1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: Hey, creating ACN listeners, This is Ben Fetterman. I'm a 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: producer and writer for creating a con the story of 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: bitcont Today, I wanted to share another project the Team 4 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: Aglass podcast has been working on. It's called American Homicide. 5 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,599 Speaker 1: This new true crime series explores some of the most 6 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 1: mysterious and iconic murder cases from across America, whether it's 7 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: the spacious skies and vast desert of New Mexico where 8 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: the backwaters of the Louisiana Bayou. American Homicide examines how 9 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:33,480 Speaker 1: these murders are shaped by their unique landscapes, and in turn, 10 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: how these tragedies have shaped the fabric of these American 11 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: communities forever. The show is hosted by Acclaim journalists and 12 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: investigative reporter Sloane Glass, who speaks with the victims, family members, 13 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: law enforcement, and eyewitnesses to really understand what caused these 14 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: senseless crimes. Today, I'm sharing a three part story from 15 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: the Garden State, New Jersey. The crime took place just 16 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 1: two hours south from where Ray Trepanny and Johnny Begod 17 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: grew up in Cherry Hill. In part one of Who 18 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: Killed Carol, a young emt responds to a call to 19 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: his childhood home. Inside, he found his mother brutally murdered. 20 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:20,839 Speaker 1: As the investigation ensues, this EMT would learn more about 21 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: his mother and his family than he ever expected. If 22 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: you enjoyed this episode of American Homicide, please search for 23 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,759 Speaker 1: it wherever you listen to your podcasts. You can find 24 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: all the episodes released so far, and be sure to 25 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: subscribe to the show and leave a review. A five 26 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: star rating goes a long way. If you like part 27 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: one of Who Killed Carol, don't worry. 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Thanks for listening. 36 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 2: A young EMT answered a call to his home that 37 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 2: had fatal consequences. 38 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 3: Matthew Newlander. He heard on his radio that a woman 39 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,519 Speaker 3: was injured a two oh four high gate. There's only 40 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 3: one woman a two oh for Highgate. That's his mother. 41 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 3: She was unconscious and not breathing. Matthew instantly knew that 42 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 3: his mother was dead. How did my mom get beaten 43 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 3: to death in the living room of her house? Who 44 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 3: would ever kill Carol Newlander? They all loved Carol Newlander? 45 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 2: The answer would leave Matthew questioning everything and everyone he knew. 46 00:02:55,840 --> 00:03:02,920 Speaker 3: This is such a convoluted, perplexing, disturbing, troubling, and I 47 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 3: wish to God that this had never happened. 48 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 2: Today, we're jumping across the country to the Garden State, 49 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 2: New Jersey. Specifically, we're in the suburb of Cherry Hill 50 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 2: for the tragic story of a mother of three who 51 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 2: was found beaten to death in her home. This is 52 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 2: a case of who done it that's shocked a community. 53 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 2: We'll explore it from the beginning until the very end, 54 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 2: when a panel of twelve jurors had to make the 55 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 2: most difficult decision of their lives. I'm Slow Glass and 56 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 2: this is part one of Who Killed Carol? On American Homicide. 57 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 2: Just to note that some of this content is graphic. 58 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 2: Please take care while listening. Consider the town of Cherry Hill, 59 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 2: New Jersey, It's the perfect spot for people who want 60 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 2: to live close enough yet far enough away from two 61 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 2: major cities. 62 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 3: Philadelphia to the south, New York City to the north. 63 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 2: Arthur mcgea a third book about one of Cherry Hill's 64 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 2: most revered and respected couples, Fred and Carol Newlander. The 65 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 2: two moved there in the nineteen sixties when Fred took 66 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 2: a job as a junior rabbi. 67 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 3: He was young, he was up to date. Lots and 68 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 3: lots of people were happy that Fred and Carol had arrived. 69 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 2: Only about two percent of Americans practiced Judaism, though with 70 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 2: a community of over twenty five thousand, Cherry Hill has 71 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 2: one of the largest Jewish populations in the country, making 72 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 2: it the perfect place for Rabbi Newlander to start his 73 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 2: own synagogue. 74 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 3: In nineteen seventy four, Fred and seventeen eighteen members of 75 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 3: the earlier Congregation for Macorshalom. Fred shows that term Macorshalom 76 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 3: because it means source of. 77 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 2: Peace and that peaceful Synegague grew to nearly one thousand 78 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 2: congregants in Cherry Hill, and Rabbi Fred and Carroll Newlander 79 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:58,799 Speaker 2: were looked at like royalty. 80 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 3: They were admitted to this congregation. They were committed to 81 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 3: developing something new that had not existed in Cherry Hill before. 82 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 3: And that's what so many people have found attractive about 83 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 3: macurscher Loom and about Fred and Carol. 84 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 2: While Rabbi Newlander worked day and night tending to his congregation, 85 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 2: his wife Carol raised their three children. 86 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 3: They were almost like a unit, separate and apart from 87 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 3: their father because they knew that many evenings their father might, 88 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 3: if they were lucky, be home for dinner. 89 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 2: And Carol wasn't your typical rabbi's wife. She also ran 90 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 2: a popular bakery called Classic Cakes. 91 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 3: This was amazingly successful. It was perhaps the finest bakery 92 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:47,160 Speaker 3: in South Jersey. Members of the congregation came there, of. 93 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 2: Course, everyone came for their red velvet cupcakes, breakfast pastries 94 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 2: and assortment of elaborate cakes. 95 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 3: It was also very very profitable, but she was very, 96 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:02,799 Speaker 3: very careless with some of the money that was coming 97 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 3: into the bakery. She would just stuff it into her 98 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 3: purse and come home at night with five thousand, ten thousand, 99 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 3: and fifteen thousand dollars in cash. 100 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 2: All that cash played into Carol's demise. 101 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 3: On November first, nineteen ninety four, Fred put in his 102 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 3: usual work day at Mccorschallan. 103 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,840 Speaker 2: And on that afternoon, Carol had volunteered with pediatric AIDS 104 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 2: patients and returned home while her husband was still at 105 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 2: the synagogue. 106 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 3: About nine o'clock he went back home. He opened the door, 107 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 3: glanced into the living room. On his right sare Carol 108 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 3: Nolander lying on the floor of the living room in 109 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 3: a pool of blood. 110 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:49,720 Speaker 2: Just imagine the scene. Fred found Carol face down and 111 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:54,280 Speaker 2: badly beaten. It was horrific. This was his wife. Her 112 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:58,159 Speaker 2: blood was everywhere. So he ran to the kitchen, grabbed 113 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 2: his cordless landline phone and called nine on one. 114 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 4: I want one sat the emergency. I just came home. 115 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 3: My wife has on the floor and they're blown all over. 116 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 4: I don't know what to do it. Does she appear 117 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 4: to be breathing? 118 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 3: They asked if she was alive. He said he didn't know. 119 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 3: I don't wanted to say to her. Should I not 120 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 3: touch her? 121 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 4: Just leave everything the way it is here and stay 122 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 4: on the phone with me until the first police officer getshured. 123 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 2: That's when the Rabbi remembered his son, Matthew, was working 124 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 2: as an emt that evening. 125 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 4: Cool, so I have to send somebody down, Sir, calm down, 126 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 4: hold on a second. 127 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 2: Tragically, Matthew Newlander did hear that call and quickly drove 128 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 2: his ambulance to his house, nearly colliding with another emergency 129 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 2: vehicle when he arrived. But before he got inside to 130 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 2: see his mother, a friend grabbed him and carried him 131 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 2: away from the house. 132 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 3: Matthew instantly knew that his mother was dead, because if 133 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 3: she was not, somebody would have said something comforting to him. 134 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 3: Don't worry, she's barely injured. Don't worry. She's being treated 135 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 3: right now. Nobody said anything like that. 136 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 2: That's when his dad, Rabbi Fred Newlander, walked up to him. 137 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 3: He was still holding his cord, was stelephone, wasn't using 138 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 3: it wasn't talking to anybody, but his manner was completely composed. 139 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 2: The Rabbi was still dressed in his tailored suit. He 140 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 2: wore a temple. He was in shock. He stood on 141 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 2: the driveway if their two story home, listening as Matthew 142 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 2: frantically asked him question after question about his mother. Each 143 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 2: time the Rabbi offered the same answer. 144 00:08:55,480 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 3: Don't worry, everything will be fine. He was always buttoned 145 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 3: up and he was buttoned up. November one, nineteen ninety four, 146 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 3: when he saw Carol lying in the living room when 147 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 3: he called nine one one, when he did his version 148 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 3: of trying to comfort his son Matthew. 149 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 2: By then all of Highgate Lane and Cherry Hill was 150 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 2: a dizzy sea of red and white from the lights 151 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 2: of the emergency vehicles parked in front of the Newlanders. 152 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 5: My name is Richard Bumber. November one, nineteen ninety four, 153 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 5: I was working as a patrolman for the Terry Hill 154 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:33,439 Speaker 5: Police Apartment. 155 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 2: Officer Bumbar was one of the first responders that night. 156 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 5: It's a middle upper middle class community, beautiful homes. It's 157 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 5: the type of community where everyone had their law and nice. 158 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 5: Everyone knew each other. Neighbors were very close and very friendly. 159 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 5: So when I walked up the driveway of the residents, 160 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 5: I noticed a man dressed in his suit, probably in 161 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 5: his fifties or so. 162 00:09:57,640 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 2: That man was, of course, Rabbi Fred Newlan. 163 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 5: He had affordable phone in his hand, and immediately I 164 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 5: asked him what was going on. He raised his left 165 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 5: hand and pointed with the phone, said she's in there, 166 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 5: and I was like, okay, So I entered the house 167 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 5: and immediately noticed Carol laying on the floor in the 168 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 5: room right to my right. It was a white room, 169 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 5: didn't look like it was a room that was used 170 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 5: or used commonly. White carpets, white furniture, white walls, and 171 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:36,320 Speaker 5: there was just this bright red blood spattered everywhere in 172 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:40,599 Speaker 5: that room. When I examined the body, I noticed that 173 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 5: there were several indentations to her skull, her fingers were 174 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 5: all broken back and opened from defensive wounds. There was 175 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:51,719 Speaker 5: a tremendous amount of pulled blood. She was cold. It 176 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 5: was obvious to me that somebody had bludgeoned to death, 177 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 5: like repead strikes to her head. 178 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 2: So now the complicated work of trying to figure out 179 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,319 Speaker 2: what happened began. There was no sign of force entry 180 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 2: and no other victims in the house. Just Carol. 181 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 5: Carol Newlander. She was business partners and a very prominent bakery, 182 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 5: and she got into the habit of taking the till 183 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 5: home where there was a significant amount of money ten 184 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 5: fifteen thousand dollars. 185 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 2: The police wondered, if someone was after Carol's money, why 186 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 2: did they leave other valuables behind, and how did they 187 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 2: get into the house. 188 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 5: They had a lot of expensive items in the house. 189 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 5: None of it was gone through. Dressers weren't gone through 190 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 5: looking for money or jewelry. Everything was neat and tidy. 191 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,439 Speaker 5: So the idea of that it was a robbery or 192 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:51,319 Speaker 5: a home invasion that went bad didn't seem to line 193 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 5: up for what I saw. 194 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,440 Speaker 2: It wasn't like the police sold many homicides in Cherry Hill. 195 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 2: This was the first homicide in two years and it 196 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,359 Speaker 2: involved the below dwife of Rabbi Fred Newlander. 197 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 5: The mayor's pulling off, and there's a lot of people 198 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 5: showing up at that house that just seemed like, Wow, 199 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 5: this person certainly wasn't just an average citizen. 200 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 2: So the question on everyone's mind that night was. 201 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,439 Speaker 5: Why there weren't any suspects. There weren't any leads, so 202 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 5: the community just thought it was a random act of violence. 203 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 2: So no one could believe Carol Newlander, successful small business owner, 204 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 2: mother of three, who just spent her day volunteering with 205 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 2: pediatric AIDS patients, had been robbed and beaten to death. 206 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 5: Not only are we dealing with a homicide of a 207 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 5: prominent family in Cherry Hill, but Carol's son, Matthew, was 208 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 5: working as an EMT that night and he was responding 209 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 5: to the house. 210 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 2: Matthew was a young emt who just wanted to be 211 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 2: with his mother to say goodbye, but heartbreakingly, protocol didn't 212 00:12:57,679 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 2: allow it. 213 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 5: And that's that that was that was difficult. It was unfortunate. 214 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 5: I would have wanted to say goodbye to my mom, 215 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,599 Speaker 5: you know. And that's a situation and it's difficult. It's 216 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 5: a part of the job, unfortunately, and you know, you 217 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 5: have to deal with it. 218 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 2: His mother was dead and the lives of the Newlander 219 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 2: family would never be the same again. 220 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 5: They were an all American family in a sense. It 221 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 5: had everything and now they have nothing. 222 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 3: You know. 223 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:28,559 Speaker 5: It's it's a shame. 224 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 2: On a cold night, in November nineteen ninety four, Carol 225 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 2: Newlander was murdered in her Cherry Hill, New Jersey home. 226 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,319 Speaker 2: She was a mother of three who ran a successful 227 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 2: bakery business and was the wife of South Jersey's most 228 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 2: prominent Rabbi, Fred Newlander. 229 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:57,719 Speaker 3: People are sympathizing with Fred and whispering words of consolation 230 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 3: in his ear. 231 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:02,680 Speaker 2: Arthur mc wrote a book about Carol Newlander's murder. 232 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:08,080 Speaker 3: Carol's funeral was one of the largest in South Jersey, 233 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 3: dignitaries came, politicians came. 234 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 2: As part of the Jewish tradition, people offer their condolences 235 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 2: to the rabbi by saying, may her memory be a 236 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 2: blessing to you. 237 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 3: And then they whispered among each other, who would ever 238 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 3: kill Carol Newlander? They all loved Carol Neulander, and everybody 239 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 3: is sad and still Fred Newlander is showing virtual in 240 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 3: no emotion. 241 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 2: There is a Jewish tradition called Shibba. It's the week 242 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 2: long period of mourning after a death. During Shippa, your friends, 243 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 2: family and neighbors come by and take care of you. 244 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 2: They bring you food, provide you comfort, and run your 245 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 2: errands so you can mourn. 246 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 3: How he comported himself that evening and in some of 247 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 3: the days that followed, very much flowed from his experience 248 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 3: as a rabbi. Fred Newlander dealt with death and birth 249 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 3: over and over again in the course of his profession. 250 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 3: He was in to some degree acculturated to death, not 251 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 3: to murder, but to death. 252 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 2: By the time they were sitting Shiva for Carol Newlander, 253 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 2: Cherry Hill police officers had already questioned Fred Newlander and 254 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 2: two of his children, Rebecca and Matthew. If you remember, 255 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 2: Matthew was one of the EMTs who came to the 256 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 2: house on the night of his mother's murder. 257 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 3: Matthew told the police about a very, very severe argument 258 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 3: that he witnessed between his parents two days before Carol 259 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 3: was killed, Carol telling Matthew that Fred didn't want to 260 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 3: work gone this marriage any longer, that Fred wanted to 261 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 3: divorce Carol. And Matthew told the police that Carol had 262 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 3: been dashed down to the basement, grabbed some suitcases and 263 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 3: threw them at Fred. Newlander told them to. 264 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 2: Get out, but Rabbi Newlander gave detectives a different take. 265 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 3: He said it was just Honkey Dorry. Everything was fine. Yeah, 266 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 3: they had their little bickerings occasionally, whose turn is it 267 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 3: to clean out the dishwasher? But theirs was a rock 268 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 3: solid marriage. 269 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 2: So there was something else. The police began to focus 270 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 2: on the Newlander's daughter, Rebecca, lived out of town and 271 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 2: talked with her mom every day. She told the police 272 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 2: about two strange conversations she had with her mother. The 273 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 2: first happened two weeks before Carol's murder. 274 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 3: Carol pulled up to her driveway after working late at 275 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 3: Clastic Cakes, when a total stranger tapped on her window, 276 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 3: rolled the window down, said that the Rabbi had sent 277 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:07,679 Speaker 3: him over to deliver some mail, and he handed Carol 278 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:10,880 Speaker 3: an ovelope and then he asked if he could use 279 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:14,199 Speaker 3: the bathroom. Carol said, of course, and she led him 280 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 3: into the house. He used the bathroom, he left, and 281 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 3: shortly after that, Carol's daughter Rebecca called. She said, Mom, 282 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 3: what are you doing tonight? Oh? I just got home. 283 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,639 Speaker 3: Somebody came to see Daddy. He isn't there, but he 284 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 3: gave me something male that Daddy had been waiting for. 285 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 3: And Carol told Rebecca, what's the strange thing is that 286 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 3: I opened this envelope but wasn't sealed and there wasn't 287 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 3: anything in it. Well, neither Carroll nor Rebecca knew what 288 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 3: to make of that. 289 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 2: It was pretty weird, and two weeks later, on the 290 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 2: day of Carol's murder, they were on the phone again 291 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 2: when the mysterious man returned. 292 00:17:54,680 --> 00:18:00,640 Speaker 3: Carol opens the door and Rebecca won to know who 293 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 3: it is, and she says, oh, that's the bathroom man 294 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 3: from last week. Rebecca says, well, what does he want? 295 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:11,639 Speaker 3: Says oh, Dad told him to come over and Carol 296 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,639 Speaker 3: looks out, she sees that the bathroom man is with 297 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 3: somebody else. It's cold. She encourages both of them to 298 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 3: come in be warm. Rebecca's very concerned that her mother 299 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:27,120 Speaker 3: is inviting these two essential strangers into the house. Carol says, 300 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:31,879 Speaker 3: there's nothing to worry about. The door is closed, and 301 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 3: that was the last that anyone in Carol's family heard 302 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:38,439 Speaker 3: from her. 303 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 2: Detectives asked Rabbi Newlander if he knew who this mysterious 304 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 2: visitor was. 305 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 3: He claimed to have no idea what the police were 306 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 3: talking about. He had never sent anybody over to the 307 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 3: house with a message for him. He had never told 308 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 3: Carol that somebody would be coming either of those evenings. 309 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:04,120 Speaker 2: Detectives came to believe the bathroom man and his accomplice 310 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,679 Speaker 2: knew the rabbi schedule and had been kasing the house 311 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 2: in order to rob and murder Carol. 312 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 3: Fred very soon was telling people the Colombians did this 313 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:19,399 Speaker 3: to Carol. The Colombians who worked at Classic Cakes and 314 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 3: knew that Carol came home with wads of cash. That 315 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 3: never panned out. There were rumors that the Russian Jewish 316 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:35,679 Speaker 3: mafia was behind this, so there was theory after theory. 317 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 2: After theory, Rabbi Newlander told detectives he was at Macorsa 318 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 2: Lome when Carol was murdered. They interviewed a dozen or 319 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 2: so people at the synagogue and his alibi checked out. 320 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 3: Yes, he was at the temple in fact, the moment 321 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:51,720 Speaker 3: that Carol was killed, and that's why when he came 322 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,360 Speaker 3: back home the blood in the living room was still very, 323 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 3: very fresh. 324 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 2: This put detectives back at square one. So the weeks 325 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 2: dragged on without any updates about the investigation, until finally, 326 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:07,159 Speaker 2: just a couple of days before the Christmas holiday, the 327 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 2: police called a press conference, but the Newlanders were nowhere 328 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 2: to be found. One reporter asked the prosecutor if Rabbi 329 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 2: Newlander was considered a suspect. He paused for a moment 330 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:22,439 Speaker 2: and said, we don't rule in, we don't rule out. 331 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:24,439 Speaker 3: They didn't know what to make of that. 332 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 2: Well, Rabbi Newlander did. He was furious he had an 333 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:32,360 Speaker 2: alibi and questioned why the police hadn't cleared him. So 334 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,640 Speaker 2: he hired a PI named Len Jenoff with an impressive 335 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 2: resume that included a stint with the FBI and Cia. 336 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,199 Speaker 3: Jenoff seemed like the right person. To turn to. 337 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 2: Rabbi Newlander knew len Jenoff, he met him a couple 338 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,679 Speaker 2: of years earlier, and helped him turn his life around. 339 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:56,400 Speaker 3: Leonard Jenoff was a difficult person to define. 340 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 2: Back in the nineteen eighties, len Jenoff accidentally struck and 341 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 2: killed someone who was pushing their stalled vehicle on the highway. 342 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 2: Although Jenoff was never charged, he fell into a deep 343 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 2: depression and turned to booze. Years later, he was introduced 344 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 2: to Rabbi Newlander, who offered to help him get back 345 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 2: on his feet. 346 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 3: Len Jenoff left Fred Newlander's office that day, fully committed 347 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 3: to doing almost anything that Fred wanted him to do, 348 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:33,880 Speaker 3: because he saw the rabbi as his savior, as the 349 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 3: next best thing to his Messiah. 350 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 2: So now you had the police and a very motivated 351 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 2: len Jenoff working to find Carol Newlander's killer. Those investigations 352 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,920 Speaker 2: would uncover secrets that would shake Cherry Hill to its soul. 353 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:00,639 Speaker 2: Rabbi Fred Newlander had a rock solid apple on the 354 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 2: night of his wife Carol's murder, So why didn't the 355 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,679 Speaker 2: police rule him out as a suspect. 356 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 3: For years, there were rumors that Fred was a little 357 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 3: bit too much of a lady's man. 358 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,880 Speaker 2: Arthur Mgida wrote a book about the Newlanders. 359 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 3: He made a habit of going from woman to woman 360 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 3: to woman and touching her and giving them compliment. And 361 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 3: they always just happened to be the prettiest woman in 362 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 3: the congregation that evening. 363 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 2: So it turned out the leader of the community was 364 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 2: not so pious. And back in nineteen ninety two, one 365 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,959 Speaker 2: particular woman called Rabbi Fred Newlander's eye. 366 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 4: Don't let the broadcasters see that I have all this 367 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:40,920 Speaker 4: makeup over here. 368 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 2: It's filming it for convention. 369 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 3: When is the convention? September? 370 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 5: Oh, thanks a lot. 371 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 3: Here, let me hide my mirror. 372 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:52,160 Speaker 2: Elaine Sensini was a prominent radio personality in Philadelphia, and 373 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,680 Speaker 2: so was her husband, Ken Garland. Elaine met Rabbi Newlander 374 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 2: when her husband Ken was dying of leukemia. 375 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 3: A day or two after that, Fred Newlander called Elaine Sancini. 376 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,680 Speaker 3: Asked how she was. She said, I'm fine, I'm coping. 377 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,679 Speaker 3: Fred asked if he could come over to her house. 378 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 3: She agreed. They had lunch together. He asked if he 379 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 3: could return soon. She said he couldn't, and they engaged 380 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 3: in what the police would soon called intimacy. 381 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 2: He moves in on a widow a couple days after 382 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:37,120 Speaker 2: her husband's death, and then, despite Rabbi Newlander's eighteen hour 383 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 2: work day and Elaine's early morning radio schedule, the two 384 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 2: managed to carry on an affair for nearly two years. 385 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 3: They would meet at Elaine's house two, three, four times 386 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 3: a week. Fred often towed her that she satisfied him 387 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 3: sexually in a way that never did. He alluded to 388 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 3: the possibility that he might get divorced from Carol fur Olin, 389 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 3: but sometimes he would hedge on that because he wasn't 390 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 3: certain how that would affect his career. 391 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 2: So with all this secrecy, how did detectives learn about Elaine. Well, 392 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,959 Speaker 2: they obtained a copy of Rabbi Newlander's phone records, and 393 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 2: something in those phone records from the morning after Carol's 394 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 2: murder stood out. 395 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 3: One of the first people Fred called was Awayne Suncini. 396 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 3: Why would he possibly do that? 397 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 2: Detectives questioned Elaine and they shared some information she did 398 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,440 Speaker 2: not know about Fred Newlanter. 399 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 3: She's not the only girlfriend that Fred hadn't and they 400 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 3: named the others one, two, three, and perhaps four. 401 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:56,160 Speaker 2: Elaine was shocked and pissed, and that's when the gloves 402 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:56,680 Speaker 2: came off. 403 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 3: She tells the police they've had a long standing romance. 404 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 3: When she returns home that night, she calls Fred. It says, 405 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 3: fred I told the police everything. You're on your. 406 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 2: Own noun news of Rabbi Newlanders affairs, Rock Cherry Hill 407 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 2: and mccorchelone. These were women he had been counseling. 408 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,879 Speaker 3: How could Fred Newlander, the stalwart of the community, the 409 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:27,400 Speaker 3: founder of macorsch alone, this charismatic, well educated, enlightened individual 410 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 3: who had this wonderful family and terrific wife, be playing 411 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 3: around on the side. Who could possibly have time to 412 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 3: do that? Anyway? Seems that Fred Newlander did. 413 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 2: Fred admitted to behaviors he was not proud of, and 414 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 2: stepped away from mccorchelon. In his letter to his congregants, 415 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 2: he added that he had nothing to do with his 416 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,399 Speaker 2: wife's death. It was the same message he gave Elaine 417 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 2: Sensini in the days after Carol's murder. Being an adulter 418 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 2: didn't make him a murderer. 419 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 3: Fred invited Lane into his office at the temple and 420 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,440 Speaker 3: said he loves her, said he wanted to marry her 421 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 3: when the time would be appropriate. 422 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 2: The police didn't confirm or denial ing as a suspect 423 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,400 Speaker 2: in Carol Newlander's murder. It was much like the situation 424 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 2: with the rabbi. 425 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 6: After one's spouse he's murdered, the surviving spouse always becomes 426 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 6: the first suspect. 427 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 2: Attorney Jeff Zucker represented Rabbi Newlander. His client had a 428 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 2: lot of explaining to do. 429 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 6: Here's Jeff Zucker, and once things started to come out 430 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 6: about the affairs that he had, and the fact that 431 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 6: the affairs involved congregants that he was counseling, then I 432 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 6: think the tide started to change. 433 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 2: And as you can imagine, the local press was having 434 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 2: a field day with stories of the adulterous man of God. 435 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 6: We thought the media attention was so horribly profuse and 436 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 6: horribly against him. 437 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,400 Speaker 2: As reporters hounded the rabbi and Elaine Sensini for comment, 438 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,640 Speaker 2: Elaine asked the Cherry Hill Police Department for protection. Two 439 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 2: officers were then dispatched to keep an eye on her. 440 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 6: The interesting thing about Elaine Suncini is that she also 441 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 6: had an involvement with one of the police officers in 442 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,199 Speaker 6: this case, Larry Leaf. 443 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 2: Okay, so get this. Larry Leaf was one of the 444 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 2: officers assigned to watch her, and in another twist to 445 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:39,239 Speaker 2: this story, Elaine and Officer Leif became romantically involved and 446 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 2: that created a serious conflict of interest, especially when he 447 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 2: was caught rummaging through police files related to the case. 448 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 6: We believe that Larry Leaf gave her access to certain 449 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 6: of the investigative files in the Cherry Hill Police Department. 450 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 6: Elaine Sonceni she incidentally ended up marying Larry. 451 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:05,720 Speaker 2: Leaf, so internal affairs investigated Officer Leaf and later cleared 452 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 2: him of any wrongdoing. 453 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,880 Speaker 6: That was another strange twist in this whole case. This 454 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,160 Speaker 6: is one of the most bizarre cases I've been involved 455 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 6: in in my forty five years of legal experience. 456 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 2: With reporters constantly hounding her. Elaine Sansini used her radio 457 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 2: show to come clean about her affair with Rabbi Newlantern 458 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 2: in the summer of nineteen ninety five. She tearfully apologized 459 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 2: on the air for what she called some errors in judgment. 460 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 4: Sonny now in seventy eight degrees, I apologize to you 461 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 4: for these guys. 462 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 2: But lost in the juicy stories of love, lust and 463 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 2: adultery were the Newlander children. 464 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 6: I felt bad for the family I did. I felt 465 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 6: bad for the kids. 466 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,480 Speaker 2: Their mother's murder was still unsolved, and the only thing 467 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 2: they're hearing is story after story of their father's infidelity. 468 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 6: Every day, something else would come out in the local papers. 469 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 6: Because of the horrible negative publicity he was getting, we 470 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 6: thought it was time for him to speak out to 471 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 6: say I had nothing to do with this. So we 472 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 6: called in the local television stations let him read a 473 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 6: prepared statement. 474 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:29,320 Speaker 3: I categorically deny that I murdered my wife or arranged 475 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 3: in any way to have her killed. 476 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 6: It was brief, but we thought it would be good 477 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 6: for the public to hear him speak and to have 478 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 6: him deny the charges. 479 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 2: The town of Cherry Hill struggled with their beloved rabbis 480 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 2: meteoric fall from grace. First they had to process news 481 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 2: of his affairs, and now there are rumbles about him 482 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 2: also being a murderer. 483 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 6: A person who is having an affair maybe morally at fault, 484 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 6: but it's a huge jump from someone having an affair 485 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 6: to become a murderer. 486 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 2: And it didn't help that the police remained mum about 487 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 2: potential suspects and shared very little about their investigation. 488 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 6: They were looking into Leeds for years, and they came 489 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 6: up with a bunch of dead ends. 490 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,200 Speaker 2: At the same time, the rabbi's private investigator, len Jenoff, 491 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 2: used his FBI and CIA background to do his own research. 492 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 6: He one time came into our office with a sketch 493 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 6: of what he said was a composite drawing of who 494 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 6: the person who killed Carol Newlander would be. And we 495 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 6: told the Rabbi, please have nothing more to do with 496 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 6: len Jenoff. 497 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 3: He's a wild card. 498 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 6: He's running up all kinds of blind alleys and making 499 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 6: no sense. If you're going to continue working with this guy, 500 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,040 Speaker 6: we can't represent you anymore. 501 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 3: You can't do it. 502 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 2: That's because around that time some bizarre news about len 503 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 2: Jenoff's surfaced. 504 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 6: Len got married and asked the Rabbi to perform the 505 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 6: ceremony at the rabbi's home, and. 506 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 5: Their wedding pictures of them arm in arm holding each other. 507 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 2: That seems nice. But when the police looked closely at 508 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 2: these pictures of the Rabbi with Len on his wedding day, 509 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,480 Speaker 2: they noticed something shocking. 510 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 5: Like, oh my god. They took the pictures right where 511 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 5: Carol was laying, and she was murdered. 512 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 6: The ceremony was performed at the exact spot where they 513 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 6: found Carol Newlander's body. It's bizarre, but that's that's where 514 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:47,560 Speaker 6: it was, which was also another very strange twist. 515 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 3: In this whole case. 516 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 2: If a picture is worth a thousand words, well that 517 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 2: scene doesn't work here. Because this one left the police speechless. 518 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 6: It was hard for me to believe that this really 519 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:01,560 Speaker 6: could have happened. 520 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 2: That was the first twist of many to come. In 521 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 2: part two of Who Killed Carol, the police get an 522 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 2: unexpected confession from someone no one suspected. I'm Sloan Glass. 523 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:24,120 Speaker 2: That's next time on American Homicide. You can contact the 524 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:28,480 Speaker 2: American Homicide team by emailing us at American Homicide Pod 525 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:33,240 Speaker 2: at gmail dot com. That's American Homicide Pod at gmail 526 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 2: dot com. 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