article comment
14 years ago
![]()
rickduganVerified and Certifiable Super-Reviewer
On the topic of the "Long Con", here is an article about a really sad situation from Philly back in the late 90's:<br />
<br />
_____________________________________________________<br />
Main Line Murder was once again the headline when Merion attorney Stefanie Rabinowitz was found on April 30, 1997, dead in the bathtub of the home she shared with her husband Craig and their baby daughter. At first, it was thought to be an accidental drowning—but then an autopsy report found her death was actually due to strangulation. Craig Rabinowitz was charged with murder. Then, the truly sordid details began to emerge: evidence of Craig Rabinowitz’s double life. His business, supposedly in latex products, never actually existed. He was heavily in debt; he had pawned everything down to his wife’s engagement ring and had defrauded their friends and family. He frequented prostitutes before and during his marriage. In the four months before his wife’s death, Rabinowitz had spent $29,000 at a Philadelphia strip club, Delilah’s Den, where he had been seeing a stripper named Summer—real name: Shannon Reinhart—for a year. He spent thousands more buying gifts for Summer, with whom he had apparently grown obsessed. The clincher was, the couple had taken a $1.8 million life insurance policy on Stefanie just weeks before her death.<br />
In the end, the story Craig Rabinowitz told was this: Stefanie had grown suspicious of his spending and began questioning him. He snapped. The day Rabinowitz’ trial was set to begin, he confessed to the murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.<br />
_____________________________________________________<br />
<br />
Twenty Nine THOUSAND dollars PLUS gifts....she must have been a master. This is in a club that at that time was a complete "No Touch" club. You were expected to almost sit on your hands or some gorilla of a bouncer would remind you of that fact.<br />
<br type="_moz" />