Linda Sohus

LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent ALHAMBRA, California The bizarre murder case against a man who assumed multiple identities including that of a Rockefeller is headed for trial and a lawyer for the defendant said he welcomes the chance to go before a jury. "He views this as a beginning, not an end," said attorney Jeffrey Denner after a judge ordered Christian Gerhartsreiter to be tried on a charge of murdering the son of his landlady a...Read Full Story

LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent LOS ANGELES In 1985, Clark Rockefeller did not exist. The pseudonym, which was one of many fake identities assumed by a German immigrant, would surface years later when he began cutting a swath across high society claiming to be an heir to the Rockefeller fortune. As a world class impostor, he conned people into believing he was a physicist, an art collector, a ship captain and a financial adviser who renegotiated...Read Full Story

Los Angeles Times Rockefeller impostor ordered to stand trial in 1985 killing Los Angeles Times Christian Gerhartsreiter is accused of murdering John Sohus, whose decaying remains were unearthed in San Marino in 1994. Many new details of the mystery were revealed in an Alhambra hearing. Christian Gerhartsreiter, who called himself Clark .. Read More: Rockefeller impostor ordered to stand trial in 1985 killing – Los Angeles Times Related BlogsRead Full Story

ALHAMBRA, California — The bizarre murder case against a man who assumed multiple identities including that of a Rockefeller is headed for trial and a lawyer for the defendant said he welcomes the chance to go before a jury. “He views this as a beginning, not an end,” said attorney Jeffrey Denner after a judge ordered Christian Gerhartsreiter to be tried on a charge of murdering the son of his landlady a quarter century ago. Gerhartsreiter, a German immigrant who at times called himself Clark...Read Full Story

LOS ANGELES ( Reuters ) - A German-born man who once posed as a member of the wealthy Rockefeller clan pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges that he murdered a neighbor in 1985, when authorities said he was using a different name. Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter , whose life of assuming false identities was portrayed in the 2010 made-for-TV movie "Who Is Clark Rockefeller?", entered his plea at a court in the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra . The 50-year-old Gerhartsreiter was ordered held...Read Full Story

LOS ANGELES ( Reuters ) - Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter had posed as a member of the wealthy Rockefeller clan, served prison time for kidnapping his daughter and been the subject of a made-for-TV movie. On Tuesday, the German-born man was also charged with the 1985 murder of a man prosecutors say was his former neighbor. Los Angeles prosecutors formally brought that charge against him, and they are seeking to have him extradited from Massachusetts , where he is serving a sentence of more than...Read Full Story

It's always scary to think that someone you know may not be who you think they are. It's even scarier if you're married to that person. That's why I was so excited about watching "Who is Clark Rockefeller?" (Lifetime, 9 tonight), the movie based on the true story of a man who for years fooled a whole lot of people, even his wife, into thinking he was a member of the wealthy American family. Unfortunately, like the wife in this film, I was duped. The movie isn't what I thought it was. Eric...Read Full Story

Every kind of news, thats big needs a lifetime movie and now Clark Rockefeller case who made news in the summer of 2008 is made into a movie too. Tonight at 9, Lifetime presents Who Is Clark Rockefeller? Rockefeller aka Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter. Eric McCormack and Sherry Stringfield star in Who Is Clark Rockefeller? In this one Eric McCormack of Will and Grace fame will play Rockefeller. There is not much to watch out for in the movie as the poster of the movie answers the...Read Full Story

Two handwriting experts said Wednesday a grand jury is investigating the 1985 disappearance of a young couple who once rented their guesthouse to the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller. Sheila Lowe and Kathie Koppenhaver said Los Angeles County prosecutors requested in subpoenas last week that they provide reports on handwriting samples taken from Linda Sohus. Sohus disappeared with her husband, Jonathan, in the wealthy enclave of San Marino just outside Los Angeles at a time they were...Read Full Story

Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who calls himself Clark Rockefeller, enters the courtroom to hear the jury's guilty verdict in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston Friday, June 12, 2009. Gerhartsreiter, originally from Germany, was convicted of kidnapping his daughter during supervised visit in Boston last year. (AP Photo/CJ Gunther, Pool) BOSTON (AP) — A German man who called himself Clark Rockefeller and spun fantastic stories about himself during three decades in the United States was...Read Full Story