NORRISTOWN, Pa. An Ivy League economics professor, who coolly carried a drink in one hand and his dead wife's coffin in the other, denied he had anything to do with her murder.
Ellen Robb, 49, was found brutally beaten to death on Dec. 22 in the Pennsylvania home she and husband Rafael Robb, 56, shared. Police believe the murder was staged to look like a robbery.
"The person that attacked Mrs. Robb was trying to depersonalize, wipe her face off the map, and in fact he did that," said Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor.
"That doesnt sound like any burglar to me, that sounds like Mrs. Robb was specific object of the attack."
Her husband raised eyebrows when he appeared as a pallbearer at his wife's funeral, dressed somewhat informally, wearing a cap, and toting a cup in his free hand as he helped carry his wife's casket.
