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🗓️ 1 December 2020
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0:00.0 | On May 5, 1994, a bulldozer operator was digging a hole to build a swimming pool in the backyard of a family's dream home in San Marino, California, a wealthy suburb about 12 miles from Los Angeles when he felt the blade hit something hard. |
0:16.0 | It was a fiberglass box with plastic bags that had something wrapped inside them. |
0:23.0 | When he leaned down for a closer look, he saw a human skull. Soon, the home at 1920 Lorraine Road became a crime scene, and it wasn't long before all the neighbors started gossiping. |
0:36.0 | Could this, they wondered, be related to the young couple who went missing from that address nine years earlier under mysterious circumstances? |
0:43.0 | And whatever happened to the strange guy who lived in the guest house. 14 years later, he finally reappeared. |
0:51.0 | That's when the FBI arrested Clark Rockefeller, the 47-year-old heir to the oil and banking dynasty, for kidnapping his seven-year-old daughter, Ray. |
1:00.0 | A case that involved a billionaire banker, a messy divorce, and a dramatic custodial kidnapping in a getaway car would have been the talk of the town under normal circumstances. And this one was about to get a lot crazier. |
1:12.0 | Police issued an amber alert that read like a Ralph Lauren ad. Telling the world to be on the lookout for a suspect wearing LaCoste shirt and khaki pants. |
1:22.0 | Police found Clark after a week-long manhunt. He was hiding in Baltimore and using the alias Chipsmith. |
1:29.0 | After returning Ray safely to her mother, detectives started digging into Clark's past, and realized that Chipsmith was only the latest in a long list of alias. |
1:39.0 | In San Marino, California, he was known as Christopher Chichester, British aristocrat. In Greenwich, Connecticut, he was Christopher Crow, Hollywood producer. |
1:49.0 | On Wall Street, he was Clark Rockefeller, Bonbroker, and Trust Fund Playboy, Art Dealer, International Debt Negotiator, Surgeon, Ship Captain. |
1:59.0 | Who was Clark Rockefeller? |
2:01.0 | Police in California had another potential label for him, Cold Blooded Killer. They wanted to talk to him about the guest house that he used to rent, and the headless body they dug up from the backyard. |
2:13.0 | I'm Catherine Townsend, and this is Red Colour. |
2:41.0 | Who is Clark Rockefeller? Detectives were finding out fast that this might be a multiple choice answer. His whole life appeared to be a lie, and the clean cut, preppy facade merely amassed hiding a psychopathic personality. |
2:55.0 | Why did you go by? You said your name as James Clark Rossi-Feller. |
3:01.0 | Well, that's the name. It doesn't exist, so there is no such person really. |
3:07.0 | So what's your name? Well, that's the name that I'm using. So, you know what I mean? That is my own name. |
3:15.0 | You've born James Clark Rockefeller probably not. Do you remember what your father and father were saying? |
3:23.0 | Clark told investigators that a lot of his life, including his entire childhood, had been a blur. Finally, detectives were able to lift a fingerprint from a wine glass he drank from, and they matched it to the immigration application of Christian, Carl, Gear Heart Strider. |
3:39.0 | Clark wasn't born on Manhattan's Upper East Side. He wasn't the sion of an American banking dynasty. He wasn't even American. |
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