The anti-feminist lawyer suspected of ambushing the family of a federal judge has now been linked to the similar murder of a rival lawyer in California a week earlier, the FBI said Wednesday.
The announcement came after The Daily Beast reported that investigators had determined that Roy Den Hollander was in California when Marc Angelucci was shot to death at his home.
The FBI’s Newark office did not say what other evidence it had uncovered to fix the California murder on Den Hollander.
Investigators have been tracking the movements of the 72-year-old Den Hollander since he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound Monday morning, hours after he allegedly went to the New Jersey home of the US District Judge. Esther Salas and shot her and her son. husband.
Hollander’s car found a FedEx package addressed to Salas, as well as documents mentioning Angelucci, the activist who was killed a week earlier at his home in Crestline, California. Detectives quickly began investigating Hollander’s travel history.
“We see him in California on the relevant dates,” a police source told The Daily Beast on Wednesday, before the FBI announcement.
Den Hollander had been a member of the National Men’s Coalition, the organization where Angelucci volunteered, until he was expelled.
The two men had filed grievances, challenging the draft men-only military policy, on opposite coasts. But while Angelucci had a major victory in her case in February, Den Hollander was still pending in New Jersey, in the Salas courtroom.
In online statements, Den Hollander made it clear that he blamed Salas for stealing a legal victory from him. Interestingly, he also referred to her as a “hot Latina” and said he wanted to invite her out, then criticized her as “lazy and incompetent.”
Den Hollander, who was dying of melanoma, also reportedly had a photo of the New York State chief judge with him, along with several other people, raising the specter of a hit list he was working for. .
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