CLARK ROCKEFELLER: IS HE ALEXANDER GERHARTSREITER?

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Clark Rockefeller after his arrest.

Mystery of 'Clark Rockefeller,' Accused of Kidnapping Daughter, May Be Solved
Friday, August 08, 2008
By Catherine Donaldson-Evans
FOX NEWS.COM

The mystery of a man calling himself Clark Rockefeller, who is accused of kidnapping his daughter and could have at least a dozen different aliases, may be solved now that a German man identified him as his long-lost brother in a photo.

Alexander Gerhartsreiter said that Rockefeller is his older brother, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, when shown a photograph by a Boston Herald reporter visiting his house in Upper Bavaria.

"It seems you found my brother," Alexander Gerhartsreiter told the Herald. "It is really a shock."

He said Christian left home as a teenager and cut ties with the family about 20 years ago.

Police have been investigating whether Christian Gerhartsreiter, a German exchange student who lived with two Connecticut families, and Clark Rockefeller are one and the same.

Detectives allege Rockefeller is a con artist who has for decades been traveling across the

United States, concocting different stories and using different aliases in order to live a lavish life.
Among the personas he has adopted are that of a wealthy, educated member of the elite

Rockefeller family and a tenant renting a carriage house in Los Angeles County who mysteriously vanished along with the newlywed owners of the property in what became a cold homicide case.

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FLORIDA: JAMES WONDER KILLS FED AGENT, DONALD PETTIT

WSVN TV Miami / Donald Pettit shot in front of 12-year-old daughter

PEMBROKE PINES POLICE DEPARTMENT
An off-duty federal agent was shot in the parking lot of a post office at 160th Avenue and Pines Boulevard. This is a sketch of a suspect in the shooting.

This photo of a poster released Aug. 6, 2008 by Pembroke Pines, Fla. police shows James Patrick Wonder. (AP Photo/Pembroke Pines Police)

The widow of U.S. Custom agent Donald Pettit, center, talks to family members and friends after an Aug. 6, 2008 press conference in Pembroke Pines, Fla. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)

IBS/WPLG-TV
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent has died after he was shot outside a Pembroke Pines post office.

Fla. Man Charged With Federal Agent Murder
James Patrick Wonder Detained After Allegedly Shooting A Customs Agent Outside Post Office
DAVIE, Fla., Aug. 6, 2008

CBS/ AP) A South Florida man was charged with first-degree murder Wednesday in the killing of a federal agent outside a busy post office.

"We did it!" were the first words at a late night news conference Wednesday when police announced that they had charged James Patrick Wonder of Miramar with the murder of Federal Agent Donald Pettit, according to CBS affiliate WFOR-TV in Miami.

"We told you we would get you," Pembroke Pines Deputy Chief Mike Segarra said as officers and supporters burst into sustained applause.

Wonder, 65, was detained without incident after a SWAT team and dozens of officers surrounded a shopping center in this community about 10 miles from Fort Lauderdale, said Pembroke Pines Deputy Police Chief Mike Segarra.

More than 400 law enforcement officers and at least two Blackhawk helicopters had been scouring South Florida for the suspect in the killing of 52-year-old customs agent Donald Pettit.

The agent was with his 12-year-old daughter when he was shot during a fight Tuesday morning in a post office's parking lot in nearby Pembroke Pines.

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BALTIMORE: CLARK ROCKEFELLER, IS MYSTERY MAN A MYSTERY KILLER?

(Josh Reynolds / AP) Clark Rockefeller will face kidnapping and assault charges

FNC / Clark Rockefeller in his mug shot.

(Essdras Suarez/Globe Staff -- Pasadena Star-News Archive Photo)
Police are investigating whether Clark Rockefeller (left), who was arraigned today for parental kidnapping, has ties to the 1985 disappearance of a California couple. Christopher Chichester, shown in an archive photo from a California newspaper, was a tenant of the couple but disappeared before police could question him.

Fingerprints deepen a mystery

Authorities look at possible link between kidnap suspect, Calif. slaying
By Maria Cramer and Eric Moskowitz / Globe Staff / August 5, 2008

Boston Globe

BALTIMORE - Authorities are actively investigating the possibility that accused kidnapper Clark Rockefeller is concealing a violent past, after his fingerprints provided an unusual, but still unconfirmed, link to a killing in California from many years ago, according to two law enforcement officials.

Rockefeller's fingerprints, taken after his capture here Saturday, were linked to an out-of-state license application under a different name, presumably yet another alias, those officials said. That name, in turn, is on a list of people wanted in a homicide case in California, according to the officials.

"A fingerprint connected him to a license application, and an alias on the application connected him to a murder in California," one of the two officials said yesterday. Both officials provided information to the Globe on condition they not be named, because the investigation is ongoing.

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Rockefeller has already gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal his past, even refusing to provide proof of his identity in his 2007 divorce case, a decision that cost him custody of the daughter he played an active role in raising.

Yesterday, Rockefeller, dressed in wrinkled khakis and a baby-blue polo shirt and restrained by handcuffs and shackles, was escorted into a Baltimore courtroom, his first public appearance since his arrest Saturday afternoon. He agreed to waive extradition and return to Boston to face charges of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter, Reigh Storrow Mills Boss.

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MEMPHIS, TENN: MARY WINKLER, FREE FROM JAIL, GETS KIDS

Mary Winkler released. Returns to her three children.

Family photo shows the Winkler family of Selmer, Tenn. In photo are Breanna Winkler, 1, left rear, Mary Winkler, mother, Matthew Brian Winkler, father, right rear, Mary Alice Winkler, 6, front left, and Patricia Winkler, 8. (Tennessee Bureau of Investigations, File/ AP Photo )

Mary Winkler, Mug shot
Winkler Regains Custody Of 3 Children
Attorney Says She Is 'Absolutely Overjoyed'
POSTED: 11:04 am CDT August 4, 2008 / UPDATED: 6:55 pm CDT August 4, 2008 Copyright 2008 by WSMV.com / Associated Press

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Mary Winkler, the woman convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 shooting death of her minister husband, has taken custody of her three daughters, one of her lawyers said Monday.

Video: Mary Winkler Regains Custody Of Children

Rachael Putnam, a custody attorney, said the former minister's wife picked the girls up Friday from the slain man's parents, Dan and Diane Winkler.

"She is absolutely overjoyed," Putnam said. The lawyer said the children will live with Winkler at her home near McMinnville, about 60 miles southeast of Nashville.

Winkler, 34, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter last year for shooting her husband, 31-year-old Church of Christ minister Matthew Winkler, at their Selmer home in March 2006.

She declined an on-camera interview with Channel 4 on Monday because she said she didn't want her kids involved. Channel 4's Cara Kumari asked her whether she was happy to have custody, and she pointed to a big smile on her face.

Sentenced to three years in prison, she received probation for most of it, spending only 12 days in jail after her sentencing and two months in a mental health facility before being released.

The children -- ages 11, 9 and 3 -- had previously been living with their grandparents and had court-ordered visits with their mother.

"It should be seen as a sign that the family is healing," Putnam said of the custody arrangement. "It's a good thing for everyone."

Putnam said a court order giving Winkler custody has not been completed, but she said the custody case between the grandparents and Winkler will eventually be concluded.

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SAN DIEGO: SUSAN LeFEVRE CAPTURED, ON THE RUN FOR 32 YEARS

Courtesy Walsh family

Michigan Department of Corrections photo, 1975
Differing tales emerge about Susan LeFevre, 32-year prison escapee and suburban California mother
by Dean Bohn The Saginaw News
Friday May 02, 2008, 7:56 AM

A southern California family is standing by the wife and mother who lived under a false name and with a colossal secret: Susan M. LeFevre escaped from a Plymouth prison 32 years ago.

But Michigan authorities are painting a different picture from LeFevre's account that her drug involvement was minor and she jumped a barbed wire fence to escape from prison out of fear for her safety.

The former Thomas Township resident, arrested at 19 for taking $600 from an undercover officer during a heroin drug sting in 1974, served about one year of a 10- to 20-year sentence for violating drug laws and conspiring to commit that crime when she walked away from the Robert Scott Correctional Facility at 21.

Her husband of 23 years, Alan Walsh, said his family was blindsided and grief-stricken by the revelation that Marie Day, the woman he fell in love with and who bore his three children, had hidden a criminal past.

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LeFevre's crimes likely caused many and serious ripples in the criminal underworld. he said. A state trooper testified LeFevre was a ringleader of a drug-trafficking operation, Marlan said.

"She had people working for her. She was making a large profit," Marlan said. "She wore nice clothing and rented an apartment. When she was arrested, she had $600 in cash, paraphernalia for cutting heroin, and photographs that proved she was acquainted with people higher up in the Saginaw drug world.

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DETROIT: REBECCA HATCHER, FUGITIVE CAUGHT AFTER 33 YEARS

Rebecca Hatcher, fugitive (Brandy Baker / The Detroit News)
THE ROBERT SCOTT CORRECTIONAL FACILITYThe Robert Scott Correctional Facility is the reception center for all newly-committed female prisoners. It is located on 35 acres in western Wayne County. Housing consists of five double-winged and one single-winged units, day room areas, laundry rooms and staff offices.

One building complex contains areas for food preparation, prisoner and staff dining, and health care. Another complex is a warehouse and maintenance. The administration building comprises executive offices, a records section, visiting rooms, non-contact visiting rooms, staff training rooms and the facility's control center.

Michigan fugitive caught 33 years later
BY SARAH TOMPKINS
• FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • August 2, 2008

A Detroit woman who escaped from a Michigan prison 33 years ago was arrested in Tennessee on Friday morning, according to U.S. Marshals.

Rebecca Hatcher, 57, was arrested on her front porch in Camden, Tenn., without incident, said Deputy U.S. Marshal Matthew Batcheller. Hatcher is being held in the Madison County jail, he said, and will be moved to Michigan by the end of the month to face prosecutors.

Hatcher had been on the run since 1975 after climbing the 12-foot fence of the Robert Scott Correctional Facility in Plymouth Township. Hatcher, who later married and had a daughter, was serving a 1- to 15-year prison sentence for unarmed robbery at the time of her escape. She had only served eight months of the sentence, Batcheller said.

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Though Hatcher ran away from her past, it did not disappear. A butterfly tattoo from prison photos taken in 1975 confirmed her identity for authorities, who took her into county jail at about 10 a.m. Friday.

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