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pnwmom

(108,955 posts)
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 04:24 PM Apr 2013

Remember the phony "Clark Rockefeller" who kidnapped his daughter

after a visit supervised by social services? He was just convicted of murdering the son of his California landlord.


http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/10/clark-rockefeller-found-guilty-calif-murder-trial/5up00ggKObMrtNNqZpCAnO/story.html

LOS ANGELES — Christian Gerhartsreiter, the man who passed himself off as a film producer extraordinaire, a baronet, and as a member of the Rockefeller family among other fabrications, today was convicted of murdering his landlord’s son in 1985.

After deliberating for about five hours over two days, Los Angeles Superior Court jury of six men and six women decided that the numerous pieces of circumstantial evidence proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Gerhartsreiter killed John Sohus, 27, and buried his body in the backyard of the Sohus family home.

SNIP

Gerhartsreiter’s tales unraveled in 2008 after he snatched his 7-year-old daughter from a Back Bay street and brought her to Baltimore, where he was arrested six days later. Gerhartsreiter is scheduled to finish serving a maximum five-year sentence this summer for the 2009 abduction conviction by a Suffolk County jury for taking his daughter during a supervised visit.

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