A tale of two childhoods in Rockefeller case
(Johannes Welte for The Boston Globe)
By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff
Call it a tale of two childhoods.
A trip in a station wagon to Mt. Rushmore -- where Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt are carved into the mountainside -- that's one of the all-American memories that the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller says he retains of his childhood.
 Young Gerhartsreiter |
But law enforcement officials say Rockefeller is really Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a German native who is a con artist who arrived in America as a young man and has used several aliases since.
And a picture uncovered by a German photographer shows the young Gerhartsreiter holding a candle, fitting in fine with other boys at a First Communion celebration in the small town of Bergen, Germany.
It's another piece of the puzzle that is Rockefeller, the 47-year-old man who is being held without bail at the Suffolk County jail.
Rockefeller, who has now been formally charged as Gerhartsreiter, allegedly kidnapped his 7-year-old daughter in July during a supervised visit with a social worker.
California authorities have also named him a "person of interest" in the disappearance and presumed killings of young newlyweds John and Linda Sohus in 1985.
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