A tax lawyer who is accused of fatally stabbing his pediatrician wife to death in their Scarsdale home has been denied bail after prosecutors claimed his wife feared for her safety so much she changed the locks before her death
61-year-old Jules Reich is still in custody after allegedly stabbing 58-year-old Dr. Robin Goldman on Wednesday, from whom he had recently filed for divorce. Reich has been charged with second-degree murder, and the Journal News says he'll stay in Westchester County Jail after prosecutors revealed Goldman's actions before her apparent murder. “She told people she feared him,” Assistant District Attorney John O’Rourke told the judge in Westchester County Court yesterday. “She changed the locks to keep him out."
Reich is accused of stabbing Goldman 21 times while she was in the shower. "He got access to the house and ambushed his wife as she got ready for work,” O’Rourke said. “He grabbed her from behind while she was in the shower and stabbed her ... then walked away leaving a trail of blood.” Then, he allegedly "walked away, went to the kitchen and lit a cigarette before he called 911," O'Rourke said on Friday.
The Post reports that Reich inexplicably wore cotton swabs in his mugshot, taken on Friday. He sustained injuries to his hands while Goldman, who was stabbed to death in the shower, tried to defend herself; he also sustained a bruise under his right eye. His ears were uninjured, and he apparently used the cotton gauze from his hand wounds to make the ear swabs that showed up in Thursday's mugshot. “It had nothing to do with our investigation. He had no injuries to his ear. I can’t speak to why he did that,” Scarsdale police Capt. Thomas Altizio said.
Neighbors say "the entire community feared” Reich. “You didn’t have to be best friends with Dr. Goldman to know she didn’t deserve to be abused like this," Haina Just-Michael, a friend of the victim, told the Daily News.
Reich's children, who are all in their 20s, have been issued orders of protection. Goldman was buried on Thursday. “Life is so unpredictable, you never know the issues that sometimes cause rifts or feuds,” Goldman's brother said at the funeral. “The issues are petty and the love is great, embrace that.”
