August 3, 2008
Cops Nab Fake Rockefeller with "Leaky Boat" Trick
More details have emerged on yesterday's arrest of Clark Rockefeller, whose wife divorced him after learning that his claimed membership in the Rockefeller dynasty was totally bogus. Rockefeller allegedly abducted his daughter last Sunday from a street in Boston; yesterday afternoon the FBI arrested him and took the daughter (pictured) into custody unharmed.
The Boston Globe reports that a "concerned citizen" informed authorities that Rockefeller was holed up with the 7-year-old girl in a Baltimore apartment. They also learned that Rockefeller kept a boat in a nearby marina, and lured him outside by placing a call to the apartment and telling him that his 26-foot catamaran was taking on water. The girl was found inside the apartment shortly after Rockefeller's arrest.
Rockefeller's ex-wife, Sandra Boss, reportedly "collapsed with joy into Deputy Superintendent Tom Lee's arms" when she learned that her daughter was found. She is to be reunited with the girl today; her ex-husband faces charges of felony custodial kidnapping, assault and battery, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. The police and FBI are still trying to determine his actual identity.
Photo courtesy AP/Boston Police Dept.
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So she only married him because she thought he was part of a dynasty? I'd read that he would "neither confirm nor deny if he was a Rockefeller Rockefeller.
How do families come to this? Now he's charged with kidnapping his own daughter. Excellent. If he did anything short of molest the kid or rape the ex-wife, I think I might be on his side.
"Deadbeat dads" aside, there are a lot of fathers out there who are not the custodial parent and whose exes work to make sure that seeing the kids is next to impossible.
Poor kid.
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Joclyn, divorcing him when his lie came to light is not the same as marrying him only for the family connections. I wouldn't want to be married to someone lying to me about their background either, because it means I have no idea who I've actually married.
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at least the child is safe.
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from a distance, I sympathize with the father - I can imagine he was put in a corner, couldn't see his daughter without a court appointed guardian and he felt justified to do what he did - not the right move or a smart move, but he probably did at of love for his child - I sympathize with him.
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At least the real Rockefellers are safe.
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Why be sympathetic for the man? He's a con man who kidnapped his kid.