True Crime Vault: Family Secrets
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Welcome to the 2020 True Crime Vault, where heart-stopping headlines come to life.
I begged her for an ounce of her strength so that I could put one foot in front of the other.
Tonight, on an all-new 2020, an unbreakable bond between mother and daughter. But someone came between them.
He's like, mom's dead. And he just kept repeating, mom's dead, mom's dead.
I ran downstairs. I must have started vomiting.
He was found laying right here.
And I said, well, you can go right over there, because that's the person that killed my mom.
But just who was she pointing at? This is a delicate question, whether somebody that she was having an affair with could have had her killed.
He started thinking about ways to engage his exit strategy. To get rid of her. to get rid of it.
Hold on, he's coming out.
Tonight, a daughter's discovery of family secrets and scandals leading to a dramatic showdown.
Drop the gun! Drop the gun! Behind the scenes, Kim was nonstop digging, digging for answers, getting proof.
Now we're taking you inside her obsessed six-year crusade to catch the killer. What kind of crime?
We're talking murder. 2020 tonight, going into a dangerous underworld no one could have imagined. Drugs and a lot of money.
Inevitably a murder of April Goffman.
Before this hour is over, there will be another shocking death. But is that the end of the story?
This is my life, and I feel like this is the worst made-for-TV movie on the planet.
Good evening, I'm Amy Robach.
And I'm David Muir, and this is 2020. And here tonight, Deborah Roberts.
WIBG, it's the talk of South Jersey.
Driving the corridor between Atlantic City and Philadelphia weekdays between the hours of 2 and 4, you may have heard this voice on WIBG-FM.
If you don't vote, I will find out. I'm going to your house. I'm dragging you outside.
That's the no-nonsense April Kaufman, a peppery, provocative radio host.
I love being here to bring you the truth. As unvarnished, as unpretty, unbuttered on the biscuit it is.
tackling topics from politics, caring for US vets.
Homelessness is a big issue in our country right now for our veterans.
Listeners couldn't get enough of the Jersey girl with the platinum hair, big smile, and high wattage personality.
She was like a whirlwind. She would come in and she would make a lasting impression on everyone.
In her upscale town of Lynwood, New Jersey, not far from the boardwalk, April and husband Dr. Jim Kaufman, a prominent endocrinologist, are the community's consummate power couple.
The two of them were well known individually as well as together. They really wanted to be involved in the community. They also like to have some fun.
Every day, the doctor and Mrs. Kaufman had a familiar routine. Jim heading to his medical practice before sunrise, and then a standing phone call with April at 8.30 a.m. But on Thursday, May 10, 2012, that call to April goes unanswered. And after several failed attempts, Dr. Kaufman sends over his handyman to their home on Woodstock Drive. where he discovers a horror. 911, where's your emergency?
Yes, I have. My boss is down. She's lying on the floor in her bedroom and not answering. OK, where are you, sir? 2 Woodstock Drive, Linwood. OK, hold on. I'm transferring.
47-year-old April Kaufman found dead on the floor of her bedroom. With the family handyman on with 911, Jim calls Linwood Police.
Detective James Scopa took me inside the home where the wealthy socialite who once lived larger than life was discovered dead, shot multiple times. She was found laying right here. Face down? Face down.
As the media got there and they started to realize who it was, that's when they knew, okay, this is really a story. It was chaos.
As the steady whir of helicopter blades begins swarming the sky, Jim Kaufman makes another phone call, this one to stepdaughter Kim Pack.
I answer the phone and I say hello, and he's like, Kimberly? And I said yes. He's like, Mom's dead. And he just kept repeating, Mom's dead, Mom's dead, over and over. As I got to the front door, there was a police officer that put his hands out, and I pushed his hands away. And I go, where's my mom? Where's my mom? What is happening here? I need to see my mother.
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Chapters
3 chaptersSpeakers
18 identified
Advertisement Narrator 14 min
Kim Pack 6 min
Reporter 3 min
Damon Tyner 3 min
Unknown Speaker 2 min
Friend of Luigi 2 min
Unrelated Advertiser 1 min
Local Resident 1 min
Dr. Jim Kaufman 1 min
Handyman 1 min
April Kaufman 1 min
Detective 1 min
Attorney 1 min
Family Member
David Muir
Deborah Roberts
News Anchor
Amy Robach