Rockefeller Won't Talk To Calif. Investigators

BOSTON -- Clark Rockefeller, the man accused of kidnapping his young daughter and a person of interest in a 1985 missing persons case in California, refused to meet with Los Angeles County detectives on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Suffolk County Sheriff's office said.

Rockefeller Won't Talk To Calif. Investigators

NewsCenter 5's Amalia Barreda reported that local authorities have also said that Rockefeller is not cooperating and that his lawyer has advised him not to talk.

"He liked that life. He liked the multiple identities -- changing his name, changing his position. One day he is a friend of the Rockefellers, the next day someone else," said Joseph Tecce, a professor of psychology at Boston College.

Tecce said Rockefeller has been a master of deceit who has lived a calculated life of lies that finally caught up with him.

"People who are antisocial, who manipulate society for their own needs, which he did, sooner or later have an unconscious guilt that builds up and a conscious need to get caught," Tecce said.

Tecce said Rockefeller's constant con was poisoning him subconsciously -- a poison that pushed him to kidnap his daughter and then try to hide in a manner where he knew he would get caught.

"Everyone has a need to be part of the social herd, and he really is not part of it by floating around from one identity to another. And dishonest secrets are toxic. If you don't let them out, they will kill you," Tecce said.

Officials in California want to know if Rockefeller called himself Christopher Chichester in the mid-1980s. At the time, Chichester was a tenant of a property owned by John and Linda Sohus, who disappeared and are believed dead. Chichester disappeared before authorities could question him.

Rockefeller's attorney Stephen Hrones denied his client had any link to the California case.

"They are throwing everything but the kitchen sink at him. This matter in California is all speculation," Hrones said.

A criminal justice expert said investigators have a monumental task ahead of them if they hope to link Rockefeller to the unsolved case in California.