it turns out that he took them to the hospital, and made allegations that shele had sexually abuse their son. so this is getting ugly. yes. prosecutors said those disturbing and false accusations were just one example of how rod was becoming unhinged. he was also excessively tracking shele s every move with secretly installed software on her computer. rod told this coworker that it enabled him to read her emails. he was reading through her emails, and was upset with a number of people that she was talking to. and he was upset about the way he was being portrayed in her emails. by late 2009, he was also deeply in debt, with virtually no income. still, even with their divorce spending, he believed he would gain control of her 5 million dollar estate, if she died.
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 in each year, and something can set him off and in seconds, he will literally explode. shele also complained about rod s growing obsession with back backgammon. it became a passion and then an obsession. for him. did he ever say why? i think he had forged relationships in the backgammon community, that he really liked.
guilty. they said he was a really bad person, and i didn t believe them at the time. you have got to know him pretty well at this point to? right. i never saw the monster then i eventually came tunnel until later. but the monster was lurking, as debra told the court overtime, she began to see just how volatile rod could be. he had a mercurial temperate and take much to set him off. she also so terrible fights that he had with his parents. by 2012, rod and his children were living with his parents in a new york city suburb, and the fighting was constant. one time during one of these fights, rod had brought his arms back, and he shoved his father as hard as he could. his father went flying into the room, hit his head on the floor. eventually, rod s parents evicted him, and kept his kids. rod was determined to strike back. debra says he hatched bizarre plots to kill his parents.
that once they built a case for the jury, they try to put a closer on the stand, a witness who buttons everything up with a riveting tale. yes in the trial of rod covlin, the closer turn out to be none other than debra oles. rod s body and his former lover. taking the stand, sunglasses on. which was it like walking into that courtroom and seeing rod covlin in there? terrifying. i had to look at him one time once, just to point him out and say that s who he is. debra testified that she got a late night call from rod on that new year s day.
even rod s parents felt their son was spending too much time on the game. i told him that he was being a little ridiculous with the backgammon. going to backgammon too much. i said, you ve got a family. the colvin said they saw sheen changes in shele, to. once they thought were equally damaging to the marriage. she started going to the fire scrub. from once a week, it became much more frequent than that. the couple seemed to be living separate lives. in what happened to be a painful moment, shele told her sister it wasn t the backgammon or the fact that rod was it pulling his way that pushed her to separate. it was rod s cheating. she believes that he left an email up so she would purposely see it, from another woman. and she confronted him and he said that yes, he slipping around with other women. and he wants an open marriage. he still loves her, but once an