Clark Rockefeller convicted of kidnapping his daughter Snooks

Jun. 12, 2009
The German man who went by the name Clark Rockefeller and spun fantastic stories about himself during three decades in the United States was convicted on Friday of kidnapping his sevenyearold daughter.
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