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🗓️ 22 August 2022
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0:00.0 | On July 27th, 2008, during a supervised visitation with a social worker, the man everyone knew was Clark Rockefeller. |
0:07.0 | Supposedly, he descended to the wealthy Rockefeller family, ditched the social worker and sped off with his seven-year-old daughter, Ray, known as Snooks. |
0:14.5 | He kidnapped her. |
0:15.5 | Full custody of Snooks had recently been awarded to Clark's ex-wife Sandra Boss, after contentious divorce during the winter of 2007-2008. |
0:23.5 | Her abduction would set off a manhunt involving the FBI that would culminate nearly a week later, on August 2nd, 2002, |
0:29.5 | when Clark was found in Baltimore, Maryland, where he'd recently purchased an apartment for about $450,000 under the name Charles Ship Smith. |
0:38.5 | He was now claiming to be a ship captain, relocating from Chile with his daughter and he was a single father. |
0:44.0 | Obviously, this wasn't the case. |
0:45.0 | Yet another lie from a man whose entire life had been a lie for the past two decades. |
0:49.0 | Snooks' mother desperately wanted her back even posting a YouTube video where she begged Clark to please return her. |
0:55.5 | Luckily, her daughter would be found very quickly, although I'm sure those six days felt like an eternity to Sandra. |
1:01.5 | And then Sandra and everyone else who knew Clark or at least thought they knew him would be in for more shocking surprises. |
1:07.5 | During the short course, their investigation, the FBI had just enough time to come across something very unusual for what it first seemed to be a normal parental kidnapping case. |
1:16.5 | Clark had no social security number, no driver's license. |
1:20.0 | He didn't seem to have any kind of identification of any kind that proved he was who he said he was. |
1:24.5 | So who the hell was this man? |
1:26.5 | Everyone in Clark's social circle had previously thought that this was a relatively easy question to answer. |
1:31.5 | He was, of course, Clark Rockefeller, the Clark Rockefeller, an eccentric and respected member of a wealthy family, an American blue blood family of sorts who had descended from John D Rockefeller, the famed industrialist. |
1:43.5 | Sure, people knew that Clark was odd. |
1:46.5 | He regularly thought people were following him and had a collection of millions of dollars worth of art that he seemed to treat like trash, but of course he acted strangely. |
1:53.5 | Old money, you know, generations of wealth seems to increase one's odds of becoming a little peculiar. |
1:58.5 | You have a little more time to become a little more peculiar than the average person when you're born into a lot of money. |
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