The Long Con: Clark Rockefeller Part 1 | My Life of Crime

48 Hours

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3.9 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In 2008, a man named Clark Rockefeller was arrested in Boston for kidnapping his daughter during a custody dispute with his ex-wife. He claimed to be of the New York Rockefellers, even though no records of him existed. At the same time, authorities in Connecticut and California began to connect him with other men related to the disappearance of a California couple more than 20 years ago. And so his long con began to unravel. Who was Clark Rockefeller, really? 48 Hours correspondent Erin Moriarty takes you inside the investigation of “Clark Rockefeller” on her podcast, My Life of Crime. Based on the 48 Hours investigation, “aka Rockefeller”.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can listen to the 48 hours podcast, Add Free on Amazon Music.
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0:09.8	It's Sarah Moriarty and we have a special episode for you today from my original podcast,
0:15.8	My Life of Crime.
0:17.4	I'm taking you inside true crime investigations like no one else, taking on killers and
0:24.0	those accused of crimes.
0:26.3	Here's an all new episode of My Life of Crime that takes you deeper into aka Rocket
0:32.2	Beller.
0:33.2	Follow along as I go beyond the scene of each crime, behind Prism Walls, and into the
0:39.1	killers inner thoughts.
0:41.5	It's all on this season of My Life of Crime.
0:46.1	On January 7, 2023, a young man by the name of George Santos was sworn in as a new US
0:52.8	Congressman from New York.
0:55.0	He first made news by winning as a Republican in an area that used to run blue.
1:01.3	But now he's mostly known as the guy who fabricated his life story.
1:08.3	He said he was Jewish.
1:10.1	He now admits he isn't.
1:12.4	He said he once worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.
1:16.0	He didn't.
1:17.2	He claimed he attended Baruch College and NYU.
1:21.2	He didn't go to college at all.
1:24.0	He claimed he went to prep high school in the Bronx.
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