Westchester Family Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide

The Friedlanders' home in Lewisboro

Yesterday afternoon, a couple and their children were found dead in their Lewisboro home. The Journal News reports, "State police identified the parents as Amy Friedlander, 46, and Sam Friedlander, 50. The children were Gregory, 8, and Molly, 10. Police at the scene would not say who they believe did the killing. The parents were in the midst of a divorce."

A state trooper made the discovery at 3:40 p.m., after receiving a request to check on Sam Friedlander, who did not show up for work. Captain Michael Kopy said, "The initial trooper who arrived at the scene got into the residence, discovered two of the four bodies, retreated from the residence. At that point a more a further examination of the residence where the two other subjects were located." Lewisboro Police Chief Frank Secret told WCBS 2, "This is devastating. I mean, in our community like this, this is not something that we’re used to at all."

The Friedlanders were married in 2000—a NY Times wedding announcement at the time noted that Amy Friedlander worked as a VP at Chase Manhattan Bank while Sam Friedlander was associate counsel of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Their home had been on the market for five months, at the listing price of $799,000. The community is in shock; a neighbor told the Post, “I used to see the mom and father putting them on the bus, they had beautiful kids. The father was always playing with the kids outside.”

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By Jen Chung in News on October 19, 2011 8:52 AM

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Greg

Does this mean the Occupy Wall Street people are happy since these people are bankers?

grandeur1

NO

Kenneth Conway

No, but it does mean that fine Christian ladies like Maggie Gallagher must be happy today, because even though the New York State Assembly recently legalized the abomination of homosexual "marriage", at least Rev. Gallagher can sleep soundly tonight knowing that that pernicious practice has not put an end to murder-suicide in normal families, that is in families including one count 'em husband/father (MALE) and one count 'em wife/mother (FEMALE), even in the godless wasteland that is New York State.

Rocknrope

They were the 1%.

delicats

You don't know this- you can't infer that from the information presented in this article.

theevilerone

Everybody is a VP at a bank. They were the 99.

ganghiscon

Chase offered me a VP position for opening a new checking account last year.

FU Boy

Does it really matter what percentile of wealth they were in - does that make the death of two children less of a tragedy?

Rocknrope

Exactly my point.

FU Boy

So I understand you, we shouldn't care about the death of others because they may have more than us?

If that's the case, why not start firebombing private schools in Manhattan. Their lives mean less because they're wealthy anyway, right?

Rocknrope

You're really off base, so I guess I'll explain it. The perception is that the 1% is this idyllic existence gilded with riches and insulated from any sort of hardship like "common folk." This shows that not to be the case.

grandeur1

I agree with you here. the Rich people have their own set of problems.

FU Boy

Ah, you see, I couldn't tell if you thought their status made this event less worthy of attention or not.

I mean, when asked if this is less of a tragedy because of the finances involved, you said "Exactly my point".

I thought you went off the deep end and started following Pendejo's line of logic.

marekgerbe

I don't care about a lot of things. Doesn't mean I have to do something illegal about it.

SonnyBobiche

Horrible crime but, regarding that house. In today's market it would never sell for $800,000. I've seen bigger and better for $400,000 in good towns in Jersey. Maybe it comes with two acres?.

theevilerone

1.25 acres.

http://www.zillow.com/homedeta...{scid=hdp-site-map-list-address}

SonnyBobiche

Good work!

No window treatments anywhere in the house. That's odd; even if you are just selling.

theevilerone

The price of that house just dropped.

chuzzlewit

jesus christ.
so sorry little ones.

Nicholas

VP at Chase and an associate counsel and THIS is the house they afford to purchase together?! Damnit, I am never getting out of my crappy one bedroom.