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## July 27, 2008: Boston’s Back Bay
The first supervised visit after the custody settlement took place on July 27, 2008, on a street in Boston’s Back Bay.
The logistics were designed to protect the child: a social worker was present to supervise the meeting and ensure that Reigh was returned safely to her mother after the visit. It was, in the court’s understanding and in Boss’s understanding, a controlled situation.
He had planned for this. Prosecutors would later argue that he had spent months preparing the abduction — buying property in another city, establishing a new identity, readying a pathway to disappear with his daughter.
During the visit, he pushed the supervising social worker aside, grabbed Reigh, and got into a waiting SUV. As the vehicle pulled away, the social worker was dragged along before falling free. The child was gone.
The FBI launched a manhunt. His photograph was distributed publicly. People who had known him under his various names began to come forward. Tips accumulated. The case became national news, in part because the name “Rockefeller” traveled instantly — it was a hook that the media found irresistible and that, for once, did something useful: it generated the kind of attention that leads to tips.
Six days after the abduction, on August 2, 2008, FBI agents located him in Baltimore. He had purchased a townhouse apartment there under the name Charles “Chip” Smith. Reigh was with him, unharmed. He was taken into custody.
He refused to speak with investigators.
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## Who Is He, Actually?