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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Could accused wife-killer Rod Covlin walk free because of bungled investigation?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

New York millionaire Rod Covlin's trial for the murder of his stockbroker wife is nearing an end, but court observers say police bungling of the crime scene investigation make the chances of a conviction uncertain. Nancy Grace explores the case with a panel including forensics expert Karen Smith, psychologist Caryn Stark, North Carolina family and divorce lawyer Kathleen Murphy, and Crime Stories reporter Robyn Walensky.

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Crime stories with Nancy Grace.

0:58.8

Why don't you tell Anna that everything you're spending right now is her money and my

1:06.8

old money. That's shallow part of the whole amount of second. Add up. I'd like you to come

1:11.7

here. Hold on a second. Come here please. Because you'll have to come out here. Five years in the

1:16.6

12 years you've been married. You never worked. Your mother worked her

1:21.1

ass off for every penny that he's spending. Let me tell you the damage. I'm not wrong.

1:27.7

Maybe wrong about something. Not the money. My wife worked and worked and worked and your father

1:33.4

said. He's doing now. He refuses to get a job. He's spending your money. Okay. First of all,

1:41.6

he's spending your money. Oh, nothing could make me happier than to hear a secretly recorded

1:49.2

argument between a grown man in his in the home arguing with his parents, a man who has quit work

1:57.6

and gone off to be a professional backgammon player. Did you hear that?

2:04.2

Jack and I didn't move a hair as we were listening to Rod Covlan arguing with his parents. Did

2:11.8

you hear his mom say we worked our poop off and you're spending all your children's money. Your

2:20.0

mother worked like a dog and you're spending it all and you won't get a job. Well, yes, what? Not

2:27.3

having a job is the least of his worries right now because he is facing a murder charge for the

2:35.4

brutal death of his wife who PS did have a job. Shelley Denysiewski. I'm talking about the case going

2:43.9

on right now in a court of law against professional backgammon player Rod Covlan. I'm Nancy Grace.

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