The practical and legal dimensions of this situation are not fully resolved in the publicly accessible record at the time of research for this article. The initiation of deportation proceedings, the issuance of formal orders, the effect of any such orders on parole eligibility, and the current official status of these proceedings are matters that require verification against current official records. Any characterization of his deportation as a settled or definitive outcome should be treated with corresponding caution.
What is clear is that he is a German citizen serving a California life-with-parole sentence, that federal authorities expressed an intention to pursue deportation, and that the question of what happens to him beyond the California sentence is an unresolved one.
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## Sandra Boss After the Trial
Sandra Boss testified in the 2009 kidnapping trial and was again a presence in reporting on the 2013 murder case. After the murder conviction, she has maintained a degree of privacy that the public record respects.
She had built an extraordinary professional career — senior partner at McKinsey, work that took her across multiple industries and geographies. The twelve years of her marriage, the resources spent on the settlement (the $800,000 he received, the two cars, the engagement ring), the emotional cost of the deception and the kidnapping of her daughter, and the years of legal proceedings did not destroy that career. She moved to London. She continued working.
The account she gave in court — of a relationship that began in mutual interest and intellectual excitement and became controlling, isolating, and deceptive over time — is the clearest public window into what it meant to be deceived by Gerhartsreiter on the terms most relevant to a victim. She described, without self-pity but with evident pain, what it felt like to have constructed a life with someone who was not who he said he was and to have, through the years, explained to herself the ways in which that life made sense.