Aug 7, 2008 7:58 am US/Eastern
New Twist Adds To Latest Theory On 'Rockefeller'
Police Theorize The Suspect May Have Been Involved In 1985 Murder In California
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Reigh Boss Rockefeller and her father, Clark Rockefeller, have been missing since the pair were sped off in an SUV in Boston on July 27, 2008.
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Investigators looking into the mysterious past of a man accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter in Boston are trying to determine if he was once a German exchange student to Connecticut.
The Boston Herald reports that authorities have contacted two families in Berlin, Conn. who housed an exchange student named Christian Gerhart Reiter almost three decades ago. The are trying to determine if he and the man calling himself Clark Rockefeller are the same person.
Edward Savio of Berlin tells the newspaper that Reiter lived with his family and eventually moved to California.
The Savios said they were later contacted by the FBI, who were investigating the attempted sale a pickup truck in Connecticut belonging to a missing man, John Sohus of San Marino, Calif.
Investigators have been looking into whether Rockefeller was Christopher Chichester of California, a tenant of Sohus.
Authorities have even released a picture of Chichester, which looks eerily similar to Rockefeller.
Detectives on the California case are now headed to Boston to investigate whether Rockefeller played a role in the 1985 murder. Rockefeller's attorney denies it.
Stephen Hrones, attorney for Rockefeller, describes the theory as completely untrue.
"I asked him his name and he said he was Clark Rockefeller," said Hrones.
CBS legal analyst Lisa Bloom says prosecutors will need to go back to old-fashioned detective work if they are going to link Rockefeller to a crime from so long ago.
"Is there blood? Is there DNA? And is there saliva? Probably not from the 1980s so they're going to have to build the case the old-fashioned way; talking to neighbors and building a case from circumstantial evidence," Bloom said.
Authorities say they haven't been able to find any record of "Clark Rockefeller" before 1993.
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