Posted on 01/07/2019 8:50:49 PM PST by lowbridge
In June 2013, Roderick Covlin, 45, posed as his daughter, then-12-year-old Anna, and wrote a note as a false confession in the 2009 death of her mother, Shele Danishefsky, the New York Post reported.
“All of these years I have been so incredibly afraid and guilty about the night my mom died,” Covlin allegedly wrote.
“I lied. She didn’t just slip. That day we got into a fight about her dating … I got mad so I pushed her, but it couldn’t have been that hard! I didn’t mean to hurt her! I swear!," the note continued. "But she fell and i (sic) heard a terrible noise and the water started turning red and I tried to pull her head up but she remained still…"
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office claimed that Covlin wrote the note, which was addressed to his daughter's law guardian, to lead authorities elsewhere in their investigation.
Covlin is accused of strangling then-47-year-old Danishefsky to death in a bathtub inside her Upper West Side apartment on Dec. 31, 2009. The two were living in separate apartments in the same building during a bitter divorce when the couple's daughter found her in the bathroom.
Danishefsky was scheduled to meet with a lawyer on Jan. 1. 2010 — the day after she died — to remove Covlin from her will. He stood to get half her roughly $4 million estate, with the rest going to their children.
With the only obvious sign of trauma a cut on the back of her head, investigators initially thought she had slipped and fallen. After her Orthodox Jewish family objected to an autopsy for religious reasons, the cause of her death was listed as undetermined.
But as an investigation began, her body was exhumed and autopsied with her family's permission. Medical examiners concluded in April 2010 she had been strangled.
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How low would you have to be to do this? I feel so bad for this daughter to know that your father killed your mom and then had this little regard for you. Coward needs to fry.
What a scuzzball.
Gets rid of the wife and the daughter.
Are there any good men left?
Yes. They are in fly over territory.
One of my cousins was in a bad marriage and the high-earning husband shot himself in the leg and blamed her in an attempt to get out of alimony & send her to prison. And he was having an affair.
I live in flyover territory, looking for a kind, lovely man who is hard working and not narcissistic.
NYC.
We pay a steep price for that city.
Cities are the powerhouses driving an economy and it has been that way for four or five millennia. Like it or not that is where civilization originates.
Worst dad ever.
Where do you live?
Doesn’t surprise me. A ‘’stockbroker’’ is nothing more than a legalized bookie.
The nature of American cities has changed dramatically in the last half century. How do the cities of NJ drive our economy? Most have few good jobs anymore, and instead are financial drains on an economy. While Jersey City has attracted some jobs from NYC, that is the exception rather than the rule (Newark, Paterson, Trenton, Camden, Atlantic City).
Kansas City
“Where do you live?”
Be careful, mate. Asking that question is borderline rape in some parts.
No, most bookies build in a margin, but don’t offer a rigged game.
Standup Father Of The Year Award. I’m touched by his making his daughter take the fall for him.
Its all about keeping it in the family.
I’ve read some bad stuff lately but this is beyond my abilities to actually comprehend
How true.
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