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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

NAME DROPPER-Frank C. Girardot

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2013

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

John Sohus, a twenty-something resident of San Marino, California, was allegedly murdered in 1985 by con man Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who has become infamous under his most-known alias, Clark Rockefeller. Rockefeller, the prime suspect in Sohus murder, may have been the last person to see him alive. Nine years after his death, Sohus bones were dug up in the backyard of the home he once shared with his wife Linda, whose whereabouts remain unknown. Rockefeller s 2008 arrest for abducting his daughter put him squarely in the cross-hairs of the decades-old Sohus homicide case. Upon Rockefeller s arrest, Girardot began piecing together the convoluted tale in a series of articles for the Pasadena Star-News. His research resulted in Name Dropper, which reveals inside information about the case Girardot says is the most fantastic he's seen in his 25 years as an investigative reporter. NAME DROPPER-INVESTIGATING THE CLARK ROCKEFELLER MYSTERY-Frank C. Girardot

Transcript

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You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history,

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and the authors that have written about them.

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AC, Bundy, Dahmer, the Night Stalker, DCK, every week another fascinating author

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talking about the most shocking and infamous killers in true crime history.

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True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zupansky.

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Good evening.

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This is your host, Dan Zupansky, for the program True Murder, the most shocking killers

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in true crime history, and the authors that have written about them.

1:00.5

John Sohis, a 20-something resident of San Marino, California, was allegedly murdered in 1985

1:09.0

by conman Christian Carl Gerhardt's writer, who had become infamous under his most known

1:14.8

alias, Clark Rockefeller.

1:17.6

Rockefeller, the prime suspect in Sohis murder, may have been the last person to see him

1:22.2

alive.

1:23.2

Nine years after his death, Sohis's bones were dug up in the backyard of the home he

1:28.4

once shared with his wife, Linda, whose whereabouts remain unknown.

1:33.7

Rockefeller's 2008 arrest for abducting his own daughter put him squarely in the crosshairs

1:39.2

of the decades only, decades old, Sohis homicide case.

1:44.6

John Rockefeller's arrest, Gerhardt began placing together the convoluted tale in a series

1:51.2

of articles for the Pasadena Star News.

1:54.2

His research resulted in name dropper, which reveals inside information about the case,

1:59.6

Gerhardt says is the most fantastic he's seen in his 25 years as an investigative reporter.

2:06.4

The book that we are featuring this evening is Name Dropper, Investigating the Clark

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