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When a beloved Philly radio personality is mysteriously killed in her lavish Shore home, the years-long investigation reveals a dangerous undercover informant, an intricate murder-for-hire plot, and a vast trafficking conspiracy.
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00:12A 9-1-1 call comes in, the longtime handyman sees his boss face down on the floor, and he
00:21sees blood.
00:22April Kaufman has been murdered. Who would have wanted her dead?
00:27April Kaufman was a radio personality. She was a veterans' rights advocate. She was highly regarded.
00:35They were baffled by it.
00:37Some of the pagan motorcycle group was at her funeral.
00:41Why is it that these individuals from the motorcycle gang were paying their respects to April Kaufman?
00:46Who do you think did it?
00:48The pagans.
00:50The most valuable thing that came out of the search was an informant.
01:00It changed the whole ballgame.
01:03Drop the weapon. Listen, let's talk.
01:06Listen, let's talk.
01:07Sir!
01:27When the weather is warm, the nearby Jersey Shore basically becomes a sandy suburb of Philly.
01:33It's also where I got my start as a police officer in North Wildwood, New Jersey.
01:38And as I learned back then, bad things still happen, even at the beach.
01:57On May 10, 2012, a 911 call comes in around 11 a.m. from 2 Woodstock Drive.
02:07A man named Billy Gonzalez, who is a longtime handyman for this family, he calls 911 after going into his
02:14boss's bedroom to see if she was awake.
02:18He walks in.
02:19He sees his boss face down on the floor.
02:23She's still in her black nightgown.
02:25And he sees blood.
02:35At that point, the police department is rolling to the scene.
02:41Upon entering the bedroom, they observed a pool of blood on the floor soaking into the rug, and the victim
02:48laying on the floor, lifeless at that point.
02:51They see a cut on her arm, but then police realize that the cut on her arm is actually a
02:58gunshot wound.
03:00And then they also find that she has three gunshot wounds from two bullets.
03:05With the victim confirmed dead, police ask the handyman to identify her.
03:11And it's a name that would be familiar to many Philadelphia and South Jersey locals.
03:16Billy Gonzalez's boss is April Kaufman.
03:20People in the Philadelphia area knew April Kaufman well because of her work with veterans and because of the popular
03:26radio show that she had, the King Arthur radio show.
03:30She was also known in the community as a philanthropist.
03:33She owned a business.
03:34So she was very well known.
03:35She was on the media a lot.
03:37And she was always doing things for others.
03:41As investigators block off the crime scene, word of April's murder begins to spread.
03:46And soon her husband, Dr. Jim Kaufman, arrives.
03:50At the time that 911 will call his place, Dr. Kaufman was at a Wawa picking up some items.
03:56He received the phone call from Mr. Gonzalez and immediately returned to the residence to investigate what had happened to
04:03his wife.
04:06Upon returning to his residence, which was now a crime scene, Dr. Kaufman immediately is confronted with the fact that
04:12his wife has been murdered.
04:14He immediately begins to become emotional.
04:18He starts crying and even vomiting on the scene.
04:26Linwood has had very, very few homicides over the last 30 years.
04:32So the Linwood Police Department immediately contacted the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office.
04:38That team arrived and worked collaboratively with the local Linwood, New Jersey Police Department to secure the scene and to
04:46start investigating.
04:49Upon an initial scan of the room, you would be looking for shell casings.
04:53They're immediately looking for a weapon.
04:57Inside the bedroom, you have a bullet in the wall, in the plaster, behind the bed.
05:04They also see the gunshot wounds on April as well.
05:08They take those bullets as well.
05:11What's the condition of the scene?
05:13Are their drawers turned upside down?
05:15Are there items that are potentially very valuable that weren't touched?
05:20There was no signs of a break-in.
05:22There was no signs of a robbery.
05:25At this point, the detectives are going to sit down and they're going to say, April Kaufman has been murdered.
05:31Who would have wanted her dead?
05:35Detectives on scene begin to gather background information on April, looking for anything that could help the investigation.
05:42April told me that she was raised by her grandparents.
05:46She was married twice.
05:48Dr. Kaufman was her second husband.
05:51It had a beautiful home in Linwood.
05:52It was very large.
05:53She was married to a doctor, so, you know, they had a very nice home.
05:59April Kaufman was a radio personality.
06:02She was a military veterans' rights advocate and was highly regarded in the various communities where she operated.
06:10I mean, she was a player.
06:13She was a very beautiful woman.
06:15Very well kept.
06:16Always had her lashes and, you know, her hair and everything was always, nails were always done and well-dressed.
06:25We met in the summer of 2009.
06:30We hit it off.
06:31You know, she has a very vivid and lively personality.
06:36She never met a stranger.
06:39She was passionate is an understatement when you describe her drive to assist veterans and veterans' causes.
06:49She had a radio show that was broadcast on a weekly basis where she talked about providing better health care,
06:58about providing better access to the VA hospital.
07:03She also went to Walter Reed a lot to visit the soldiers who have served the United States of America
07:10and abroad, but were injured very badly.
07:15The last time I spoke to her was two weeks before she died.
07:20She had just gotten an award from Governor Chris Christie for her community work.
07:25I was very proud of her, and we were going to go out and celebrate.
07:37It was a pretty clean scene.
07:39They were baffled by it.
07:42Understand that this is 2012.
07:45While it was a home that was in a very exclusive community, you didn't have the prevalence of ring cameras
07:53or security cameras within the premises or anything like that.
07:58So they are literally trying to understand who has been there.
08:04You treat everyone as a potential suspect until you can eliminate them as a suspect.
08:10William Gonzalez was the first person on the scene, and so he was the first person who was questioned by
08:15the police.
08:18Billy Gonzalez worked for the Kauffmans.
08:21He was a longtime handyman for them.
08:24So he was able to go in and out of the house.
08:27He had a key.
08:29He was there several times a week.
08:31He would do every odd job that April would ask him to do.
08:36Did Mr. Gonzalez feel that he had been in some way mistreated, you know, by the Kauffman family?
08:41Was he not being paid the hours that he had worked?
08:44Was there a potential grievance between him and the family, which could have manifested itself in a murder?
08:57When the police speak with Gonzalez further, he says that he really liked working for the Kauffmans.
09:02They're a great couple.
09:04They've always treated him well, and they pay him well.
09:07Detectives then question Gonzalez's wife.
09:10And what she tells them is very similar to what her husband has said.
09:13She said that the Kauffmans were great people.
09:16Her account pretty much matched that of Mr. Gonzalez, so her story and his story check out.
09:24Back at the scene, detectives turn their attention to the next logical suspect, April's husband, Dr. Jim Kauffman.
09:33Every time you have a homicide, suspect number one is definitely going to be the surviving spouse.
09:40What would their motivation have been?
09:41Were they having problems?
09:47Jim and April have known each other for a long time.
09:50And the first date that they had, they went to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.
09:56And Jim continued to tell April about his time in Vietnam.
10:02He walks up to the Vietnam Memorial Wall and was crying.
10:07And that's something that really forged a relationship between the two of them.
10:12Veterans' Causes was something that April and Jim really took on together.
10:18They were a successful physician with a successful practice, and she was the wife that supported those initiatives, that gave
10:31back to the community.
10:34He described them as being very, very happily married.
10:39At the time that this murder could have occurred, he's on camera at Wawa, he had a lock-solid alibi.
10:49With both Dr. Kauffman and the family handyman cleared of suspicion, investigators wrap up the crime scene with no clear
10:56suspect.
10:58They went out looking for potential leads, and they really didn't find anything, which would have pointed at someone who
11:04wanted to commit such a heinous crime.
11:13At the funeral, there were so many people, but there was also a massive media presence, even national media, because
11:20her story really was captivating to a lot of people.
11:25Everybody cried. There was not a dry eye in the police.
11:30Detectives spot many familiar politicians and wealthy community members, but they're surprised to see a very different crowd gathered on
11:37the edge of the memorial.
11:41There's a group of men there who are wearing vests with various patches, and they have intricate tattoos.
11:48They're not exactly the guests you might expect who would be attending April service.
11:53Some of the pagan motorcycle group was at her funeral and led the funeral procession to her burial site.
12:05The Pagans have a very large presence in South Jersey and Philadelphia.
12:11They even had an affiliation with the Philadelphia mob.
12:15They're known for running drugs, running guns, prostitution, a number of different criminal activities.
12:22Definitely safe to say that murder would not be out of the wheelhouse of the Pagans.
12:26Why is it that these individuals from the motorcycle gang were paying their respects to April Kaufman?
12:38Coming up...
12:40Who do you think did it?
12:41Someone in a motorcycle gang.
12:44If the Pagans were involved, you know, why?
12:48It became clear that they weren't the happy couple that Jim portrayed them to be.
12:52Have you ever served in any branch of the military?
12:55No.
13:06In May 2012, well-known radio host April Kaufman is found shot to death in her home.
13:13Now, homicide detectives are looking into a possible connection between April and members of the Pagans motorcycle gang who attended
13:21her funeral.
13:23If you're talking about motorcycle clubs in the Philadelphia, South Jersey area, the number one club is the Pagans.
13:32It's been that way for a long, long time.
13:34And they've emerged as probably one of the most violent and toughest biker gangs in America.
13:41Always involved in the methamphetamine trade.
13:45They went to war with the Hells Angels.
13:48Hells Angels were trying to establish clubs here in this Philadelphia, South Jersey area.
13:53And by and large, the Pagans drove them out.
13:58At one point, there was a large amount of Pagans that served in the military.
14:03So they also were interested in veterans' causes, which obviously would connect them to April.
14:09According to local veterans' groups in town, April had interactions with many different kinds of bikers, not just Pagans, because
14:16of her charity work.
14:19They loved her.
14:20Can't remember any.
14:21They had a bad thing to say about her.
14:23And then, next thing we know, boom, gone.
14:33With the Pagans lead going nowhere, months tick by in the case stalls.
14:38April's daughter, Kim Pack, grows restless.
14:42Kim was born when April was just 17 years old.
14:46She calls her mom her soulmate, her sister, her best friend.
14:51It was really them against the world as April navigated single motherhood.
14:57As the year went on, Kim was really frustrated with authorities.
15:02She wondered why it appeared that her mom's investigation had stalled.
15:07Kim was adamant that Jim Kaufman was responsible for her mother's death, because something just didn't add up.
15:18There are certain things that didn't sit well with Kim when Jim spoke at the funeral.
15:25Number one, he kept his sunglasses on.
15:27And there were things that stuck out to Kim that she felt were digs at her mother in his eulogy,
15:35including him saying that he'll miss April berating him.
15:39There was a fight over Jim literally giving away her belongings, whether it was jewelry, whether it was personal effects,
15:48just trying to erase any evidence of April's life within his life.
15:55And Kim was adamant about saying, well, if this was someone that you loved, that was the love of your
16:01life, then why are you trying to erase them?
16:06Kim tells investigators about a major fight that April and Jim had just weeks before the murder, about a lie
16:13he had been telling her since the day they met.
16:16Kim tells investigators that her mom had recently learned that Jim was, in fact, not a veteran.
16:23April tells a friend of hers that she's absolutely mortified.
16:28She knew that her mother had planned to divorce Jim.
16:32She didn't really, I think, understand the full scope of the reasons, but she knew that her mother wanted out.
16:41That was a central, central key to starting to unlock some of the motives.
16:53Two years after the death of her mother, Kim Pack gets word that Dr. Kaufman is seeking to get the
17:00proceeds of a life insurance policy that was taken out on her life for over half a million dollars.
17:06Kim Pack is spurred into action.
17:08She's like, this is not going to happen.
17:10And she files a wrongful death suit against Dr. Kaufman.
17:13That means that Jim will have to be deposed.
17:18Jim is going to have to be in a court of law and answer questions by attorneys.
17:25The deposition was really interesting and very telling.
17:29Under oath, Jim Kaufman is asked about a broad range of topics.
17:33From his large gun collection.
17:35How many guns do you want?
17:37Approximately 18.
17:39To the state of his marriage to April.
17:42It became clear to anyone that was investigating that they weren't the happy couple that Jim portrayed them to be.
17:49But Kim Pack's lawyers have one specific question that they want to ask under oath.
17:54Something that proves their contention that he's a liar.
17:58Have you ever served in any branch of the military?
18:01No.
18:01Did you ever tell Kim Pack you were in the military?
18:04Yes.
18:04And what you went through?
18:05Yes.
18:06And that you carried bodies?
18:07Yes.
18:08Um, and, and the torture that you had gone through?
18:11Yeah.
18:11Did you ever tell anyone that you were a Green Beret?
18:14Yeah.
18:16Kim Pack lays out the fact that her mother knew that he was not the war hero he said he
18:22was.
18:22That there potentially were marital problems here.
18:25A short time after April learned that Jim was not a veteran is when she started to seek a divorce.
18:33That was kind of the, the last straw for his wife, April.
18:37She had been this advocate for military veterans.
18:40And here is her husband claiming this whole false valor thing.
18:45If April was threatening to expose him, maybe this is a motive.
18:49That was the impetus of Kim's passion for trying to get justice for April.
18:55Because something just didn't add up with Jim Kaufman.
18:59Jim claims in the deposition that he himself was scared and was constantly looking over his shoulder after April's death.
19:07Going from stolen valor and divorce to homicide is a big leap.
19:12What is it that he's seeking to prevent from happening?
19:22It's July 11th, 2014, and Dr. Jim Kaufman is being deposed in a wrongful death suit.
19:29Lawyers for April's family have just forced him to admit stolen valor.
19:33But before they can press him for more details about the murder,
19:37Dr. Kaufman offers a new theory of who he thinks killed his wife.
19:42Well, who do you think did it?
19:44I thought there was someone in a motorcycle gang.
19:49What motorcycle gang?
19:50The pagans.
19:53Jim talks in the deposition about how he treated a number of pagans.
19:57He was their doctor.
20:00And he starts to describe how they became a little bit too interested in his personal life.
20:06If the pagans were involved, why?
20:09Why would you kill April?
20:11She's just a radio host, a veterans advocate.
20:14One of the potential scenarios that Jim gives is that some of the pagans went to rob him,
20:19and April maybe intervened because she was at the home at the time after Jim left.
20:28Jim claims that he hadn't brought up the possibility of the pagans being involved in April's murder because he was
20:34scared in the years after April's death.
20:39But aside from having a gut feeling, Dr. Kaufman offers no physical evidence to corroborate his allegations.
20:47That leaves investigators with nothing concrete to pursue.
20:51Nothing seems to move when it comes to the investigation.
20:54You would think in 2014, with all of that new information from the deposition, that something would be done.
21:00It's never really been clear why the prosecutor's office did not move forward with that information.
21:07I wanted her to have justice.
21:09So every year I would post a picture of her saying, justice for April.
21:26In the spring of 2017, Damon Tyner, who at the time was a judge, is then appointed to the Atlantic
21:33County Prosecutor's Office.
21:35He is appointed as the prosecutor.
21:39When he first takes office, he comes up with a list of cold cases that he wants the office to
21:45move on, and one of them was April's case.
21:48Very little investigative work was done from what I could see when I took over the investigation five years later.
21:57DNA testing was not done on several pieces of evidence.
22:02There was never an arrest.
22:03There was never anyone in custody.
22:05While several people were questioned, they were not retained in custody.
22:10We were starting from scratch.
22:16I wanted to look into Jim Kaufman.
22:20For all intents and purposes, he did have an alibi.
22:23He wasn't there when the murder occurred because he was either at work or at the convenience store.
22:28But that didn't mean that he was not involved in the homicide.
22:35But as it turns out, the new prosecutor isn't the only one looking closely at Dr. Kaufman.
22:41One of our investigators said, you know, you really need to speak to the local Atlantic County FBI field office.
22:49I convened a meeting, and I asked him about this case and what was interesting about it.
22:56The FBI reveals that they have an active investigation looking into a health insurance fraud ring.
23:01And they believe that Dr. Kaufman is involved.
23:06In 2017, we were in the throes of the opioid epidemic.
23:09The FBI was working with their local partners.
23:12We're investigating heroin cases, those trafficking in heroin.
23:15We're also looking at those trafficking in prescription drugs.
23:19Diverting legal drugs for illicit purposes.
23:23We were taking a look at who the health care professionals were who were prescribing outside of the norm.
23:29In the course of these cases that we were working, looking at diverted prescription drugs,
23:34we had come across the name of Dr. Kaufman.
23:40Dr. Kaufman was definitely, as an endocrinologist, prescribing painkillers
23:44outside of what would be the threshold that we would expect.
23:48This was a state investigation into Jim Kaufman selling drugs illegally.
23:56Investigators requested the list of patients that were prescribed narcotics by Dr. Kaufman.
24:02On that list of names are people associated with the Pagan Motorcycle Gang.
24:11Coming up, he said, I can give you information about the biggest unsolved murder in Atlantic County.
24:17Suddenly, investigators are there.
24:19They're surrounding his home.
24:20No, I'm not going to jail for this.
24:22Drop the weapon.
24:23Listen, let's talk.
24:25I'm going to kill myself.
24:28Drop the gun!
24:43In 2017, the opioid crisis is in full swing,
24:47and the FBI suspects that Dr. James Kaufman is writing fake scripts for some of his patients,
24:54including members of the Pagan Motorcycle Gang.
25:01The more scripts that the doctors wrote, the more money that they got paid.
25:05The more scripts that any individual got filled, they got paid.
25:11They learned, with respect to the Pagans, Dr. Kaufman was writing scripts for an inordinate amount of opioids and other
25:21pain medicines.
25:23What would happen was, a presumed patient would come in, they wouldn't even be in there 10 minutes,
25:30and Jim would write them a script, and they would leave, they would get it filled,
25:34and they would give it to a member of the Pagans, who would then sell these or have someone else
25:40sell them out on the open market for an inflated price.
25:46You have Jim Kaufman scamming insurance companies, then you have him flooding the local market with opioids.
25:58That is critical because Atlantic County was in the middle of an epidemic crisis of opioid addiction and overdose deaths.
26:10But investigators need someone to talk, and talking to cops is not something Pagans do.
26:17There's a strict code about how you conduct yourself.
26:20Pagans have the same thing as organized crime figures.
26:23They don't cooperate. You don't cooperate. You don't give anything up.
26:26You don't even talk to law enforcement, and guys have been beaten for that very reason.
26:32With no chance of getting a Pagan to flip, investigators decide to obtain a search warrant for Jim Kaufman's office.
26:39In hopes of finding evidence of the illegal pill mill.
26:46The time was set. The morning was set. We knew his routine.
26:50From the moment he left his house and took his daily trip to Wawa, and then came to the office.
26:59We had a number of agents and officers on the scene.
27:07You have members of the SWAT team. You have detectives. You have federal agents.
27:12They're all taking over this parking lot of this small doctor's office.
27:17He was in the office alone.
27:28He goes back into the office. He closes the door. He comes back out with a handgun.
27:35Drop the gun. Drop the gun. Hey, drop the gun. Drop the gun.
27:41You're on the scene. You're thinking, I need to get that gun out of his hands. I need to get
27:46the gun on the ground.
27:47Drop the gun. Let's talk.
27:48No, I'm not going to jail for this.
27:50Sir, we just have a search warrant. That's it. Put the weapon down.
27:54Drop the weapon. Listen, let's talk.
27:56I'm not going to kill myself.
27:58Listen, let's talk. Sir.
27:59Yes.
28:01It changed the whole ballgame.
28:06And it turns into a multi-hour standoff.
28:10They weren't there to arrest Dr. Kaufman. They were there to collect evidence of a crime.
28:17You're thinking there's nothing in a health care case which would cause you to pull out a gun and start
28:23waving it around.
28:26Dr. Kaufman thinks we're here to make an arrest for the murder.
28:30Investigators have no idea if Kaufman will shoot himself or come out and turn the gun on them.
28:36For the next 45 minutes, the standoff continues.
28:41Hands up as high as you can.
28:43The only way we can guarantee your safety is to keep cooperating, please. Walk backwards.
28:49Ultimately, Jim decides to surrender his weapon and be taken into custody.
28:57That day, Jim Kaufman was arrested for weapons offenses.
29:00That will happen.
29:02We're going to have an ambulance come and just check you out and make sure you're okay.
29:04I'm okay.
29:05This is just procedure.
29:06I know you're a doctor, but we have certain things we have to follow.
29:09Okay.
29:10Because Jim was threatening suicide, he also has to be taken in for a psychiatric evaluation.
29:21We searched the office and the home that day.
29:24We found a lot of paperwork.
29:27We seized all of the records of every patient.
29:30We got cash out of the home, large amounts of cash.
29:34But the most valuable thing that came out of the search of Dr. Kaufman's office and the seizure of the
29:42records of all of his patients was an informant.
29:46When investigators go through the medical records, they see the name Andrew Glick.
29:52Andrew Glick was the president of the Cape May County chapter of the Pagans.
29:57We had already had an opportunity to review his records and saw that every time that he did visit, he
30:04was prescribed Percocets, opioids, and a host of other medicines.
30:10But he was getting treated presumably for diabetes.
30:15From what appeared to be in his files, there was some evidence that he would have been involved in the
30:19pill mill operation.
30:22The investigators came up with a plan.
30:24The prosecutors put something out in the news telling patients,
30:29if you are a patient of Dr. Kaufman's, we likely have your medical records.
30:33You can come to us and we can give them back to you.
30:36Investigators were shocked when Andrew Glick comes in to get his records.
30:40Andrew Glick did come into the office to collect his files, which gave us the opportunity for an informal questioning.
30:48The investigators asked him, what did you have to do with April Kaufman's death?
30:53He hesitated.
30:55He said, I want to talk to my lawyer.
30:59Andrew Glick realizes he has a problem, and he immediately retains an attorney.
31:04This was definitely something that got the wheels turning.
31:07The detectives, the agents sat down and said, what's our next step?
31:24Five years after April Kaufman's murder, investigators believe that both April's husband, Dr. James Kaufman,
31:31and members of the Pagan Motorcycle Gang know who killed her.
31:36Now, they're face-to-face with Andrew Glick, the president of the local Pagan chapter.
31:43The investigators asked him, what did you have to do with April Kaufman's death?
31:49Andrew Glick is a major drug dealer.
31:52He's dealing coke, he's dealing meth, and he's still doing all of this while this cloud of suspicion is hanging
31:59over Pagan's and also Dr. Kaufman.
32:01So after he leaves the office, even knowing that they're focusing on him, he freaks out a little bit.
32:09And just as he moves drugs from a stash apartment that he has in Ocean City to his home in
32:16Egg Harbor Township is when everything goes down.
32:21We noticed that he was moving boxes and product from there to his home.
32:26We got a search warrant for his home.
32:29He's in his backyard.
32:31Suddenly investigators are there.
32:33They're surrounding his home.
32:36And he knows it's over.
32:41Illegal drugs, diverted prescription drugs, you know, you name it, it was there.
32:45Andrew Glick at this point is taken into custody.
32:50Looking at what you would be prosecuted for under state statute at that point, he was potentially looking at decades
32:55behind bars.
32:58And that's when Andrew Glick flips.
33:01He said, I can give you information about probably the biggest unsolved murder in Atlantic County.
33:12When the head of the pagans begins to talk, he starts with Dr. Kaufman.
33:17Andrew Glick claims that they were running a pill mill in association with Dr. Kaufman.
33:23But it was the pagans running the pill mill.
33:26Dr. Kaufman would get paid cash.
33:28And then the pagans would be able to take those pills.
33:32And either they resold the pills or some of the pagans took the pills themselves.
33:38Glick saw Kaufman as a guy who, part of him wanted to be a biker, wanted to be a tough
33:42guy.
33:43But he couldn't really be it.
33:45So he did it vicariously.
33:47He was, by being around those guys, by being part of the pill mill.
33:51It might go back to the whole fake military thing.
33:54He was somebody who wanted to be something he knew he wasn't.
33:59With details of the pill mill confirmed, investigators turned the conversation to what they really want to know about.
34:05April Kaufman's murder.
34:08Once Andrew Glick started cooperating, he told a story about how April Kaufman was upset with Dr. Kaufman over stolen
34:16valor.
34:17He had painted a picture that he was a Vietnam War hero.
34:20She had threatened to expose him for that.
34:23She also threatened to expose him for running the pill mill operation.
34:27This is something that Dr. Kaufman could not handle.
34:32Divorce would have been very, very expensive.
34:34Not only would he have lost his good name in the community, his standing, there was a financial incentive as
34:38well.
34:39Andrew Glick fills in a lot of blanks for us.
34:43He gave us a name.
34:45And that was Ferdinand Freddy Augiello.
34:51Freddy Augiello was a member of the Pagans.
34:55He was a petty drug dealer.
34:57Through his relationship with Jim Kaufman,
35:01I guess he was a mastermind of, hey, write me a script for some opioids so we can sell them
35:07out on the street.
35:10Glick claims Kaufman and Freddy Augiello were cuffed from the same cloth.
35:14They both were motivated by getting money.
35:19And that's what this was all about.
35:23As things started to unfold with the Kaufman marriage,
35:27Jim was very nervous that April was on to him about the stolen valor.
35:32He shared this with Freddy.
35:35She's threatening to go to the police about the drug operation.
35:40And that can't happen.
35:42He was like, well, she has to go.
35:49Eventually, Fred Augiello agrees to take the murder contract for $50,000.
35:56But at the same time, Fred Augiello didn't want to do this himself.
36:00And that is why he started shopping around the idea of hiring a hitman.
36:07Eventually, Fred Augiello was able to identify two individuals,
36:12Francis and Joe Mulholland,
36:13who would go ahead and take the contract and kill April Kaufman.
36:18They're not related.
36:20Frank Mulholland is described as a drug addict that needs money.
36:24And Joe Mulholland is the guy who drives Frank Mulholland to April's home on the morning she's killed.
36:32These homicide investigators have spent years waiting for this information.
36:37But I can tell you from experience, Glick's words are not enough.
36:41Detectives need evidence that will convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.
36:47Andrew Glick gave us a lot.
36:48But of course, you know, we can't take him on his word.
36:51Best corroboration is going to be him wearing a wire.
36:56The actual practice of wearing a wire is going against everything that Andrew Glick
37:02has been holding himself out to be as a member of a motorcycle gang.
37:07This is a big step for him to be taking.
37:10Make sure this is button good when you get out, okay?
37:12Before you get out.
37:13Make sure it's point straight when you're walking in.
37:15Like, you know, while you're walking on me, he's not looking.
37:17Just adjust this.
37:25After years of delay, a witness has finally emerged in April Kaufman's murder case.
37:31It's the president of the local Pagan motorcycle gang.
37:34And he's agreed to risk his own safety to prove he's not lying.
37:40During the fall of 2017, Glick, out of jail, wearing a wire, engaging in conversations with
37:47a Jell-O, trying to corroborate what it is that he told us.
37:51Make sure this is button good when you get out, okay?
37:54Before you get out.
37:55Make sure it's point straight when you're walking in.
37:57Like, you know, while you're walking on me, he's not looking.
37:59Just adjust this.
38:01It's difficult work.
38:03You're going in and talking to someone about a potential crime that happened years ago,
38:08and that just doesn't fit the script.
38:11You know, you're not going to show up at someone's house and say,
38:13hey, remember the time that we got together and we killed somebody?
38:15I'm going on the Freddy Giffy's new wire.
38:17Oh, no.
38:20Well, it isn't really people do weird s***, Andrew.
38:23I hear you, buddy.
38:24Glick wears a wire, and he starts to tell Fred what's going on.
38:29Like, no, this is a real case.
38:31They were asking me about April.
38:33They got nothing, and they want people to f***ing talk.
38:37Right.
38:37But anybody that's going to open their mouths and say stupid things,
38:41your lawyer or my lawyer will eat them alive because they're going to be losers.
38:45He just proceeds to confirm everything because he's talking to someone that he feels comfortable with.
38:51Where's the film of you handing this guy money?
38:54Where's the film of him handing me?
38:57There is no film.
38:59After taking a look at what evidence we had, you know, what Freddy had said on tape,
39:04how we could corroborate Glick as a cooperating witness,
39:08there is probable cause that Freddy Gillo
39:12was the ringleader behind the murder of April Kaufman.
39:19The decision was made to go ahead and get an arrest warrant
39:22and take Freddy Gillo into custody on January 9th of 2018.
39:28There's no drugs in here.
39:30What are you looking for?
39:32There's nothing in here illegal.
39:33I mean, there's nothing in here.
39:34On that day, Freddy Gillo and six others connected to both the pill mill and April's murder are arrested.
39:44All agree to testify against Dr. Kaufman, who is still being held on gun charges.
39:50Subsequent to the arrest of Freddy Gillo, it's during this time that we received a phone call
39:57that Dr. Kaufman was dead, apparently had taken his own life by hanging himself in the jail cell.
40:08With the walls closing in, James Kaufman ended his own life
40:12and therefore cannot be tried for his wife's death.
40:15But Fred Ogiello and his co-conspirators, Ken.
40:20And with the Philadelphia and South Jersey media present,
40:23the trial for the murder of April Kaufman begins.
40:28Andrew, do you know who that is?
40:29Yes, I do.
40:30And who is that?
40:31That is Fred Ogiello.
40:33And did he have any kind of nickname in the club?
40:36Yes, he was known as miserable 1%.
40:39Was that miserable 1%?
40:41Yes.
40:42Nervous, Andrew?
40:44A teeny bit.
40:46During the trial, it's revealed that the suspected trigger man, Frank Mulholland,
40:51has passed away.
40:52And his driver, Joe Mulholland, testifies against Fred Ogiello.
40:58Ultimately, the jury finds Fred Ogiello guilty of murder,
41:02and the state of New Jersey sentences him to 30 years in prison.
41:06Ogiello is also found guilty in federal court on drug charges,
41:10and there, he receives a life sentence.
41:14Ogiello, now 62, must serve 55 years of his life sentence before being eligible for parole.
41:19He'd be 117 years old.
41:22But the true mastermind of April's murder is her husband, Dr. Jim Kaufman.
41:39I believe if April was still alive, she would still be working with the vets.
41:46You know, working with things that she enjoyed or felt passionate about.
41:53This is another example of men behaving badly.
41:58A man with power and prestige and money, literally believing he can get away with murder
42:04because he has power, prestige, and money.
42:07The murder was cheaper than divorce.
42:11James Kaufman said he had an empire worth about $5 million,
42:16and he wasn't going to give her half of it.
42:19I think this case inspired many of the investigators to never give up.
42:26I'm proud of the work that the men and women of the office did to get this family justice.
42:34I don't want to have hatred in my heart.
42:37And no matter what the sentence anyone will serve in this case,
42:40it just doesn't bring her back.
42:49I don't want to have hatred in my heart.
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