Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Murder, Mystery and Masquerade
When Clark Rockefeller was arrested for kidnapping his daughter several years ago, police discovered that he wasn’t really Clark Rockefeller at all. He was a German man who’d taken many aliases over the years and had committed murder. But this fraudster had convinced many people - including his own wife - that he was a Rockefeller.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readWhen Clark Rockefeller was arrested for kidnapping his daughter several years ago, police discovered that he wasn’t really Clark Rockefeller at all. He was a German man who’d taken many aliases over the years and had committed murder. But this fraudster had convinced many people - including his own wife - that he was a Rockefeller. He also convinced our guest, author Walter Kirn.
