Lawyer tied to 2 slayings had long list of potential victims
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, N.J., 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.
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.
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 office in Newark, N.J., 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.
Late Friday, the sheriff in San Bernardino County, Calif., where Angelucci was fatally shot at his front door, announced that detectives investigating the July 11 killing had determined that it had been committed by Den Hollander. (Previously, the FBI had described him only as a suspect, and California authorities had said little.)
Angelucci was the vice president of the National Coalition for Men, a men’s rights group that had rejected Den Hollander.
Den Hollander traveled to California by train, arriving July 7. He then rented a car, drove to Angelucci’s home and shot him, the sheriff ’s office said.
A gun found near Den Hollander’s body Monday was of the same caliber as the weapon used in the killing of Angelucci and the shooting that left Salas’ son dead and her husband wounded, law enforcement officials have said.