The mystery man who beguiled Beacon links of london earrings Hill’s jet set as filthy rich blueblood Clark Rockefeller until a kidnapping scandal exposed him as a penniless German fraud will be arraigned tomorrow for the savage 1985 murder of his former California landlord.
As the Herald first reported, Christian Gerhartsreiter, 50, who is two years into a four- to five-year state prison sentence for the 2008 abduction of his young daughter, was collected yesterday by homicide detectives from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.
For security reasons, and noting that Gerhartsreiter — whose life story has been told in books and on film — “has generated much more than just idle curiosity,” LASD spokesman Steve Whitmore would say only the bespectacled links of london necklaces Bavarian was expected to touch down there last night and would be held on $10 million cash bail.
Gerhartsreiter will be arraigned tomorrow on a single-count of first-degree murder in Los Angeles Superior Court in Alhambra, Calif., Whitmore said.
Gerhartsreiter is accused of beating newlywed John Sohus to death with a blunt object and burying his dismembered remains in garbage bags in the yard of a San Marino, Calif., property they shared when Gerhartsreiter had assumed the bogus identity of aspiring actor and filmmaker Christopher Chichester. Gerhartsreiter is alleged to have later tried to sell Sohus’ truck in Connecticut.
Sohus’ bones were discovered in 1994 during excavation for a swimming pool. His bride, Linda Sohus, has not been seen or heard from since the couple vanished 26 years ago.
It was unclear last night whther Gerhartsreiter links of london jewelry will return here. Jake Wark, spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley, said he can serve the kidnapping sentence on the West Coast.
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