Rafael Robb is an economist and former professor at the University of Pennsylvania who confessed to killing his wife in 2006.
15 Facts About Rafael Robb
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Rafael Robb joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty in 1984, and was a tenured professor at the time of his arrest in 2007.
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Rafael Robb specialized in game theory, a mathematical discipline used to analyze political, economic, and military strategies.
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Rafael Robb has published numerous papers on game theory and other economic topics with scholars from Greece, Israel, Japan, and the US.
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Rafael Robb is a fellow of the Econometric Society, one of the highest honors in economics.
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Rafael Robb grew up in Israel, and emigrated to the US to pursue graduate studies.
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Rafael Robb met Ellen Gregory Robb, a sales manager, in 1987, and they married in 1990.
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Rafael Robb pleaded guilty in November 2007 to voluntary manslaughter in the high-profile death of his wife, Ellen Gregory Rafael Robb.
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Rafael Robb's death occurred on December 22,2006, during an argument over the couple's divorce and the plans for their home in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania.
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Rafael Robb was arrested on January 8,2007, and charged with murder.
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Rafael Robb pleaded guilty to manslaughter on November 26,2007, and resigned from the university.
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Rafael Robb was sentenced on November 19,2008, to a 10-year prison term, though the prosecutor asked for a sentence of 10 to 20 years.
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Rafael Robb sought parole after five years, as allowed by his sentence.
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In 2014, Rafael Robb was ordered to pay $124.26 million in compensatory and punitive damages to his deceased wife's estate, of which the sole beneficiary is his daughter.
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Rafael Robb then made an appeal to reduce this to $100 million, claiming that some of the evidence presented against him during the civil trial should not have been permitted as it unfairly influenced jurors against him.