FBI probes if California slaying related to judge attack
LOS ANGELES — The FBI is investigating whether the slaying of a well-known men’s rights attorney in the mountains of San Bernardino County early this month is connected to the shooting of a federal judge’s son and husband in New Jersey, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the probe.
Self-described anti-feminist attorney Roy Den Hollander was the prime suspect in the killing of the judge’s 20-year-old son and the wounding of the judge’s husband Sunday. Den Hollander, who was found dead following the attack, is now the focus of a federal probe into the July 11 fatal shooting of lawyer Marc Angelucci at his Crestline, California, home, according to those sources, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation.
In both deadly attacks, the killer posed as a delivery driver, according to a law enforcement source. San Bernardino County sheriff’s detectives investigating the killing Tuesday said the FBI’s Newark office is now taking the lead on the investigation. A spokesman for the sheriff’s department Tuesday referred a reporter to the team handling the attack Sunday at the home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas in North Brunswick, New Jersey, where 20-year-old Daniel Anderl
was killed and his father, Mark Anderl, was wounded.
Salas survived the attack because she was in another part of the house at the time the gunman, dressed in a FedEx-like outfit, came to the door.
FBI investigators are examining Den Hollander’s travel records and finances in the weeks before the deadly incident Sunday. His body was found in Sullivan County, New York, late Sunday. A package addressed to Salas was recovered with Den Hollander, along with another for a New York judge.
Den Hollander was known for handling lawsuits challenging what he saw as unfair treatment of men, with some of his work garnering attention that saw him featured on “The Colbert Report” and MSNBC.
It was one of those lawsuits that in 2015 landed Den Hollander before Salas. A woman filed suit because she wanted to register for the military draft that is for men only. Den Hollander, upset at Salas’ delaying of the case, derided the highly respected judge’s Latino heritage and complained that she allowed the Department of Justice to file its fourth motion to dismiss the case.