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Speaker 1: Tomorrow will be the fifth anniversary of the murder of

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Speaker 1: April Kaufman at the Jersey Shore in Lynwood, Atlantic County.

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Speaker 1: Who would want to kill April Kaufman. I can't think

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Speaker 1: of anybody that would want to do harm to April

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Speaker 1: because all she ever did was help people. April Coffman

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Speaker 1: was not only a beloved radio ho, she was also

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Speaker 1: beloved for being an advocate for veterans. The worker who

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Speaker 1: came to the home on What's doot drive to the

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Speaker 1: Kaufman's pet parents discovered her body in her bedroom and

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Speaker 1: call police. Say her husband told them April was alive

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Speaker 1: when he left that morning. Authority say she had been

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Speaker 1: shot multiple times. This is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

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Speaker 1: That's a newly appointed prosecutor who says he is focusing

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Speaker 1: on unresolved homicide. We're asking for a sample of his DNA,

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Speaker 1: the prosecutor's office says. Jim Kaufman's attorney is opposing it.

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Speaker 1: I missed my mom a lot, even though I walk

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Speaker 1: around with a smile. In my case, there's a big,

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Speaker 1: big hole in my heart. A highly popular radio DJ

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Speaker 1: dead right now. The cold case murderer of a New

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Speaker 1: Jersey radio DJ has been revived by prosecutors who are

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Speaker 1: demanding DNA from her widower. I Nancy Grace, this is

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. This woman

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Speaker 1: was absolutely phenomenal on the radio. April Kaufman. She was

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Speaker 1: murdered in her bedroom in her luxury home May two

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Speaker 1: thousand twelve. Now she was shot multiple times and she

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Speaker 1: had a cut on her arm. Her daughter Kim has

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Speaker 1: long believed it was April's husband who murdered her in

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Speaker 1: her luxury home. She the daughter Kim, is suing the

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Speaker 1: husband for wrongful death and is trying to stop him

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Speaker 1: from getting his mits on six hundred thousand dollars oh,

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Speaker 1: six hundred thousand dollars from April's life insurance policies. Now

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Speaker 1: he the husband, Dr James Kaufman, denies murdering her or

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Speaker 1: having anything to do with her death, but now prosecutors

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Speaker 1: asked him to voluntarily submit to a DNA sample or

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Speaker 1: UH is the gig up again? I Mancy Grace, this

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Speaker 1: is Crime Stories, and I want to thank you for

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Speaker 1: being with us. Alan the Deep Deep joining me from

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Speaker 1: his enclave in Hollywood. Allen nobody has ever been arrested

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Speaker 1: for the murderer of the popular, highly popular DJ April Kaufman.

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Speaker 1: And she's not only beautiful on the radio on the inside,

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Speaker 1: she's beautiful on the outside. She's actually she's a stunner. Now,

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Speaker 1: her adult daughter, Kim insists that the endocrinologist husband, James Kaufman,

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Speaker 1: shot her and she, the daughter, is fighting to have

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Speaker 1: him prosecuted. She was murdered in her Lynwood home, Upscale, Lynwood,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve. The daughter has gone so far

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Speaker 1: as to file a wrongful death lawsuit. Now that's not

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Speaker 1: a criminal case, it's civil like O. J. Simpson was

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Speaker 1: prosecuted criminally and was acquitted. Then the victim, Ron Goldman

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Speaker 1: family sued him civilly and he was held responsible civilly.

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Speaker 1: That's what this is, okay, Alan weigh In, The doctor's

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Speaker 1: lawyer says this is all about money. And he was

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Speaker 1: never accused by his stepdaughter of killing his wife until

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Speaker 1: they started arguing in court over the insurance money. There's

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Speaker 1: he need money, He's a daughter turk. Well doctors love money,

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Speaker 1: I guess, and who doesn't And well it's out there.

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Speaker 1: Why not go get it, but think about this Alan.

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Speaker 1: The love of money, preach, sister preach is the roote.

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Speaker 1: I will have you seen my car? What is it?

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Speaker 1: It's like a soccer mom band from two thousand and two.

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Speaker 1: It is a beat up minivan covered in stickers, and

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Speaker 1: I'm proud of it. Okay, all right? You see what

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Speaker 1: I wear every day when i'm do You see what

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Speaker 1: or in court. You see what I wear it. Doubles

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Speaker 1: is a podcasting studio sometimes too. Doubles. It's a podcasting

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Speaker 1: my black tights and my cowboy boots and my t shirt. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so you would love to have it. So don't praise

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Speaker 1: to me about people loving money. Money will be the

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Speaker 1: You're in trouble. That's what I'm selling. Had to fight

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Speaker 1: over money, is what the lawyer for the husband says.

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Speaker 1: There's a hundred thousand dollars and a five thousand insurance

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Speaker 1: love of money can get you in big trouble. To

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Speaker 1: Or is that people always they jump up and say, oh,

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Speaker 1: What about the d A as king him the doctor,

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Speaker 1: the endocrinologist who's probably rolling in a bed of money

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Speaker 1: right now. They asked him to submit as d n A.

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Speaker 1: Does it murder? Make no? But her body is found

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Speaker 1: She was still alive when police arrived, but then died

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Speaker 1: come look and check on me? No? So why did

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Speaker 1: a good point. That the point about the d a's

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Speaker 1: nothing else for you, young man. Since she died. Mr Thing,

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Speaker 1: the husband, he's already sold her estate and remarried. That

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Speaker 1: So if they get the d n A, it's not

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Speaker 1: it's not Allan is the dog not the only one

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Speaker 1: what about this lady April Kaufman. That was a pretty

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Speaker 1: You haven't time something. I have another effect for you. Reportedly,

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Speaker 1: What do you call that the slayers statute that would

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Speaker 1: against him. She says, I purposely tried to avoid directly

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Speaker 1: talking about what happened. But after being brought into this lawsuit,

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Speaker 1: meaning the over the insurance thing, I have no choice

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Speaker 1: talking about a statement from April I mean, excuse me

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Speaker 1: so there's no libel or slander. I'm gonna let the

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