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Shele Danishefsky Covlin, 47, was found dead at her Upper West Side apartment on December 31, 2009, just hours before the new year. Her husband, Roderick ‘Rod’ Covlin, called authorities, telling them he’d just pulled his wife from bathtub’s bloody water and could not resuscitate her.
Now-retired Detective Carl Roadarmel for the N.Y.P.D.’s 20th precinct Oxygen'sNew York Homicide that he responded to the scene to find Mrs. Covlin dead on the bathroom floor.
“There was water on the floor, and she had some blood running from the back of her head,” Roadarmel said. “And then there was a set of cabinets above, with doors and hinges, which was partially pulled off; it looked like she may have tried to grab the shelf as she was falling.”
For detectives, it looked like an open-and-shut case of an unfortunate accident. It was all the more tragic in that the deceased left behind a 9-year-old daughter, who’d initially found her mother dead, and a 3-year-old son.
Rod Covlin, having previously separated from Shele, lived across the hall of the building in a separate apartment and attempted to save Shele when the daughter sought help.
Shele’s death shocked her siblings and rocked the Jewish community in New York’s Upper West Side. According to her decades-long friend Mark Appel, Shele — who worked in a private wealth management firm — grew up in a traditional, Orthodox household and was a devout woman of the Jewish faith.
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Now-retired Detective Carl Roadarmel for the N.Y.P.D.’s 20th precinct Oxygen'sNew York Homicide that he responded to the scene to find Mrs. Covlin dead on the bathroom floor.
“There was water on the floor, and she had some blood running from the back of her head,” Roadarmel said. “And then there was a set of cabinets above, with doors and hinges, which was partially pulled off; it looked like she may have tried to grab the shelf as she was falling.”
For detectives, it looked like an open-and-shut case of an unfortunate accident. It was all the more tragic in that the deceased left behind a 9-year-old daughter, who’d initially found her mother dead, and a 3-year-old son.
Rod Covlin, having previously separated from Shele, lived across the hall of the building in a separate apartment and attempted to save Shele when the daughter sought help.
Shele’s death shocked her siblings and rocked the Jewish community in New York’s Upper West Side. According to her decades-long friend Mark Appel, Shele — who worked in a private wealth management firm — grew up in a traditional, Orthodox household and was a devout woman of the Jewish faith.
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