Right after publishing the first story linking the San Marino bones and Clark Rockefeller, KNBC 4.4 Raw did a phone interview with me. I found it online last night, here’s a link.

KNBC

As the Clark Rockefeller Christopher Chichester Chip Smith Christian Gerhartsreiter saga continues to unfold, we’ve decided to put as much information in one place as possible.

We’ve archived the 1994 clip file on line as well as all our more recent reporting on a single Web page. The site is still in a preliminary stage, but I think it’s OK to give Crime Scene readers a preview.

Here’s a link.

Let me know what you think.

While reporting this story Thursday, I came across some information about a New York pediatrician who may have been an associate of Clark Rockefeller.

When Rockefeller’s seven-year-old daughter Reigh “Snooks” Boss was abducted on July 27, FBI agents interviewed the pediatricians neighbors and coworkers.

I spoke to one of those neighbors Thursday. Here’s an excerpt from our story:

The FBI has been working the case since Rockefeller and his 7-year-old daughter disappeared on July 27. Rockefeller was arrested Saturday and his daughter was reunited with her mother.

A law enforcement source speaking on condition of anonymity said agents have identified a New York pediatrician as a longtime associate of Rockefeller.

A neighbor of the pediatrician, who owns a condominium in Greenwich, Conn., said he was interviewed last week by agents carrying photographs of Rockefeller and his daughter, Reigh Boss.

“An agent canvassing door-to-door had a picture of him and the kid and was looking to see if anybody had seen them,” the neighbor said Thursday. “Obviously they thought she could be here.”

The neighbor, who asked to remain anonymous, said he has known the doctor for several months but has never seen Rockefeller or his daughter at the condominium complex.

 

Here’s a photo of what is purported to be the postcard Linda Sohus sent her friend Lydia from Paris: (h/t) to a great source

This was posted in the comments below. I thought it was worth sharing as a post on its own. Thank you Sleuthy:

1979-80: Age 18-19 in Berlin, CT. “Gerhart Reiter” (or “Christian
Gerhard Streider” “Christian Gerhard Streiter” appear to be
misspellings) is a Bavarian German exchange student. Presumably
overstays visa.
1980-8? : Disappears, claims to live in Minnesota part of this period.
No known aliases. CONFIRM.
198?-85 : Age 24 in San Marino, CA. “Christopher Chichester” (name of
Berlin, CT teacher.)
1985-87 : He disappears, with no known aliases.
1987-88 : Age 27 in NYC. “Christopher Montbattan Crowe” “Christopher
Crowe” etc.
1989-1993 Presumed NYC, unknown aliases.
1993-2008 : Age 33-48. In Boston MA, Cornish NH, Nantucket MA. “Clark
Rockefeller” “J.C.R.” “J.P.C.R.” “Clark Mill Rockefeller” “Clark M.
Rockefeller III” “James Frederick” “Chip MacLaughlin” “Michael Brown.”
2007-08: Age 48 in Baltimore MD. “Charles ‘Chip’ Smith.”

There’s also this blog post detailing a link between Clark Rockefeller/Chris Chichester and Michael Millken:

Rockefeller, who went by the name Christopher Montbattan Crowe at the time, worked for Nikko Securities International in 1987 and 1988 before being fired for incompetence. Almost immediately after departing Nikko, Rockefeller landed a job at Kidder Peabody as international sales manager, according to interviews conducted Wednesday by Dave Copeland, author of Blood and Volume: Inside New York’s Israeli Mafia.

It’s Wednesday afternoon and I’ve been on the phone all morning.

Seems that reporters on the East Coast can’t get enough of the Clark Rockefeller story and his possible conection to a couple reported missing in San Marino way back in 1985.

. Rockefeller is accused of violently abducting his 7-year-old daughter from a home in Boston on July 27. The two vanished only to resurface in Baltimore earlier this week. Rockefeller had already assumed a new identity there as “Chip” Smith, a local Realtor.

There’s a strong suspicion that Rockefeller was once known as Christopher Chichester, who lived with the missing couple and disappeared when they did.

There’s also a strong suspicion among law enforcement that he was known as “Christopher Crowe”, “Christopher Mountbatten,” and “Christian Gerhard Streider.” But there’s also a resignation of sorts that no one knows who Chichester really is — or was — or may be now.

Through the ensuing 23 years, rumours have persisted about the missing couple, John and Linda Sohus. John’s mother Didi told investigators her son and daughter-in-law were on a secret mission. She was keeping tabs on their exploits through an unidentified third party, who filled her in with exciting details of the trio’s exploits fighting Communism in Europe.

In 1989, Chichester briefly resurfaced in another toney enclave of the idle wealty — Greenwich, Conn. He was in possession of John’s truck. Then he vanished — just as neatly. Almost forgotten really, until the bones were discovered.

In 1994, nine years after John and Linda disapeared, a pool contractor unearthed a bag of bones in the backyard of the Lorain Road home where the Sohus and Chichester once lived.

Although ravaged by the passage of time and cracked by the powerful blade of a backhoe, detectives believed the bones might belong to John Sohus. They named Chichester as a person of interest and searched the world over for the slightly built man of mystery.

More stories surfaced. There were rumors of a love triangle that estranged the “good looking, big-hipped” Linda and her “computer nerd” husband John even though the couple shared an interest in science fiction and fantasy stories. Perhaps the news story would have had more play back then, but 1994 turned out to be the summer of O.J. Simpson. A few weeks after the bizarre San Marino discovery, local, national and international attention turned to the story of a USC football hero accused in an equally bizarre murder case.

And the Sohus, Chichester story rated no more attention.

Since then a portion of the remains have been stored in a basement office at the Los Angeles Department of Coroner. They’ve been studied and analyzed by Steve Dowell, the nation’s top forensic tool mark specialist. He believes the skull of the dead man was crushed with a blunt object like a two by four.

Then again,”he could have done a lot of coke and fallen off a bar stool and suffered an injury like that, Dowell said. “But that’s a shot in the dark. Because there was an effort to bury and conceal the body, this death is classified as a homicide.

That said, the remains have never been formally identified as John’s. Even though the Simpson prosecution relied heavily on DNA evidence, in 1994 the science was still in its infancy, Dowell said. There was no way back then to extract DNA from skeletal remains. No effort was made either to compare dental records, as far as Dowell knows. Although that effort would have come from sheriff’s investigators, and the primary investigator on the case has apparently long since retired.

There is no easy answer as to what happened to Linda Sohus. Family members said way back when they received postcards with a picture of the Eifel Tower and tales of France. THose same postcards also contained the caveat that Linda was bad at geography.

Mysteriously the missives ceased. Neither John nor Linda nor Chichester resurfaced. The case turned cold. One can only imagine what John’s mother would say to the hordes of media now intently following the case. Surely she would be able to make the physical connection between Rockefeller and Chichester.

But she died, believing perhaps that her son was a spy and would never contact her again. Depsite a mother’s bravado — some might say denial — every indication is that she died broken-hearted.

No doubt remaining family members and friends of the Sohus have hope they will finally get some answers.