Fake Veteran Plots Wife’s Murder With Motorcycle Gang?! The Death of April Kauffman

True Crime with Kendall Rae

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🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

April Kauffman was described as part princess, part bulldog… She was beautiful, funny, charismatic, generous, incredibly philanthropic, and would stop at nothing to give back to the causes she believed in. One of the things she believed in most was helping Veterans. Her passion for helping Veterans is what drew her to Jim Kauffman, her third husband. But after 10 years of marriage, she wanted out. After finding out he lied about being a veteran and that he was running an illegal pill mill with a local motorcycle gang, April asked for a divorce. But rather than risk losing half of his net worth, Jim paid someone in that motorcycle gang to murder her. After years of her case going cold, her daughter pushed for justice and ultimately landed those responsible behind bars, thanks, in part, to a member of the gang who snitched.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to True Crime with Kendall Ray. Thank you so much for joining me today and if you are new then welcome so
0:15.2	happy to have you. So today guys I'm going to be telling you about a case that I had
0:21.6	personally never heard of and I was pretty shocked I haven't heard of this one but so many of you had requested it through my case submission form which we didn't know is always linked in the description box.
0:33.5	And we're going to be talking about the murder of April Kaufman.
0:37.6	And the details in this case and how everything unfolded is it's so absurd, it's so upsetting, it's angering, and it's one that
0:49.5	definitely needs to be talked about. April Kaufman was a literal force to be reckoned with. She was such a
0:56.1	strong and powerful woman. She was a good spirited person. She was compassionate, empathetic, and what happened to her is so hard to wrap your mind around.
1:06.9	The circumstances that led to her murder are so outrageous that it's almost hard to believe.
1:12.4	And the amount of greed and evil
1:15.1	involved in this case truly shocked me and honestly with how many cases I've
1:19.9	covered it takes a lot to shock me these days. There are so many ups and
1:23.9	downs, twists and turns. It's really one of those roller coaster cases and
1:27.3	there's a lot to go over so let's just go ahead and get into it starting
1:31.5	with a background on April and who she was.
1:34.6	April Christine Favasa was born on October 27th, 1964 in Atlantic City, New Jersey
1:40.9	and her childhood was quite rocky.
1:43.5	Her father was mostly absent from her life, and when April was only 11 years old,
1:48.1	her mother placed her other four siblings into foster care, which, you know know can be extremely difficult and April was left
1:55.8	with that guilt and sort of heavy burden of being the only child that her
2:00.0	mother decided to continue raising. In April herself was primarily raised in her early
2:05.6	childhood by her grandmother and that's because her mom got involved in a lot of, how do I put
2:11.5	this, toxic and concerning relationships with men that April should not have been around.
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