A New Jersey radio host's murder is the focus. Included: her daughter's five-year fight for justice; and the victim's husband's alleged involvement in her murder, with links to his ties to an illegal drug-distribution ring. Originally aired: 06/22/18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
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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.
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Chapter 2: Who was April Kaufman and what was her impact?
Yet while life for Kim seems hopelessly on pause, for Jim Kaufman, it's full speed ahead. Just 15 months after his wife's murder, he ties the knot again.
He remarries Carol Weintraub. When did that start? Now, the version we've gotten is that they started dating after April was found murdered. Now, that's some romance.
April's friends and family were devastated. And they felt like it was a slap in the face. But the people who support Jim Kaufman say, you know, he's a widow. And he's moving on with his life.
But Dr. Kaufman's next move sets off a chain of events that pushes Kim out of limbo.
He went after my mom's life insurance policy. And your reaction? No way. Because you know what? This is my only attempt to maybe be able to get some answers. And the truth maybe would start to come out.
Now it's Kim's turn to lawyer up. Believing Jim is the killer, she files a wrongful death suit against her stepdad to keep him from getting her mom's $600,000 life insurance policy.
I have no choice to respond and to begin to fight for what I know is right.
The most significant kind of civil lawsuit you can have is a wrongful death case.
Coming up, a daughter undaunted and the dynamic duo attorneys she hires begin digging into the case. And what they say they uncover is shocking.
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Chapter 3: How was April Kaufman discovered and what were the initial reactions?
he started thinking about ways to engage his exit strategy.
To get rid of her.
To get rid of her. For the past five and a half years since April Kaufman was found shot to death, there's been little movement on this case, and no arrests have been made in connection with the murder. That is, until today. An explosive breakthrough in the murder of radio host April Kaufman.
Murder charges just filed against Dr. James Kaufman in a plot that police say involved members of a motorcycle gang.
But wait a minute, didn't the doctor have an airtight alibi? Remember that early morning stop at a convenience store? Tyner says Kaufman wasn't the shooter, that he paid one of those pagans roughly $20,000 to do his dirty work and kill his wife.
He went inside and he shot April Kaufman twice.
And ironically, that alleged hitman died a year and a half after April's murder of an opiate overdose. His pills prescribed by, you guessed it, Dr. Jim Kaufman.
When I heard the details of everything, it really... really was unbelievable. I feel like this is the worst made-for-TV movie on the planet.
The prosecutor worries Dr. Kaufman could be targeted by Pagan members in jail, so they move him upstate to the Hudson County Correctional Facility as they begin gearing up for their first major trial. Finally, a chance to close one of those Atlantic County cold cases. But then another shocking turn. Dr. James Kaufman dead.
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