S19 Ep7: Becoming Clark Rockefeller: From Con Man To Murderer w/ Frank Girardot Jr.
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🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
A young man from Germany poses under many different aliases until he realizes that the Rockefeller name moves people to do things at his will! There is only one problem for the man who has now dubbed himself, "Clark Rockefeller", he has a very checkered past of cons and crimes, including MURDER! "Becoming Clark Rockefeller: Murder, Love, Deception, and the Con Man Behind It All" author, Frank Girardot Jr. joins TCT to talk about the complexities of the man, the story, and the downfall of the guy who went by Chichester, Crowe, and finally Clark Rockefeller!
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| 0:00.0 | And the Welcome into the best in True Crime Podcasting. This is True Crime Tuesday. I'm your host Tim Dennis. |
| 0:27.0 | Got the privilege to read a truly fascinating book over the weekend folks. |
| 0:33.2 | You know, the con game is an interesting game at that. |
| 0:37.2 | And it's a game that gets played on very many and very different levels. |
| 0:41.3 | Your con game could happen at work. Could could be the person sitting in front of you who could tell you, |
| 0:46.0 | you know what, I had an interesting weekend and they could lie their butts off about what they did this weekend and you could buy it, hookline and stinker. |
| 0:54.9 | It could be the person you run into on the street who could tell you they're a millionaire |
| 0:59.4 | and that they've had the most interesting life and you could buy it hookline and sinker. It could be |
| 1:03.8 | somebody on the phone who takes you for all your money and takes you for what you have in |
| 1:08.3 | your bank account. Or it could be a certain someone in society who commits a murder right under your nose and you don't know it. |
| 1:17.0 | Who poses as a socialite and tells you that they're part of a prestigious family and someone who gets into the news |
| 1:26.0 | for no reason whatsoever. They're a clout stealer. There's someone who |
| 1:31.6 | banks on somebody else's name and takes us all for a ride |
| 1:35.5 | over nothing at all. I shouldn't say nothing at all. They took a life. They took money. They took |
| 1:42.2 | everybody for a ride. That's our subject today. Becoming Clark |
| 1:47.4 | Rockefeller, Murder, Love, Deception, and the con man behind it all is the book that we're talking about today. |
| 1:54.0 | Our guest is Frank Gerardo Jr. |
| 1:57.5 | And boy, is he written a book here that is absolutely astounding and will absolutely just make you think about who it is that you're talking to when you're talking to them. |
| 2:12.0 | Let me tell you a little bit about Frank. He is an American |
| 2:14.1 | author, journalist, victim advocate, and radio host. He's best known for the book |
| 2:17.8 | we're talking about today, which is being reissued by Wild Blue Press under |
| 2:22.2 | the title Bec becoming Clark Rockefeller. |
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