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Not Another True Crime Podcast

The Murder Of April Kauffman

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

Comedy, True Crime, Society & Culture

3.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week, Sara and Danny are back to breakdown a murder plot with some fascinating twists and turns. April Kauffman was found dead in 2012, and the lengthy investigation that followed her murder was centered around her husband, Dr. James Kauffman. Along the way, the authorities uncovered a number of suspicious reports about Dr. Kauffman’s, including multiple allegations of fraud from his medical practices, along with some shady connections to the Pagans Biker’s Gang. Sara and Danny breakdown the whole saga from beginning to end and discuss all the twists and turns. To end the episode, the play a game called “Angels and Pagans,” where they test their knowledge on the Pagan’s Club and the Hell’s Angels to see who is the true biker at heart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:21.0

On May 10th, 2012, April Kaufman was found dead in her bedroom with no signs of struggle.

0:27.0

Her husband, Dr. James Kaufman, immediately became a prime suspect, but his airtight alibi

0:32.0

eliminated him from the investigation. However, Dr. Kaufman's behavior became more and more erratic after the murder,

0:39.9

selling April's belongings quickly, and even being accused of a medical fraud scheme to enrich

0:45.9

himself. After unearthing his connections to a biker gang, police started revisiting him as a

0:51.3

suspect, all the while trying to find out who killed April Kaufman.

0:57.6

Betcha's Media Presents.

1:00.6

Not another true crime podcast.

1:03.5

It's all fun in games until someone gets hurt.

1:17.1

Thank you. one gets hurt. Welcome back, everybody, to Not Another True Crime Podcast.

1:20.9

I'm Sarah Levine, here again with Danny.

1:24.7

Hey, you know, us where your partners in wine, crime, and time.

1:27.4

I know I've returned.

1:28.7

It's hard to come back from a week-long vacation to a week of work. It's not, I don't recommend it to anybody. The vacation, yeah, but the reality crushing back in, it's a, it's a struggle. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's got to be the worst. That's why I don't take vacations, you know. that's it. I just can't adjust back. That's why I just don't have joy. It would be so much easier. And I do want to shout out, well, I'm not going to say their name because I didn't ask for permission to, but I ran into a listener at Trivia on Tuesday. And she was talking about, I know so cool. And the coolest thing. She was talking about, well, not the coolest, kind of just related to the podcast, because it was right after the Son of Sam episode. And her mom was in like Queens during that time and Mora Wick. Whoa. That's just so insane. Yeah, I have to ask my parents about that. You do. Because my mom grew up, I mean, like semi in the area, like close by. That's crazy. And then I realized too, it's so like the energy of talking true crime.

2:19.9

Then it was like us shouting about son of Sam at like a bar and just like all the details.

2:24.3

And just people looking over and I was like,

2:26.3

what the fuck are you?

2:28.0

Like I'm on the murder.

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