{UAH} Misogynistic Lawyer Who Killed Judge's Son Had List of Possible Targets

Misogynistic Lawyer Who Killed Judge's Son Had List of Possible Targets

William K. Rashbaum

The New York TimesJuly 26, 2020

 

 

Misogynistic lawyer who killed judge's son had list of targets

Misogynistic lawyer who killed judge's son had list of targets

New York Times

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An openly misogynistic lawyer who is believed to have killed the son of a female federal judge in New Jersey had a list of more than a dozen other possible targets, including three other judges and two doctors, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

The list was found Monday inside a rented car on a rural road in the Catskills in New York, where the lawyer, Roy Den Hollander, 72, had killed himself.

Hours earlier, law enforcement officials believe, Den Hollander walked up to a house belonging to Judge Esther Salas on a suburban street in North Brunswick, New Jersey, and fatally shot her 20-year-old son when he answered the door. He also critically wounded her husband. The judge escaped unharmed.

Investigators have concluded that Den Hollander traveled eight days earlier by train to California to kill Marc Angelucci, 52, a men's rights lawyer whom he considered a professional rival. Angelucci was also shot on his doorstep.

Esther Salas and Angelucci were included on the list found in the rental car, along with at least 10 other people with whom Den Hollander apparently had scores to settle, including three jurists: New York state's chief judge, another federal judge in New Jersey, and a state judge in Manhattan who, like Salas, had presided over a case he brought.

Also on the list were two oncologists in Manhattan, at least one of whom had treated Den Hollander, two of the people said.

While his precise motive for making the list remains unclear, Den Hollander had received a terminal cancer diagnosis, and FBI agents this past week were exploring whether that news set him off on a mission of revenge against those he believed were his enemies.

A spokeswoman for the FBI's Newark, New Jersey, office, which is investigating the shootings with the U.S. attorney's office in the state, declined to comment on the list. The U.S. attorney's office did not respond to a call seeking comment.

Police outside the home of the federal judge, Esther Salas, in North Brunswick, N.J., early on Monday, July 20, 2020. (Yana Paskova/The New York Times)

This past week, officials acknowledged that information about two New York state judges and Salas was discovered in the rental car, and WNBC reported that investigators also found material about Angelucci and a doctor who had treated Den Hollander. But the existence of a list with more than a dozen names, including those of a second doctor and a second federal judge, has not been reported before.

Federal investigators believe Den Hollander, who had raged against women in thousands of pages of vituperative, online screeds, had dressed as a delivery man in the attacks.

An empty FedEx package addressed to Salas was also found in his rental car after Den Hollander's apparent suicide, but a search of the car and his home failed to turn up a uniform, one of the people with knowledge of the matter said.

A highway worker discovered Den Hollander's body at about 8 a.m. on a grassy pull-off outside the small town of Rockland, New York, about a two-hour drive from the judge's home, according to a law enforcement official.

He was wearing a blue blazer, a green-collared shirt, gray slacks and black dress shoes, and he lay about 12 feet from the rental car, a 2020 Toyota Corolla. He had a single wound to his head. A Walther .380 pistol was next to him.

The FBI this past week contacted New York state's chief judge, Janet DiFiore, to notify her that Den Hollander had her name and photo in his car, according to a spokesman for the New York court system, who said the other New York judge was also notified.