Staten Island, NY – Police Charge Arthur Rubin with Murder in Wife’s Death

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    Staten Island, NY – Police say a Staten Island woman found dead inside her home was strangled and her husband is facing a murder charge.

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    Eva Rubin was found dead in the bedroom of her Willowbrook home at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.

    Police say they noticed strangulation marks on her neck. The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide.

    Her 64-year-old husband, Arthur Rubin, was found Wednesday in his wife’s car and had apparently slashed his wrists and torso. He was hospitalized and arrested on murder charges after police say he made statements implicating himself.

    He was in stable condition. The name of his lawyer was not immediately available.


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    jnuss
    jnuss
    12 years ago

    This is a story that should make us all cry. He must have been in such a low state of mind to do this. All I can say is “Nebech”. For him to keep on living with this horific thing in his mind is the worsed thing a person can suffer.

    speakup
    speakup
    12 years ago

    (Reply to #1 ): No, sweetie pie. The worst thing a person can suffer is death by strangulation at the hands of the person who should have protected you. Try to get it straight now, would ya?

    Boochie
    Boochie
    12 years ago

    What’s with all the sympthy for the bad guy – let him rot and think about what he did

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Why do all the comments on this tragedy express “rachmonis” or “nebach” for this murderer who killed his wife without a good reason, rather than for the niftar?.

    ALLAN
    ALLAN
    12 years ago

    #&#8 217; 6 and # 8 both of your comments are reasonable and civil. Name calling is without any doubt not in order. My other thought is that we really never know what goes on behind the closed doors of others. #8 you are so correct that a good word to a fellow Jew can sometimes make a world of difference. My sympathies go out to the Rubin family.

    GB_Jew
    GB_Jew
    12 years ago

    A reminder to those posters who are already baying for Arthur Rubin’s blood:

    American law states that a person accused of committing a crime – ANY crime – is innocent until he or she is proved guilty by a jury and a judge.

    So for the time being at least Arthur Rubin must be described as an ALLEGED murderer.

    Please remember that – although I am quite sure that you will all conveniently ignore me.

    12 years ago

    When people in our Orthodox community have money problems it is truly a terrible thing-believe me I know. To constantly walk around feeling like a have-not is just so debilitating. I have a job that is held in high esteem, but make little money for it and I am just beginning to feel resentful about it. I wonder if our value system has always been this bad, or if it came about in the 1980’s when some people’s incomes boomed. I read in other posts on the internet that people are saying that we think we can make our own rules. As much as I would like to think that this is an anti-semitic statement, sadly, I have to agree. The rich orthodox have changed the way we look at things and people who we were brought up to trust have cheated the government, people and tedakahs. People like me who just want to live a moral and relatively simple life are laughed at. It is one of the saddest realizations I’ve ever had. So I think that someone with financial problems in our community can become so sad that they don’t know what to do. Of course I don’t condone the act but I do understand the feelings. This happened to a good family. I know them well-they are helpful and kind.

    alterknaker
    alterknaker
    12 years ago

    Well put #8 , you took the words out of my mouth&#8 230;

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    12 years ago

    My sympathy first goes to the family who have lost a mother. Perhaps he was sick and needs medical care. We are not doctors. He needs one. (Maybe that will help him for starts) I did hear that he slashed his wrists very recently. He is very depressed and needs care. That does not mean you have to kill your wife!!

    Gefilte Fish
    Gefilte Fish
    12 years ago

    I’m starting to think that whatever a frum male will do will be somewhat justified to some extent by some VIN commentors. Whether it be stealing, money laundering, child molestation, and even strangling their own wife to death!

    There must have been a reason, it’s probably some mental state, etc etc can be said about each and every criminal, but we only use these phony arguments when it comes to us.

    12 years ago

    To #6 - “and now going on trial”-What trial! The defendant in this case will probably plead guilty to 1st degree manslaughter, and receive 5-10 years; he will probably be paroled prior to ten years. I remember a case in Park Slope, in Brooklyn in 1970, where a defendant shot and killed his wife and mother-in-law, and was sentenced to 10 year’s total for both crimes. In NYC, killings involving a family member (where a defendant pleads guilty), rarely involve a stiff jail sentence. However, in Texas, if you do the crime, you pay with your time. There, a double killing would result in a 40 year or longer jail sentence. Let us stop making excuses for Rubin (i.e. he was depressed, he had a tumor on his brain, etc.).

    woodmerejoe
    woodmerejoe
    12 years ago

    were there any warning signs could have prevented this tragedy?
    if so, maybe we cannot prevent further tragedies.

    Nirah-Lee
    Nirah-Lee
    12 years ago

    In order to be chayiv misah one needs to be given hasra’ah within 3 seconds preceding the act – so that he is FULLY aware of his actions and it’s consequences. For perhaps otherwise we (the Torah) are concerned these actions may in fact have been done under the influence of a ruach shtuss (of ANY kind) and although the crime is egregious, but because we are unable to ascertain his state of mind at the time it was committed, *WE cannot punish him. It is now up to the Bochen Levavos alone.

    12 years ago

    while this is a tragedy on all levels, the obvious is that a crime, of physical abuse has occured. i do not purport to know the family, details or otherwise, but a ‘snap’ does not occur out of the blue. this man pounced on his wife, animalistically. physical abuse is a serious problem in the frum world, do not kid yourselves. women and children suffer in silence for the fear and shame associated with it. shidduch reasons, rather than health reasons are why women stay in such marriages.
    we can blame ‘galus’, a misplaced term used when tragedies of ganayva, molestation, mesira occur on a daily basis in the frum world. we’ve become desensitized from the aforementioned crimes…now it’s murder? (remember the Canadian ‘troubled’ brother who murdered his sister in cold blood just a few months ago?)….in lieu of this tragedy, every rabbi should condemn abuse in his drasha this Shobbos.
    the symbolism of Pesach, chayrus, is the answer to the women in our communities who are beaten, and suffer on a daily basis…which community will be next that will bury a wife whose husband ‘snapped’?
    galus sure is dark

    A_Simple_Chussid
    A_Simple_Chussid
    12 years ago

    7 words, Rabboisai:
    Hevei Dan Es Kol Ha’Adam L’Kaf Zchus.

    It might be difficult, especially when one is at the receiving end of the subject’s action; nonetheless, we’re commanded to do so.

    It is common knowledge that the Sanhadrin, before they were to pass down a verdict of death on a person, they had to first thoroughly seek a Limud Zchus. Only when none was found did they actually condemn a person to death.

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    12 years ago

    The final verdict will be rendered at a trial in a civil court. Right now there is an admission of homicide. The fact that a religious Jew committed homicide and the traget is was wife is a clarion call to take stock at what level of humanity we have landed. Has nothing to do with halacha but with retzicha

    Granny
    Granny
    12 years ago

    I think only #10 Allan, said what I believe to be the most important point – you never know what goes on behind closed doors. Many, if not most, people are very good at only revealing to the world what they want to. This isn’t a criticism – nobody wants to air their dirty linen in public and be the subject of gossip. Sometimes even the children in a family don’t know how unhappy their parents are because the parents want to spare them.
    It’s not uncommon for the “perfect couple” to suddenly announce that they’re getting a divorce.
    Nebich, nebich for this family. I can only imagine that they will be tormenting themselves, wondering if they should have seen what was coming.

    12 years ago

    the gemora says when one got married they asked him “mutza oy motzu” mutz eeshu mutza tov , motze”mar memuves” unfortunatly his marrige was on the rocks drove him to kill his wife

    tzivia
    tzivia
    12 years ago

    She was a great woman – a teacher at rjj. Her 10 year old students still don’t know.