![]() The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist Case. ![]() But it’d make for a great radio story all the same. But real life never resolves quite as neatly as novels do James writes that “the guilt of Fred Neulander becomes less clear as one gets more perspective on the crime.” Granted, the Neulander case is rather flashier than that of Adnan Syed, whose murder conviction Serial explored in its debut season. A local ne’er-do-well claimed that the rabbi had hired him to murder his wife, and the jury believed him Rabbi Neulander was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison, proving once again the old noir adage that crime never pays. Eventually, suspicion fell on her husband, Fred Neulander, a prominent rabbi who was having an affair with a local radio personality. Neulander was beaten to death in her New Jersey home. ![]() “I would argue that there is no other case in American history,” writes James, “which has so many fictional elements as does the murder of Carol Neulander.” In 1994 the affluent and upstanding Mrs. In his great book Popular Crime, Bill James argues that the true-crime cases most likely to attract significant media attention were those featuring the sorts of “fictional elements” best suited to a mystery novel: bold characters, intricate planning, prominent participants, layers of deception. ![]()
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