WEBVTT - S1: E10 – Who Killed Carol? Part 2 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:05.160 Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Police officer Richard Bombaar investigated the 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:09.080 nineteen ninety four murder of Carol Newlander. She was the 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:12.720 wife of esteemed Rabbi Fred Newlander, and in. 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:16.120 Going through the case, it came across a photograph and 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:21.200 it was Fred and and Jenoff standing with their arms 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:21.800 around each other. 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:25.479 Len Jenoff was a private investigator the rabbi hired to 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:26.720 find his wife's. 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:34.040 Murderer after Carol's death. He actually married len Jenoff in 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.920 the same room that Carol was murdered in and their 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:42.080 wedding pictures of them arm in arm Fred and Jenoff 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:45.480 right where Carol was laying. 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:47.559 When she was murdered. 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:52.560 How could Rabbi Newlander celebrate marriage in the same room 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.840 his wife was murdered and why. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:57.600 It was really bizarre. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.680 We're in Cherry Hill, New Jersey today for part two 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:05.200 of Who Killed Carol? I'm swung Glass and this is 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:09.600 American homicide. And just a note that this episode contained 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:15.960 some graphic content. Please take care while listening. Cherry Hill 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:19.240 lives up to its name. Every April. That's when a 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.559 two mile stretch of road through the town transforms into 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:27.000 a sea of pink and white as the cherry blossoms bloom. 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.360 It's a nice area to live in, nice area to 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:30.160 raise your family. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.679 Richard Bumbear worked as a Cherry Hill police officer in 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.840 the nineties. Back then and even today, Cherry Hill was 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:43.120 your quintessential middle class suburb with sprawling subdivisions and a 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:44.280 huge shopping mall. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.600 Was considered a safetown to live in when we wouldn't 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:48.520 lock your doors. 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.919 So you can imagine their shock following the nineteen ninety 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:54.880 four murder of Carol Newlander. 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.680 The community was just terrified. They didn't know what happened. 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.080 If it was a random act of violence and somebody 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.080 tried to rob Carol and to take her money and 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.680 kill her, to whether it was thought out or planned. 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:12.000 It was Cherry Hill's first homicide in years, and the victim, 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.560 Carol Newlander, was a respected mother of three who ran 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.400 a popular bakery, which is why she often had a 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.640 lot of cash on her She and her husband, Rabbi 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:25.360 Fred Newlander, were like royalty in South Jersey. 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.600 No one in a million years thought that Fred Newlander, 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:33.000 a prominent rabbi in the community at the time, was 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:34.799 a suspect or had any involvement with it. 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:39.000 Absolutely no one could make sense of why Rabbi Newlander 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:43.760 would officiate a wedding in the very spot where his 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:45.720 wife was murdered. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:51.000 When Fred Newlander became person of interest, it was devastating 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.600 to the community. People started questioning their religion, people started 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.880 questioning everything about them, and it was horrible, absolutely horrible. 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:03.440 Lenn Jennoff's wedding happened in nineteen ninety seven, about three 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:07.840 years after Carol's murder, and if that wasn't disturbing enough, 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:12.160 their reception inside the Newlanders home featured a cake from 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.919 Classic Cakes, the bakery Carol had founded. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:22.840 Even if you had no involvement at all, none at all, 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:28.560 Not only are you going to probably sell the house 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.280 and get out of it, but you're not going to 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:35.640 marry somebody and take pictures right where your wife was 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:36.840 laying when she was murdering. 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:39.800 Pretty tasteless. 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:46.280 Absolutely, it is tasteless and suspicious. The rabbi was never 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:50.560 named a suspect, but also never cleared he had an alibi, 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.760 but it was overshadowed by news of his multiple affairs, 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:59.320 And then there was a controversial polygraph test. 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.440 Sometimes after murder. Fred's lawyer took him from Cherry Hill 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.520 down to Virginia to have a lie detect their testimony. 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.680 Arthur Magida wrote a book about the new Lander murder. 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.880 Fred was asked if he killed Carol. 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:14.960 The needles on the. 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:20.040 Machine were fine, nothing etmal. Fred was asked if he 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:24.600 had anything to do with Carroll's murder. At that point, 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.719 the needles went crazy and waivered back and forth. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.920 The rabbi's lawyer said Fred was under a great deal 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.400 of stress at the time and was on medication. 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.920 Polygraph experts have said that makes no difference. Either you're 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.240 telling the truth or you're not telling the truth. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:46.000 About a month after Lenjenov's wedding inside the Newlanders home, 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:51.400 prosecutors made a curious move. They impaneled an investigative grand 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:55.080 jury to see if there was enough evidence to charge 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:59.480 Rabbi Newlander. More than a dozen witnesses were called to testify, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:05.159 including his children, the rabbi's mistress, Elaine Cencini, and Lenjenoff. 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.960 The rabbi was never called to testify, and while this 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:12.320 was going on, he told reporters he had nothing to 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:13.600 do with Carol's murder. 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.520 He invited a woman, I think from the Philadelphia magazine 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.080 and to his home, and his first words to her were, Yes, 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.760 I'm Fred Nolander. I'm the man you love to hate. 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.640 The grand jury met for nearly a year before things 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.880 for the self described man you love to hate took 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.719 a drastic turn. Early one morning, the police performed a 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.039 traffic stop of Rabbi Newlander just a few blocks from 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.560 his home. They ordered him out of his car, and 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:44.520 then they handcuffed him and placed him under arrest. They 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.520 charged him with orchestrating the murder of his wife. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.680 Everybody was stunned. How could this possibly be? 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:55.400 The prosecutor claimed Rabbi Newlander wanted so desperately out of 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:59.000 his marriage that he hired a hit man to kill 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.240 his wife so that he could continue his affair with 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:06.920 his mistress, Elaine Sansini. The prosecutor did not identify who 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:08.080 the hit man was. 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.240 When there's a murder and there's a husband, and as 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.120 the police would very quickly discovered, this was a very 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:21.280 unfaithful husband to the husband who automatically becomes a suspect 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:22.480 until vindicated. 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.200 It's not as if the Jewish religion forbids divorce. There 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:30.760 are plenty of divorced rabbis Rabbi Newlander said, that's why 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.480 this theory did not make any sense. He again denied 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.760 the charges, and his private detective, Len Jenoff, defended him 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:39.720 to reporters. 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.440 I stole believe that Mike find has had absolutely nothing 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.800 to do with the horrendous murder of his wife. 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:50.440 Len Jenoff defended the Rabbi throughout his investigation, and while 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:54.200 the Rabbi awaited his trial, Len sort of became the 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:55.599 rabbi spokesperson. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.240 I think Ben wanted to be a more important person 0:06:59.600 --> 0:06:59.840 than he was. 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.240 Frank Hartman was len Jenoff's attorney. 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.240 That was a very very important thing in leader of 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:11.360 Jenoff's life. The Rabbi whenever I saw him, he always 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.320 wanted to talk to me about the Rabbi. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:17.320 Len and the Rabbi had a curious relationship. It was 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:21.760 almost like father and son, and Len so desperately wanted 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.000 the Rabbi's approval and attention. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:28.000 He wanted to please the Rabbi. He was very perturbed 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.880 about the fact that he had never been bar misfited. 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.240 The Rabbi told him that that was not important. If 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.360 it was really important to him to have a private 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:40.040 ceremony for him, and he encouraged the rabbi, and he 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.280 encouraged him, which is how I think he ultimately became 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.080 so dependent upon the rabbi. 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:51.160 For the next eighteen months, Lent, the former FBI and 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:56.280 CIA agent, continued his own investigation to help clear the rabbi. 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.720 He even met with a local reporter to exchange notes 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:01.280 and discuss the case. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:05.640 And she managed to worm her way into his confidence, 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:10.000 mostly because she was trying to get information about the rabbi. 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.560 In the spring of two thousand, six years after the murder, 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:19.239 len Jenoff called this reporter with a scoop. They later 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.280 met at a Jersey diner and were joined by two 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:27.440 investigators working the case. Everyone went into this meeting not 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:32.800 knowing what to expect. To picture this four people sitting 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:36.320 in the back of a New Jersey diner, drinking coffee 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:41.120 after coffee and chainsmoking cigarettes, waiting to hear a scoop 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:45.960 on an unsolved murder investigation, and what happened in the 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:51.840 end was the absolute last thing anyone expected. Len Jenoff, 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:56.720 the private investigator Rabbi Newlander, hired to find his wife's killer, 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:03.000 confessed to killing Carol Newlander. Glenn said he was paid 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:07.760 thirty thousand dollars to kill Carroll and the person who 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.160 hired him to do it, Rabbi Fred Newlander. 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:19.240 I think this murder weighed heavily on his conscience, and 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.840 I think he wanted to unburden himself. Glenn did it 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.480 for the Rabbi. I don't there's any doubt about that. 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:30.880 Lenn was completely under the sway of the Rabbi. Didn't 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.600 shock me to find that he was willing to consider 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.920 doing something as serious as burger. Len wanted to be important, 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:43.440 and the Rabbi's attention made him feel important. I think 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.040 that whenever the Rabbi made up his mind that he 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.760 wanted someone to commit a burr for him, this was 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:54.160 a person who was certainly among the nominees because the 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:58.360 Rabbi could exercise influence of him in so many different ways. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.320 The plan was for Len went off to kill Carol, 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.480 but Len brought an accomplice. 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.240 Glenn brought a friend along with him, a young man 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:10.120 who was I think mentally challenged. Well. 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:14.120 That young man was his roommate, Paul Michael Daniels, who 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.640 suffered from drug addiction and schizophrenia. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.560 The young man struck her with a piece of pipe 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.600 and said to him, you have to do this too, 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.880 It's not just me. So that's when len actually struck 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.679 a blow to the lady. And then they realized their 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.640 pursh was there and that she had considerable money in 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.880 it because it was the day's proceeds from her bakery shop. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.920 So to make it look like it was a robbery, 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.880 they took the money and left. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.840 So how did they even get into the house. Well, 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.880 it turns out Carol opened the front door. Len Jenoff 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.320 had showed up at the house with an envelope for 0:10:55.360 --> 0:11:00.560 her husband. Jenoff was actually there to kill her, but 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.320 he couldn't find her purse, and the plan was to 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.800 make it look like a robbery gone wrong, so he 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.880 pretended to use the bathroom and then he left. Two 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.640 weeks later, he returned with his accomplice and claimed he 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:15.480 killed Carol. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.520 They had a very good case against the rabbi and 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:20.319 that he was in a lot of trouble. 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:25.360 Even with len Jenov's confession, Rabbi Newlander denied being involved 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:26.079 with the murder. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:30.000 The defensive the rabbi was that, oh no, he did 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.800 this on his own. He's only trying to incriminate me. 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:37.360 But nevertheless he did it and Generally speaking, in the 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.719 law of the person who hire someone for murderer is 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.839 more culpable than the actual murderer. 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.640 In the summer of two thousand, Lenjenov and his roommate 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.520 pled guilty to aggravated manslaughter, and they made a deal 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:55.960 with prosecutors to testify against the rabbi in exchange for 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:57.000 a lighter sentence. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.880 This is the person who could really the case down 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.199 and feel in it dots, as they say. 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:08.079 Len Jenoff would be the prosecution's star witness against Rabbi Newlander. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:12.920 The former CIA and FBI agent was about to embark 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:21.120 on his toughest assignment yet, after years of denying he 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.240 had anything to do with his wife's murder, a grand 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:28.760 jury indicted Rabbi Fred Newlander for conspiracy to commit murder. 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.960 Those charges grew to capital murder following the confession of 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.319 his former private eye, Lenjenoff. 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.920 At the time, he was facing the death penalty. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.440 Jeff Zucker was one of Rabbi Newlander's attorneys. 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.400 You can't have any more pressure than that put on you. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.400 When the trial opened in late two thousand and one, 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:53.160 prosecutor James Lynch told the jury that the adulterous Rabbi 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:57.160 wanted Carol murdered so he could continue to be with 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:58.040 his mistress. 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:09.720 This is a man overwhelmed by lust, creed, arrogance, and betrayal, 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:14.199 and as a result of those qualities and those characteristics, 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.160 he involved himself in the murder of his wife. He 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:22.160 planned it, he plotted it, he paid money for it 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:23.120 to be carried out. 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.720 The Rabbi's defense denied that motion. 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.040 He could have gotten a divorce. It would be a 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:34.280 huge jump from wanting to leave one's wife to becoming 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:34.960 a murderer. 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:39.520 Jerors first heard about the rabbis years of adultery. One 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.880 congregant from of Coursia Lom testified that she and the 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:48.000 rabbi slept together for months. In fact, their affair overlapped 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.760 with the Rabbi's affair with Elaine Censini. 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:55.880 Elaine Sensini, she was a radio personality who had an 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:57.839 affair with Rabbi Newlander. 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:02.560 We started seeing each other, I would say every two 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.840 to three weeks in the beginning, and after that we 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.800 saw each other just about every day. 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.680 Elaine talked about her personal life on the radio, but 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:16.840 that didn't compare to sharing those intimate details on the 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:17.680 witness stand. 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:23.200 We had the relations in his office. He told me 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:27.920 that I was the most special woman that he had 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:28.480 ever met. 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.640 The Rabbi was certainly a smooth operator and manipulator. He 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:36.280 shared a dream with Elaine about how violence was coming 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:37.160 Carol's way. 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.600 There was one conversation where he said to me that 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:46.080 he just wished that she were gone, puff gone, and 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:47.840 I wish her car would go into the river. 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.600 After months of being the other woman, Elaine decided in 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.560 the summer of nineteen ninety four that she wanted more 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:56.680 or no more. 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.600 I said, Fred, I don't want to see you after December. 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:04.600 I want to start my new life January first, nineteen 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:09.320 ninety five, and he would say, please, you know, hang in. 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:11.600 Trust me. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:13.880 We're going to be together by your birthday. 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:18.600 Elaine's birthday was in December and Carol Newlander was murdered 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:19.600 the month before. 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.840 And what I said was, whatever you decide is fine. 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:24.800 I support you one hundred and fifty percent. 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:29.280 Elaine and the Rabbi slept together nearly every day, including 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:33.880 the day Carol was murdered. That night, Elaine was asleep 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:38.120 by eight pm and learned of Carol's murder the following morning. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.360 He called me at work, and he said that he 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.960 was all right, that he was at the police station 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:47.520 all night, and that Carol had been killed, and something 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.520 about a burglary. And he just asked me if I 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:55.280 was frightened, and I said no, you know, friend, of what? 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:57.840 And he said, are you frightened of anything? And I 0:15:57.880 --> 0:15:58.240 said no. 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.720 It was a strange conversation. Still, Elaine and the Rabbi 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:06.320 slept together a few more times after Carol's death, until 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:10.440 she asked him to stop contacting her. Instead, he sent 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.840 her cards and letters. Some of those were used as 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:15.000 evidence in the trial. 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:19.120 Elaine, what you and I discovered and have comes once 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:23.280 in a lifetime. It is a gift God permits so infrequently. 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.400 I need you to know that I will not because 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:31.520 I cannot love another. Of Course I will always love you. 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.320 Of course you will always love me. I will pay 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:38.360 any price, wait any time to keep my promise. 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:43.360 The prosecution argued that promise was that the two would 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:44.240 be together. 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.360 And after Carol Newlander died, Fred said, I told you 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.600 to trust me. When God closes a door, he opens 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:58.320 a window. I was afraid that, even though I chose 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:03.600 to believe that Fred Newlander was not involved in the 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:09.600 murder of his wife, that there was that possibility I 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:13.960 dishonored his wife in life and I was not going 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:15.959 to dishonor her in death. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.360 The rabbi's defense team wasn't having any of that. They 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.280 quickly fought back and tried to discredit her. 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:26.680 And would you describe yourself, miss Suncini, as the type 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.959 of a woman who has low moral standards or who 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:32.720 had low moral standards at. 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:36.919 That time looking back on it now, yes, And didn't 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:37.320 you have. 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:42.840 Very real concerns that you yourself may have been considered 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.440 a suspect because you were the other woman. 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.119 I was having a two year relationship with a married 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.160 man and his wife was murdered. 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.120 Well, were you afraid Fred Newlander was going to kill you? 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.720 I was afraid that Fred Newlander might kill me, as 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:00.440 a matter of fact, because I didn't know what had 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.800 occurred the night of the murder, and I didn't know 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:06.280 where I was in this relationship. All I knew was 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.960 somehow I'm involved too. 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.840 Then the defense went for it. They questioned how Elaine 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.120 went from sleeping with the rabbi to marrying Cherry Hill 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:17.720 police officer Larry Leaf. 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:22.640 Isn't it a fact, Missus Leith, that your now husband, 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:26.440 Larry Leaf, was seen going through the files of the 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:30.200 new Lander investigation in the confines of the Cherry Hill 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:31.159 Police Department. 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.800 All Larry told me was that he wanted to read 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.760 my statement to see if I was involved, if he 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.240 was getting involved with a bad woman. 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.639 After a full day's worth of testimony about the rabbi's adultery, 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:50.359 the prosecution then moved on to the rabbi's plan to 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.920 get rid of Carol, and it started with someone named 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:54.720 Pepi Levin. 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.800 Peppy Levin, it was somebody that the Rabbi used to 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:01.160 play a racketball with. 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:05.359 According to the testimony you're about to hear, a few 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:09.240 months before Carroll's murder, the Rabbi approached him. 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:11.159 He says, I wish I could get rid of my 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:16.280 wife ever killed on the ground When I go home someday, 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:20.359 he says, do you know anybody go a gin the 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:22.760 kock out of my head? You crazy? 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:23.920 You are nuts? 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:27.800 I said, you nuts, Stay away from it. He got 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:29.479 a lovely wife. Stick with it. 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.960 But the defense said that Peppy couldn't be trusted. He 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:37.119 had a shady past that included time in federal prison. 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:41.120 For arson, conspiracy, and tax fraw charges. 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:46.920 He was a very colorful, strange, wild witness. 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:53.600 But perhaps the strangest, wildest, and most polarizing witness was 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:58.160 the hitman who ultimately carried out Carroll's murder, len Jenoff. 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:01.400 He was the prosecutor star witness. 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:06.920 Len Jenoff was a private investigator, a person who claimed 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:12.080 to have been in the CIA, but he absolutely had 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:14.560 many problems. Many problems. 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:18.240 Yeah, it turned out his biggest problem was his credibility. 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:22.560 This is kind of mind blowing. After years of talking 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:27.080 about his past, the defense learned that len Jenoff had 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.240 never served in the CIA or the FBI. 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:34.560 Len Jenoff was a pathological liar, So was. 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:37.800 He telling the truth when he confessed to killing Carol? 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:41.439 The prosecution star witness had a lot of explaining to do, 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:50.359 and it would all happen on the witness stand. Prosecutors 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:54.639 portrayed Rabbi Fred Nulander as a womanizer who carried on 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:58.399 multiple affairs and hired a hitman to kill his wife. 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:00.880 It was the doctor stane, I have my life, sir, 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.040 but I took that man's promise of thirty thousand dollars. 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:06.800 That was from Fred J. 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.760 Newlander, and I cured his wife for that promise of 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:11.760 thirty thousand dollars. 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:15.520 That was len Jenoff's testimony. He and his roommate Paul 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:19.159 Michael Daniels claimed to have murdered Carol Newlander on the 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:22.200 evening of November one, nineteen ninety four. 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:25.160 I pulled out the leg pipe star and I racked 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:35.040 her in the back of the head. She started to stumble, 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.520 and I heard the word why why. 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:46.480 Those details were painful to hear, especially for Carol's relatives. 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:50.880 You can hear crying in the background as len Jenoff 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:53.320 described killing and then robbing Carroll. 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:59.000 Now By, Newlander was adamant in telling me only take 0:21:59.080 --> 0:21:59.560 the cash. 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:00.880 Whatever cash is in there. 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:03.920 It could be fire dollars, it could be five thousand, 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:05.960 and throw the pocketbook away. 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:08.880 Len Jenoff says he did what he was told to do. 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:11.960 He disposed of the handbag and murder weapon in a 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:15.840 dumpster near the Cherry Hill Mall. Two days later, he 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:20.560 had the audacity to attend Carrol's memorial. That's where he saw. 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:24.119 The rabbi and then he kind of pulled me in 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:28.520 for a hug, patted me on the back, and he whispered, 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:31.760 everything will be all right now she's dead. 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:36.800 Not only did len Jenov attend Carrol's funeral, but he 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:40.280 returned to Rabbi newlanders house a couple days later for 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:42.440 the Shibba, the Jewish period of. 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:48.720 Mourning, and he answered me, this Manila envelope stuck with cash, 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:53.719 and he said, here's another down payment, seven thousand dollars 0:22:54.320 --> 0:22:55.120 in cash. 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:58.480 The prosecution portrayed the Rabbi as an arrogant and selfish 0:22:58.520 --> 0:23:02.479 adulter who hired len Jenoff to kill his wife. But 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:05.360 the defense said len Jenoff cannot be trusted. 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:09.560 Len Jenoff was a person that we described as a 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:10.959 pathological liar. 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:15.240 Jeff Zucker was one of Rabbi Newlander's lawyers who untangled 0:23:15.320 --> 0:23:17.560 len Jenoff's long string of lives. 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:20.600 We had so many things that we brought up to 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:23.000 show that he had lied and lied and lied. 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:27.600 It's true Len admitted to line about being in the 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:32.679 FBI and CIA. In fact, most of his resume was 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:37.320 one giant lie, most damning. Len admitted to lying to 0:23:37.400 --> 0:23:38.200 the grand jury. 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:42.040 Yes, I was trying to protect Rabbi Newlander and myself. 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:46.119 The defense said, the only reason Jenoff was testifying against 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:49.240 the Rabbi. Was to get a lighter sentence, and that 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:50.800 was a pretty good argument. 0:23:51.440 --> 0:23:54.240 He made a deal for himself obviously, so that was 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:57.040 part of the reason he was testifying. 0:23:57.640 --> 0:24:00.680 But Len Jenoff said he didn't act alone. He paid 0:24:00.680 --> 0:24:04.320 his roommate Paul Michael Daniels to help carry out the murder. 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:08.200