A former private investigator testified that a New Jersey rabbi paid him to kill the rabbi’s wife and that the rabbi made the payment while sitting shiva after the murder was committed. Leonard Jenoff gave the testimony in the trial of Rabbi Fred Neulander, accused of arranging the murder of his wife, Carol, who was found beaten to death at the couple’s home in 1994.
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