Himes Wins in a Landslide
August 29th, 2008Jim Himes of Cos Cob, the Democratic Party-endorsed candidate in the 4th Congressional District, soundly defeated petitioning candidate Lee Whitnum of Greenwich in the Democratic Primary on Tuesday, Aug.
Blood may be key evidence in ‘85 missing-persons case
Daily Bulletin
Frank C. Girardot and Nathan McIntire, Staff Writers
SAN MARINO - Forensic scientists will re-examine blood recovered from the guesthouse of the Lorain Road property where Clark Rockefeller, aka Chris Chichester, once lived, sheriff’s officials said Wednesday.
It may be a key piece of evidence in the 23-year-old missing persons case of John and Linda Sohus and a homicide investigation, officials said.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’ Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said “a bloodstain somewhere in the guesthouse” is being looked at in the probe of Rockefeller and his possible connection to the disappearance of the Sohuses from their San Marino home in February 1985.
“All the evidence that we collected then and all the evidence that we have now will be looked at and re-examined with modern technology,” Whitmore said. “That evidence includes a bloodstain on the carpet.”
At the time of the bloodstain’s discovery in 1994, officials simply said there had been evidence of foul play at the home…
….Clark Rockefeller, who remains in custody in Boston on suspicion of parental abduction, lived in the guesthouse behind John and Linda Sohus’ residence at the time of their disappearance in February 1985. In the 1980s Rockefeller used the alias Chris Chichester, according to his attorney, Stephen Hrones.
Sheriff’s Department officials said Monday that Rockefeller/Chichester is actually Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who was born in Germany in 1961.
Rockefeller, using the Chichester alias, disappeared from San Marino a few months after the Sohuses vanished. In 1988, he turned up in Greenwich, Conn., using the identity of Hollywood producer Christopher Crowe.
As Crowe, Rockefeller was pulled over while driving the 1985 Nissan pickup truck belonging to John Sohus. He had previously tried to sell it to the son of a minister, officials said.
Getting at Roots of Low Test Scores in District
When the scores came in earlier this summer from the 2008 Connecticut Mastery Tests taken by the district’s third through eighth graders and from the Connecticut Academic Performance Test taken by 10th graders, …
