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Fake Rockefeller trial: Friend was suspicious of defendant’s identity

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During a telephone conversation in 1988, a friend asked Christian Gerhartsreiter a simple question: “Who...are you?”

Christopher Bishop, testifying in Gerhartsreiter’s murder trial Tuesday, said he became suspicious of his friend after a detective investigating a missing persons case came looking for Gerhartsreiter, who at the time was going by the name Christopher Crowe.

Gerhartsreiter didn’t answer Bishop’s question. “I’ve gotta go,” Bishop quoted him as saying as he hung up the phone. Bishop said he never heard from Gerhartsreiter again.

Prosecutors allege that Gerhartsreiter was trying to avoid meeting the detective because he did not want to answer questions regarding the missing couple, John and Linda Sohus, who disappeared from San Marino three years earlier.

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-- Hailey Branson-Potts

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