On New Year’s Eve 2009, SHELE Danishefsky Covlin’s body was discovered in the toilet of her Upper West Side residence.
Friends and relatives were grieved by her passing, but they weren’t ready for the shock of learning how she passed away.
Who was Shele Danishefsky Covlin?
As a mother of two children and an investment banker, Shele Danishefsky Covlin was well-known.
She and her estranged husband, Roderick Covlin, had welcomed their children, Anna and Myles.
According to Distratify, she led a privileged life in New York City and worked as a senior vice president for private asset management at an investment bank before she passed away.
How Shele Danishefsky Covlin Was Killed?
Danishefky was discovered in the bathtub by her daughter on December 31, 2009.
Before dialling 911, her husband reportedly took her from the shower and gave her CPR, but it was already too late.
The family questioned the first assumption made by investigators that the 47-year-old woman had fallen in the tub and struck her head.
Police started investigating her death after observing that she had bruises and scratch marks on her hand.
According to Oxygen, Covlin claimed to have hauled her out of the bathtub but was dry when the NYPD came.
For religious reasons, the family first opposed an autopsy, but as their suspicions developed, they decided to exhume her body and conduct one.
When the medical examiner found that Danishefsky had been strangled, her death was then declared to have been a homicide.
Who killed Shele Danishefsky?
Covlin’s parents were appointed as the kids’ legal guardians after Danishefsky passed away, and they received her $5 million estate.
Covlin was ultimately upset by that choice, and he battled valiantly for years to get access to the money but was unsuccessful.
He was detained and accused of her murder six years later. Prosecutors claimed he killed his soon-to-be ex-wife for the money throughout the trial.
According to the New York Post, he was later found guilty and given the maximum term for second-degree murder—25 years to life—in 2019.
“The Danishefsky family never gave up, and neither did we,” the District Attorney said in a statement, via CBS News.
“Roderick Covlin will now spend decades in prison for his domestic violence, depravity and deception.”
