Speaker 1: Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Police officer Richard Bombaar investigated the
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four murder of Carol Newlander. She was the
Speaker 1: wife of esteemed Rabbi Fred Newlander, and in.
Speaker 2: Going through the case, it came across a photograph and
Speaker 2: it was Fred and and Jenoff standing with their arms
Speaker 2: around each other.
Speaker 1: Len Jenoff was a private investigator the rabbi hired to
Speaker 1: find his wife's.
Speaker 2: Murderer after Carol's death. He actually married len Jenoff in
Speaker 2: the same room that Carol was murdered in and their
Speaker 2: wedding pictures of them arm in arm Fred and Jenoff
Speaker 2: right where Carol was laying.
Speaker 3: When she was murdered.
Speaker 1: How could Rabbi Newlander celebrate marriage in the same room
Speaker 1: his wife was murdered and why.
Speaker 2: It was really bizarre.
Speaker 1: We're in Cherry Hill, New Jersey today for part two
Speaker 1: of Who Killed Carol? I'm swung Glass and this is
Speaker 1: American homicide. And just a note that this episode contained
Speaker 1: some graphic content. Please take care while listening. Cherry Hill
Speaker 1: lives up to its name. Every April. That's when a
Speaker 1: two mile stretch of road through the town transforms into
Speaker 1: a sea of pink and white as the cherry blossoms bloom.
Speaker 2: It's a nice area to live in, nice area to
Speaker 2: raise your family.
Speaker 1: Richard Bumbear worked as a Cherry Hill police officer in
Speaker 1: the nineties. Back then and even today, Cherry Hill was
Speaker 1: your quintessential middle class suburb with sprawling subdivisions and a
Speaker 1: huge shopping mall.
Speaker 2: Was considered a safetown to live in when we wouldn't
Speaker 2: lock your doors.
Speaker 1: So you can imagine their shock following the nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: four murder of Carol Newlander.
Speaker 2: The community was just terrified. They didn't know what happened.
Speaker 2: If it was a random act of violence and somebody
Speaker 2: tried to rob Carol and to take her money and
Speaker 2: kill her, to whether it was thought out or planned.
Speaker 1: It was Cherry Hill's first homicide in years, and the victim,
Speaker 1: Carol Newlander, was a respected mother of three who ran
Speaker 1: a popular bakery, which is why she often had a
Speaker 1: lot of cash on her She and her husband, Rabbi
Speaker 1: Fred Newlander, were like royalty in South Jersey.
Speaker 2: No one in a million years thought that Fred Newlander,
Speaker 2: a prominent rabbi in the community at the time, was
Speaker 2: a suspect or had any involvement with it.
Speaker 1: Absolutely no one could make sense of why Rabbi Newlander
Speaker 1: would officiate a wedding in the very spot where his
Speaker 1: wife was murdered.
Speaker 2: When Fred Newlander became person of interest, it was devastating
Speaker 2: to the community. People started questioning their religion, people started
Speaker 2: questioning everything about them, and it was horrible, absolutely horrible.
Speaker 1: Lenn Jennoff's wedding happened in nineteen ninety seven, about three
Speaker 1: years after Carol's murder, and if that wasn't disturbing enough,
Speaker 1: their reception inside the Newlanders home featured a cake from
Speaker 1: Classic Cakes, the bakery Carol had founded.
Speaker 2: Even if you had no involvement at all, none at all,
Speaker 2: Not only are you going to probably sell the house
Speaker 2: and get out of it, but you're not going to
Speaker 2: marry somebody and take pictures right where your wife was
Speaker 2: laying when she was murdering.
Speaker 4: Pretty tasteless.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, it is tasteless and suspicious. The rabbi was never
Speaker 1: named a suspect, but also never cleared he had an alibi,
Speaker 1: but it was overshadowed by news of his multiple affairs,
Speaker 1: And then there was a controversial polygraph test.
Speaker 5: Sometimes after murder. Fred's lawyer took him from Cherry Hill
Speaker 5: down to Virginia to have a lie detect their testimony.
Speaker 1: Arthur Magida wrote a book about the new Lander murder.
Speaker 5: Fred was asked if he killed Carol.
Speaker 4: The needles on the.
Speaker 5: Machine were fine, nothing etmal. Fred was asked if he
Speaker 5: had anything to do with Carroll's murder. At that point,
Speaker 5: the needles went crazy and waivered back and forth.
Speaker 1: The rabbi's lawyer said Fred was under a great deal
Speaker 1: of stress at the time and was on medication.
Speaker 5: Polygraph experts have said that makes no difference. Either you're
Speaker 5: telling the truth or you're not telling the truth.
Speaker 1: About a month after Lenjenov's wedding inside the Newlanders home,
Speaker 1: prosecutors made a curious move. They impaneled an investigative grand
Speaker 1: jury to see if there was enough evidence to charge
Speaker 1: Rabbi Newlander. More than a dozen witnesses were called to testify,
Speaker 1: including his children, the rabbi's mistress, Elaine Cencini, and Lenjenoff.
Speaker 1: The rabbi was never called to testify, and while this
Speaker 1: was going on, he told reporters he had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with Carol's murder.
Speaker 5: He invited a woman, I think from the Philadelphia magazine
Speaker 5: and to his home, and his first words to her were, Yes,
Speaker 5: I'm Fred Nolander. I'm the man you love to hate.
Speaker 1: The grand jury met for nearly a year before things
Speaker 1: for the self described man you love to hate took
Speaker 1: a drastic turn. Early one morning, the police performed a
Speaker 1: traffic stop of Rabbi Newlander just a few blocks from
Speaker 1: his home. They ordered him out of his car, and
Speaker 1: then they handcuffed him and placed him under arrest. They
Speaker 1: charged him with orchestrating the murder of his wife.
Speaker 5: Everybody was stunned. How could this possibly be?
Speaker 1: The prosecutor claimed Rabbi Newlander wanted so desperately out of
Speaker 1: his marriage that he hired a hit man to kill
Speaker 1: his wife so that he could continue his affair with
Speaker 1: his mistress, Elaine Sansini. The prosecutor did not identify who
Speaker 1: the hit man was.
Speaker 5: When there's a murder and there's a husband, and as
Speaker 5: the police would very quickly discovered, this was a very
Speaker 5: unfaithful husband to the husband who automatically becomes a suspect
Speaker 5: until vindicated.
Speaker 1: It's not as if the Jewish religion forbids divorce. There
Speaker 1: are plenty of divorced rabbis Rabbi Newlander said, that's why
Speaker 1: this theory did not make any sense. He again denied
Speaker 1: the charges, and his private detective, Len Jenoff, defended him
Speaker 1: to reporters.
Speaker 6: I stole believe that Mike find has had absolutely nothing
Speaker 6: to do with the horrendous murder of his wife.
Speaker 1: Len Jenoff defended the Rabbi throughout his investigation, and while
Speaker 1: the Rabbi awaited his trial, Len sort of became the
Speaker 1: rabbi spokesperson.
Speaker 7: I think Ben wanted to be a more important person
Speaker 7: than he was.
Speaker 1: Frank Hartman was len Jenoff's attorney.
Speaker 7: That was a very very important thing in leader of
Speaker 7: Jenoff's life. The Rabbi whenever I saw him, he always
Speaker 7: wanted to talk to me about the Rabbi.
Speaker 1: Len and the Rabbi had a curious relationship. It was
Speaker 1: almost like father and son, and Len so desperately wanted
Speaker 1: the Rabbi's approval and attention.
Speaker 7: He wanted to please the Rabbi. He was very perturbed
Speaker 7: about the fact that he had never been bar misfited.
Speaker 7: The Rabbi told him that that was not important. If
Speaker 7: it was really important to him to have a private
Speaker 7: ceremony for him, and he encouraged the rabbi, and he
Speaker 7: encouraged him, which is how I think he ultimately became
Speaker 7: so dependent upon the rabbi.
Speaker 1: For the next eighteen months, Lent, the former FBI and
Speaker 1: CIA agent, continued his own investigation to help clear the rabbi.
Speaker 1: He even met with a local reporter to exchange notes
Speaker 1: and discuss the case.
Speaker 7: And she managed to worm her way into his confidence,
Speaker 7: mostly because she was trying to get information about the rabbi.
Speaker 1: In the spring of two thousand, six years after the murder,
Speaker 1: len Jenoff called this reporter with a scoop. They later
Speaker 1: met at a Jersey diner and were joined by two
Speaker 1: investigators working the case. Everyone went into this meeting not
Speaker 1: knowing what to expect. To picture this four people sitting
Speaker 1: in the back of a New Jersey diner, drinking coffee
Speaker 1: after coffee and chainsmoking cigarettes, waiting to hear a scoop
Speaker 1: on an unsolved murder investigation, and what happened in the
Speaker 1: end was the absolute last thing anyone expected. Len Jenoff,
Speaker 1: the private investigator Rabbi Newlander, hired to find his wife's killer,
Speaker 1: confessed to killing Carol Newlander. Glenn said he was paid
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars to kill Carroll and the person who
Speaker 1: hired him to do it, Rabbi Fred Newlander.
Speaker 7: I think this murder weighed heavily on his conscience, and
Speaker 7: I think he wanted to unburden himself. Glenn did it
Speaker 7: for the Rabbi. I don't there's any doubt about that.
Speaker 7: Lenn was completely under the sway of the Rabbi. Didn't
Speaker 7: shock me to find that he was willing to consider
Speaker 7: doing something as serious as burger. Len wanted to be important,
Speaker 7: and the Rabbi's attention made him feel important. I think
Speaker 7: that whenever the Rabbi made up his mind that he
Speaker 7: wanted someone to commit a burr for him, this was
Speaker 7: a person who was certainly among the nominees because the
Speaker 7: Rabbi could exercise influence of him in so many different ways.
Speaker 1: The plan was for Len went off to kill Carol,
Speaker 1: but Len brought an accomplice.
Speaker 7: Glenn brought a friend along with him, a young man
Speaker 7: who was I think mentally challenged. Well.
Speaker 1: That young man was his roommate, Paul Michael Daniels, who
Speaker 1: suffered from drug addiction and schizophrenia.
Speaker 7: The young man struck her with a piece of pipe
Speaker 7: and said to him, you have to do this too,
Speaker 7: It's not just me. So that's when len actually struck
Speaker 7: a blow to the lady. And then they realized their
Speaker 7: pursh was there and that she had considerable money in
Speaker 7: it because it was the day's proceeds from her bakery shop.
Speaker 7: So to make it look like it was a robbery,
Speaker 7: they took the money and left.
Speaker 1: So how did they even get into the house. Well,
Speaker 1: it turns out Carol opened the front door. Len Jenoff
Speaker 1: had showed up at the house with an envelope for
Speaker 1: her husband. Jenoff was actually there to kill her, but
Speaker 1: he couldn't find her purse, and the plan was to
Speaker 1: make it look like a robbery gone wrong, so he
Speaker 1: pretended to use the bathroom and then he left. Two
Speaker 1: weeks later, he returned with his accomplice and claimed he
Speaker 1: killed Carol.
Speaker 7: They had a very good case against the rabbi and
Speaker 7: that he was in a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1: Even with len Jenov's confession, Rabbi Newlander denied being involved
Speaker 1: with the murder.
Speaker 7: The defensive the rabbi was that, oh no, he did
Speaker 7: this on his own. He's only trying to incriminate me.
Speaker 7: But nevertheless he did it and Generally speaking, in the
Speaker 7: law of the person who hire someone for murderer is
Speaker 7: more culpable than the actual murderer.
Speaker 1: In the summer of two thousand, Lenjenov and his roommate
Speaker 1: pled guilty to aggravated manslaughter, and they made a deal
Speaker 1: with prosecutors to testify against the rabbi in exchange for
Speaker 1: a lighter sentence.
Speaker 7: This is the person who could really the case down
Speaker 7: and feel in it dots, as they say.
Speaker 1: Len Jenoff would be the prosecution's star witness against Rabbi Newlander.
Speaker 1: The former CIA and FBI agent was about to embark
Speaker 1: on his toughest assignment yet, after years of denying he
Speaker 1: had anything to do with his wife's murder, a grand
Speaker 1: jury indicted Rabbi Fred Newlander for conspiracy to commit murder.
Speaker 1: Those charges grew to capital murder following the confession of
Speaker 1: his former private eye, Lenjenoff.
Speaker 4: At the time, he was facing the death penalty.
Speaker 1: Jeff Zucker was one of Rabbi Newlander's attorneys.
Speaker 4: You can't have any more pressure than that put on you.
Speaker 1: When the trial opened in late two thousand and one,
Speaker 1: prosecutor James Lynch told the jury that the adulterous Rabbi
Speaker 1: wanted Carol murdered so he could continue to be with
Speaker 1: his mistress.
Speaker 8: This is a man overwhelmed by lust, creed, arrogance, and betrayal,
Speaker 8: and as a result of those qualities and those characteristics,
Speaker 8: he involved himself in the murder of his wife. He
Speaker 8: planned it, he plotted it, he paid money for it
Speaker 8: to be carried out.
Speaker 1: The Rabbi's defense denied that motion.
Speaker 4: He could have gotten a divorce. It would be a
Speaker 4: huge jump from wanting to leave one's wife to becoming
Speaker 4: a murderer.
Speaker 1: Jerors first heard about the rabbis years of adultery. One
Speaker 1: congregant from of Coursia Lom testified that she and the
Speaker 1: rabbi slept together for months. In fact, their affair overlapped
Speaker 1: with the Rabbi's affair with Elaine Censini.
Speaker 4: Elaine Sensini, she was a radio personality who had an
Speaker 4: affair with Rabbi Newlander.
Speaker 9: We started seeing each other, I would say every two
Speaker 9: to three weeks in the beginning, and after that we
Speaker 9: saw each other just about every day.
Speaker 1: Elaine talked about her personal life on the radio, but
Speaker 1: that didn't compare to sharing those intimate details on the
Speaker 1: witness stand.
Speaker 9: We had the relations in his office. He told me
Speaker 9: that I was the most special woman that he had
Speaker 9: ever met.
Speaker 1: The Rabbi was certainly a smooth operator and manipulator. He
Speaker 1: shared a dream with Elaine about how violence was coming
Speaker 1: Carol's way.
Speaker 9: There was one conversation where he said to me that
Speaker 9: he just wished that she were gone, puff gone, and
Speaker 9: I wish her car would go into the river.
Speaker 1: After months of being the other woman, Elaine decided in
Speaker 1: the summer of nineteen ninety four that she wanted more
Speaker 1: or no more.
Speaker 9: I said, Fred, I don't want to see you after December.
Speaker 9: I want to start my new life January first, nineteen
Speaker 9: ninety five, and he would say, please, you know, hang in.
Speaker 10: Trust me.
Speaker 9: We're going to be together by your birthday.
Speaker 1: Elaine's birthday was in December and Carol Newlander was murdered
Speaker 1: the month before.
Speaker 9: And what I said was, whatever you decide is fine.
Speaker 9: I support you one hundred and fifty percent.
Speaker 1: Elaine and the Rabbi slept together nearly every day, including
Speaker 1: the day Carol was murdered. That night, Elaine was asleep
Speaker 1: by eight pm and learned of Carol's murder the following morning.
Speaker 9: He called me at work, and he said that he
Speaker 9: was all right, that he was at the police station
Speaker 9: all night, and that Carol had been killed, and something
Speaker 9: about a burglary. And he just asked me if I
Speaker 9: was frightened, and I said no, you know, friend, of what?
Speaker 9: And he said, are you frightened of anything? And I
Speaker 9: said no.
Speaker 1: It was a strange conversation. Still, Elaine and the Rabbi
Speaker 1: slept together a few more times after Carol's death, until
Speaker 1: she asked him to stop contacting her. Instead, he sent
Speaker 1: her cards and letters. Some of those were used as
Speaker 1: evidence in the trial.
Speaker 9: Elaine, what you and I discovered and have comes once
Speaker 9: in a lifetime. It is a gift God permits so infrequently.
Speaker 9: I need you to know that I will not because
Speaker 9: I cannot love another. Of Course I will always love you.
Speaker 9: Of course you will always love me. I will pay
Speaker 9: any price, wait any time to keep my promise.
Speaker 1: The prosecution argued that promise was that the two would
Speaker 1: be together.
Speaker 9: And after Carol Newlander died, Fred said, I told you
Speaker 9: to trust me. When God closes a door, he opens
Speaker 9: a window. I was afraid that, even though I chose
Speaker 9: to believe that Fred Newlander was not involved in the
Speaker 9: murder of his wife, that there was that possibility I
Speaker 9: dishonored his wife in life and I was not going
Speaker 9: to dishonor her in death.
Speaker 1: The rabbi's defense team wasn't having any of that. They
Speaker 1: quickly fought back and tried to discredit her.
Speaker 11: And would you describe yourself, miss Suncini, as the type
Speaker 11: of a woman who has low moral standards or who
Speaker 11: had low moral standards at.
Speaker 9: That time looking back on it now, yes, And didn't
Speaker 9: you have.
Speaker 11: Very real concerns that you yourself may have been considered
Speaker 11: a suspect because you were the other woman.
Speaker 9: I was having a two year relationship with a married
Speaker 9: man and his wife was murdered.
Speaker 4: Well, were you afraid Fred Newlander was going to kill you?
Speaker 9: I was afraid that Fred Newlander might kill me, as
Speaker 9: a matter of fact, because I didn't know what had
Speaker 9: occurred the night of the murder, and I didn't know
Speaker 9: where I was in this relationship. All I knew was
Speaker 9: somehow I'm involved too.
Speaker 1: Then the defense went for it. They questioned how Elaine
Speaker 1: went from sleeping with the rabbi to marrying Cherry Hill
Speaker 1: police officer Larry Leaf.
Speaker 11: Isn't it a fact, Missus Leith, that your now husband,
Speaker 11: Larry Leaf, was seen going through the files of the
Speaker 11: new Lander investigation in the confines of the Cherry Hill
Speaker 11: Police Department.
Speaker 9: All Larry told me was that he wanted to read
Speaker 9: my statement to see if I was involved, if he
Speaker 9: was getting involved with a bad woman.
Speaker 1: After a full day's worth of testimony about the rabbi's adultery,
Speaker 1: the prosecution then moved on to the rabbi's plan to
Speaker 1: get rid of Carol, and it started with someone named
Speaker 1: Pepi Levin.
Speaker 4: Peppy Levin, it was somebody that the Rabbi used to
Speaker 4: play a racketball with.
Speaker 1: According to the testimony you're about to hear, a few
Speaker 1: months before Carroll's murder, the Rabbi approached him.
Speaker 12: He says, I wish I could get rid of my
Speaker 12: wife ever killed on the ground When I go home someday,
Speaker 12: he says, do you know anybody go a gin the
Speaker 12: kock out of my head? You crazy?
Speaker 4: You are nuts?
Speaker 12: I said, you nuts, Stay away from it. He got
Speaker 12: a lovely wife. Stick with it.
Speaker 1: But the defense said that Peppy couldn't be trusted. He
Speaker 1: had a shady past that included time in federal prison.
Speaker 1: For arson, conspiracy, and tax fraw charges.
Speaker 4: He was a very colorful, strange, wild witness.
Speaker 1: But perhaps the strangest, wildest, and most polarizing witness was
Speaker 1: the hitman who ultimately carried out Carroll's murder, len Jenoff.
Speaker 1: He was the prosecutor star witness.
Speaker 4: Len Jenoff was a private investigator, a person who claimed
Speaker 4: to have been in the CIA, but he absolutely had
Speaker 4: many problems. Many problems.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it turned out his biggest problem was his credibility.
Speaker 1: This is kind of mind blowing. After years of talking
Speaker 1: about his past, the defense learned that len Jenoff had
Speaker 1: never served in the CIA or the FBI.
Speaker 4: Len Jenoff was a pathological liar, So was.
Speaker 1: He telling the truth when he confessed to killing Carol?
Speaker 1: The prosecution star witness had a lot of explaining to do,
Speaker 1: and it would all happen on the witness stand. Prosecutors
Speaker 1: portrayed Rabbi Fred Nulander as a womanizer who carried on
Speaker 1: multiple affairs and hired a hitman to kill his wife.
Speaker 6: It was the doctor stane, I have my life, sir,
Speaker 6: but I took that man's promise of thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: That was from Fred J.
Speaker 6: Newlander, and I cured his wife for that promise of
Speaker 6: thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: That was len Jenoff's testimony. He and his roommate Paul
Speaker 1: Michael Daniels claimed to have murdered Carol Newlander on the
Speaker 1: evening of November one, nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 6: I pulled out the leg pipe star and I racked
Speaker 6: her in the back of the head. She started to stumble,
Speaker 6: and I heard the word why why.
Speaker 1: Those details were painful to hear, especially for Carol's relatives.
Speaker 1: You can hear crying in the background as len Jenoff
Speaker 1: described killing and then robbing Carroll.
Speaker 6: Now By, Newlander was adamant in telling me only take
Speaker 6: the cash.
Speaker 4: Whatever cash is in there.
Speaker 6: It could be fire dollars, it could be five thousand,
Speaker 6: and throw the pocketbook away.
Speaker 1: Len Jenoff says he did what he was told to do.
Speaker 1: He disposed of the handbag and murder weapon in a
Speaker 1: dumpster near the Cherry Hill Mall. Two days later, he
Speaker 1: had the audacity to attend Carrol's memorial. That's where he saw.
Speaker 6: The rabbi and then he kind of pulled me in
Speaker 6: for a hug, patted me on the back, and he whispered,
Speaker 6: everything will be all right now she's dead.
Speaker 1: Not only did len Jenov attend Carrol's funeral, but he
Speaker 1: returned to Rabbi newlanders house a couple days later for
Speaker 1: the Shibba, the Jewish period of.
Speaker 6: Mourning, and he answered me, this Manila envelope stuck with cash,
Speaker 6: and he said, here's another down payment, seven thousand dollars
Speaker 6: in cash.
Speaker 1: The prosecution portrayed the Rabbi as an arrogant and selfish
Speaker 1: adulter who hired len Jenoff to kill his wife. But
Speaker 1: the defense said len Jenoff cannot be trusted.
Speaker 4: Len Jenoff was a person that we described as a
Speaker 4: pathological liar.
Speaker 1: Jeff Zucker was one of Rabbi Newlander's lawyers who untangled
Speaker 1: len Jenoff's long string of lives.
Speaker 4: We had so many things that we brought up to
Speaker 4: show that he had lied and lied and lied.
Speaker 1: It's true Len admitted to line about being in the
Speaker 1: FBI and CIA. In fact, most of his resume was
Speaker 1: one giant lie, most damning. Len admitted to lying to
Speaker 1: the grand jury.
Speaker 6: Yes, I was trying to protect Rabbi Newlander and myself.
Speaker 1: The defense said, the only reason Jenoff was testifying against
Speaker 1: the Rabbi. Was to get a lighter sentence, and that
Speaker 1: was a pretty good argument.
Speaker 4: He made a deal for himself obviously, so that was
Speaker 4: part of the reason he was testifying.
Speaker 1: But Len Jenoff said he didn't act alone. He paid
Speaker 1: his roommate Paul Michael Daniels to help carry out the murder.
Speaker 8: Did mister Jenoff tell you that's the money you got
Speaker 8: to say for the job came from Newland.
Speaker 4: Yes, he pled guilty too actually committing the murder.
Speaker 1: Paul Michael Daniels was just twenty years old at the
Speaker 1: time of Carol's murder, and like Jenoff, his time on
Speaker 1: the witness stand wasn't smooth.
Speaker 4: Couldn't remember a lot of what happened. He basically said
Speaker 4: he just went along, I think with what Jenoff told
Speaker 4: him to do, but he really had mental problems.
Speaker 1: Paul Michael Daniels was bipolar and suffered from schizophrenia and paranoia.
Speaker 4: Claims that Jenoff got him to go to the house
Speaker 4: to kill Carol Newlander.
Speaker 1: Now, if you were or listening to this crazy case,
Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't know who or what to believe at
Speaker 1: this point, which is why the decision to put Rabbi
Speaker 1: Newlander on the witness stand was so important.
Speaker 4: Rabbi Newlander was a tremendous orator when he spoke in
Speaker 4: the synagogue. He was the type of person who could
Speaker 4: really keep your attention and draw.
Speaker 1: You in delivering a sermon. Well, that's one thing a
Speaker 1: holy man answering questions about his numerous affairs and an
Speaker 1: open marriage is another.
Speaker 10: We made a decision that if there were needs that
Speaker 10: could not be supplied between the two of us, then
Speaker 10: we would go outside the marriage.
Speaker 4: His character was certainly called in question because of his infidelity.
Speaker 10: Prosecutor was right. I was selfish and arrogant, and I
Speaker 10: went beyond the balance of marriage, and I betrayed Carol,
Speaker 10: I betrayed family, I betrayed community, I betrayed my synagogue.
Speaker 10: I betrayed my profession. But divorce was never an issue.
Speaker 3: Now, as you got into the fall of nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 3: in relation to miss Nansini, did she make if you
Speaker 3: recall further references to the fact that she wished the
Speaker 3: affair to end.
Speaker 10: Yeah, she repeated that at the end of the year
Speaker 10: she would have to create a new life for herself.
Speaker 3: Did you ever tell her to trust you that something
Speaker 3: would happen now, did you ever say anything about anything
Speaker 3: happening so that you could be together with her on
Speaker 3: a birthday?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 3: Did you ever say something to miss Sancini has expressed
Speaker 3: in her testimony concerning your wishes regarding Carol, which was
Speaker 3: proof Carol's going No.
Speaker 1: He also denied the conversation with his rack up all
Speaker 1: buddy Peppy Levin about wanting Carol dead never occurred.
Speaker 10: I wouldn't tell Peppy if I twisted my finger, and
Speaker 10: he was not a confidant. He just knew who Carol
Speaker 10: was and we had socialized in that soul.
Speaker 1: As for Lenn Jenoff, the Rabbi said he never even
Speaker 1: hired him to investigate Carol's murder. It was Lenn who
Speaker 1: offered his services.
Speaker 3: Did you ever agree with mister Jennoff that you want
Speaker 3: to have your wife killed and then you wanted him
Speaker 3: to do it for money?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Did you ever want a divorce ever from your wife,
Speaker 3: for Elaine Sansini or any other woman.
Speaker 10: No.
Speaker 3: As you sit there today, sir, are you guilty or innocent?
Speaker 10: Innocent?
Speaker 1: Well, it wasn't surprising. The rabbi held his own while
Speaker 1: answering questions from his own lawyers. But things changed. During
Speaker 1: cross examination, the prosecution played sultry voicemails the rabbi left
Speaker 1: Elaine Sansini, saying he truly loved her and needed her.
Speaker 1: She's left the rabbi, blushing.
Speaker 10: Simply wanted the relationship to continue.
Speaker 13: And I don't.
Speaker 10: I can't categorize why I said.
Speaker 4: What I said.
Speaker 1: And if Lenn Jenoff lied about his past, why didn't
Speaker 1: the Rabbi do a better job vetting him.
Speaker 8: Didn't you want to get the very best person you
Speaker 8: could find to investigate the murder of your wife?
Speaker 10: Yes, I did, with.
Speaker 8: Letter jen Off, the very best person you could find
Speaker 8: to do that investigation.
Speaker 3: I didn't know how careful did you look, sir? How
Speaker 3: many investigators did you talk to?
Speaker 8: And taking out Mistry Jenner, how many people did you
Speaker 8: go through it together?
Speaker 10: I didn't investigate any other didn't bought anybody else.
Speaker 1: No, but something else. Fred Newlander did on the witness
Speaker 1: stand even bugged his own lawyer.
Speaker 4: What bothered me the most when we questioned him or
Speaker 4: when the prosecutor questioned him about coming home and seeing
Speaker 4: his wife on the floor. Instead of describing his wife
Speaker 4: as Carol, he said, I saw the body on the floor.
Speaker 8: Hours after you found your wife, you referred to her
Speaker 8: as the body. Correct.
Speaker 4: Correct, It just came across as to me as being
Speaker 4: too cold.
Speaker 1: Here's something else that was cold. The rabbi found his
Speaker 1: wife bloodied and beaten in their home, and he didn't
Speaker 1: touch her. He didn't put her in his arms, he
Speaker 1: didn't comfort her.
Speaker 10: That's right.
Speaker 4: I stayed away.
Speaker 10: I saw her, and I just I couldn't deal with it.
Speaker 4: If a person comes in and sees their wife bloodied
Speaker 4: on the floor, my response, I would hope, would be
Speaker 4: to run over to my wife and hold her and
Speaker 4: see how she is. But there can't be a typical
Speaker 4: response to that, which is what we argued to the jury.
Speaker 4: Nobody could possibly know that unless they were put in
Speaker 4: that position.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's definitely true. But then came the question that
Speaker 1: had lingered from the night of his wife's murder. Why
Speaker 1: did Fred Newlander appear so aloof Well?
Speaker 10: I can tell you is that I know how I grieve.
Speaker 10: I usually have an.
Speaker 13: Quiet, private, not quiet, a private experience of crying and
Speaker 13: then quickly gather it together.
Speaker 1: Then the rabbi talked himself into trouble. He first said
Speaker 1: he loved Elaine Sancini and even wrote her letter that's
Speaker 1: said so. But the next day on the witness stand,
Speaker 1: he changed his testimony.
Speaker 3: Yes, I can say I.
Speaker 11: Didn't love her with all the jury yesterday that it
Speaker 11: did love her.
Speaker 7: Correct.
Speaker 10: I never had any intention of continuing a relationship with her.
Speaker 10: I wanted to maintain whatever relationship we had.
Speaker 3: You weren't lying to this jury yesterday, were sir.
Speaker 10: I gave the wrong impression.
Speaker 4: I used the wrong words. He did not come across
Speaker 4: as a good witness. He did not come across as
Speaker 4: a credible witness. In my opinion, the key really was Jenoff.
Speaker 4: I was hoping for jurors they could see through len
Speaker 4: Jenoff because he was the cornerstone of their case.
Speaker 1: The defense knew that len Jenoff also didn't come across
Speaker 1: as honest, so they presented one final surprise witness, a
Speaker 1: man who knew len Jenoff from AA meetings. Now the
Speaker 1: second word in AA is a notus, So this witness
Speaker 1: broke the pledge of anonymity and testified that to will incarcerated.
Speaker 1: Lenjenov was working on either a book or movie deal,
Speaker 1: but that deal wouldn't happen unless Rabbi Newlander was found guilty.
Speaker 1: So what's really going on here? Was Fred Newlander responsible
Speaker 1: for the death of his wife?
Speaker 8: This is a man of God who acted in a
Speaker 8: thoroughly ungodly fashion.
Speaker 1: Or was Rabbi Newlander's self purported hit man a liar
Speaker 1: trying to secure a movie deal.
Speaker 3: There's nothing real about this man.
Speaker 4: He's a liar.
Speaker 1: I'm slow Glass. The case against Fred Newlander is about
Speaker 1: to get a whole lot more complicated.
Speaker 9: I understand from your note that you have reached a verdict.
Speaker 1: Yes we have, and we'll hear the surprising conclusion in
Speaker 1: part three of Who Killed Carol? That's next time on
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