Jailhouse interviews with convicted killer Clark Rockefeller featured in Frank C. Girardot's shocking ebook, "Name Dropper"

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Jailhouse interviews with convicted killer Clark
Rockefeller featured in Frank C. Girardot's
shocking ebook, "Name Dropper"
(1888 PressRelease) Frank C. Girardot Jr.'s
popular book, "Name Dropper Investigating the
Clark Rockefeller Mystery," has been updated in
ebook form to include exclusive, jailhouse
interviews with Rockefeller himself. Girardot's
story sheds light on the grisly evidence that led
to Rockefeller's arrest and conviction for the
1985 murder of San Marino, CA resident John
Sohus. Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - In the
aftermath of con man/murderer Clark Rockefeller's
trial and conviction (the German immigrant was
sentenced to 27 years to life for the murder of
San Marino resident John Sohus), Star Creek
Entertainment releases the ebook version of Frank
C. Girardot Jr.'s gripping true crime story,
"Name Dropper Investigating the Clark
Rockefeller Mystery" (9.99). It has been updated
to include excerpts of jailhouse interviews that
Girardot conducted with Rockefeller after his
conviction in August, 2013. Actor Dean Norris,
who wrote the book's foreword, says Girardot's
meticulously researched tale is sure to leave
readers spellbound.
"'Name Dropper' could alternatively be titled
'Jaw Dropper'," said Norris, best known for his
role as DEA agent Hank Schrader in AMC's
"Breaking Bad." "It's not only an intriguing look
at the almost unbelievable and bizarre life of
Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter (aka Clark
Rockefeller), but it also is a tautly written
whodunit spanning several decades, thousands of
miles and linking Chris to a grisly murder left
unsolved for 28 years."
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Novelist and New York Times' literary critic
Walter Kirn, author of "Blood Will Out," a memoir
of his friendship with Rockefeller, also offered
praise for Girardot's book. "No one understands
the 'Clark Rockefeller' murder case with Frank
Girardot's combination of comprehensive local
knowledge and dogged reportorial thoroughness,"
said Kirn. "Girardot's book will become a
reference point for anyone interested in this
bizarre, mysterious crime and the unfathomably
peculiar criminal who committed it." Girardot,
an award-winning journalist, is senior editor for
the Los Angeles News Group, which includes the
Pasadena Star-News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune
and Whittier Daily News. In 2008, the Detroit
native led the Star-News' investigation that is
likely at least partly responsible for the L.A.
County District Attorney's Office's decision to
file murder charges against Rockefeller. "Name
Dropper" reveals chilling details about the
evidence - most of it circumstantial -- that led
to Rockefeller's arrest for allegedly killing
Sohus. "I got interested in this story because
of John (Sohus)," said Girardot. "Long before
anyone knew about Clark Rockefeller, what
remained of John's skull was kept in a brown
paper bag in a basement laboratory at the L.A.
County Department of Coroner. It was stapled
together and passed around as a teaching tool, so
I was told. So when Rockefeller turns up and he's
linked to this mystery I knew something about,
how could I not write a book?"
According to L.A. County prosecutors, Rockefeller
is actually Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a
German national who came to the United States on
a student visa in the late 1970s and never left.
He conned society's elite from San Marino to
Beacon Hill for more than 25 years, changing his
name and his life multiple times along the way.
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In 2007, Rockefeller was arrested -- and
subsequently convicted -- in the kidnapping of
his daughter in Boston. At the time he also was a
person of interest in the disappearance of Sohus
and his wife Linda, whose whereabouts remain
unknown. "I've come to the conclusion we will
never know what became of Linda Sohus," said
Girardot, who grew up in Saratoga, CA. "Everyone
who comes into contact with the story will take
away something different about her fate. We will
never know, unless in some Perry Mason-esque
moment, she throws open the doors of the
courtroom and waltzes in at the eleventh hour. I
don't think that will happen but it could. The
story is that bizarre." Along with appearing as
an expert commentator on the Rockefeller case on
"Dateline NBC" and Greta Van Susteren's "On the
Record" on Fox, Girardot writes a bi-weekly
Crimescene column that is followed by readers
around the globe. "Name Dropper Investigating
the Clark Rockefeller Mystery" is available at
amazon.com, barnes and noble.com and other online
ebook retailers. For additional information,
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