Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter: District Attorney

Clark Rockefeller Dept: Now, that man has another identity, his birth name: Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a German immigrant who is charged with murder in one of the most bizarre cold cases to hit the district attorney's office in years, according to Montreal Gazette. His trial, set for opening statements this week, will write the most important chapter in his colorful story, determining if he walks free or spends his life in prison and LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The year 1985 marked the start of a wide-ranging odyssey across America for a man who would call himself Christopher Crowe, Chip Smith and, most notoriously, Clark Rockefeller, a pretender to the fabled oil fortune. Already serving time for the kidnapping of his young daughter in a Boston custody dispute, Gerhartsreiter was close to the end of his sentence and headed for freedom when the murder charge changed that. After a quarter century, authorities believed they had linked him to the disappearance of his old neighbour, John Sohus. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.