The Long Con: Clark Rockefeller Part 1
My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty
CBS News
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 30 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, but the problem was, there were no records of him anywhere. At the same time, authorities in Connecticut and California had begun to connect the dots between “Clark Rockefeller” and “other men” who all seemed to be related to the disappearance of a California couple more than 20 years prior. Who was Clark Rockefeller, really? Erin Moriarty takes you deeper into the 48 Hours episode, “aka Rockefeller”.
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| 0:47.2 | congressman from New York. |
| 0:49.3 | He first made news by winning as a Republican in an area that used to run blue. |
| 0:55.7 | But now, he's mostly known as the guy who fabricated his life story. |
| 1:02.7 | He said he was Jewish, he now admits he isn't. |
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