hello. i m andrea canning. and this is dateline. i was just like, oh my god this is really an answer. it may not be definitive, but this guy knows something. a young couple vanishes. then, nearly a decade later, a discovery in their own backyard turns the mystery into a murder. they find a back, and inside the back is a human skull. detectives had a suspect. and then, he disappeared, too. his trailhead just stopped. until this please, please, bring him back. he kidnapped his own daughter right from this boston straight, after claiming to be a rockefeller clark rockefeller. i hired a private investigator, trying to find out who i was married to. and they couldn t find out. now, a second chance for investigators to prove that this mysterious con man was also a killer. but was this case as clear cut as it seemed? there was no motive. there was no reason he would have done this. we will hear from detectives who helped crack this puzzlin
this is really an answer. it may not be definitive, but this guy knows something. a young couple vanishes. then, nearly a decade later, a discovery in their own backyard turns the mystery into a murder. they find a back, and inside the back is a human skull. detectives had a suspect. and then, he disappeared, too. his trailhead just stopped. until this please, please, bring him back. he kidnapped his own daughter right from this boston straight, after claiming to be a rockefeller clark rockefeller. i hired a private investigator, trying to find out who i was married to. and they couldn t find out. now, a second chance for investigators to prove that this mysterious con man was also a killer. but was this case as clear cut as it seemed? there was no motive. there was no reason he would have done this. we will hear from detectives who helped crack this puzzling case. and from his ex-wife. i thought he was very intelligent, funny, very charming.
he somehow managed, and very polite, and a gentleman. rockefeller, new gentlemen friend, like to send weird and provocative text messages. once he claimed, while he was giving a private tour of the metropolitan museum of art. then, this one. in a submarine, crowded, strange, thought of you just a minute ago. the texts were so wild, and so farfetched, i would giggle and go, where does he come up with this stuff? there was something odd about him. was it his name? one of my friends could have sworn he was definitely a rockefeller because of his bone structure. it was a convincing cover that have lasted years. but by the time he was caught, six days into his flight with snooks, the fraud was exposed, and his real name, christian karl gerhartsreiter, in every front page top of the newscast story. in california, investigators immediately reopened the john solace homicide case, and the leads started pouring in.
year old daughter. a family drama playing out on a levy boston street in the summer of 2008. a custody battle that became a national story because of the name and it center. the man who insists his name is clark rockefeller. one of america s famous names, of course, but it was the face that got everyone s attention back in california. trisha gauff retired as a detective biden when i saw the news, i knew it was him. could it be, the fugitive with the famous name at the center of a conman tale on the east coast be the same man wanted on the west coast for any or forgotten crime. a long dorman case of the murder on the rain lorain road. coming up a rockefeller accused of murder. oh, my god! this is really an answer. it may not be definitive. but this guy knows something. when dateline continues. ateline continues.
what did he tell you about himself? he said he was raised in new york, that he grew up in a town house on the east side, sutton place. he went beginning at 14, at yale, to matt. the claim he had an association with the rockefeller name? yes. how? constantly. this rockefeller does not like me because, you know, i got angry at him when he was a child at a party. they married in 1995 or did they? according to boss, she later learned that rockefeller figured out how to tie the knot without leaving a paper trail. we went through a wedding ceremony in the quaker meeting house in nantucket. he claimed at the time that he had filed all of the paperwork, so that it was recognized as a legal marriage, except he had not done so, so it was not. i had never been married before, i did not know how these things