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The photographer who took that Clark/Reigh photo

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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Don Harney tells the story behind the photo:

... I had been wandering the streets looking for feature photos to submit to the local papers I had been freelancing for and I had stumbled across a little church in the very affluent Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston.

That was when I saw them exit the Church. He was very well dressed and distinguished looking and she was a perfectly beautiful little girl cherubically perched on his shoulders clutching her palms from the Mass. They were so perfect looking that it was almost like they were caricatures of the Beacon Hill elite. My desire to make a portrait of them was so intense that I felt as though I was channeling Diane Arbus. ...

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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:
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more here

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Read the latest in the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times.

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Ron

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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.

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Unsolved Mysteries discussion in 2003:

John and Linda Sohus disappeared in 1985 after proclaiming they had been enlisted by the government for some top secret work. Strangely shortly after their disappearance friends and family began receiving postcards from the couple sent from Paris, France. John’s alcoholic mother, Didi, had claimed that John and Linda’s former tenant Christopher Chichester was providing her with exclusive information that John and Linda were on a top secret “mission”. Then just as mysteriously Chichester broke off contact and he too vanished. In a final bizarre twist in May of 1994 the remains of John Sohus were found buried underground on his own property.

And one poster writes:

Christopher Chichester is a pseudonym for Christian Gerhard Streider a German citizen who is considered a suspect in the disappearance of John and Linda Sohos. Kathy Jacoby, the sister of Linda Sohas received postcards supposedly sent by John and Linda from Europe when they had told family and friends they had government employment on the East coast. She thought it was out of character for Linda to send the post cards and not contact her by telephone or meet her when they returned. In the early 1990s Strieder attempted to sell an automobile to a young man in Connecticut. The Police discovered the car was stolen and want to speak to Streider.

That would explain the "strange accent," no? Of course, could be all coincidental.

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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?

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Here's the compelling part, from the LA Times.

"Chichester got in close to the San Marino community. He ingratiated himself with San Marino society; he joined all the right clubs," said former San Marino Police Chief Frank Wills, now chief of West Covina police.

Chichester claimed to be a wealthy investor and a descendant of British royalty, said Wills, who described him as "very smooth" and "clearly educated."

Berkeley Johnston, a former San Marino community leader, recalled seeing Chichester at Rotary Club meetings.

"I met him a few times. He came across as a very debonair guy. Chichester seemed very clever, and he had a bit of a Brit accent like some New Englanders," Johnston said. "It was the talk of the town for a while after the couple and then he disappeared."

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Investigators later determined Chichester was using a fake name, and was also known as Mountbatten, among other aliases.

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..."

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If this guy is a German Citizen, and California decides to charge him with capital murder, it might get really interesting.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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?

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He called himself Clark Rockefeller (among many other names, but never David).

And yes, California has the death penalty for murder.

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I say we call him "Bruce".

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The Suspect Known as Clark, i.e., TSKAC.

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put him in charge of the sheep dip!

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there is no rule six

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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.

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Because his past is about to catsup with him?

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Another round of puns to relish.

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He's certainly in a pickle.

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Because he looks like one sour Kraut.

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but he was married to one.

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Alicia has her own casting, starting with Kevin Spacey as Clark.

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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?

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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.

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