Husband fights demand for DNA in April Kauffman murder probe

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

April Kauffman’s husband has never been named a suspect in the New Jersey talk show host’s 2012 murder, but a prosecutor is now asking a judge to order Dr. James Kauffman to give a DNA sample. The husband’s lawyer is fighting the demand, but a judge will soon decide if he’ll have to give DNA. In this episode, Nancy Grace and Alan Duke discuss why this 5-year-old cold case is now heating up.

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0:00.0	Tomorrow will be the fifth anniversary of the murder of April Kaufman at the Jersey Shore
0:10.3	in Linwood, Atlantic County.
0:12.1	Who would want to kill April Kaufman?
0:14.1	I can't think of anybody that would want to do harm to April because all she ever did
0:18.5	was help people.
0:19.9	April Kaufman was not only a beloved radio host, she was also beloved for being an advocate
0:24.2	for veterans.
0:25.2	The worker who came to the home on Woodstock Drive to feed Kaufman's pet parents discovered
0:29.3	her body in her bedroom and called 911.
0:31.7	Police say her husband told them April was alive when he left that morning.
0:35.7	Authorities say she had been shot multiple times.
0:38.5	This is car stories with Nancy Grace.
0:40.8	It's a newly appointed prosecutor who says he is focusing on unresolved homicides.
0:46.5	We are asking for a sample of his DNA.
0:48.9	The prosecutor's office says Jim Kaufman's attorney is opposing it.
0:52.8	I miss my mom a lot.
0:54.2	Even though I walk around with a smile in my face, there's a big, big hole in my heart.
0:58.9	A highly popular radio DJ dead.
1:05.0	Right now the cold case murder of a New Jersey radio DJ has been revived by prosecutors
1:12.1	who are demanding DNA from her widower.
1:19.3	I'm Nancy Grace.
1:20.3	This is Crime Stories.
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