Murder police 'quiz Rockefeller'

The man known as Clark Rockefeller -- and by several other aliases -- appeared at Boston Municipal Court on charges related to the July 27 disappearance of his daughter, Reigh Boss, seven, during a visit to Boston.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said the detectives were on their way to Boston to interview Rockefeller, 48, "in connection with a missing person report back in the early 1990s".

The Boston Herald reported that Los Angeles authorities were investigating human remains discovered in 1994 in San Marino, California.

The newspaper said three plastic bags containing human bones were found by workers digging a swimming pool. Investigators said at the time that the bones may have belonged to Jonathan Sohus, a man who disappeared along with his wife in 1985.

The Boston Globe, citing two unnamed sources, said Rockefeller's fingerprints were linked to an out-of-state car licence application under a different name. The Globe said that name was on a list of people wanted in a murder case in California.

Mr Whitmore refused to release details of the case.

Rockefeller's lawyer Stephen Hrones denied his client had any link to the California case, and said Clark Rockefeller was his legal name.

Authorities say they have hit a brick wall so far in trying to find out exactly who Rockefeller is. Suffolk district attorney Dan Conley said they had no record of him before 1993, and said Rockefeller had claimed he did not remember details ranging from where he was from, where his parents were and even whether he was from the US.

Police said Rockefeller snatched his daughter from a Boston street on July 27 in an elaborately-planned kidnapping in which he hired two people to drive them to New York. He was caught on Saturday in Baltimore, where he had bought a home and boat.