Summer of Sam Rockefeller
The international man of mystery also known as Clark Rockefeller gave us a heck of a summer potboiler. The surprises never end with Crock, aka Christian Karl Gerhardstreiter, who manages to startle every time he pops out, like a freakish Bavarian cuckoo clock.
Not satisfied with just passing himself off as an American blueblood with a kraut accent, he did it by stealing Son-of-Sam killer David Berkowitz’s identity.
I’m not making that up. Boston Herald:
Pipsqueak pretender Clark Rockefeller - whose life of lies included stealing the Social Security number of New York serial killer David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz - may get the boot back to Bavaria.
In a double whammy for the identity-shuffling German, whose true name is Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, Rockefeller’s $50 million cash bail was revoked and Assistant Suffolk District Attorney David Deakin said it’s “overwhelmingly likely” his green card will be, too, once the kidnapping charge against him is resolved.
Rockefeller, 47, obtained a green card in 1981 by marrying a Wisconsin woman he promptly ditched.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Paula Grenier said there is not a detainer on Rockefeller, but, “ICE is aware of the case and continuing to investigate.”
Defense attorney Stephen Hrones was before Suffolk Superior Court Judge D. Lloyd MacDonald yesterday to propose swapping Rockefeller’s bail for house arrest on a GPS anklet. The strategy backfired when MacDonald, citing Rockefeller’s “ingenious capacity to transform himself,” rescinded bail entirely, saying no amount of money would keep Rockefeller from running, and GPS only works “as long as the person who is wearing the device does not devise a means of overcoming it.”
Deakin alleged Rockefeller stole the Social Security number of Berkowitz, 55, who killed six people between 1976 and 1977 on what he claimed were the orders of a dog. Rockefeller is a person of interest in the 1985 disappearance of a California couple.
Rockefeller is accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter Reigh “Snooks” Storrow Mills Boss from his second marriage while on a supervised visit in the Back Bay July 27. When law enforcement captured the fugitive father in Baltimore and asked if he’d intended to let the girl’s frantic mother know she was OK, Deakin said Rockefeller replied, “I hadn’t given that any thought.”
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Topics: Boston
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:50 am on Friday, October 3, 2008
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Is there any truth to the rumor that he had a paid position on the Obama campaign?
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Get rid of this guy. We have enough soulless nutballs. Let the Germans have him.