A Denver jury discovered a 58-year-old man responsible Tuesday of first-degree homicide within the 2015 dying of his spouse.
Robert “Bob” Feldman was convicted after the jury deliberated for about two hours for the dying of 44-year-old Stacy Feldman, in line with the Denver District Lawyer’s Workplace. Her physique was discovered of their south Denver dwelling on March 1, 2015.
On the time of her dying, Stacy had simply found that Feldman was having an extramarital affair. Feldman collected a $750,000 insurance coverage payout after his spouse’s dying. The long-awaited trial began on April 6.
“Regardless of his artistic efforts to evade justice, at present Robert Feldman was discovered responsible of murdering his spouse, Stacy Feldman,” mentioned Denver DA Beth McCann in a information launch. “I’m extraordinarily happy with the excellent work by our prosecutors, investigators, sufferer advocates, assist employees, and the Denver police detectives who by no means gave up on securing justice for Stacy. Furthermore, I thank the jury for performing their civic responsibility over these previous three weeks.”
Feldman was charged by prosecutors within the case with first-degree homicide in February 2018. District Court docket Choose Edward D. Bronfin on Tuesday instantly imposed a sentence of life in jail with out the potential of parole.
In the beginning of the trial, prosecutors informed jurors that Feldman strangled or suffocated his spouse after she realized concerning the affair. Feldman then picked up his younger kids from faculty — an hour late — and took them to a church carnival earlier than returning dwelling and calling 911, telling operators he’d simply found his spouse unresponsive within the bathtub with the water working.
“The firefighters seen there was no water on the ground,” Senior Chief Deputy District Lawyer Maggie Conboy mentioned of the primary responders to the 911 name.
Feldman’s protection attorneys — whom he’d deliberate to pay with the insurance coverage cash from his spouse’s dying — informed jurors that Stacy Feldman had an extended historical past of medical issues, together with an enlarged coronary heart, and simply occurred to drop useless within the bathe inside hours of studying about her husband’s affair.
Stacy Feldman’s dying was not dominated a murder by the Denver health worker’s workplace; pathologists couldn’t pinpoint a explanation for dying. Her dying was additionally not initially investigated as a murder by Denver police till they realized about Robert Feldman’s affair months later.
In 2019, the Colorado Supreme Court docket dominated that Feldman might use $550,000 of the $750,000 he obtained from his spouse’s life insurance coverage coverage to pay his protection attorneys, regardless that the guardian of his two younger kids argued they need to get the funds.
