Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Over a year after the murder of an Upper West Side money manager, family members of the victim are outraged that authorities have not made an arrest, according to The New York Post.  Shele Danishefsky Covlin, who was 47 when she died on December 31st, 2009, was originally thought to have slipped in the bathtub, but was determined to have been strangled after an autopsy was performed.  She had been in the middle of a bitter divorce and custody fight with her husband Rod Covlin when she was murdered, and was only a day away from removing Covlin as a beneficiary in her will.  In addition, she had been granted a court order of protection against him, alleging that he made threats on her life.  Covlin was named as a person of interest in the case, and sources say he remains a person of interest, but no charges have been filed against him in his wife’s murder.  “It’s outrageous that despite having a person of interest, this case was not brought to trial,” stated a friend of Shele Danishefsky Covlin, Randie Levine Miller.  “If they have a suspect, it doesn’t make sense that [authorities] are not moving forward with the case.”  Shele Danishefsky Covlin’s family’s outrage at the lack of progress with the DA is added onto a battle with Colvin’s family over the couple’s children.  Last summer, Shele’s parents filed a petition in court claiming that Colvin’s family had cut them off from their grandchildren, Anna, 10 and Myles, 4, and they accused Covlin’s parents of keeping the youngsters away from them and their Orthodox Jewish culture.  The city’s law enforcement declined to comment in detail on the investigation except to say that it is still underway, and the DA’s office declined comment.

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