Sponsored message
Audience-funded nonprofit news
radio tower icon laist logo
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
 — 
See All Episodes
Subscribe

Hey, LA listener!

Download our app for the optimal streaming experience

Apple Store logo Google play logo
  • Listen Now Playing Listen
Take Two

Gerhartsreiter sentenced to 27 years to life in prison

By Take Two Staff
Published Aug 15, 2013
Defendant Christian Gerhartsreiter from Germany, listens to prosecutor during his murder trial at Los Angeles Superior Court on March 18, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. Gerhartsreiter, the alleged Rockefeller impostor is accused of killing his landllord, John Sohus in February 1985.
Defendant Christian Gerhartsreiter from Germany, listens to prosecutor during his murder trial at Los Angeles Superior Court on March 18, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.
(
AFP/AFP/Getty Images
)

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.

Get LA News Updates Daily

We brief you on what you need to know about L.A. today.
A row of graphics payment types: Visa, MasterCard, Apple Pay and PayPal, and below a lock with Secure Payment text to the right
Listen 3:18
Gerhartsreiter sentenced to 27 years to life in prison

This morning, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter was sentenced to 27 years to life in prison for the 1985 murder of a San Marino man, John Sohus.

Over the years the German man assumed many identities, such as an English nobleman, a Hollywood producer and a Wall Street mogul. But his most notorious persona was that of Clark Rockefeller, a member of the wealthy Rockefeller clan.

RELATED: Key moments from the fake Rockefeller murder trial

We're joined now by Mark Seal, contributing editor for Vanity Fair and author of "The Man in the Rockefeller Suit" on the life of Gerhartsreiter.