Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who used the name, is incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison as of the most recent verified reporting, serving a sentence for the 1985 murder of Jonathan Sohus. He is parole-eligible in December 2029. He maintains, as far as the public record shows, that he did not commit the murder.
Jonathan Sohus is dead. He was twenty-seven years old. He was a computer programmer. He was married. He was buried in his mother’s backyard.
Linda Sohus has not been found.
Reigh, who was seven years old when her father took her from a supervised visit in Boston, is now an adult. Her life after the events of 2008 is not part of the public record.
Sandra Boss has continued her career. She has been protected from the most invasive dimensions of post-trial scrutiny by what appears to be a deliberate choice to maintain privacy, which she has earned and which she deserves.
The Rockefeller family — an actual family, with actual members, with actual histories and actual lives — had nothing to do with any of this. They said so, clearly, when asked. No Rockefeller ever met Clark Rockefeller. No Rockefeller attended his wedding. No Rockefeller lived in the Beacon Hill brownstone or hosted the dinner parties or traded in the artworks.
The name was a word. It did a lot of damage.
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## The Social Architecture of Trust: Why Wealthy Environments Were Vulnerable
The communities where Gerhartsreiter operated most successfully — San Marino in the early 1980s, Greenwich in the late 1980s, Boston’s Beacon Hill in the 1990s and 2000s — share certain structural features that made them particularly vulnerable to a specific kind of social fraud.