'Rockefeller's' wife: I had a blind spot

BOSTON, June 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. wife of accused kidnapper "Clark Rockefeller" says she believed the outrageous lies he told her for 15 years because she had a "blind spot" for him.

Sandra Boss, testifying Tuesday in the Boston custodial kidnapping trial of her German-born former husband Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, said she believed him when he called himself Clark Rockefeller, scion of the wealthy American family, and many other tall tales because "it's pretty obvious that I had a blind spot," The Boston Globe reported.

Prosecutors say "Rockefeller," 48, kidnapped the couple's 7-year-old daughter last summer after a bitter divorce and custody dispute. Boss endured a withering cross-examination by defense attorney Jeffrey Denner, who asked her how she, a Harvard Business School graduate, could be duped by Gerhartsreiter for so long.

"There is a difference between intellectual intelligence and emotional intelligence," the Globe quoted Boss replying. "I'm not saying I made a very good choice of husband. It's pretty obvious that I had a blind spot. All I'm saying is that it's possible that one can be brilliant and amazing in one area of one's life and pretty stupid in another."