The Bathtub Murder on the Upper West Side
from True Crime Folder Hosted by Henry Brian
A nine-year-old girl opens a bathroom door on New Year’s Eve 2009 and finds her mother dead in the tub. The man who pulled her from the water lives directly across the hall, and he has an explanation: a slip, a fall, a terrible accident. Rod Covlin was convicted of murdering his estranged wife, Shele Danishefsky, a UBS senior vice president, in a case that prosecutors said was motivated by her fortune. Her apparent bathtub accident unraveled into a six-year investigation, an exhumed grave, a fractured hyoid bone, a bitter custody war, an alleged plot against two grandparents, and a confession written in a child’s name that prosecutors say she never wrote. In this episode: Shele’s life, career, and marriage The will she was about to change The exhumation that overturned an “undetermined” ruling The trial, the verdict, and the appeals The evidence, the psychology, and the family left divided Rod Covlin maintains his innocence, and his federal habeas petition remains pending as of the latest public record.
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