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October 21, 2021, 5:53 AM. 3:18. Robert Bierenbaum is seen here with Gail Katz in this undated family photo. Alayne Katz. Robert Bierenbaum, a former plastic surgeon who was convicted of murdering his wife in 2000, confessed to killing her and throwing her body out of an airplane after more than three decades of maintaining his innocence.
He was convicted in October 2000 of having murdered his estranged wife, Gail Katz-Bierenbaum 15 years earlier in their Manhattan apartment on July 7, 1985. Bierenbaum, a licensed pilot, took a two-hour flight in a Cessna 172 from Essex County, New Jersey, over the Atlantic Ocean on the day he murdered Gail.
It was the first time he had admitted to the crime since his wife, Gail Katz, disappeared in 1985. Her body has never been found. "I wanted her to stop yelling at me and I attacked her,"...
On Oct. 24, 2000, a jury found Bierenbaum guilty of second-degree murder after prosecutors provided evidence he flew over the Atlantic Ocean on the day Katz went missing, according to the NYT....
Robert Bierenbaum admitted to killing wife Gail Katz and throwing her body out of an airplane during a December 2020 parole board hearing, according to a new report from ABC News — part of the...
NEW YORK — Dr. Robert Bierenbaum maintained his innocence in 2000 as he was tried and convicted of killing his first wife 15 years before. In a December parole hearing, however, Bierenbaum, now 66,...
Robert Bierenbaum confessed to killing his wife Gail Katz in 1984. The New York surgeon was an experienced pilot. Bierenbaum said he strangled Katz and dumped her body in the ocean, in a ...
