Speaker 1: A young emt answered a call to his home that
Speaker 1: had fatal consequences.
Speaker 2: Matthew Newlander he heard on his radio that a woman
Speaker 2: was injured a two oh four high gate. There's only
Speaker 2: one woman a two oh four highgate. That's his mother.
Speaker 2: She was unconscious and not breathing. Matthew instantly knew that
Speaker 2: his mother was dead. How did my mom get beaten
Speaker 2: to death in the living room of her house? Who
Speaker 2: would ever kill Carol Newlander? They all loved Carol Newlander.
Speaker 1: The answer would leave Matthew questioning everything and everyone he knew.
Speaker 2: This is such a convoluted, perplexing, disturbing, troubling case, and
Speaker 2: I wish to God that this had never happened.
Speaker 1: Today, we're jumping across the country to the Garden State,
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Specifically, we're in the suburb of Cherry Hill
Speaker 1: for the tragic story of a mother of three who
Speaker 1: was found beaten to death in her home. This is
Speaker 1: a case of who done it that's shocked a community.
Speaker 1: We'll explore from the beginning until the very end, when
Speaker 1: a panel of twelve jurors had to meet the most
Speaker 1: difficult decision of their lives. I'm slung glass and this
Speaker 1: is part one of Who Killed Carol on American Homicide.
Speaker 1: Just to note that some of this content is graphic,
Speaker 1: Please take care well listening. Consider the town of Cherry Hill,
Speaker 1: New Jersey. It's the perfect spot for people who want
Speaker 1: to live close enough yet far enough away from two
Speaker 1: major cities.
Speaker 2: Philadelphia to the south, New York City to the north.
Speaker 1: Arthur mcgeita authored a book about one of Cherry Hill's
Speaker 1: most revered and respected couples, Fred and Carol Newlander. The
Speaker 1: two moved there in the nineteen sixties when Fred took
Speaker 1: a job as a junior rabbi.
Speaker 2: He was young, he was up to date. Lots of
Speaker 2: lots of people were happy that Fred and Carol had arrived.
Speaker 1: Only about two percent of Americans practiced Judaism, but with
Speaker 1: a community of over twenty five thousand, Cherry Hill has
Speaker 1: one of the largest Jewish populations in the country, making
Speaker 1: it the perfect place for Rabbi Newlander to start his
Speaker 1: own synagogue.
Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy four, Fred and seventeen eighteen members of
Speaker 2: the earlier Congregation for Micorshalom. Fred shows that term micorshalom
Speaker 2: because it means source of peace.
Speaker 1: And that peaceful Synegague grew to nearly one thousand congregants
Speaker 1: in Cherry Hill, and Rabbi Fred and Carroll Newlander were
Speaker 1: looked at like royalty.
Speaker 2: They were committed to this congregation. They were committed to
Speaker 2: developing something new that had not existed in Cherry Hill before.
Speaker 2: And that's what so many people have found attractive about
Speaker 2: Micorschloam and about Fred and Carol.
Speaker 1: While Rabbi Newlander worked day and night to his congregation,
Speaker 1: his wife Carol raised their three children.
Speaker 2: They were almost like a unit, separate and apart from
Speaker 2: their father because they knew that many evenings their father might,
Speaker 2: if they were lucky, be home for dinner.
Speaker 1: And Carol wasn't your typical rabbi's wife. She also ran
Speaker 1: a popular bakery called Classic Cakes.
Speaker 2: This was amazingly successful. It was perhaps the finest bakery
Speaker 2: in South Jersey. Members of the congregation came there, of.
Speaker 1: Course, everyone came for their red velvet cupcakes, breakfast pastries,
Speaker 1: and assortment of elaborate cakes.
Speaker 2: It was also very very profitable, but she was very,
Speaker 2: very careless with some of the money that was coming
Speaker 2: into the bakery. She would just stuff it into her
Speaker 2: purse and come home at night with five thousand, ten
Speaker 2: thoy fifteen thousand dollars in cash.
Speaker 1: All that cash played into Carrol's demy.
Speaker 2: On November first, nineteen ninety four, Fred put in his
Speaker 2: usual work day at Macoorsechalon.
Speaker 1: And on that afternoon, Carol had volunteered with pediatric AIDS
Speaker 1: patients and returned home while her husband was still at
Speaker 1: the synagogue.
Speaker 2: About nine o'clock he went back home. He opened the door,
Speaker 2: glanced into the living room on his right, Sure Carol
Speaker 2: Nolander lying on the floor of the living room in
Speaker 2: a pool of blood.
Speaker 1: Just imagine the scene. Fred found Carol face down and
Speaker 1: badly beaten. It was horrific. This was his wife. Her
Speaker 1: blood was everywhere. So he ran to the kitchen, grabbed
Speaker 1: his cordless landline phone and called nine on one.
Speaker 2: I want one STAFY emergency.
Speaker 3: I just came home.
Speaker 2: My wife had on the floor and they'd fulln all over.
Speaker 4: I don't know what to do it.
Speaker 2: How does she appear to be breathing? They asked if
Speaker 2: she was alive. He said he didn't know. I don't
Speaker 2: wanted to say to her.
Speaker 3: Should I not touch her?
Speaker 2: Just leave everything away it is here and stay on
Speaker 2: the phone with me until the first police officer getshured.
Speaker 1: That's when the rabbi remembered his son, Matthew was working
Speaker 1: as an emt that evening.
Speaker 3: Cool, so I had to send somebody down, Sir, calm down,
Speaker 3: hold on a second.
Speaker 1: Tragically, Matthew Newlander did hear that call and quickly drove
Speaker 1: his ambulance to his house, nearly colliding with another emergency
Speaker 1: vehicle when he arrived. But before he got inside to
Speaker 1: see his mother, a friend grabbed him and carried him
Speaker 1: away from the house.
Speaker 2: Matthew instantly knew that his mother was dead, because if
Speaker 2: she was not, somebody would have said something comforting to him.
Speaker 2: Don't worry, she's barely injured. Don't worry, she's being treated
Speaker 2: right now. Nobody said anything like that.
Speaker 1: That's when his dad, Rabbi Fred Newlander, walked up to him.
Speaker 2: He was still holding his cord, was still aphone, wasn't
Speaker 2: using it, wasn't talking to anybody, but his manner was
Speaker 2: completely composed.
Speaker 1: The Rabbi was still dressed in his tailored suit. He
Speaker 1: wore a temple. He was in shock. He stood on
Speaker 1: the driveway with their two story home, listening as Matthew
Speaker 1: frantically asked him question after question about his mother. Each
Speaker 1: time the Rabbi offered the same answer.
Speaker 2: Don't worry, everything will be fine. He was always buttoned up,
Speaker 2: and he was buttoned up November one, nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 2: when he saw Carol lying in the living room, when
Speaker 2: he called nine one one, when he did his version
Speaker 2: of trying to comfort his son Matthew.
Speaker 1: By then all of Highgate Lane and Cherry Hill was
Speaker 1: a dizzy sea of red and white from the lights
Speaker 1: of the emergency vehicles parked in front of the Newlanders.
Speaker 3: My name is Richard Bumber. November one, nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 3: I was working as a patrolman for the Cherry Hill
Speaker 3: Police Department.
Speaker 1: Officer Bumbar was one of the first responders that night.
Speaker 3: It's a middle upper middle class community, beautiful homes. It's
Speaker 3: the type of community where everyone had their law and nice,
Speaker 3: everyone knew each other. Neighbors were very close and very friendly.
Speaker 3: So when I walked up the driveway of the residence,
Speaker 3: I noticed a man dressed in his suit, probably in
Speaker 3: his fifties or so.
Speaker 1: That man was, of course, Rabbi Fred Newlander.
Speaker 3: He had a portable phone in his hand, and immediately
Speaker 3: I asked him what was going on. He raised his
Speaker 3: left hand and pointed with the phone, said she's in there,
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, okay. So I entered the
Speaker 3: house and immediately noticed Carol laying on the floor in
Speaker 3: the room right to my right. It was a white room,
Speaker 3: didn't look like it was a room that was used
Speaker 3: or used commonly. White carpets, white furniture, white walls, and
Speaker 3: there was just this bright red blood spattered everywhere in
Speaker 3: that room. When I examined the body, I noticed that
Speaker 3: there were several indentations to her skull, her fingers were
Speaker 3: all broken back and opened from defensive wounds. There was
Speaker 3: a tremendous amount of pulled blood. She was cold. It
Speaker 3: was obvious to me that somebody had bludgeontered to death,
Speaker 3: like repeated strikes to her head.
Speaker 1: So now the complicated work of trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what happened began. There was no sign of force entry
Speaker 1: and no other victims in the house. Just Carol.
Speaker 3: Carol Newlander. She was business partners and very prominent bakery
Speaker 3: and she got into the habit of taking the till
Speaker 3: home where there was a significant amount of money ten
Speaker 3: fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: The police wondered if someone was after Carol's money, why
Speaker 1: did they leave other valuables behind, and how did they
Speaker 1: get into the house.
Speaker 3: They had a lot of expensive items in the house.
Speaker 3: None of it was gone through. Dressers weren't gone through
Speaker 3: looking for money or jewelry. Everything was neat and tidy.
Speaker 3: So the idea of that it was a robbery or
Speaker 3: a home invasion that went bad didn't seem to line
Speaker 3: up for what I saw.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like the police saw many homicides in Cherry Hill.
Speaker 1: This was the first homicide in two years, and it
Speaker 1: involved the beloved wife of Rabbi Fred Newlantern.
Speaker 3: The mayor's pulling off, and there's a lot of people
Speaker 3: showing up at that house. That just seemed like, Wow,
Speaker 3: this person certainly wasn't just an average citizen.
Speaker 1: So the question on everyone's mind that night was why.
Speaker 3: There weren't any suspects. There weren't any leads, so the
Speaker 3: community just thought it was a random act of violence.
Speaker 1: So no one could believe Carol Newlander, successful small business owner,
Speaker 1: mother of three, who just spent her day volunteering with
Speaker 1: pediatric AIDS patients, had been robbed and beaten to death.
Speaker 3: Not only are we dealing with a homicide of a
Speaker 3: prominent family in Cherry Hill, but Carol's son, Matthew, was
Speaker 3: working as an EMT that night and he was responding
Speaker 3: to the house.
Speaker 1: Matthew was a young EMT who just wanted to be
Speaker 1: with his mother to say goodbye, but heartbreakingly, protocol.
Speaker 2: Did allow it.
Speaker 3: And that was that was difficult. It was unfortunate. I
Speaker 3: would have wanted to say goodbye to my mom, you know.
Speaker 3: And that's a situation and it's difficult. It's a part
Speaker 3: of the job, unfortunately, and you know, you have to
Speaker 3: deal with it.
Speaker 1: His mother was dead and the lives of the Newlander
Speaker 1: family would never be the same again.
Speaker 3: They were an all American family in a sense. It
Speaker 3: had everything and now they have nothing. Now it's a shame.
Speaker 1: On a cold night in November nineteen ninety four, Carol
Speaker 1: Newlander was murdered in her Cherry Hill, New Jersey home.
Speaker 1: She was a mother of three who ran a successful
Speaker 1: bakery business and was the wife of South Jersey's most
Speaker 1: prominent Rabbi, Fred Newlander.
Speaker 2: People are sympathizing with Fred and whispering words of consolation
Speaker 2: in his ear.
Speaker 1: Arthur Macgida wrote a book about Carol Newlander's murder.
Speaker 2: Carol's funeral was one of the largest in South Jersey.
Speaker 2: Dignitaries came, politicians came.
Speaker 1: As part of the Jewish tradition, people offer their condolences
Speaker 1: to the rabbi by saying, may her memory be a
Speaker 1: blessing to you.
Speaker 2: And then they whispered among each other, who would ever
Speaker 2: kill Carol Newlander? They all loved Carol Neulander, and everybody
Speaker 2: is sad, and still Fred Neulander is showing virtually no emotion.
Speaker 1: There is a Jewish tradition called Shibba. It's the week
Speaker 1: long period of mourning after a death. During Shiva, your friends, family,
Speaker 1: and neighbors come by and take care of you. They
Speaker 1: bring you food, provide you comfort, and run your errands
Speaker 1: so you can mourn.
Speaker 2: How he comported himself that evening and in some of
Speaker 2: the days that followed, very much flowed from his experience
Speaker 2: as a rabbi. Fred Neulander dealt with death and birth
Speaker 2: over and over again. In the course of his professor.
Speaker 2: He was in to some degree acculturated to death, not
Speaker 2: to murder, but to.
Speaker 1: Death by the time they were sitting Shiva for Carol Newlander,
Speaker 1: Cherry Hill police officers had already questioned Fred Newlander and
Speaker 1: two of his children, Rebecca and Matthew. If you remember,
Speaker 1: Matthew was one of the EMTs who came to the
Speaker 1: house on the night of his mother's murder.
Speaker 2: Matthew told the police about a very, very severe argument
Speaker 2: that he witnessed between his parents two days before Carol
Speaker 2: was killed, Carol telling Matthew that Fred didn't want to
Speaker 2: work on this marriage any longer, that Fred wanted to
Speaker 2: divorce Carol. And Matthew told the police that Carol had
Speaker 2: then dashed down to the basement, grabbed some suitcases and
Speaker 2: threw them at Fred Newlander told him to get out.
Speaker 1: But Rabbi Newlander gave to detectives a different take.
Speaker 2: He said it was just honky dorry. Everything was fine. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they had their little bickerings occasionally, whose turn is it
Speaker 2: to clean out the dishwasher? But theirs was a rock
Speaker 2: solid marriage.
Speaker 1: So there was something else. The police began to focus on.
Speaker 1: The Newlander's daughter, Rebecca lived out of town and talked
Speaker 1: with her mom every day. She told the police about
Speaker 1: two strange conversations she had with her mother. The first
Speaker 1: happened two weeks before Carol's murder.
Speaker 2: Carol pulled up to her driveway after working late at
Speaker 2: Classic Cakes when a total stranger tapped on her window,
Speaker 2: rolled the window down, said that the Rabbi had sent
Speaker 2: him over to deliver some mail, and he handed Carol
Speaker 2: an ovelope and then he asked if he could use
Speaker 2: the bathroom. Carol said, of course, and she led him
Speaker 2: into the house use the bathroom. He left, and shortly
Speaker 2: after that, Carol's daughter Rebecca called. She said, Mom, what
Speaker 2: are you doing tonight?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I just got home. Somebody came to see Daddy. He
Speaker 2: isn't there, but he gave me something male that Daddy
Speaker 2: had been waiting for. And Carol told Rebecca, What's the
Speaker 2: strange thing is that I opened this envelope but wasn't
Speaker 2: sealed and there wasn't anything in it. Well, neither Caroll
Speaker 2: nor Rebecca knew what to make of that.
Speaker 1: It was pretty weird, and two weeks later, on the
Speaker 1: day of Carol's murder, they were on the phone again
Speaker 1: when the mysterious man returned.
Speaker 2: Carol opens the door and Rebecca wants to know who
Speaker 2: it is, and she says, oh, that's the bathroom man
Speaker 2: from last week. Rebecca says, well, what does he want?
Speaker 2: Says oh, Dad told him to come over, and Carol
Speaker 2: looks out. She sees that the bathroom man is with
Speaker 2: somebody else. It's cold. She encourages both of them to
Speaker 2: come in be warm. Rebecca's very concerned that her mother
Speaker 2: is inviting these two essentials strangers into the house. Carol says,
Speaker 2: there's nothing to worry about. The door is closed, and
Speaker 2: that was the last that anyone in Carroll's family heard
Speaker 2: from her.
Speaker 1: Detectives asked Rabbi Newlander if he knew who this mysterious
Speaker 1: visitor was.
Speaker 2: He claimed to have no idea what the police were
Speaker 2: talking about. He had never sent anybody over to the
Speaker 2: house with a message for him. He had never told
Speaker 2: Carol that somebody would be coming either of those evenings.
Speaker 1: Detectives came to believe the bathroom man and his accomplice
Speaker 1: knew the rabbi schedule and had been casing the house
Speaker 1: in order to rob and murder Carol.
Speaker 2: Fred very soon was telling people the Colombians did this
Speaker 2: to Carol. The Colombians who worked at Classic Cakes and
Speaker 2: knew that Carol came home with loads of cash that
Speaker 2: never panned out. There were rumors that the Russian Jewish
Speaker 2: mafia was behind this, so there was theory after theory
Speaker 2: after theory.
Speaker 1: Rabbi Newlander told detectives he was at Micorsia Lome when
Speaker 1: Carol was murdered. They interviewed a dozen or so people
Speaker 1: at the synagogue and his alibi checked out.
Speaker 2: Yes, he was at the temple in fact, the moment
Speaker 2: that Carol was killed, and that's why when he came
Speaker 2: back home the blood in the living room was still very,
Speaker 2: very fresh.
Speaker 1: This put detectives back at square one. So the weeks
Speaker 1: dragged on without any updates about the investigation, until finally,
Speaker 1: just a couple of days before the Christmas holiday, the
Speaker 1: police called a press conference, but the new Landers were
Speaker 1: nowhere to be found. One reporter asked the prosecutor if
Speaker 1: Rabbi Newlander was considered a suspect. He paused for a
Speaker 1: moment and said, we don't rule in, we don't rule out.
Speaker 2: They didn't know what to make of that.
Speaker 1: Well, Rabbi Newlander did. He was furious he had an
Speaker 1: alibi and questioned why the police hadn't cleared him, so
Speaker 1: he hired a PI named len Jenoff with an impressive
Speaker 1: resume that included a stint with the FBI, and Cia.
Speaker 2: Jenof seemed like the right person to turn to.
Speaker 1: Rabbi Newlander knew len Jenoff, he met him a couple
Speaker 1: of years earlier and helped him turn his life around.
Speaker 2: Leonard Jenoff was a difficult person to define.
Speaker 1: Back in the nineteen eighties, len Jenoff accidentally struck and
Speaker 1: killed someone who was pushing their stalled vehicle on the highway.
Speaker 1: Although Jenoff was never charged, he fell into a deep
Speaker 1: depression and turned to booze. Years later, he was introduced
Speaker 1: to Rabbi Newlander, who offered to help him and get
Speaker 1: back on his feet.
Speaker 2: Len Jenoff left Fred Newlander's office that day, fully committed
Speaker 2: to doing almost anything that Fred wanted him to do,
Speaker 2: because he saw the Rabbi as his savior, as the
Speaker 2: next best thing to his Messiah.
Speaker 1: So now you had the police and a very motivated
Speaker 1: len Jenoff working to find Carol Newlander's killer. Those investigations
Speaker 1: would uncover secrets that would shake Cherry Hill to its soul.
Speaker 1: Rabbi Fred Newlander had a rock solid alibi on the
Speaker 1: night of his wife Carol's murder, So why didn't the
Speaker 1: police rule him out as a suspect.
Speaker 2: For years there were rumors that Fred was a little
Speaker 2: bit too much of a lady's man.
Speaker 1: Arthur mcgeita wrote a book about the Newlanders.
Speaker 2: He made a habit of going from woman to woman
Speaker 2: to woman and touching her and giving them compliments. And
Speaker 2: they always just happened to be the prettiest woman in
Speaker 2: the congregation that evening.
Speaker 1: So it turned out the leader of the community was
Speaker 1: not so pious. And back in nineteen ninety two, one
Speaker 1: particular woman called Rabbi Fred Newlander's eye. Don't let the
Speaker 1: broadcasters see that I have all this makeup over here.
Speaker 2: It's filming it for convention.
Speaker 3: When is the convention?
Speaker 2: September? Oh, thanks a lot, here, let me hide my mirror.
Speaker 1: Elaine Sensini was a prominent radio personality in Philadelphia, and
Speaker 1: so was her husband, Ken Garland. Elaine met Rabbi Newlander
Speaker 1: when her husband Ken was dying of leukemia, and.
Speaker 2: A day or two after that, Fred Newlander called Ewaine
Speaker 2: Suncini asked how she was. She said, I'm fine, I'm coping.
Speaker 2: Fred asked if he could come over to her house.
Speaker 2: She agreed. They had lunch together. He asked if he
Speaker 2: could return soon, She said he couldn't, and they engaged
Speaker 2: in what the police would soon called intimacy.
Speaker 1: He moves in on a widow a couple days after
Speaker 1: her husband's death, and then despite Rabbi Newlander's eighteen hour
Speaker 1: work day and Elaine's early morning radio schedule, the two
Speaker 1: managed to carry on an affair for nearly two years.
Speaker 2: They would meet at Olaine's house two, three, four times
Speaker 2: a week. Fred often towed her that she satisfied him
Speaker 2: sexually in a way that Carol never did. He alluded
Speaker 2: to the possibility that he might get divorced from Carol furrowing,
Speaker 2: but sometimes he would hedge on that because he wasn't
Speaker 2: certain how that would affect his career.
Speaker 1: So with all this secrecy, how did detectives learn about Elaine. Well,
Speaker 1: they obtained a copy of Rabbi Newlander's phone records, and
Speaker 1: something in those phone records from the morning after Carol's
Speaker 1: murder stood out.
Speaker 2: One of the first people Fred called was Awayne Sonciney.
Speaker 2: Why would he possibly do that?
Speaker 1: Detectives questioned Elaine, and they shared some information. She did
Speaker 1: not know about Fred Newland.
Speaker 2: She's not the only girlfriend that Fred hadn't and they
Speaker 2: named the others one, two, three, and perhaps four.
Speaker 1: Elaine was shocked and pissed, and that's when the gloves
Speaker 1: came off.
Speaker 2: She tells the police they've had a long standing romance.
Speaker 2: When she returns home that night, she calls Fred. It
Speaker 2: says Fred I told the police everything. You're on your.
Speaker 1: Own noun news of Rabbi Newlander's affairs Rock Cherry Hill
Speaker 1: and mccorchelone. These were women he had been counseling.
Speaker 2: How could Fred Newlander, the stalwart of the community, the
Speaker 2: founder of Macorse alone, this charismatic, well educated, enlightened individual
Speaker 2: who had this wonderful family and terrific wife, be playing
Speaker 2: around on the side. Who could possibly have time to
Speaker 2: do that anyway? Seems that Fred Newlander didn't.
Speaker 1: Fred admitted to behaviors he was not proud of and
Speaker 1: stepped away from m course alone. In his letter to
Speaker 1: his congregants, Ye added that he had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with his wife's death. It was the same message he
Speaker 1: gave Elaine Sensini in the days after Carol's murder. Being
Speaker 1: an adulter didn't make him a murderer.
Speaker 2: Fred invited Elaine into his office at the temple and
Speaker 2: said he loves her, said he wanted to marry her
Speaker 2: when the time would be appropriate.
Speaker 1: The police didn't confirm or denial ing as a suspecting
Speaker 1: Carol Newlander's murder. It was much like the situation with
Speaker 1: the rabbi.
Speaker 4: After one's spouse he is murdered, the surviving spouse always
Speaker 4: becomes the first suspect.
Speaker 1: Attorney Jeff Zucker represented Rabbi Newlander. His client had a
Speaker 1: lot of explaining to do. Here's Jeff Zucker.
Speaker 4: And once things started to come out about the affairs
Speaker 4: that he had, and the fact that the affairs involved
Speaker 4: congregants that he was counseling, then I think the tide
Speaker 4: started to change.
Speaker 1: And as you can imagine, the local press was having
Speaker 1: a field day with stories of the adulterous man of God.
Speaker 4: We thought the media attention was so horribly profuse and
Speaker 4: horribly against him.
Speaker 1: As reporters hounded the Rabbi and Elaine sin Seemi for comment,
Speaker 1: Elaine asked the Cherry Hill Police Department for protection. Two
Speaker 1: officers were then dispatched to keep an eye on her.
Speaker 4: The interesting thing about Elaine Suncini is that she also
Speaker 4: had an involvement with one of the police officers in
Speaker 4: this case, Larry Leaf.
Speaker 1: Okay, so get this. Larry Leaf was one of the
Speaker 1: officers assigned to watch her, and in another twist to
Speaker 1: this story, Elaynin Officer Leif became romantically involved and that
Speaker 1: created a serious conflict of interest, especially when he was
Speaker 1: caught rummaging through police files related to the case.
Speaker 4: We believe that Larry Leaf gave her access to certain
Speaker 4: of the investigative files in the cherryhol Police Department. Elaine
Speaker 4: Soncceni she incidentally ended up marrying Larry Leaf.
Speaker 1: So internal affairs investigated Officer Leaf and later cleared him
Speaker 1: of any wrongdoing.
Speaker 4: That was another strange twist in this whole case. This
Speaker 4: is one of the most bizarre cases I've been involved
Speaker 4: in in my forty five years of legal experience.
Speaker 1: With reporters constantly hounding her. Elaine Sansini used her radio
Speaker 1: show to come clean about her affair with Rabbi Newland
Speaker 1: in the summer of nineteen ninety five. She tearfully apologized
Speaker 1: on the air for what she called some errors in judgment.
Speaker 3: Sonny Now in seventy eight degrees. I apologize to you
Speaker 3: for these guys.
Speaker 1: But lost in the juicy stories of love, lust and
Speaker 1: adultery were the Newlander children.
Speaker 4: I felt bad for the family I did. I felt
Speaker 4: bad for the kids.
Speaker 1: Their mother's murder was still unsolved, and the only thing
Speaker 1: they're hearing is story after story of their father's infidelity.
Speaker 4: Every day something else would come out in the local papers.
Speaker 4: Because of the horrible negative publicity he was getting, we
Speaker 4: thought it was time for him to speak out to
Speaker 4: say I had nothing to do with this. So we
Speaker 4: called in the local television stations let him read a
Speaker 4: prepared statement.
Speaker 2: I categorically deny that I murdered my wife or arranged
Speaker 2: in any way to have her killed.
Speaker 4: It was brief, but we thought it would be good
Speaker 4: for the public to hear him speak and to have
Speaker 4: him deny the charges.
Speaker 1: The town of Cherry Hill struggled with their beloved rabbis
Speaker 1: meteoric fall from grace. First they had to process news
Speaker 1: of his affairs, and now there are rumbles about him
Speaker 1: also being a murderer.
Speaker 4: A person who is having an affair maybe morally at fault,
Speaker 4: but it's a huge jump from someone having an affair
Speaker 4: to become a murderer.
Speaker 1: And it didn't help that the police remained mum about
Speaker 1: potential suspects and shared very little about their investigation.
Speaker 4: They were looking into Leeds for years and he came
Speaker 4: up with a bunch of dead ends.
Speaker 1: At the same time, the rabbi's private investigator, len Jenoff,
Speaker 1: used his FBI and CIA background to do his own research.
Speaker 4: He one time came into our office with a sketch
Speaker 4: of what he said was a composite drawing of who
Speaker 4: the person who killed Carol Newlander would be. And we
Speaker 4: told the Rabbi, please, have nothing more to do with
Speaker 4: len Jenoff. He's a wild card. He's running up all
Speaker 4: kinds of blind alleys and making no sense. If you're
Speaker 4: going to continue working with this guy, we can't represent
Speaker 4: you anymore.
Speaker 2: You can't do it.
Speaker 1: That's because around that time some bizarre news about len
Speaker 1: Jenoff surfaced.
Speaker 4: Len got married and asked the Rabbi to perform the
Speaker 4: ceremony at the Rabbi's home, and.
Speaker 3: Their wedding pictures of them arm in arm holding each other.
Speaker 1: That seems nice, But when the police looked closely at
Speaker 1: these pictures of the Rabbi with lenn On his wedding day,
Speaker 1: they noticed something shocking, like.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. They took the pictures right where Carol
Speaker 3: was laying and.
Speaker 2: She was murdered.
Speaker 4: The ceremony was performed at the exact spot where they
Speaker 4: found Carol Newlander's body. It's bizarre, but that's that's where
Speaker 4: it was. Which was also another very strange twist.
Speaker 2: In this whole case.
Speaker 1: If a picture is worth a thousand words, well that
Speaker 1: scene doesn't work here, because this one left the police speechless.
Speaker 4: It was hard for me to believe that this really
Speaker 4: could have happened.
Speaker 1: That was the first twist of many to come. In
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