Look who's back in the news! It's Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, the psychopathic German flim-flam man who convinced all of New England society, including the woman who would become his wife and mother to his child, that he was an heir to the Rockefeller estate, as immortalized in the classic Lifetime movie, Mother, May I Sleep With Eric McCormack?

Gerhartsreiter is currently serving a five-year sentence in Boston for abducting his daughter, but he was handed over to L.A. County sheriff's detectives on Wednesday and transported to California, where he'll be arraigned Friday on charges of having murdered his former landlord in 1985.

From the LA Times report:

In March, Los Angeles County prosecutors charged Gerhartsreiter with one count of murder in the death of Jonathan Sohus, a 26-year-old computer programmer who mysteriously disappeared with his wife, Linda.

After the disappearance of the San Marino couple, Gerhartsreiter reportedly told Jonathan Sohus' mother that the couple were going to work for a European aircraft company that his family owned.

Investigators said he later tried to sell the couple's truck in Connecticut before assuming another identity and disappearing.

Hm, I don't know. I agree that all sounds very suspicious, but on the other hand, just look at him. I ask you: Is that the face of a man who could bludgeon his neighbor to death, bury his dismembered remains in garbage bags, then escape in the victim's car, telling people he was an aspiring actor and filmmaker named Christopher Chichester? [LAT, photo via AP]