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1. Jef
   August 10th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

   Geraldo had a great piece on this last night. This guy is screwed. Unless the police/fbi are just being quiet, it seems that the Boston Globe did the job for them!

2. zav
   August 10th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

   Jef, saying the words “Geraldo” and “great” in one sentence are not allowed by the laws of common sense.

3. Alex
   August 10th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

   Looks like Adam Savage’s long lost brother! Now, I admit I didn’t know anything about this story - is it getting lots of press because his last name is “Rockefeller”?

4. Peeves
   August 10th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

   For people who need to get into the stories and don’t want to register to read an article:
   http://www.bugmenot.com/view/boston.com

5. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
   August 10th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

   I’m still feeling sorry for the kid. Who named her Reigh Storrow “Snooks” Mills Boss (Rockefeller)? And how do you even pronounce that first name? Ray? Ree?

   Not that the nickname is much better.

6. Adam Stanhope
   August 10th, 2008 at 5:40 pm

   Alex:

   The story has been snowballing with every new development.

   The initial kidnapping of the child was in of itself quite unusual here - and then to hear that the suspect was a Rockefeller indeed kept it in the news. I think it is safe to say now, however, that his name is NOT Rockefeller.

   Here are a few of the twists the story has taken which has made it all the more interesting and kept it in the news here:

   * The kidnapping happened…
   * They initiated the AMBER alert - once again rare for here…
   * They DROPPED the AMBER alert the next day because they had “credible information” that he and his daughter were seen in New York State
   * For some reason the police believed that the father and daughter might have fled via yacht to the Caribbean and this was reported
   * The ultimate New England WASP mom - salary $1.4MM+ per year as a consultant - recorded a video begging her husband to return the child “Snooks.”
   * A tip from a real estate agent in Baltimore led the authorities to the apartment where they were hiding. The FBI effectively used a ruse to lure “Rockefeller” from the apartment they were staying in and arrest him.
   * “Snooks” and Super-WASP-Mom were reunited
   * While in custody in Maryland, it was discovered that Rockefeller’s fingerprints may have been found at the scene of the disappearance of a California couple in 1985
   * Detectives from California fly out to interview Rockefeller but he refuses to cooperate
   * A family in Connecticut steps forward to reveal that they think that Rockefeller is actually a one-time German exchange student who stayed with them in the 1970s/1980s
   * Stories emerge from friends, neighbors and acquaintances of strange behavior over the years including financial transactions involving hundreds of thousands of dollars, sometimes in gold, the use of different names and unusual precautions taken at one of the family’s three homes - this one in an artist’s colony in New Hampshire
   * German authorities have become involved and a man in Germany claiming to be Rockefeller’s brother makes a public statement saying that his brother left Germany as a young man to make a big life for himself in the United States, but that the family hasn’t heard from him in 20 years
   * Rockefeller claims that he can’t remember anything prior to 1993
   * Rockefeller’s lawyer concedes that his client “knows German,” but denies that he was born in Germany or is a German citizen

   Craziness! Fascinating.

7. Adam Stanhope
   August 10th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

   Neatoramawontsendmeapassword:

   It’s also been reported that “Snooks” speaks with an English accent, which is odd because neither parent is English and while different variations on New England upper-class accents may sound odd to a non-New Englander, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a Boston Brahman or other Yankee’s speech being confused with that of an Englishperson.

8. ted
   August 11th, 2008 at 6:04 am

   Rockefeller? Maybe he was just a Flintstones fan.

   What’s so strange and incredible about this story again? Just the really short version, please…

9. Doug
   August 11th, 2008 at 6:30 am

   “late-1970s or early-1990s” ??? That’s quite a gap.

10. Adam Stanhope
    August 11th, 2008 at 9:36 am

    Doug:

    That was a typo on my part. I’m fixing it now.

    Thanks!

11. Peeves
    August 12th, 2008 at 12:02 am

    Update!
    http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/11/rockefeller.mystery.ap/index.html

    Apparently he’s been close to confirmed as a German man that lived with the couple when they got disappeared (the bones of the man were found on the property). The pictures are sad..a happy looking couple with a lovely house who met their end at the hands of a psychotic German?

12. Peeves
    August 12th, 2008 at 10:47 am

    He’s ’starting to remember’!
    http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/12/rockefeller.mystery.ap/index.html

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