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author, 'Blood Will Out'
Journalist and writer whose latest book Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade is about his 15-year friendship with the man he knew as Clark Rockefeller
PROFILE
Walter Kirn
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FROM Walter Kirn
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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. He also convinced our guest, author Walter Kirn.
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