Rafael Robb (Hebrew: רפאל רוב; born October 31, 1950)[1] is an economist and former professor at the University of Pennsylvania who confessed to killing his wife in 2006.
[7] Her 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.
In 2014, 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.
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.
[10] Near the end of his prison sentence, Robb also requested access to frozen assets in order to pay for living expenses.