University of Pennsylvania economics professor Rafael Robb has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the brutal death of his wife, Ellen, who was bludgeoned beyond recognition in the kitchen of their home. From press reports:
Ellen Robb had retained a divorce lawyer and was planning to move into a $1,500-a-month apartment by New Year’s Day. … The affidavit, quoting two mental-health experts, called the killing an attack by someone with "a need to depersonalize Ms. Robb such that she is hardly recognizable as a human being."
