Post date: Mar 18, 2013 10:33:28 PM
The murder trial of Christian Gerhartsreiter, a man who posed as a member of the Rockefeller family, gets under way. Gerhartsreiter is accused of killing a man in 1985, but has pleaded not guilty.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (MARCH 18, 2013) (UNRESTRICTED POOL) - The murder trial of Christian Gerhartsreiter - a man who posed as a member of the Rockefeller family - got under way on Monday (March 18), nearly 20 years after the alleged murder he is accused of committing. Gerhartsreiter, a German immigrant and con
man who masqueraded as "Clark Rockefeller" and claimed to be heir to the Rockefeller fortune, said he is not guilty of the killing ofJohn Sohus - Sohus disappeared with his wife, Linda, in 1985 while Gerhartsreiter was a tenant at the home of Sohus' mother.The prosecution's case is circumstantial, based on a bag of bones found buried at the property. The defense says there was no motive for the defendant to kill anyone. Linda Sohus vanished without a trace - she remains missing.