Sandra Boss testified today that she knew her former husband as Clark Rockefeller, a man of great privilege and intellect who grew up in a lavish Manhattan townhouse, a property that websites show has an ornate stone Medusa carved over ...Read More
Jurors in the "Clark Rockefeller" trial acted in both expected and unexpected ways in reaching their verdicts, veteran defense lawyers said yesterday. By rejecting the insanity defense, the Suffolk Superior Court jury reached the conclusion most juries come to when wrestling ...Read More
A judge sentenced the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller to four to five years in prison for kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter during a supervised visit in Boston. The German-born Rockefeller - whose real name is Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter - also ...Read More
A German man who posed as a member of the wealthy Rockefeller clan and spun fantastic stories about himself during three decades in the United States was convicted today of kidnapping his seven-year-old daughter. Clark Rockefeller, whose real name is Christian ...Read More
A jury today rejected an insanity defense by the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller, convicting him in Suffolk Superior Court of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter. The verdict came after a gripping trial that deconstructed 30 years of the defendant's ...Read More
BOSTON - A German man who called himself Clark Rockefeller and spun fantastic stories about himself during three decades in the United States has been convicted of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter. Rockefeller's real name is Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter. He snatched his ...Read More
(David L. Ryan/Globe Staff) Clark Rockefeller today in Suffolk Superior Court. The Suffolk Superior Court jury deliberating the fate of the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller asked a judge today what prosecutors had to prove in the case in which the ...Read More
The jury weighing the fate of the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller asked to use a laptop this morning as it began its first full day of deliberations in the kidnapping trial. The jury will use the laptop to play ...Read More
BOSTON -- Jury deliberations have resumed in the kidnapping trial of the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller. The Suffolk Superior Court jury of eight women and four men started deliberating Tuesday morning. The jurors weighed the case for about 3 ...Read More
Authorities in Los Angeles eyeing Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, also known as Clark Rockefeller, for the presumed murders of newlyweds who vanished in 1985 are closely monitoring the outcome of the con man’s custodial kidnapping trial, now in its second day ...Read More
BOSTON - The prosecution in the kidnapping trial of the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller depicted him as a master manipulator who was angry -- not insane -- when he kidnapped his 7-year-old daughter. Rockefeller, whose real name is Christian ...Read More
Jurors begin deliberating the fate of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter on Monday after six days of clashing and sometimes mind-bending testimony in the cagey con man’s parental kidnapping trial. The gibbering paradox - who claims he’s been in a separate reality for ...Read More
The man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller recently realized that he is actually Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter and was born in Germany, said two mental health experts who testified yesterday that he was legally insane when he abducted his daughter last ...Read More
June 3 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLCwere “just plain wrong” to take taxpayer funds and leave localdealers and their customers to fend for themselves, Senator JayRockefeller said as lawmakers faulted the automakers today. Rockefeller, leading a hearing on ...Read More
Christian Gerhartsreiter's defence says he is not criminally responsible An alleged fantasist accused of kidnapping his UK-based daughter is "completely delusional", a court heard. Christian Gerhartsreiter - who called himself Clark Rockefeller - is accused of abducting Reigh Boss, in the ...Read More
The con man fancying himself the blue blood Clark Rockefeller is so mentally deluded he has a “diagnosis unto himself,” a psychologist testified today. The 48-year-old defendant, on trial in Suffolk Superior Court for custodial kidnapping, suffers from two personality disorders ...Read More
The wife of a fake "Rockefeller" pulled down a cool $2 million a year, but admitted Tuesday she was "pretty stupid" when it came to matters of the heart. Under blistering cross-examination, Sandra Boss told the jury in her ex-hubby's Boston ...Read More
She graduated from Harvard Business School and made almost $2 million a year advising businesses on complex financial matters, but Sandra Boss said yesterday that she spent most of her 12-year marriage clueless that her husband, whom she knew as ...Read More
The cool veneer of Sandra Boss never cracked under the pressure of cross-examination yesterday, even as the corporate ice princess portrayed herself as a cowed victim of groomzilla Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, bullied to beg for an allowance, food and heat. “I ...Read More
The ex-wife of the man who posed as Clark Rockefeller testified today that he never held a job but meanly withheld money and food from her, and in winter would only heat the part of the house where he slept. When ...Read More
BOSTON -- The ex-wife of the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller said she tried to leave her husband several times, but he became angry, threatened her and told her she would lose custody of their daughter. Sandra Boss was aggressively ...Read More
