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.
The murder trial of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter gets underway in a Los Angeles courtroom today.
If the name doesn't ring a bell, perhaps you know him by his most notorious alias: Clark Rockefeller.
Gerhartsreiter is a German con-man who masqueraded as a member of the wealthy Rockefeller clan; It was just one of many identities he's assumed. He was unmasked in 2008 when he was arrested for kidnapping his seven-year-old daughter and leading police on an international manhunt.
Gerhartsreiter now faces murder charges in the 1985 death of a San Marino man, a cold case that had puzzled authorities for over a decade. Writer Mark Seal tells the story of Christian Gerhartsreiter in his book , "The Man in the Rockefeller Suit."