April Kauffman // New Jersey // 54

Drinking The Cool Aid

Drinking The Cool Aid
April Kauffman // New Jersey // 54
Mar 14, 2021 Season 1 Episode 54
Megan and Hanna Hawkins

April Kauffman was a popular, vivacious, and provocative talk show host who advocated for veterans.  On May 10th, 2012, she was discovered shot dead in her bedroom.   April's daughter, Kim Pack, felt that her step-father was involved in her mother's murder.  April's husband, Jim Kauffman was a doctor and he had been writing fraudulent opioid prescriptions for the Pagans motorcycle club and they were selling the pills.  When April found out about the pill mill, she asked for a divorce and said she would expose everything.  Jim decided to hire a member of the Pagans motorcycle club to murder his wife.

Website: Drinking The Cool Aid

Resources:
20/20 Family Secrets S40 E43

Popular New Jersey radio host killed in alleged murder-for-hire plot, husband among those charged - ABC News (go.com)

Jersey Shore doctor charged in murder-for-hire plot left behind a message before killing himself - ABC News (go.com)

How a New Jersey mother was murdered by a biker gang hired by her husband | Daily Mail Online

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