WEBVTT - S1: E9 – Who Killed Carol? Part 1 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:06.600 A young emt answered a call to his home that 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:08.360 had fatal consequences. 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:13.080 Matthew Newlander he heard on his radio that a woman 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.320 was injured a two oh four high gate. There's only 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:18.759 one woman a two oh four highgate. That's his mother. 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:23.480 She was unconscious and not breathing. Matthew instantly knew that 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:27.160 his mother was dead. How did my mom get beaten 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:29.880 to death in the living room of her house? Who 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:34.760 would ever kill Carol Newlander? They all loved Carol Newlander. 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:40.080 The answer would leave Matthew questioning everything and everyone he knew. 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:46.600 This is such a convoluted, perplexing, disturbing, troubling case, and 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:50.720 I wish to God that this had never happened. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.400 Today, we're jumping across the country to the Garden State, 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:58.280 New Jersey. Specifically, we're in the suburb of Cherry Hill 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:00.800 for the tragic story of a mother of three who 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.960 was found beaten to death in her home. This is 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.559 a case of who done it that's shocked a community. 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.200 We'll explore from the beginning until the very end, when 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.600 a panel of twelve jurors had to meet the most 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.760 difficult decision of their lives. I'm slung glass and this 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.840 is part one of Who Killed Carol on American Homicide. 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.560 Just to note that some of this content is graphic, 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:29.760 Please take care well listening. Consider the town of Cherry Hill, 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:33.320 New Jersey. It's the perfect spot for people who want 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.559 to live close enough yet far enough away from two 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:38.080 major cities. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:43.119 Philadelphia to the south, New York City to the north. 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.640 Arthur mcgeita authored a book about one of Cherry Hill's 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:51.320 most revered and respected couples, Fred and Carol Newlander. The 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.760 two moved there in the nineteen sixties when Fred took 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.280 a job as a junior rabbi. 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.760 He was young, he was up to date. Lots of 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.640 lots of people were happy that Fred and Carol had arrived. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.480 Only about two percent of Americans practiced Judaism, but with 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:12.000 a community of over twenty five thousand, Cherry Hill has 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.720 one of the largest Jewish populations in the country, making 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.400 it the perfect place for Rabbi Newlander to start his 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:19.919 own synagogue. 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:25.040 In nineteen seventy four, Fred and seventeen eighteen members of 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:32.320 the earlier Congregation for Micorshalom. Fred shows that term micorshalom 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.720 because it means source of peace. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:38.760 And that peaceful Synegague grew to nearly one thousand congregants 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.160 in Cherry Hill, and Rabbi Fred and Carroll Newlander were 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:43.600 looked at like royalty. 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.760 They were committed to this congregation. They were committed to 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.840 developing something new that had not existed in Cherry Hill before. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.919 And that's what so many people have found attractive about 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:56.960 Micorschloam and about Fred and Carol. 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:01.079 While Rabbi Newlander worked day and night to his congregation, 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.000 his wife Carol raised their three children. 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.960 They were almost like a unit, separate and apart from 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:13.440 their father because they knew that many evenings their father might, 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:15.959 if they were lucky, be home for dinner. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.240 And Carol wasn't your typical rabbi's wife. She also ran 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.880 a popular bakery called Classic Cakes. 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:27.720 This was amazingly successful. It was perhaps the finest bakery 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:31.960 in South Jersey. Members of the congregation came there, of. 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:36.280 Course, everyone came for their red velvet cupcakes, breakfast pastries, 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.560 and assortment of elaborate cakes. 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.560 It was also very very profitable, but she was very, 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:47.600 very careless with some of the money that was coming 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.080 into the bakery. She would just stuff it into her 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.760 purse and come home at night with five thousand, ten 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.760 thoy fifteen thousand dollars in cash. 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.240 All that cash played into Carrol's demy. 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.200 On November first, nineteen ninety four, Fred put in his 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:09.120 usual work day at Macoorsechalon. 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:12.640 And on that afternoon, Carol had volunteered with pediatric AIDS 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.680 patients and returned home while her husband was still at 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:16.599 the synagogue. 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.080 About nine o'clock he went back home. He opened the door, 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.920 glanced into the living room on his right, Sure Carol 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.279 Nolander lying on the floor of the living room in 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:30.080 a pool of blood. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.520 Just imagine the scene. Fred found Carol face down and 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:39.080 badly beaten. It was horrific. This was his wife. Her 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.960 blood was everywhere. So he ran to the kitchen, grabbed 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:48.440 his cordless landline phone and called nine on one. 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:52.400 I want one STAFY emergency. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:53.440 I just came home. 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:58.400 My wife had on the floor and they'd fulln all over. 0:04:59.160 --> 0:04:59.920 I don't know what to do it. 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:07.200 How does she appear to be breathing? They asked if 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:11.200 she was alive. He said he didn't know. I don't 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:12.080 wanted to say to her. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:13.040 Should I not touch her? 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.240 Just leave everything away it is here and stay on 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.680 the phone with me until the first police officer getshured. 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:22.880 That's when the rabbi remembered his son, Matthew was working 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:24.599 as an emt that evening. 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:33.040 Cool, so I had to send somebody down, Sir, calm down, 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:33.960 hold on a second. 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.600 Tragically, Matthew Newlander did hear that call and quickly drove 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:43.280 his ambulance to his house, nearly colliding with another emergency 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.760 vehicle when he arrived. But before he got inside to 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.800 see his mother, a friend grabbed him and carried him 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:50.719 away from the house. 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:57.080 Matthew instantly knew that his mother was dead, because if 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:01.839 she was not, somebody would have said something comforting to him. 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.159 Don't worry, she's barely injured. Don't worry, she's being treated 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.960 right now. Nobody said anything like that. 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.480 That's when his dad, Rabbi Fred Newlander, walked up to him. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.760 He was still holding his cord, was still aphone, wasn't 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:19.760 using it, wasn't talking to anybody, but his manner was 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:21.560 completely composed. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.039 The Rabbi was still dressed in his tailored suit. He 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.960 wore a temple. He was in shock. He stood on 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.279 the driveway with their two story home, listening as Matthew 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.920 frantically asked him question after question about his mother. Each 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.400 time the Rabbi offered the same answer. 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:45.960 Don't worry, everything will be fine. He was always buttoned up, 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:50.480 and he was buttoned up November one, nineteen ninety four, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.920 when he saw Carol lying in the living room, when 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.200 he called nine one one, when he did his version 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.960 of trying to comfort his son Matthew. 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.720 By then all of Highgate Lane and Cherry Hill was 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:07.080 a dizzy sea of red and white from the lights 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.760 of the emergency vehicles parked in front of the Newlanders. 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.840 My name is Richard Bumber. November one, nineteen ninety four. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.520 I was working as a patrolman for the Cherry Hill 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:18.239 Police Department. 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.640 Officer Bumbar was one of the first responders that night. 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:27.360 It's a middle upper middle class community, beautiful homes. It's 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.520 the type of community where everyone had their law and nice, 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:34.160 everyone knew each other. Neighbors were very close and very friendly. 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.160 So when I walked up the driveway of the residence, 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:41.080 I noticed a man dressed in his suit, probably in 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:42.080 his fifties or so. 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.080 That man was, of course, Rabbi Fred Newlander. 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.840 He had a portable phone in his hand, and immediately 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:52.400 I asked him what was going on. He raised his 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:56.600 left hand and pointed with the phone, said she's in there, 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.760 and I was like, oh, okay. So I entered the 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:06.760 house and immediately noticed Carol laying on the floor in 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.040 the room right to my right. It was a white room, 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.320 didn't look like it was a room that was used 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:17.920 or used commonly. White carpets, white furniture, white walls, and 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.160 there was just this bright red blood spattered everywhere in 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:25.400 that room. When I examined the body, I noticed that 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.000 there were several indentations to her skull, her fingers were 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.440 all broken back and opened from defensive wounds. There was 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:36.520 a tremendous amount of pulled blood. She was cold. It 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:40.080 was obvious to me that somebody had bludgeontered to death, 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:42.120 like repeated strikes to her head. 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.320 So now the complicated work of trying to figure out 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:50.600 what happened began. There was no sign of force entry 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:54.240 and no other victims in the house. Just Carol. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:09:01.480 Carol Newlander. She was business partners and very prominent bakery 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.680 and she got into the habit of taking the till 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:08.080 home where there was a significant amount of money ten 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:09.520 fifteen thousand dollars. 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:14.840 The police wondered if someone was after Carol's money, why 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.360 did they leave other valuables behind, and how did they 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:19.440 get into the house. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.880 They had a lot of expensive items in the house. 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.440 None of it was gone through. Dressers weren't gone through 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.920 looking for money or jewelry. Everything was neat and tidy. 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.240 So the idea of that it was a robbery or 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:36.160 a home invasion that went bad didn't seem to line 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:36.920 up for what I saw. 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.240 It wasn't like the police saw many homicides in Cherry Hill. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.720 This was the first homicide in two years, and it 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.080 involved the beloved wife of Rabbi Fred Newlantern. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.120 The mayor's pulling off, and there's a lot of people 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:54.000 showing up at that house. That just seemed like, Wow, 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.040 this person certainly wasn't just an average citizen. 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:02.559 So the question on everyone's mind that night was why. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.360 There weren't any suspects. There weren't any leads, so the 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.200 community just thought it was a random act of violence. 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:12.920 So no one could believe Carol Newlander, successful small business owner, 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:17.120 mother of three, who just spent her day volunteering with 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:21.600 pediatric AIDS patients, had been robbed and beaten to death. 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.560 Not only are we dealing with a homicide of a 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:29.960 prominent family in Cherry Hill, but Carol's son, Matthew, was 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.400 working as an EMT that night and he was responding 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:34.160 to the house. 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.600 Matthew was a young EMT who just wanted to be 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:42.680 with his mother to say goodbye, but heartbreakingly, protocol. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:42.920 Did allow it. 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:49.600 And that was that was difficult. It was unfortunate. I 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.360 would have wanted to say goodbye to my mom, you know. 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.679 And that's a situation and it's difficult. It's a part 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:59.280 of the job, unfortunately, and you know, you have to 0:10:59.280 --> 0:10:59.760 deal with it. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.199 His mother was dead and the lives of the Newlander 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.240 family would never be the same again. 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.920 They were an all American family in a sense. It 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:13.319 had everything and now they have nothing. Now it's a shame. 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.959 On a cold night in November nineteen ninety four, Carol 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.199 Newlander was murdered in her Cherry Hill, New Jersey home. 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.119 She was a mother of three who ran a successful 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:34.120 bakery business and was the wife of South Jersey's most 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.880 prominent Rabbi, Fred Newlander. 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:42.520 People are sympathizing with Fred and whispering words of consolation 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:43.600 in his ear. 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.480 Arthur Macgida wrote a book about Carol Newlander's murder. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:52.880 Carol's funeral was one of the largest in South Jersey. 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.640 Dignitaries came, politicians came. 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.680 As part of the Jewish tradition, people offer their condolences 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.600 to the rabbi by saying, may her memory be a 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:05.679 blessing to you. 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.720 And then they whispered among each other, who would ever 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:15.520 kill Carol Newlander? They all loved Carol Neulander, and everybody 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:22.720 is sad, and still Fred Neulander is showing virtually no emotion. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.560 There is a Jewish tradition called Shibba. It's the week 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:31.360 long period of mourning after a death. During Shiva, your friends, family, 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.679 and neighbors come by and take care of you. They 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.559 bring you food, provide you comfort, and run your errands 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:39.920 so you can mourn. 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.760 How he comported himself that evening and in some of 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:50.360 the days that followed, very much flowed from his experience 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:55.920 as a rabbi. Fred Neulander dealt with death and birth 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.959 over and over again. In the course of his professor. 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:06.719 He was in to some degree acculturated to death, not 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.480 to murder, but to. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:12.880 Death by the time they were sitting Shiva for Carol Newlander, 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:17.679 Cherry Hill police officers had already questioned Fred Newlander and 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:22.840 two of his children, Rebecca and Matthew. If you remember, 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.320 Matthew was one of the EMTs who came to the 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.800 house on the night of his mother's murder. 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:36.520 Matthew told the police about a very, very severe argument 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.680 that he witnessed between his parents two days before Carol 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:44.680 was killed, Carol telling Matthew that Fred didn't want to 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.280 work on this marriage any longer, that Fred wanted to 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.319 divorce Carol. And Matthew told the police that Carol had 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:54.440 then dashed down to the basement, grabbed some suitcases and 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.640 threw them at Fred Newlander told him to get out. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.360 But Rabbi Newlander gave to detectives a different take. 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.360 He said it was just honky dorry. Everything was fine. Yeah, 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.679 they had their little bickerings occasionally, whose turn is it 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.600 to clean out the dishwasher? But theirs was a rock 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.120 solid marriage. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.439 So there was something else. The police began to focus on. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.560 The Newlander's daughter, Rebecca lived out of town and talked 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.960 with her mom every day. She told the police about 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:28.640 two strange conversations she had with her mother. The first 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.120 happened two weeks before Carol's murder. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:36.840 Carol pulled up to her driveway after working late at 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:43.000 Classic Cakes when a total stranger tapped on her window, 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:47.520 rolled the window down, said that the Rabbi had sent 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:52.480 him over to deliver some mail, and he handed Carol 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.680 an ovelope and then he asked if he could use 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:59.000 the bathroom. Carol said, of course, and she led him 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:03.240 into the house use the bathroom. He left, and shortly 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:08.000 after that, Carol's daughter Rebecca called. She said, Mom, what 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:08.720 are you doing tonight? 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:08.920 Oh? 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.040 I just got home. Somebody came to see Daddy. He 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:16.400 isn't there, but he gave me something male that Daddy 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:20.720 had been waiting for. And Carol told Rebecca, What's the 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.520 strange thing is that I opened this envelope but wasn't 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:27.440 sealed and there wasn't anything in it. Well, neither Caroll 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.400 nor Rebecca knew what to make of that. 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.280 It was pretty weird, and two weeks later, on the 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.000 day of Carol's murder, they were on the phone again 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.800 when the mysterious man returned. 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:45.440 Carol opens the door and Rebecca wants to know who 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.520 it is, and she says, oh, that's the bathroom man 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:52.520 from last week. Rebecca says, well, what does he want? 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.440 Says oh, Dad told him to come over, and Carol 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.440 looks out. She sees that the bathroom man is with 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:03.760 somebody else. It's cold. She encourages both of them to 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:07.720 come in be warm. Rebecca's very concerned that her mother 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.920 is inviting these two essentials strangers into the house. Carol says, 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:16.680 there's nothing to worry about. The door is closed, and 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:22.840 that was the last that anyone in Carroll's family heard 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:23.280 from her. 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:28.280 Detectives asked Rabbi Newlander if he knew who this mysterious 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:29.080 visitor was. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.280 He claimed to have no idea what the police were 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.080 talking about. He had never sent anybody over to the 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:40.000 house with a message for him. He had never told 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:44.119 Carol that somebody would be coming either of those evenings. 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.920 Detectives came to believe the bathroom man and his accomplice 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:52.440 knew the rabbi schedule and had been casing the house 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:54.880 in order to rob and murder Carol. 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:59.920 Fred very soon was telling people the Colombians did this 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:04.199 to Carol. The Colombians who worked at Classic Cakes and 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:09.600 knew that Carol came home with loads of cash that 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:15.439 never panned out. There were rumors that the Russian Jewish 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:20.439 mafia was behind this, so there was theory after theory 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:21.199 after theory. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.040 Rabbi Newlander told detectives he was at Micorsia Lome when 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:28.520 Carol was murdered. They interviewed a dozen or so people 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.280 at the synagogue and his alibi checked out. 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.359 Yes, he was at the temple in fact, the moment 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:36.520 that Carol was killed, and that's why when he came 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.120 back home the blood in the living room was still very, 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:39.879 very fresh. 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:44.159 This put detectives back at square one. So the weeks 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:49.000 dragged on without any updates about the investigation, until finally, 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.919 just a couple of days before the Christmas holiday, the 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.040 police called a press conference, but the new Landers were 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:58.520 nowhere to be found. One reporter asked the prosecutor if 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:03.560 Rabbi Newlander was considered a suspect. He paused for a 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:07.520 moment and said, we don't rule in, we don't rule out. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.240 They didn't know what to make of that. 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:13.359 Well, Rabbi Newlander did. He was furious he had an 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:17.160 alibi and questioned why the police hadn't cleared him, so 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.440 he hired a PI named len Jenoff with an impressive 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:24.400 resume that included a stint with the FBI, and Cia. 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.000 Jenof seemed like the right person to turn to. 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:31.400 Rabbi Newlander knew len Jenoff, he met him a couple 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.479 of years earlier and helped him turn his life around. 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:41.200 Leonard Jenoff was a difficult person to define. 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:45.080 Back in the nineteen eighties, len Jenoff accidentally struck and 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.760 killed someone who was pushing their stalled vehicle on the highway. 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:53.040 Although Jenoff was never charged, he fell into a deep 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:57.160 depression and turned to booze. Years later, he was introduced 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.360 to Rabbi Newlander, who offered to help him and get 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:01.240 back on his feet. 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:08.080 Len Jenoff left Fred Newlander's office that day, fully committed 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:12.720 to doing almost anything that Fred wanted him to do, 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:18.640 because he saw the Rabbi as his savior, as the 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.520 next best thing to his Messiah. 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.320 So now you had the police and a very motivated 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:30.440 len Jenoff working to find Carol Newlander's killer. Those investigations 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.720 would uncover secrets that would shake Cherry Hill to its soul. 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:45.399 Rabbi Fred Newlander had a rock solid alibi on the 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:49.399 night of his wife Carol's murder, So why didn't the 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.480 police rule him out as a suspect. 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.879 For years there were rumors that Fred was a little 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:56.560 bit too much of a lady's man. 0:19:57.080 --> 0:19:59.360 Arthur mcgeita wrote a book about the Newlanders. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.000 He made a habit of going from woman to woman 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:07.040 to woman and touching her and giving them compliments. And 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:09.280 they always just happened to be the prettiest woman in 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:10.679 the congregation that evening. 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.000 So it turned out the leader of the community was 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:18.520 not so pious. And back in nineteen ninety two, one 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:23.520 particular woman called Rabbi Fred Newlander's eye. Don't let the 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:25.720 broadcasters see that I have all this makeup over here. 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:27.800 It's filming it for convention. 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:29.040 When is the convention? 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:31.760 September? Oh, thanks a lot, here, let me hide my mirror. 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:36.960 Elaine Sensini was a prominent radio personality in Philadelphia, and 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:41.480 so was her husband, Ken Garland. Elaine met Rabbi Newlander 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:44.800 when her husband Ken was dying of leukemia, and. 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:49.240 A day or two after that, Fred Newlander called Ewaine 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:53.480 Suncini asked how she was. She said, I'm fine, I'm coping. 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:56.480 Fred asked if he could come over to her house. 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:01.280 She agreed. They had lunch together. He asked if he 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:08.359 could return soon, She said he couldn't, and they engaged 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:11.439 in what the police would soon called intimacy. 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:16.680 He moves in on a widow a couple days after 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:21.920 her husband's death, and then despite Rabbi Newlander's eighteen hour 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:26.280 work day and Elaine's early morning radio schedule, the two 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:29.960 managed to carry on an affair for nearly two years. 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:35.800 They would meet at Olaine's house two, three, four times 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:42.080 a week. Fred often towed her that she satisfied him 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:47.919 sexually in a way that Carol never did. He alluded 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:54.280 to the possibility that he might get divorced from Carol furrowing, 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:58.080 but sometimes he would hedge on that because he wasn't 0:21:58.080 --> 0:21:59.800 certain how that would affect his career. 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:04.760 So with all this secrecy, how did detectives learn about Elaine. Well, 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:08.720 they obtained a copy of Rabbi Newlander's phone records, and 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:12.440 something in those phone records from the morning after Carol's 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:14.160 murder stood out. 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:19.320 One of the first people Fred called was Awayne Sonciney. 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:20.840 Why would he possibly do that? 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:25.480 Detectives questioned Elaine, and they shared some information. She did 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:27.240 not know about Fred Newland. 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:31.320 She's not the only girlfriend that Fred hadn't and they 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:36.200 named the others one, two, three, and perhaps four. 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:40.960 Elaine was shocked and pissed, and that's when the gloves 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:41.480 came off. 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:45.119 She tells the police they've had a long standing romance. 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:49.199 When she returns home that night, she calls Fred. It 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:52.840 says Fred I told the police everything. You're on your. 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:56.880 Own noun news of Rabbi Newlander's affairs Rock Cherry Hill 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:00.520 and mccorchelone. These were women he had been counseling. 0:23:01.280 --> 0:23:04.679 How could Fred Newlander, the stalwart of the community, the 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:12.240 founder of Macorse alone, this charismatic, well educated, enlightened individual 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:16.320 who had this wonderful family and terrific wife, be playing 0:23:16.359 --> 0:23:18.800 around on the side. Who could possibly have time to 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:22.639 do that anyway? Seems that Fred Newlander didn't. 0:23:23.600 --> 0:23:26.800 Fred admitted to behaviors he was not proud of and 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:29.919 stepped away from m course alone. In his letter to 0:23:29.960 --> 0:23:32.600 his congregants, Ye added that he had nothing to do 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:35.600 with his wife's death. It was the same message he 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:39.440 gave Elaine Sensini in the days after Carol's murder. Being 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:42.400 an adulter didn't make him a murderer. 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:48.399 Fred invited Elaine into his office at the temple and 0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:53.240 said he loves her, said he wanted to marry her 0:23:53.960 --> 0:23:56.040 when the time would be appropriate. 0:23:56.800 --> 0:23:59.920 The police didn't confirm or denial ing as a suspecting 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:03.480 Carol Newlander's murder. It was much like the situation with 0:24:03.560 --> 0:24:04.160 the rabbi. 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:12.320 After one's spouse he is murdered, the surviving spouse always 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:14.600 becomes the first suspect. 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:19.600 Attorney Jeff Zucker represented Rabbi Newlander. His client had a 0:24:19.640 --> 0:24:22.679 lot of explaining to do. Here's Jeff Zucker. 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:26.520 And once things started to come out about the affairs 0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:29.920 that he had, and the fact that the affairs involved 0:24:29.960 --> 0:24:33.520 congregants that he was counseling, then I think the tide 0:24:33.560 --> 0:24:34.720 started to change. 0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:37.800 And as you can imagine, the local press was having 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:41.520 a field day with stories of the adulterous man of God. 0:24:42.240 --> 0:24:46.760 We thought the media attention was so horribly profuse and 0:24:46.840 --> 0:24:48.240 horribly against him. 0:24:48.680 --> 0:24:52.159