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Speaker 1: Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Police officer Richard Bombaar investigated the

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four murder of Carol Newlander. She was the

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Speaker 1: wife of esteemed Rabbi Fred Newlander, and in.

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Speaker 2: Going through the case, it came across a photograph and

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Speaker 2: it was Fred and and Jenoff standing with their arms

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Speaker 1: Len Jenoff was a private investigator the rabbi hired to

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Speaker 1: find his wife's.

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Speaker 2: Murderer after Carol's death. He actually married len Jenoff in

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Speaker 2: the same room that Carol was murdered in and their

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Speaker 2: right where Carol was laying.

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Speaker 3: When she was murdered.

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Speaker 1: How could Rabbi Newlander celebrate marriage in the same room

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Speaker 1: his wife was murdered and why.

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Speaker 2: It was really bizarre.

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Speaker 1: We're in Cherry Hill, New Jersey today for part two

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Speaker 1: of Who Killed Carol? I'm swung Glass and this is

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Speaker 1: American homicide. And just a note that this episode contained

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Speaker 1: some graphic content. Please take care while listening. Cherry Hill

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Speaker 1: lives up to its name. Every April. That's when a

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Speaker 1: two mile stretch of road through the town transforms into

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Speaker 1: a sea of pink and white as the cherry blossoms bloom.

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Speaker 2: It's a nice area to live in, nice area to

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Speaker 1: Richard Bumbear worked as a Cherry Hill police officer in

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Speaker 1: the nineties. Back then and even today, Cherry Hill was

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Speaker 2: Was considered a safetown to live in when we wouldn't

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Speaker 1: So you can imagine their shock following the nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: four murder of Carol Newlander.

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Speaker 2: The community was just terrified. They didn't know what happened.

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Speaker 2: If it was a random act of violence and somebody

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Speaker 2: tried to rob Carol and to take her money and

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Speaker 2: kill her, to whether it was thought out or planned.

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Speaker 1: It was Cherry Hill's first homicide in years, and the victim,

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Speaker 1: Carol Newlander, was a respected mother of three who ran

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Speaker 1: a popular bakery, which is why she often had a

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Speaker 1: lot of cash on her She and her husband, Rabbi

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Speaker 1: Fred Newlander, were like royalty in South Jersey.

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Speaker 2: No one in a million years thought that Fred Newlander,

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Speaker 2: a prominent rabbi in the community at the time, was

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Speaker 1: Absolutely no one could make sense of why Rabbi Newlander

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Speaker 2: When Fred Newlander became person of interest, it was devastating

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Speaker 2: to the community. People started questioning their religion, people started

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Speaker 2: questioning everything about them, and it was horrible, absolutely horrible.

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Speaker 1: Lenn Jennoff's wedding happened in nineteen ninety seven, about three

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Speaker 1: years after Carol's murder, and if that wasn't disturbing enough,

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Speaker 1: their reception inside the Newlanders home featured a cake from

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Speaker 2: Even if you had no involvement at all, none at all,

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Speaker 2: Not only are you going to probably sell the house

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Speaker 4: Pretty tasteless.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, it is tasteless and suspicious. The rabbi was never

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Speaker 1: but it was overshadowed by news of his multiple affairs,

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Speaker 1: And then there was a controversial polygraph test.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes after murder. Fred's lawyer took him from Cherry Hill

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Speaker 1: Arthur Magida wrote a book about the new Lander murder.

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Speaker 5: Fred was asked if he killed Carol.

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Speaker 4: The needles on the.

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Speaker 5: Machine were fine, nothing etmal. Fred was asked if he

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Speaker 1: The rabbi's lawyer said Fred was under a great deal

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Speaker 5: Polygraph experts have said that makes no difference. Either you're

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Speaker 1: About a month after Lenjenov's wedding inside the Newlanders home,

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Speaker 1: prosecutors made a curious move. They impaneled an investigative grand

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Speaker 1: Rabbi Newlander. More than a dozen witnesses were called to testify,

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Speaker 1: including his children, the rabbi's mistress, Elaine Cencini, and Lenjenoff.

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Speaker 1: The rabbi was never called to testify, and while this

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Speaker 5: He invited a woman, I think from the Philadelphia magazine

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Speaker 5: I'm Fred Nolander. I'm the man you love to hate.

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Speaker 1: The grand jury met for nearly a year before things

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Speaker 5: Everybody was stunned. How could this possibly be?

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Speaker 1: The prosecutor claimed Rabbi Newlander wanted so desperately out of

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Speaker 1: his mistress, Elaine Sansini. The prosecutor did not identify who

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Speaker 1: the hit man was.

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Speaker 5: When there's a murder and there's a husband, and as

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Speaker 5: the police would very quickly discovered, this was a very

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Speaker 1: It's not as if the Jewish religion forbids divorce. There

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Speaker 1: this theory did not make any sense. He again denied

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Speaker 1: the charges, and his private detective, Len Jenoff, defended him

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Speaker 6: I stole believe that Mike find has had absolutely nothing

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Speaker 1: Len Jenoff defended the Rabbi throughout his investigation, and while

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Speaker 7: I think Ben wanted to be a more important person

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Speaker 1: Frank Hartman was len Jenoff's attorney.

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Speaker 7: That was a very very important thing in leader of

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Speaker 7: Jenoff's life. The Rabbi whenever I saw him, he always

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Speaker 1: Len and the Rabbi had a curious relationship. It was

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Speaker 7: He wanted to please the Rabbi. He was very perturbed

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Speaker 7: The Rabbi told him that that was not important. If

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Speaker 1: For the next eighteen months, Lent, the former FBI and

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Speaker 1: He even met with a local reporter to exchange notes

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Speaker 7: And she managed to worm her way into his confidence,

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Speaker 1: In the spring of two thousand, six years after the murder,

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Speaker 1: len Jenoff called this reporter with a scoop. They later

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Speaker 1: knowing what to expect. To picture this four people sitting

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Speaker 1: on an unsolved murder investigation, and what happened in the

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Speaker 1: end was the absolute last thing anyone expected. Len Jenoff,

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Speaker 1: the private investigator Rabbi Newlander, hired to find his wife's killer,

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Speaker 1: confessed to killing Carol Newlander. Glenn said he was paid

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Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars to kill Carroll and the person who

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Speaker 1: hired him to do it, Rabbi Fred Newlander.

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Speaker 7: I think this murder weighed heavily on his conscience, and

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Speaker 7: I think he wanted to unburden himself. Glenn did it

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Speaker 7: for the Rabbi. I don't there's any doubt about that.

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Speaker 7: Lenn was completely under the sway of the Rabbi. Didn't

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Speaker 7: and the Rabbi's attention made him feel important. I think

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Speaker 7: a person who was certainly among the nominees because the

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Speaker 1: The plan was for Len went off to kill Carol,

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Speaker 7: Glenn brought a friend along with him, a young man

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Speaker 1: That young man was his roommate, Paul Michael Daniels, who

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Speaker 7: The young man struck her with a piece of pipe

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Speaker 7: and said to him, you have to do this too,

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Speaker 7: It's not just me. So that's when len actually struck

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Speaker 7: a blow to the lady. And then they realized their

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Speaker 7: it because it was the day's proceeds from her bakery shop.

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Speaker 7: So to make it look like it was a robbery,

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Speaker 1: So how did they even get into the house. Well,

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Speaker 1: it turns out Carol opened the front door. Len Jenoff

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Speaker 7: They had a very good case against the rabbi and

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Speaker 1: Even with len Jenov's confession, Rabbi Newlander denied being involved

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Speaker 7: The defensive the rabbi was that, oh no, he did

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Speaker 7: But nevertheless he did it and Generally speaking, in the

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Speaker 7: more culpable than the actual murderer.

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Speaker 1: In the summer of two thousand, Lenjenov and his roommate

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Speaker 7: This is the person who could really the case down

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Speaker 7: and feel in it dots, as they say.

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Speaker 1: Len Jenoff would be the prosecution's star witness against Rabbi Newlander.

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Speaker 1: The former CIA and FBI agent was about to embark

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Speaker 1: on his toughest assignment yet, after years of denying he

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Speaker 1: had anything to do with his wife's murder, a grand

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Speaker 1: jury indicted Rabbi Fred Newlander for conspiracy to commit murder.

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Speaker 1: Those charges grew to capital murder following the confession of

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Speaker 4: At the time, he was facing the death penalty.

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Speaker 1: Jeff Zucker was one of Rabbi Newlander's attorneys.

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Speaker 4: You can't have any more pressure than that put on you.

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Speaker 1: When the trial opened in late two thousand and one,

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Speaker 1: prosecutor James Lynch told the jury that the adulterous Rabbi

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Speaker 1: wanted Carol murdered so he could continue to be with

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Speaker 8: This is a man overwhelmed by lust, creed, arrogance, and betrayal,

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Speaker 8: and as a result of those qualities and those characteristics,

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Speaker 1: The Rabbi's defense denied that motion.

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Speaker 4: He could have gotten a divorce. It would be a

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Speaker 1: Jerors first heard about the rabbis years of adultery. One

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Speaker 9: We started seeing each other, I would say every two

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Speaker 1: Elaine talked about her personal life on the radio, but

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Speaker 9: We had the relations in his office. He told me

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Speaker 1: The Rabbi was certainly a smooth operator and manipulator. He

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Speaker 9: There was one conversation where he said to me that

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Speaker 1: After months of being the other woman, Elaine decided in

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Speaker 9: I said, Fred, I don't want to see you after December.

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Speaker 10: Trust me.

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Speaker 9: We're going to be together by your birthday.

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Speaker 1: Elaine's birthday was in December and Carol Newlander was murdered

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Speaker 9: And what I said was, whatever you decide is fine.

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Speaker 9: I support you one hundred and fifty percent.

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Speaker 9: He called me at work, and he said that he

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Speaker 1: It was a strange conversation. Still, Elaine and the Rabbi

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Speaker 9: Elaine, what you and I discovered and have comes once

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Speaker 9: in a lifetime. It is a gift God permits so infrequently.

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Speaker 9: I need you to know that I will not because

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Speaker 9: Of course you will always love me. I will pay

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Speaker 9: any price, wait any time to keep my promise.

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Speaker 1: The prosecution argued that promise was that the two would

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Speaker 9: And after Carol Newlander died, Fred said, I told you

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Speaker 1: The rabbi's defense team wasn't having any of that. They

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Speaker 11: And would you describe yourself, miss Suncini, as the type

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Speaker 9: That time looking back on it now, yes, And didn't

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Speaker 11: Very real concerns that you yourself may have been considered

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Speaker 9: I was having a two year relationship with a married

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Speaker 9: man and his wife was murdered.

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Speaker 4: Well, were you afraid Fred Newlander was going to kill you?

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Speaker 9: I was afraid that Fred Newlander might kill me, as

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Speaker 9: a matter of fact, because I didn't know what had

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Speaker 9: occurred the night of the murder, and I didn't know

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Speaker 9: somehow I'm involved too.

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Speaker 1: Then the defense went for it. They questioned how Elaine

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Speaker 1: police officer Larry Leaf.

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Speaker 11: Isn't it a fact, Missus Leith, that your now husband,

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Speaker 9: All Larry told me was that he wanted to read

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Speaker 9: was getting involved with a bad woman.

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Speaker 1: After a full day's worth of testimony about the rabbi's adultery,

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Speaker 1: the prosecution then moved on to the rabbi's plan to

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Speaker 1: get rid of Carol, and it started with someone named

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Speaker 1: Pepi Levin.

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Speaker 4: Peppy Levin, it was somebody that the Rabbi used to

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Speaker 1: According to the testimony you're about to hear, a few

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Speaker 1: months before Carroll's murder, the Rabbi approached him.

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Speaker 12: He says, I wish I could get rid of my

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Speaker 12: he says, do you know anybody go a gin the

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Speaker 12: kock out of my head? You crazy?

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Speaker 4: You are nuts?

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Speaker 12: I said, you nuts, Stay away from it. He got

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Speaker 12: a lovely wife. Stick with it.

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Speaker 1: But the defense said that Peppy couldn't be trusted. He

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Speaker 1: had a shady past that included time in federal prison.

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Speaker 1: For arson, conspiracy, and tax fraw charges.

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Speaker 4: He was a very colorful, strange, wild witness.

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Speaker 1: But perhaps the strangest, wildest, and most polarizing witness was

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Speaker 1: the hitman who ultimately carried out Carroll's murder, len Jenoff.

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Speaker 1: He was the prosecutor star witness.

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Speaker 4: Len Jenoff was a private investigator, a person who claimed

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Speaker 4: many problems. Many problems.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it turned out his biggest problem was his credibility.

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Speaker 1: This is kind of mind blowing. After years of talking

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Speaker 4: Len Jenoff was a pathological liar, So was.

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Speaker 1: He telling the truth when he confessed to killing Carol?

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Speaker 1: The prosecution star witness had a lot of explaining to do,

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Speaker 1: and it would all happen on the witness stand. Prosecutors

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Speaker 1: portrayed Rabbi Fred Nulander as a womanizer who carried on

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Speaker 1: multiple affairs and hired a hitman to kill his wife.

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Speaker 6: It was the doctor stane, I have my life, sir,

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Speaker 6: but I took that man's promise of thirty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 4: That was from Fred J.

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Speaker 6: Newlander, and I cured his wife for that promise of

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Speaker 6: thirty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: That was len Jenoff's testimony. He and his roommate Paul

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Speaker 1: Michael Daniels claimed to have murdered Carol Newlander on the

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Speaker 1: evening of November one, nineteen ninety four.

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Speaker 6: I pulled out the leg pipe star and I racked

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Speaker 6: and I heard the word why why.

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Speaker 1: Those details were painful to hear, especially for Carol's relatives.

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Speaker 1: You can hear crying in the background as len Jenoff

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Speaker 6: Now By, Newlander was adamant in telling me only take

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Speaker 6: the cash.

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Speaker 4: Whatever cash is in there.

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Speaker 6: It could be fire dollars, it could be five thousand,

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Speaker 6: and throw the pocketbook away.

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Speaker 1: Len Jenoff says he did what he was told to do.

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Speaker 1: He disposed of the handbag and murder weapon in a

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Speaker 1: had the audacity to attend Carrol's memorial. That's where he saw.

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Speaker 6: The rabbi and then he kind of pulled me in

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Speaker 6: everything will be all right now she's dead.

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Speaker 1: Not only did len Jenov attend Carrol's funeral, but he

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Speaker 1: returned to Rabbi newlanders house a couple days later for

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Speaker 1: the Shibba, the Jewish period of.

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Speaker 6: Mourning, and he answered me, this Manila envelope stuck with cash,

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Speaker 1: The prosecution portrayed the Rabbi as an arrogant and selfish

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Speaker 1: the defense said len Jenoff cannot be trusted.

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Speaker 4: Len Jenoff was a person that we described as a

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Speaker 4: pathological liar.

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Speaker 1: Jeff Zucker was one of Rabbi Newlander's lawyers who untangled

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Speaker 1: len Jenoff's long string of lives.

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Speaker 4: We had so many things that we brought up to

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Speaker 1: It's true Len admitted to line about being in the

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Speaker 1: FBI and CIA. In fact, most of his resume was

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Speaker 1: one giant lie, most damning. Len admitted to lying to

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Speaker 1: the grand jury.

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Speaker 6: Yes, I was trying to protect Rabbi Newlander and myself.

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Speaker 1: The defense said, the only reason Jenoff was testifying against

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Speaker 1: the Rabbi. Was to get a lighter sentence, and that

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Speaker 1: was a pretty good argument.

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Speaker 4: He made a deal for himself obviously, so that was

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Speaker 1: But Len Jenoff said he didn't act alone. He paid

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Speaker 8: Did mister Jenoff tell you that's the money you got

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Speaker 4: Yes, he pled guilty too actually committing the murder.

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Speaker 1: Paul Michael Daniels was just twenty years old at the

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Speaker 1: the witness stand wasn't smooth.

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Speaker 4: Couldn't remember a lot of what happened. He basically said

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Speaker 1: Paul Michael Daniels was bipolar and suffered from schizophrenia and paranoia.

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Speaker 4: Claims that Jenoff got him to go to the house

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Speaker 1: Now, if you were or listening to this crazy case,

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Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't know who or what to believe at

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Speaker 1: this point, which is why the decision to put Rabbi

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Speaker 1: Newlander on the witness stand was so important.

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Speaker 4: Rabbi Newlander was a tremendous orator when he spoke in

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Speaker 1: You in delivering a sermon. Well, that's one thing a

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Speaker 10: We made a decision that if there were needs that

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Speaker 10: could not be supplied between the two of us, then

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Speaker 10: we would go outside the marriage.

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Speaker 4: His character was certainly called in question because of his infidelity.

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Speaker 10: Prosecutor was right. I was selfish and arrogant, and I

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Speaker 10: went beyond the balance of marriage, and I betrayed Carol,

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Speaker 10: I betrayed family, I betrayed community, I betrayed my synagogue.

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Speaker 10: I betrayed my profession. But divorce was never an issue.

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Speaker 3: Now, as you got into the fall of nineteen ninety four,

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Speaker 3: recall further references to the fact that she wished the

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Speaker 10: Yeah, she repeated that at the end of the year

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Speaker 3: Did you ever tell her to trust you that something

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Speaker 3: happening so that you could be together with her on

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Speaker 3: a birthday?

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Speaker 9: No?

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Speaker 4: I didn't.

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Speaker 3: Did you ever say something to miss Sancini has expressed

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Speaker 3: proof Carol's going No.

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Speaker 1: He also denied the conversation with his rack up all

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Speaker 1: buddy Peppy Levin about wanting Carol dead never occurred.

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Speaker 10: I wouldn't tell Peppy if I twisted my finger, and

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Speaker 10: he was not a confidant. He just knew who Carol

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Speaker 10: was and we had socialized in that soul.

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Speaker 1: As for Lenn Jenoff, the Rabbi said he never even

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Speaker 1: hired him to investigate Carol's murder. It was Lenn who

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Speaker 1: offered his services.

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Speaker 3: Did you ever agree with mister Jennoff that you want

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Speaker 3: to have your wife killed and then you wanted him

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Speaker 3: to do it for money?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: Did you ever want a divorce ever from your wife,

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Speaker 3: for Elaine Sansini or any other woman.

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Speaker 10: No.

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Speaker 3: As you sit there today, sir, are you guilty or innocent?

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Speaker 10: Innocent?

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Speaker 1: Well, it wasn't surprising. The rabbi held his own while

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Speaker 1: answering questions from his own lawyers. But things changed. During

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Speaker 1: cross examination, the prosecution played sultry voicemails the rabbi left

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Speaker 1: Elaine Sansini, saying he truly loved her and needed her.

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Speaker 1: She's left the rabbi, blushing.

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Speaker 10: Simply wanted the relationship to continue.

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Speaker 13: And I don't.

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Speaker 10: I can't categorize why I said.

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Speaker 4: What I said.

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Speaker 1: And if Lenn Jenoff lied about his past, why didn't

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Speaker 1: the Rabbi do a better job vetting him.

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Speaker 8: Didn't you want to get the very best person you

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Speaker 8: could find to investigate the murder of your wife?

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Speaker 10: Yes, I did, with.

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Speaker 8: Letter jen Off, the very best person you could find

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Speaker 8: to do that investigation.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know how careful did you look, sir? How

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Speaker 3: many investigators did you talk to?

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Speaker 8: And taking out Mistry Jenner, how many people did you

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Speaker 8: go through it together?

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Speaker 10: I didn't investigate any other didn't bought anybody else.

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Speaker 1: No, but something else. Fred Newlander did on the witness

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Speaker 1: stand even bugged his own lawyer.

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Speaker 4: What bothered me the most when we questioned him or

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Speaker 4: when the prosecutor questioned him about coming home and seeing

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Speaker 4: his wife on the floor. Instead of describing his wife

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Speaker 4: as Carol, he said, I saw the body on the floor.

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Speaker 8: Hours after you found your wife, you referred to her

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Speaker 8: as the body. Correct.

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Speaker 4: Correct, It just came across as to me as being

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Speaker 4: too cold.

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Speaker 1: Here's something else that was cold. The rabbi found his

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Speaker 1: wife bloodied and beaten in their home, and he didn't

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Speaker 1: touch her. He didn't put her in his arms, he

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Speaker 1: didn't comfort her.

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Speaker 10: That's right.

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Speaker 4: I stayed away.

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Speaker 10: I saw her, and I just I couldn't deal with it.

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Speaker 4: If a person comes in and sees their wife bloodied

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Speaker 4: on the floor, my response, I would hope, would be

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Speaker 4: to run over to my wife and hold her and

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Speaker 4: see how she is. But there can't be a typical

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Speaker 4: response to that, which is what we argued to the jury.

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Speaker 4: Nobody could possibly know that unless they were put in

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Speaker 4: that position.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's definitely true. But then came the question that

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Speaker 1: had lingered from the night of his wife's murder. Why

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Speaker 1: did Fred Newlander appear so aloof Well?

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Speaker 10: I can tell you is that I know how I grieve.

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Speaker 10: I usually have an.

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Speaker 13: Quiet, private, not quiet, a private experience of crying and

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Speaker 13: then quickly gather it together.

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Speaker 1: Then the rabbi talked himself into trouble. He first said

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Speaker 1: he loved Elaine Sancini and even wrote her letter that's

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Speaker 1: said so. But the next day on the witness stand,

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Speaker 1: he changed his testimony.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I can say I.

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Speaker 11: Didn't love her with all the jury yesterday that it

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Speaker 11: did love her.

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Speaker 7: Correct.

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Speaker 10: I never had any intention of continuing a relationship with her.

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Speaker 10: I wanted to maintain whatever relationship we had.

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Speaker 3: You weren't lying to this jury yesterday, were sir.

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Speaker 10: I gave the wrong impression.

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Speaker 4: I used the wrong words. He did not come across

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Speaker 4: as a good witness. He did not come across as

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Speaker 4: a credible witness. In my opinion, the key really was Jenoff.

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Speaker 4: I was hoping for jurors they could see through len

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Speaker 4: Jenoff because he was the cornerstone of their case.

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Speaker 1: The defense knew that len Jenoff also didn't come across

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Speaker 1: as honest, so they presented one final surprise witness, a

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Speaker 1: man who knew len Jenoff from AA meetings. Now the

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Speaker 1: second word in AA is a notus, So this witness

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Speaker 1: broke the pledge of anonymity and testified that to will incarcerated.

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Speaker 1: Lenjenov was working on either a book or movie deal,

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Speaker 1: but that deal wouldn't happen unless Rabbi Newlander was found guilty.

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Speaker 1: So what's really going on here? Was Fred Newlander responsible

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Speaker 1: for the death of his wife?

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Speaker 8: This is a man of God who acted in a

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Speaker 8: thoroughly ungodly fashion.

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Speaker 1: Or was Rabbi Newlander's self purported hit man a liar

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Speaker 1: trying to secure a movie deal.

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Speaker 3: There's nothing real about this man.

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Speaker 4: He's a liar.

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Speaker 1: I'm slow Glass. The case against Fred Newlander is about

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Speaker 1: to get a whole lot more complicated.

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Speaker 9: I understand from your note that you have reached a verdict.

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Speaker 1: Yes we have, and we'll hear the surprising conclusion in

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Speaker 1: part three of Who Killed Carol? That's next time on

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