Chapter
The Defense Is Heard
25:26 - 31:48 (06:22)
The podcast recounts Mahoko Manabe and Dana Farrar's testimonies about their experience living and attending a party hosted by the defendant, during which he had become paranoid and obsessed with privacy and had dug freshly turned soil. The state's trial aimed to prove that this con man was also a murderer named Christian Karl Gerhardstreicher.
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The California trial involving Clark Rockefeller, a con man who posed as a member of the wealthy Rockefeller family, was complex and rested heavily on circumstantial evidence in a 28-year-old missing person case.
25:26 - 27:33 (02:07)
Summary
The California trial involving Clark Rockefeller, a con man who posed as a member of the wealthy Rockefeller family, was complex and rested heavily on circumstantial evidence in a 28-year-old missing person case. Despite prosecutors' efforts, they failed to prove that Rockefeller was also a murderer named Christian Karl Gerhardstreicher.
ChapterThe Defense Is Heard
EpisodeBehind Closed Doors: The Phony Rockefeller
PodcastDateline NBC
The prosecution focuses on circumstantial evidence, including the burning of a carpet, a strange spot on a rug, and a borrowed chainsaw, while witnesses describe suspicious behavior by the defendant.
27:33 - 28:20 (00:47)
Summary
The prosecution focuses on circumstantial evidence, including the burning of a carpet, a strange spot on a rug, and a borrowed chainsaw, while witnesses describe suspicious behavior by the defendant.
ChapterThe Defense Is Heard
EpisodeBehind Closed Doors: The Phony Rockefeller
PodcastDateline NBC
Mahoko Manabe testifies about living with the defendant, who became paranoid and obsessed with privacy after a detective called to ask about the truck traced to his latest phony name, while other witnesses describe the con man's lifestyle as that of a fugitive.
28:20 - 31:48 (03:27)
Summary
Mahoko Manabe testifies about living with the defendant, who became paranoid and obsessed with privacy after a detective called to ask about the truck traced to his latest phony name, while other witnesses describe the con man's lifestyle as that of a fugitive. A Stanford graduate also testifies about a connection with the con man at a party, linking him to the Hollywood scam.