Mikita Brottman

In this episode, Myron “Pepi” Levin takes the witness stand in the murder trials of Cherry Hill Rabbi Fred J. Neulander. The rabbi’s wife, Carol Neulander, was murdered in the family home in 1994. The two men responsible for the murder, Len Janoff and Paul Daniels, said they were paid by Fred Neulander, who was in love with a wealthy widow. Mr. Levin, who went to prison during the 1980s after being convicted in a food-stamp-theft scam, was Neulander’s racquetball partner and also testified in the rabbi’s second trial when the first was declared a mistrial. Levin said that Neulander asked him for help in finding a hit man months before Carol Neulander’s murder, but didn’t disclose the information to investigators until 1997 after he learned Neulander had cheated him in the purchase of a Torah. Fred Neulander received a life sentence for his wife’s murder, while Len Jenoff and Paul Daniels, who admitted beating Mrs. Neulander to death, were both given 23-year prison terms. Pepi Levin died in January 2007, at the age of 84.