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‘Rockefeller’ must face trial in Calif. slaying, judge says

By Maria Cramer

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 24, 2012

Christian Karl Gerharstreiter will go to trial to face charges that he killed the son of his former landlady in California, a Superior Court judge decided today, capping a five-day hearing that shed light on a mystery that began in 1985, when the victim and his wife vanished. Judge Jared Moses said “there is sufficient cause to believe” Gerhartsreiter bludgeoned John Sohus to death, then buried his remains.

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