Ex-surgeon confesses he took wife's 'body out of the airplane over the ocean'
ABC News
Robert Bierenbaum was convicted in 2000 but maintained his innocence for years.
Robert Bierenbaum, a former plastic surgeon who was convicted of murdering his wife in 2000, confessed to killing her and throwing her body out of an airplane after more than three decades of maintaining his innocence.
Bierenbaum, an experienced pilot who had been convicted on circumstantial evidence, was serving his 20 years-to-life prison sentence when he made the chilling confession during a December 2020 parole board hearing.
It was the first time he had admitted to the crime since his wife, Gail Katz, disappeared in 1985. Her body has never been found.
“I wanted her to stop yelling at me and I attacked her,” according to a transcript of the hearing obtained by ABC News.
