it was a case tailor-made with the tabloids. we had this beautiful woman, a tall handsome guy, greed, infidelity. he is out with other women. a failing marriage with millions at stake. he didn t have any money of his own. this is getting ugly. yes. she said she were broken, and she cried. was it a fall in the tub, or husbands fall from grace? we believed it was a staged accident. he was adamant about his innocence. the case bought me for a long time. he said to me you have to help me kill my parents. and i can t even think about the magnitude of it all. hello and welcome to dateline. shelley and roderick covlin met and married in a matter of months. soon they had two young children in manhattan. and an estate worth millions. then on the brink of a new year, tragedy struck. first responders thought it was an accident. but troubling clues quickly surfaced, pointing to a diabolical truth that would tear to families apart. here s andrea with en
of the space program explain why the famed mercury 7 astronauts went into space but not any of the 13 so-called first lady astronaut trainees. this oral history from 1999 is from the nasa johnson space center history collection. .. this is carol butler and i m doing an oral history for the nasa history office with wally funk, retired ntsb investigator, senior flight instructor, chief pilot, wonderful woman of aerospace. thank you for joining us today. thank you very much for having me. to begin, if we could talk briefly about your early career and your interest in aviation developing and how you moved forward and to the aerospace career as a woman. well, aerospace was not really a name in my young life. flying airplanes was. i had got my first try at flying, just pure flying, by flying my superman cape off my daddy s foreign when i was about five years old. and i was allowed to make airplanes out a blocks of balsam wouldn t hang them from my ceiling when i went on the c
this is carol butler and i m doing an oral history for the nasa history office with wally funk, retired ntsb investigator, senior flight instructor, chief pilot, wonderful woman of aerospace. thank you for joining us today. thank you very much for having me. to begin, if we could talk briefly about your early career and your interest in aviation developing and how you moved forward and to the aerospace career as a woman. well, aerospace was not really a name in my young life. flying airplanes was. i had got my first try at flying, just pure flying, by flying my superman cape off my daddy s foreign when i was about five years old. and i was allowed to make airplanes out a blocks of balsam wouldn t hang them from my ceiling when i went on the college. i, was allowed to take flying as my mother had dearly love flying, and her father wouldn t allow her to. so, they encourage me then to go on into my aviation career. i was at a girls school for two years, got my private ther
It was a case tailormade with the tabloids. We had this beautiful woman, a tall handsome guy, greed, infidelity. He is out with other women. A failing marriage with millions at stake. He didnt have any money of his own. This is getting ugly. Yes. She said she were broken, and she cried. Was it a fall in the tub, or husbands fall from grace . We believed it was a staged accident. He was adamant about his innocence. The case bought me for a long time. He said to me you have to help me kill my parents. And i cant even think about the magnitude of it all. Hello and welcome to dateline. Shelley and Roderick Covlin met and married in a matter of months. Soon they had two Young Children in manhattan. And an estate worth millions. Then on the brink of a new year, tragedy struck. First responders thought it was an accident. But troubling clues quickly surfaced, pointing to a diabolical truth that would tear to families apart. Heres andrea with endgame. If you had to pick one place that screams
she graduated with a marketing degree, and then my dad had asked her if she wanted to come and work with them at le errol lynch. shele eventually became a private wealth manager. the money was good, and so was the priest stage. shele was fancy. she was smart. she was educated. shelley s friend remembers the days she took her to the club. it was wintertime, she was wearing her coat. men just came over to her. it was like being swept off her feet. he s got the finance job, the style she kind of was the classic new york city woman. absolutely. absolutely she was. in february of 1998, shele went to a jewish single mixer and manhattan were sparks through with a guy she met there. his name, roderick covlin. she called her sister that night with an outrageous