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Amnon COHEN

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

   
 
 
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Parricide - Suspected his wife was having a "virtual affair" with someone over the Internet - Set the flat on fire
Number of victims: 3
Date of murders: July 23, 1999
Date of arrest: Same day (suicide attempt)
Date of birth: 1956
Victims profile: His wife Suzanne Leah, 39, and their children, Yair, 4, and Yael, 2
Method of murder: Stabbing with knife - Strangulation
Location: Tel-Aviv, Israel
Status: Sentenced to three life sentences in July 2000
 
 
 
 
 
 

On July 23, 1999, a 43-year-old taxi driver burned his wife and two children, ages 4 and 2, to death in their Tel Aviv apartment. The suspect, Amnon Cohen who is in police custody, was lightly injured in the fire.

In a letter he sent to newspaper offices which arrived a half hour after the incident, Cohen wrote he intended to kill his family and commit suicide.

Neighbors said that Cohen and his wife argued frequently, and that he suspected his wife was having a "virtual affair" with someone over the Internet.

Cohen stabbed and strangled his family as they were sleeping and then doused their bodies with turpentine and set them on fire.

 
 

Amnon Cohen, taxi driver, murdered his wife Suzanne Leah and their children, Yair, four, and Yael, two, in July 2000. A computer technician, hired by Cohen to access his wife's e-mail correspondence because he had suspected her of having an affair, was abble to confirm Cohen's suspicions.

His rage was so great that he smothered his children in their sleep and murdered his wife in cold blood. He then doused their bodies and their apartment with turpentine and set it on fire. Cohen received three life sentences.

"Surviving Infidelity", Rona Subotnik and Gloria G. Harris

 
 

Family killed over wife's virtual affair

By Eric Silver - The Independent

Tuesday, 27 July 1999

An israeli man murdered his wife and children and tried to kill himself because she was conducting a "virtual" romance on the Internet with a man she may never have met, a court heard yesterday.

Amnon Cohen, a 43-year-old Tel-Aviv taxi driver, confessed and re-enacted the crime for police on Sunday, the morning after he stabbed and strangled his wife, Suzie, 39, strangled their son Yair, four, and daughter Yael, two, in their sleep and set the flat on fire. The victims were buried yesterday and a magistrate remanded Mr Cohen in custody.

Police had been called around midnight after Mr Cohen phoned another cabby and sent a suicide note to two newspapers. When firemen burst into the blazing flat, they found the three bodies in flames. They said the children's bodies were burning like torches and it was difficult to tell whether there were two of them or one.

Mr Cohen was in the bathroom with a rope around his neck after taking 90 blood pressure pills. He wrote a suicide note attached to a computer printout of his wife's on-line conversations with her virtual lover and photographs of his children.

"My wife has been behaving strangely for months," he wrote. "It turns out she found a lover on the computer. I read what she wrote to him... Virtual infidelity is still infidelity. Explaining why he killed his children, he went on: "I did not want to leave my children in your cruel world. I grew up an orphan and I suffered indescribably. I know ... what it is like to grow up without parents or family."

In court, the defence lawyer, Moshe Meroz, suggested that the shock of his wife's betrayal had triggered memories of two traumatic experiences from Mr Cohen's own childhood. When he was six months old, his father accused his mother of infidelity. She responded by burning down their home and killing herself.

 

 

 
 
 
 
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