By Chuck Hustmyre
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Another thing that raised police suspicions was that Rafael Robb had trouble accounting for his whereabouts the morning of his wife's death. He told detectives that he spent about 40 minutes shopping for fruit at a Philadelphia market. Yet when police tried to check out Robb's alibi, the clerk at the market said that although Robb was a regular customer, he hadn't been at the market that day.
When Robb called police from his cell phone he told the operator that his wife had been beaten to death, something even seasoned crime scene investigators couldn't tell until an autopsy later revealed that she'd died from blunt force trauma to the head.
During their investigation, police searched the Robbs' cars and Rafael Robb's university office. They also obtained a search warrant to take his fingerprints and palm prints and a DNA swab of his saliva.
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| Rafael Robb (AP) |
On Monday, a judge issued a warrant for Robb's arrest. Shortly afterward, the 56-year-old Israeli-born economics professor surrendered to police.
Robb's defense attorney, Frank Genovese, said his client is innocent. "He's pleading not guilty," Genovese told CBS News. "He's asserted from the moment I met him that he had nothing to do with his wife's murder and he still professes his innocence."
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