected Gerhartsreiter to appear in Alhambra Superior Court this week.

"We don't have an exact date," said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, in the Star-News. "There's a delay, but we're making progress. It will be a month to a month-an-a-half."

Gerhartsreiter, who is currently serving a four-year sentence in Massachusetts for abducting his daughter during a supervised visit in 2008, said in May that he would not fight extradition but said he had nothing to do with the murder.

"There's no time limit on this stuff," Gerhartsreiter’s attorney Brad Bailey said in the Star-News piece.

The murder of John Sohus, who disappeared along with his wife Linda in 1985, remained a cold case for decades. The bones of Sohus were found in 1994 in the backyard of the Lorain Road home where the Sohuses lived, while Linda has never been found. Gerhartsreiter, who referred to himself as royal descendant Christopher Chichester when he lived in San Marino in the 80s, rented a guesthouse at the Sohus home.

After Gerhartsreiter was arrested in 2008 for the child abduction, authorities discovered he was not, in fact, Clark Rockefeller and had a string of aliases in different cities over about 30 years. A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman told Patch in March that DNA was a turning point in the case.