30: CASE | The Spray Tan Murder

Avery After Dark

Avery Ross

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, True Crime

4.8 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In the early morning hours of November 7th, 2007 Adam Kaufman dialed 911 and sounded hysterical. He told the dispatcher that he woke up that morning to find his wife Lina, slumped in their bathroom unresponsive. Paramedics arrived but it was too late. Lina died that morning.

So what happened? Adam initially told i to the fact that Lina had gotten her first ever spray tan hours prior and she must've suffered some kind of fatal reaction to the tan. But to the public & media, this seemed far fetched.

Friends & Family said the couple seemed happy & in love. But everything changed a year & half later when it was announced that Lina's cause of death was homocide. The primary suspect? Adam Kaufman

And also, why did Adam have a new girlfriend 1 MONTH after Lina's death?

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0:00.0	When 34-year-old Adam Kaufman dialed 911 in the early morning hours of November 7, 2007, he sounded hysterical.
0:24.5	On the phone, he told the dispatcher that he woke up that morning to find his wife, Lena,
0:29.9	slumped in their bathroom, unresponsive and cold. Paramedics rushed to her, but it was too late.
0:36.3	Lena Kaufman was dead.
0:38.3	So what happened?
0:40.2	Adam told police that the only thing that he could think of was that his wife, Lena,
0:44.3	had gotten her very first spray tan the night before her death.
0:47.8	The two had plans to attend an upcoming wedding,
0:50.5	and maybe his wife had some kind of fatal reaction to the tan.
0:53.9	But police discovered quite a few
0:55.9	things at the scene that may indicate something far more sinister. So the question is, was Lena
1:01.6	Kaufman the victim of a strange and tragic medical mystery? Or was that just a cover and did her
1:08.1	husband actually strangle her to death? Welcome back to Avery After Dark.
1:12.4	I'm your host Avery Ross, and today we are back to a true crime case, and it's an odd one.
1:18.0	Let's just say that.
1:19.3	It's commonly referred to in the media as the spray-tan murder, and at the center of the case
1:24.3	is Lena and Adam Kaufman.
1:26.8	There's a lot to break down here. All of this
1:29.3	takes place in a suburb of Miami, Florida, called Aventura, which is a very nice area.
1:35.6	Adam Kaufman was a very successful real estate developer, and he met Eleanor, 33, everyone
1:42.0	called her Lena, at a party in 1997 and was immediately taken with her.
1:47.1	And the two began dating. Lina herself was a very sophisticated, intelligent woman. Growing up,
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