while he was not talking to police, our team managed to get the scoop, when we sat down with clark rockefellerack now to mike tell you the with the phony rockefeller. >> the news out of boston was crazy, a head-scratcher which screamed front page. >> a bitter divorce, a bizarre kidnapping, a theme's last name. >> it all seems worlds away from that decades old cold case in california. the unsolved murder of a client computer geek knew john solace, who went missing with his wife linda. but to some, the unfolding story in boston was dealing at last, to the brutal, nearly forgotten murder. >> no one from the party recognized him, so that all of his neighbors and friendly. >> frank girardeau was all over the story. >> with the fbi's wanted poster, what it was set off the sparks of recognition, that people knew that clark was chris. >> clark rockefeller, yes, he said one of those rockefellers, appeared to be the latest and boldest reinvention yet, from gerhartsreiter, who slipped on the radar years ago. it was an audacious lie, now unraveling nightly on the 6:00 news. >> the storyline was that this

lawyers privately call him clark, has in clark rockefeller. and they did. but the man who invented that name, and so many others, spent his adult life confessing others to believe his live, and to like him and reward him for those lives, failed on all counts with a jury of his peers. >> unfortunately, there was an interaction here of somebody that they instinctively hated, did not understand. >> they did not like him at all? >> they hated him. they were laughing at him openly. >> not a fitting and for a rockefeller, perhaps. but for a liar who is also a killer, maybe just right. >> that is all for this edition of dateline. i am andrea canning, thank you for watching. for watching >> as we begin a new hour, it is a race to the bottom in the great state of iowa. a brewing battle over who has the harshest vision from america. trump and desantis prepared to do it out in a fight for the gop nomination. plus, the greatest ongoing shift towards authoritarianism, if they work literally wrote the authoritative study on the subject. also, the harsh realities, now tha