Man tells girlfriend he killed wife, she turns him in

Score one for the good guys!
The New York Post reported today that a failed stock trader who for years has been the prime suspect in his wife’s murder was finally arrested Sunday after allegedly telling to his girlfriend about what he had done.
Rod Covlin, 42, made statements to his girlfriend implicating himself in the New Year’s Eve 2009 slaying of his banker wife, Shele Danishefsky Covlin, who was found dead in a bathtub at her Upper West Side apartment, law enforcement sources told the Post.
Covlin’s girlfriend went to authorities with enough information for Covlin to be charged and arrested.
A window was closing on Danishefsky-Covlin’s kin as Rod Covlin was less than two months away from inheriting half of her $4 million fortune until prosecutors charged him with murder Monday. The fortune has been kept in a trust due to a wrongful-death suit filed against him in 2011.
Dec. 31 will mark the six-year anniversary of the 47-year-old woman’s slaying.
Rod Covlin almost got away with murder. Manhattan prosecutors and confidential sources are confident that there is now enough evidence to believe that a conviction will follow.
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