Man who posed as Rockefeller clan member convicted of California murder

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Man who posed as Rockefeller clan member convicted of California murder

LOS ANGELES | Wed Apr 10, 2013 2:25pm EDT

(Reuters) - A German-born con man who posed for years as a member of America's wealthy Rockefeller family was convicted on Wednesday in the 1985 murder of his California landlady's son, whose body was found buried in the backyard of a Los Angeles-area home.

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury deliberated for less than a day before returning a guilty verdict against 52-year-old Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Gerhartsreiter was arrested in 2008 for the abduction of his young daughter following a bitter divorce. During that case it was discovered that he had for 16 years passed himself off as a scion of the Rockefeller clan.

(Reporting by Dana Feldman; Writing by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Cynthia Johnston)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/10/us-usa-rockefeller-imposter-idUSBRE93910M20130410

[Baitball Blogger]

1. The body was found in his backyard,

and by associating with the Rockerfeller name it took more than 25 years to get him?

[rox63]

2. He had many aliases

He was not going by Rockefeller when he lived in CA.

[pnwmom]

3. He'd moved across the country and changed his name.

In the days before computers, disappearing was a lot easier to do.