This is the approximate (unedited) top of our story on the Rockefeller Chichester saga that’s scheduled to run in Sunday’s paper. I’ll provide a link, when it’s available.

[BYNAME]By Frank C. Girardot and Nathan McIntire
<MC>Staff Writers
[BODY]SAN MARINO – Whether he was Chichester or Mountbatten, the mysterious man who shmoozed with the city’s elite, and then promptly disappeared, chose British aliases with regal credentials.
Even his business card reeked of aristocratic airs.
“Christopher Chichester XIII, bt. San Marino California,” the card announced beneath a display of the family crest.
The diminutive, bespectacled fair-haired young European had taken on an obscure royal title as the 13th baronet of Chichester a rank somewhere between Baron and Knight among British bluebloods.
When he exited San Marino, Chichester, assumed the life of a fugitive. Police have linked him to a missing persons case and the grisly discovery of remains in the backyard of a Lorain Road home in 1994.
Authorities also believe that sometime after he left San Marino in 1985, Chichester flew under the radar by assuming the surname of American royalty. Chichester/Mountbatten became Clark Rockefeller.
Rockefeller is accused of abducting his seven-year-old daughter on July 27 in Boston, Mass. Police said his fingerprints match Chichester’s.
As for reality, Chichester’s true identity is likely Christian Gerhardsreider, a German exchange student who arrived in Berlin, Conn. in the early 1980s. Gerhartsreider overstayed his visa before assuming the name of a local librarian — Christopher Chichester, officials said.
Before stopping in San Marino, authorities believe Chichester married a woman in Wisconsin to obtain a green card.
By the time he arrived in southern California a nearly complete and memorable transformation had taken place.