shele covlin, 2010 began with sadness. shele s sister eve and her husband marc, and believe the mother of two was gone. did a kind of hit you later, the more emotional side of things? did you think about your life without? right. exactly. and the children without her? right. you can t even think about the magnitude of it all. shele dl endgame 1 s in laws, were also in shock. their son, rod called with a new. he says, shele is dead. i don t think i ve ever made it to manhattan faster in my life. did you get any details on that first phone call? no. nothing. no, he just said chile is dead. when you arrive, what is going on? robert was sitting on the couch. he was in shock. honestly, i ve never seen my son shell-shocked and speechless in my life. the next few days were a blur. for religious reasons, the
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 open marriage. most women don t want to go along with the open marriage concept. she was one of those who said, absolutely, no. by june, rod had moved out, and he didn t go far. shele arranged for him to live for free in an apartment across the whole, to make it easy for the kids. her close friend stephanie goldman wasn t happy with the arrangement. when shele told me that he
sit right with the lead detective either. while he felt her death could have been an accident, details of that scene bothered him. the week that cabinet door had been yanked down. the blood in the tub. the marks on shele s body. she had bruising to her lip. she appeared to have strapped scratch marks. and she had bruising to her right hand. and what the detective would learn later cast suspicion directly on rod. rod tooled an officer that he had to pull shele s wet falling out of the tub. yet his clothes bone dry. new york post reporter, rebecca rosenberg. two officers found this unusual and noted this. how would you not get wet? he was wearing a light colored shirt. he just was it where at all. and it was inconsistent with a story he had told. and their demand remembered rod doing something early that morning that was highly unusual for him. he stopped by the front desk on his way out of the building to get a snack. even bought the dormant a
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. it s read, i lied. she did just slip. i got so mad so i pushed her. i didn t mean to hurt her! i swear! it was never sent but it did in the tabloids after it was filed with the court. what father does that? who does that to a child? who basically finds the child right. prosecutors didn t get that note admitted into trial, but they were about to bring forward a star witness, whose explosive allegations would rock the courtroom. coming up, what was it like walking into that courtroom, and saying rod covlin in there? terrified. she fell in love with one
certificate and i saw that the cause of death was undetermined. shele s loved ones are not the only ones with growing doubts. investigators zero in on troubling clues. coming up she had bruising to her lip. chip here to have some scratch marks. and she had bruising to her right hand. and rod said he had put shele s wet body out of the top, so, why wasn t he wet? two officers found this unusual enough to notice. how would you not get wet? when dateline continues. - i can t believe you got me this! - yes, verizon is giving one to everyone when they trade in their old or damaged phone. - oh! so like every sister can get this? - yeah. - every aluminum siding installer? - why not? - every doula? - they would have to! every customer, new and old, can get iphone 13 pro on us. because everyone deserves better. - everyone! - horse trainers! - manicurists! - you get the new iphone! - we re alone. - i know.