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The photographer who took that Clark/Reigh photo
By adamg on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 1:53pm
You know, the one of them coming out of church on Palm Sunday, 2007. His name is Don Harney, he took the photo for the Beacon Hill Times and you should check out his work, which mostly doesn't involve photos of people who are fugitives with fake identities.
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He shot Clark Rockefeller
Don Harney tells the story behind the photo:
but who did Clark Rockefeller shoot?
Just kidding about the shooting. Any word on whether Clark is a suspect in a capital crime in California, or for that matter what his real name is?
In addition to snapping snappy photos, the photographer tells a good story. Talking about Diane Arbus. I always liked this one:
more here
Might be connected to a capital crime, yes
Read the latest in the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times.
thx
Ron
Christopher Chichester?
LAT
reports San Marino police think they have a fingerprint match between mystery man and a murder in San Marino in 1985 when a couple disappeared, where the husband's - Jonathan Sohus - remains were found nine years later when excavating for a new pool, and everyone in the neighborhood suspected the guy living in the "back house of the Lorain Road property."
Globe
"Detectives are wondering if Rockefeller and Christopher Chichester, shown in an archive photo from a California newspaper, are one and the same person."
[snip]
Rockefeller's fingerprints, taken after his capture in Baltimore Saturday, were linked to an out-of-state license application under a different name, according to two law enforcement officials.That name, in turn, was on a list of people wanted in a homicide case in California, the officials said.
Both officials provided information to the Globe on condition they not be named, because the investigation is ongoing.
Here's that photo
Here.
And here's more from Unsolved Mysteries
Unsolved Mysteries discussion in 2003:
And one poster writes:
That would explain the "strange accent," no? Of course, could be all coincidental.
Insert Conspiracy Theory Here
Preemptive disclaimer: they will need physical evidence connecting this guy to the case; Innocent until proven guilty.
Hmmm ... maybe he killed them both ... but why?
Perhaps he and Linda Sohus had something going on and did the deed and took off. But in 1984 he could have easily impersonated John Sohus and taken that trip with Linda.
The feeding of strange info to a drunken woman for further scrambling and dismissal sounds familiar.
Other juicy and completely unfounded conjecture?
The compelling part
Here's the compelling part, from the LA Times.
That certainly fits "Clark Rockefeller's" M.O. However, it is worth noting this statement: "Rockefeller is not a suspect in the San Marino case. But Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore described him as a "person of interest..."
Capital Mess
If this guy is a German Citizen, and California decides to charge him with capital murder, it might get really interesting.
It's already interesting
But the possibilities for it becoming more interesting are many. According to the Herald's timeline, Christian Gerhart Streiter was born in Germany in 1961. I don't know where they got that information. But I do know that there were two Germanies in 1961, and there still were in 1985, at which time "Christian Chichester" was living in San Marino.
There's a possibility that Streiter/Chichester/Rockefeller (assuming he is the same person) has never even been to the country we now call Germany. If he was born in East Germany, and came to America before reunification, what would be his citizenship status? Before reunification, East Germans only got West German citizenship by moving to the West. Afterwards, they got it by living in the reunified territory. What if he did neither?
There is also a possibility that he was not born in either Germany - 12 million ethnic Germans were forced out of Germany after WWII, many to the Soviet bloc (including countries that no longer exist). Many of them returned to Germany, but there was a legal resettlement process, not an automatic right. If Mr. Streiter falls in that category, he may actually be stateless.
Personally, I'm holding out for Stasi agent, because it would make the book more exciting.
Poor Whoever He Is
It was fun listening to his lawyer Steve "I don't come cheap" Hrones on 'BZ this morning (well, a snippet of his "Good Morning America" appearance) claiming Mr. X has no memories at all of his life before his marriage.
Amnesia must be so hard
The poor man is obviously adrift.
How will he ever write a book if he's got amnesia? Maybe he could study his own case in an attempt to learn who he really is. He could call his book "If I Did It." Is Judith Regan in the house?
an interesting story
What were the sources who said "Dave Rockefeller" was an alias for "Christian Chichester" which was an alias for "Christian Gerhart Streiter" born in Germany in 1961? I'll try to follow the alias trail. I suspect the source is one or more police departments familiar with his whereabouts at the time.
Germans learning to speak English frequently sound like they're speaking a British dialect because their teachers speak a British dialect. It's rather proper sounding English and a little funny because of the guttural native tongue.
I don't see how the question of which Germany matters. Germans are meticulous with records. If this guy is from Germany, whether from the former East or West, German authorities will know who he is. Germany wont want him unless he committed a crime there, and they would get second dibs after California, IF he is indicted there.
Do you think he may have 'disappeared from' Germany because of criminal acts, as he may have done in California?
The Germans might not want him murdered by the state for a capital crime but they don't have much to say about it. At worst, an international kerfuffle where Americans look like murderous barbarians but that's pretty well established by now since we invaded Iraq for fraudulent reasons. What western nations beside the US have the death penalty? I think we're unique in that way. Does California have the death penalty? Mass doesn't. I think it's too early to kill this guy.
Since we cant call him David Rockefeller anymore, and Christian doesn't sound right either, I don't know what to call him. I'll stick with David for a while.
David can't help police because he has amnesia or so his lawyer has claimed on his behalf. Whatever they prove about him, they'll have to do with no help from him. The lies he's told to friends and families in the past will be his undoing.
I have a theory. I think McKinsey & Co. may be responsible for his divorce. They transferred his wife to England which left him with a problem. He didn't have a SSN that checked out as David Rockefeller and so no way to get a passport. You'd think a person with his resources ($1 million in the divorce) could solve that problem with a professional forgery or a corruptible person in the State Department. Then again, Mrs. Boss may have had it all figured it out before then.
Let's cast Dakota Fanning as Snooks and Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Rockefeller, Parker Posey as Mrs. Boss. and Charles Durning as Commisioner Davis.
He could have lived like a ghost to authorities in Boston or anywhere in the US if he had not kidnapped his daughter. I suppose she was the only family he had left.
I have three questions;
1. Does he get indicted for the murder in San Marino?
2. Did he leave Germany after committing a serious crime?
3. Does his daughter visit him in jail?
Why are you calling him David?
He called himself Clark Rockefeller (among many other names, but never David).
And yes, California has the death penalty for murder.
That's gonna cause some confusion here ...
I say we call him "Bruce".
Or
The Suspect Known as Clark, i.e., TSKAC.
How about "Evil Walter Mitty"?
Walter_Mitty
And
put him in charge of the sheep dip!
Rule Six
there is no rule six
Bruce, Clarke, Chauncey, Kerry, Heinz
I'm down with Bruce or Clarke... as it should be a name in keeping with his high station in life. Chauncey also comes to mind. We could call him Kerry or Heinz, also a good German name.
Why Heinz?
Because his past is about to catsup with him?
Great
Another round of puns to relish.
Well
He's certainly in a pickle.
I believe he's really German
Because he looks like one sour Kraut.
he's not the Boss
but he was married to one.
An alternate cast
Alicia has her own casting, starting with Kevin Spacey as Clark.
Looks like
I lost my job as a casting director.
Spacey is a good fit. I love Linney and she has that emotional reserve Mrs Boss showed in the video. Dakota's too old, Elle's much better.
Who are your picks?
hard evidence?
If law enforcement officials have hard evidence that Rockefeller aka Christopher Chichester committed murder, they're not sharing it and they shouldn't.
They have a prima facie case against him for custodial kidnapping.
Their investigation should go forward and when the DA decides to charge him, that's when we should learn about it.
Anything leaked from the men in blue prior to the DA's decision affects and a fair trial, for the suspect and for the people.
Have you noticed any leaks from the men in blue about the death of Woodman? No, me neither.