Gail katz biography

American murderer

Robert Bierenbaum (born July 22, 1955) is an American former plastic surgeon and convicted murderer. He was convicted in October 2000 of having murdered his estranged wife, Gail Katz-Bierenbaum 15 years earlier in their Manhattan apartment on July 7, 1985.

Bierenbaum, a licensed pilot, took a two-hour flight in a Cessna 172 from Essex County, New Jersey, over the Atlantic Ocean on the day he murdered Gail. He failed to mention this fact to authorities during their initial questioning.

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The prosecution stated that Bierenbaum discarded his wife's dismembered body in the ocean. The victim's torso was first thought to be found in 1989 but after exhuming the torso, DNA testing in 1999 proved it was not that of Gail Katz-Bierenbaum.

(The torso actually belonged to Heidi Balch, the first victim of serial killer Joel Rifkin, as discovered by the podcast The Girlfriends.) An eyewitness testimony for the defense stated he saw the victim in a Manh