No plea deal for 'Clark Rockefeller'

BOSTON, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- The mystery man who used the name Clark Rockefeller has rejected a plea agreement to Massachusetts charges of kidnapping his daughter, his lawyer says.

He had been scheduled for a hearing Wednesday in Boston, the Boston Globe reported. It was canceled Tuesday.

"Mr. Rockefeller is exercising his right to have a trial," lawyer Jeffrey A. Denner said. "We will be defending all the counts against him. Negotiations are over."

Investigators say that Rockefeller's real name is Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter and that he came to the United States from Germany as a teenage exchange student.

He has also been named a "person of interest" in a California case. He was living under another alias in a guest house belonging to John and Linda Sohus in San Marino near Los Angeles when they vanished in 1985.

It was as Rockefeller that Gerhartsreiter married Sandra Boss and became the father of a daughter, Reigh. He allegedly abducted Reigh during what was supposed to be a supervised visitation and was tracked down a week later in Baltimore, police said.

Denner describes his client as mentally ill, suggesting that prosecutors refused to agree during plea negotiations.