In two murders nearly 3,000 miles apart, a gunman came dressed as a delivery man. The guy at the door claimed that he was leaving a package, but instead he showered with bullets.
On Wednesday, the FBI said it had now linked the two murders to one man.
Roy Den Hollander, 72, a self-styled anti-feminist lawyer, is suspected in the murder of a well-known men’s rights lawyer in the mountains of San Bernardino County earlier this month and in the shooting on Sunday of the son and husband of a federal judge. in New Jersey
Attorney Marc Angelucci was fatally shot on July 11 at his Crestline, California home. In Sunday’s shooting in North Brunswick, New Jersey, US District Judge Esther Salas’ 20-year-old son was killed and her husband injured. Den Hollander’s body was found Sunday night in Sullivan County, New York.
“As the FBI continues to investigate the attack on the home of United States District Court Judge Esther Salas (District of New Jersey), we are now committed to the San Bernardino, California Sheriff’s Office, and we have evidence linking the murder of Marc Angelucci to the FBI Newark subject Roy Den Hollander, “the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement Wednesday.
Investigations of both killings are ongoing, FBI spokeswoman Doreen Holder said. Den Hollander was found dead hours after Sunday’s shooting, which took place at Salas’ home and ended with the death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel Anderl. Her father Mark Anderl was injured.
Salas survived the attack because he was in another part of the house the moment the armed man, dressed in a FedEx-type suit, arrived at the door.
When the body of Den Hollander, who died of apparent suicide, was found, a package addressed to Chambers was also recovered, along with one for a New York judge.
According to an unauthorized source to discuss the investigation, materials were recovered after Den Hollander’s death connecting him to the Angelucci murder, the shooting at the Salas and Anderl house, and to the New York judge, who was another potential target but was not damaged. .
In both fatal attacks, the killer posed as a delivery driver, according to a police source. On more than 2,000 pages of their online posts, investigators are examining a reference to Den Hollander who previously posed as a FedEx delivery driver.
Although authorities have not addressed Den Hollander’s motivation, he was known for handling lawsuits that challenged what he saw as unfair treatment of men, and part of his work attracted the attention that made him appear on “The Colbert Report” and MSNBC. .
Angelucci, Den Hollander and Salas shared a role in the legal battle over the military use of selective service and the requirement that men only be required to register for the draft once they turn 18. Salas heard a case from 2015 in which Den Hollander contested that requirement but was replaced as the plaintiff’s attorney in 2018 after becoming ill.
Den Hollander, upset by Salas’s delay in the case, mocked the judge’s Latino heritage and complained that he allowed the Justice Department to file its fourth motion to dismiss the case, suggesting that he was “trying to keep this case in his court until The meteorologist showed him in which direction the legal winds were blowing.
Angelucci represented a Texas man, supported by the National Coalition for Men, fighting against the constitutionality of the men’s exclusive requirement. In February 2019, Angelucci gained national legal focus when a judge declared that exempting women from that registration requirement violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause. However, the judge did not order the government to include women in the registration requirement. Den Hollander, according to those involved in the case, may have felt overshadowed.
Den Hollander had previously expressed hostility towards the National Men’s Coalition, where Angelucci had been a star legal player for two decades. Harry Crouch, the group’s president, told the Associated Press that Angelucci had received death threats. He said Den Hollander was furious that he had not been involved in a federal Selective Service System case that he filed with Angelucci.
Before the attack, in an ominous message posted online, Den Hollander wrote: “The only problem with a life long lived under the Feminazi government is that a man ends up with so many enemies that he cannot even score with all of them. But the law school and the media taught me how to prioritize, ”he wrote.
Angelucci, a UC Berkeley and UCLA-educated attorney who won iconic cases and was honored by the Southern Poverty Law Center, was found shortly after 4 p.m. on July 11 at his home in Cedar Pines Park on Crestline. Someone close by reported hearing gunshots. The deputies found that the lawyer “does not respond and suffers from apparent gunshot wounds.”
Angelucci was pronounced dead at the scene. Another person in the home reported seeing a delivery man and then hearing gunshots and seeing a fleeing car.
