One of the many news outlets to cover the story of a serial impostor charged with 1985 San Marino murder, Dateline will delve deeper Friday night into the mystery and history of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, aka "Clark Rockefeller."
Photos (7) Pdfs (1) Upload Photos and Videos Writers and reporters for publications in Boston, Los Angeles, New York and a locally based German news outlet watched over two dozen witnesses give testimony at the Alhambra Courthouse in the recent hearing for German national Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, 50, who is charged with the 1985 San Marino murder of John Sohus. Judge Jared Moses ruled Tuesday that sufficient evidence exists for the case to go to trial. The bones of Sohus were found in 1994 in the backyard of the Lorain Road home where Sohus lived and Gerhartsreiter—known as Christopher Chichester in San Marino—rented a guesthouse. Meanwhile, NBC's news magazine show Dateline, which was also at the hearing that ended Tuesday, …
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The former fiancé of the man charged with 1985 San Marino murder testified Tuesday that Christopher Crowe, as she knew him, was a man of secrecy who was once violent with her.
Seven witnesses were planned to testify Tuesday, on day five of the hearing that will determine if Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter—known in San Marino as Christopher Chichester and eventually as Clark Rockefeller—will face trial for the 1985 San Marino murder of John Sohus. Attorneys for both sides want to wrap up the hearing Tuesday, so the witness list has now been cut to five, including San Marino barber Jann Eldnor, aka "Jann of Sweden." Tuesday’s first witness was Mihoko Manabe, who continued a relationship with the defendant until 1994, even after he broke off their engagement. When Manabe, who met the man calling himself Christopher Crowe when both worked at Nico Securities brokerage firm in 1987, received a call from a Connecticut …
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