Clark Rockefeller: Circumstantial Evidence

Christian Gerhartsreiter Dept: With no witnesses to the crime, little forensic evidence and no explanation for why the German man masquerading as Clark Rockefeller would have killed his landlady's son, it's a tough case to prove, according to Winnipeg Free Press. It was chance that provided the biggest break in the case. Bones were unearthed in the yard of the home where Christian Gerhartsreiter, a German immigrant who lived under several alter egos before pretending to be an heir to the Rockefeller dynasty, rented a cottage from the mother of victim John Sohus and LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Prosecutors are close to wrapping up the murder trial of a Rockefeller impostor in the 1985 killing of a California man, and the cold case mainly rests on circumstantial evidence, the strange behaviour of the defendant and the grim discovery of a bag of bones. "When a case is very old you have potential deficits on information you can gather to bring into trial," said James A. Cohen, associate professor and director of a trial advocacy program at Fordham University School of Law in New York. "Memories fade. Leads grow very stale. Witnesses disappear. They die or move on. And evidence deteriorates." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.