"My Name is Clark Rockefeller" or Is It?

Does the name make the man or vice versa? What is identity? These are all questions that come up when the name Clark Rockefeller is mentioned. Clark Rockefeller it turns out is really Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter. He is a man with many names and many pasts almost all of them false. He has called himself Clark Rockefeller, Chris Chichester, Chris C. Crowe, Charles Smith and Chip Smith this is known by authorities.
Mr. Gerhartsreiter was arrested in Maryland for the kidnapping of his daughter "Snooks" after he abducted her from a social worker supervised visit in Boston's tony Back Bay neighborhood. He been married to Snooks' mother, a high powered finance executive, but she began to see cracks in his story and after a little work by a private detective who uncovered inconsistencies in stories they divorced. Rockefeller grabbed Snooks threw her into an SUV and disappeared into Boston traffic. It was 8 days later that Snooks was discovered in an apartment in Baltimore and Rockefeller was arrested at a nearby marina where he kept an aging catamaran under the name of Chip Smith. This is when all of Gerhartsrieter's stories started to unravel.
Alexander Gerhartsreiter of Bergen Germany then came forward and announced that Clark Rockefeller was his younger brother Christian. He was a German exchange student when he came to the US and decided to stay. He married a woman in Madison, Wisconsin for a green card. The day after their wedding Gerhartsreiter took off.
His next appearance was in San Marino California using the name Christopher Chichester. He was living in the guest house of a couple named Sohus. During his time living there the Mr. and Mrs. Sohus disappeared and when questioned Gerhartsreiter claimed they had gone to Europe on a vacation. He then disappeared in a pick up truck owned by the couple.
His next appearance was in Greenwich, Connecticut where he was pulled over driving the Sohus' truck. The every slippery Gerhartsreiter eluded the police once again.
In 1995 Gerhartsreiter was now using the name Clark Rockefeller and passing himself off to the blue bloods of New England as a member of the famed family. He met, wooed and wed Sandra Boss. They moved to New Hampshire where the couple lived in a home owned by Boss. She was also the breadwinner of the family. His house of cards came crashing down in 2007. Boss divorced her husband and got custody of their child. She moved to London with the child who only could she her father accompanied by a social worker.

After his arrest in Maryland Gerhartsreiter was diagnosed with a mixed personality disorder with narcissistic and anti-social traits.  During his sessions with psychiatrists he disclosed that Snooks was communicating with him telepathically.
Gerhartsreiter was convicted of kidnapping and is now being tried for the murders of the Mr. and Mrs. Sohus after their bones were discovered in the backyard of the California home.