not leaving until they take shele s body out. i said i will be there every single day. i should be there for her along with the rest of the family. there is only one person prosecutor matthew bogdanos described rod covlin as a cold blooded killer, determined to get his wife out of his life, take their children, and sees her assets at any cost. only one person had the motive, the opportunity, and the means to have done this. prosecutors admitted the case wasn t a tiny one ready for csi, but they put a lot of circumstantial evidence in front of the jury. we know it s a circumstantial case, but what do they have going for them with history? when they have going for them is that obviously coughlin had access to he had motive and he is not a
cameras. later, she logged onto her online dating profile at 10:13. the last activity on any of her devices. rod meanwhile, was across the hall. he was usually online playing backgammon late into the night. but suddenly, his online presence stopped at 1:03 am. no sign of him until he popped up that surveillance video in the lobby at 4:13 am. the allegation was that he wanted to be seen on camera yes he wanted to make an alibi. this was like his way of building an alibi. the prosecution called the new york state medical examiner. in the autopsy, he had noticed that there are scratches on her face, and that fractured bone in her neck. my conclusion was that she had and neck compression, i classify the death as a homicide. strangulation not an accidental fall. and in another sinister twist, prosecutors believe that we re in a half years after shele s death, rod drafted an ode composed from her 12-year-old s daughter email account, pretending to be her.
family decided not to have an autopsy performed. my father a lot obviously made the final decision. he went by his rabbi who said, don t do the autopsy. it was only as friends and family gather to sit shiva the jewish period of mourning, that they had time to think about the vibrant woman they just lost. she was an incredibly devoted mother. she was an incredible person. but what was also on their minds was dark and troubling. shele s rocky marriage to rod. she said, he doesn t get a job. he goes to the gym twice a day. and he s just hanging around the house. she was very frustrated. she said, he s driving me crazy. in 2009, shele confessed to her sister that her marriage was in serious trouble. she said, were broken and we just have to part ways. and she cried. she wept to meet. one thing marc and eve said came between the couple was rod s dramatic mood swings. rod has and has always had a violent, explosive temper. he could be sitting very calmly
but then, rod found some emails sent just two days before her death. she reaches out to an attorney, and also tell several people that she wants to change the state said that s one rod snapped, and hatched his plan. the night of december 30th, a friend of melissa feel sorry and send something was wrong. shele was nervous when we first met up and she was looking around quite a bit. i didn t ask her what the problem, whether something was wrong. she was worried that her ex husband was following her. i want to turn out to be her last night alive, shele remained in fear. it was all heavy on her mind when she got home to her apartment at night at 7:51. caught here on security
canning with endgame . shele covlin have been found dead in her bathtub in december 2009. investigators have long believed her husband rod had killed her, but they didn t have enough evidence to prove it. then, after nearly six years of slowly building a case, prosecutors finally became convinced they had enough to persuade a jury. in november 2015, shele s sister eve got word from the district attorney s office. she said were about to arrest rod covlin for the murder of shele covlin. so i started to get very emotional, and i ve just been waiting a really long time to hear those words. it would take three more years for roth s trial to begin. after waiting so long for justice, even her husband mark steeled themselves. why was it important for you to be? they re so i can tell you that on december 31, i said i m