And, since these crimes cause the types of pain that actually hold some
weight within my pantheon of damage fears, I'll point out that all of the
predators are:
White,
Male,
Employed,
Well educated and
SUBURBAN
and seemingly fond of neighborhoods where bars come with parking lots.
Give me West Philly!
Best!
Liz
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 17:55:04 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Let's see... first a sexual assault on a student (daughter of family
>
> friends, no less). Then kiddie porno with trips to Asia for sessions
> with little
> boys. Now this (innocent until proven guilty, of course). The
> anointed are
> sliding down the slippery slope of the moral high ground.
>
> Al Krigman
>
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>
> Blackwell --
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>
> Posted on Mon, Jan. 08, 2007
>
>
> (http://www.reprintbuyer.com/mags/knightridder/reprints.html)
>
> Penn professor charged in wifeâs death
>
> By Nancy Phillips
> INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
>
>
> AP Photo
> Rafael Robb is escorted into Montgomery County District Court in
> King of
> Prussia.
>
> University of Pennsylvania economics professor Rafael Robb has been
> charged
> with first-degree murder in connection with the death of his wife,
> Ellen.
> Robb, 56, a bespectacled man with closely cropped salt-and-pepper
> hair,
> looked a bit bewildered as he entered the courtroom for his
> arraignment wearing
> jeans, sneakers and a blue wool jacket and carrying a black wool
> cap.
> His feet were in shackles and his hands cuffed in front of him and
> strapped
> to a leather belt around his waist.
> District Justice William Maruszczak asked him to spell his name, and
> Robb
> answered in accented English that hinted of his native language of
> Hebrew.
> He sat quietly and betrayed no emotion as the judge read aloud the
> charges
> against him. At the close of the brief proceeding, he stood and
> asked his
> lawyer, "Where am I going now?" as he was led to Montgomery County
> prison, where
> he will be held without bail.
> A preliminary hearing will be held later this month.
> Ellen Robb, 49, was bludgeoned beyond recognition in the kitchen of
> her home.
> Veteran detectives thought she had been shot until an autopsy
> proved
> otherwise. She appeared to have been wrapping Christmas presents
> when she was
> attacked.
> Rafael Robb is an expert in "game theory," generally described as a
> method of
> studying situations in which players choose various tactics in an
> effort to
> maximize outcomes. He is a tenured professor at Penn's School of
> Arts and
> Sciences.
> In an affidavit of probable cause for Robb's arrest, released today
> by
> Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce L. Castor, a friend of
> Ellen Robb's told
> police that when she invited Robb to a birthday party in October,
> Robb could
> not go because she had a black eye. According to the friend, she
> said that
> "her husband hit her and that he treated her terribly."
> The Robbs, long estranged but still living in the same house, were
> on the
> verge of separating.
> Ellen Robb had retained a divorce lawyer and was planning to move
> into a
> $1,500-a-month apartment by New Year's Day. According to a real
> estate agent who
> had met with her, Ellen Robb said she expected to receive $4,000 in
> monthly
> support from her husband.
> The affidavit, quoting two mental-health experts, called the killing
> an
> attack by someone with "a need to depersonalize Ms. Robb such that
> she is hardly
> recognizable as a human being."
> Rafael Robb's explanation was that his wife had likely been killed
> by a
> burglar who broke through the glass of a rear door.
> Nothing appeared to have been stolen from the house, the affidavit
> said. The
> breaking of a window in the back door "appears staged," the
> affidavit says,
> because no one had walked on the shattered glass on the floor.
> The affidavit also questioned whether a burglar would have taken
> time to
> restrain the family's dog, which was found closed in a bedroom.
> Investigation of Rafael Robb's statements to detectives also aroused
>
> suspicion, the affidavit said. He claimed to have spent up to 40
> minutes buying
> fruit at a market in Philadelphia on his way to work that morning. A
> cashier did
> identify him as a regular customer, but said he had not been there
> the day of
> the murder.
> Robb said that when he came home to find his wife's body, he did not
>
> immediately call 911, the affidavit said. Instead, he said he
> "touched her face,"
> put his laptop computer and briefcase in his upstairs bedroom,
> checked on the
> dog barking in his daughter's bedroom, and, after returning
> downstairs in
> search of a phone, found the broken window in the door.
> "He told the police dispatcher that he believed she was dead because
> her head
> was cracked," Castor said. "That is very significant to me," given
> the
> initial impression of investigators that she had been shot.
> Last week, the university said another instructor would take over
> the
> graduate seminar he was scheduled to teach starting this semester.
>
> Al Krigman
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