Doctor Dealer: A doctor high on greed, a biker gang high on opioids, and the woman who paid the ultimate price

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Dr. James Kauffman and his wife, April, were the perfect couple: a respected endocrinologist and a beautiful radio host. But under the surface lurked a world of drugs, sex, and biker gangs. A world Dr. Kauffman would kill to keep secret.\nIn May 2012, April Kauffman, a well-known local radio personality and staunch advocate of military veterans rights, was found shot to death in the bedroom of the home she shared with her husband, Dr. James Kauffman.\nSix years later, in the fall of 2018, Freddy Augello, a leader of the notorious motorcycle gang the Pagans, went on trial for drug dealing and murder. He was charged with arranging the death of April Kauffman in exchange for $50,000 from her husband, who, in addition to practicing medicine, was one of the area’s most prolific drug traffickers. \nTold by two accomplished reporters and authors with exclusive insights and details provided by two principal players, this is the story about one man's descent into evil and the people he took with him. It's a story about a doctor who helped flood the streets with opioids, about a husband who hid dark secrets from his wives, and about a man so consumed with greed and arrogance that he thought he could get away with murder.
About the Author
George Anastasia was the mob writer at the
Philadelphia Inquirer for years and is the author of six books on true crime. He is the recipient of numerous journalism awards and has worked on and been featured in a number of television documentaries, the most recent being a four-part series for the History Channel titled
Kingpin that profiled the lives of John Gotti, James "Whitey" Bulger, Pablo Escobar, and Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.\nRalph Cipriano is an award-winning veteran muckraking reporter who has exposed corruption in city and county governments, the Philadelphia D.A.'s office, local police departments, Ivy League football programs, and the Catholic Church. He's the author of three books:
Courtroom Cowboy,
The Hit Man, and
Target. His book on former mob hit man turned government witness John Veasey was the basis for a
60 Minutes profile of Veasey in 2013.
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One\nThe murder was carried out with cold-blooded efficiency.\nApril Kauffman was asleep in the bedroom she no longer shared with her husband in their stately two-story home on Woodstock Drive in Linwood, New Jersey, an upper-middle-class neighborhood just outside of Atlantic City. It was a little after five a.m. on May 10, 2012. Her husband, Dr. James Kauffman, was downstairs getting ready to leave for work. He was an endocrinologist with a lucrative practice in a busy office less than a fifteen-minute drive from their home.\nThe doctor, as he did almost every morning, would stop at a Wawa, a local convenience store, on his way to work. The store was a few blocks from their house. The security camera in place at the Wawa would capture him that morning entering and leaving the store.\nThis, investigators would later determine, was just a few minutes after he had handed the hit man a gun and pointed to his wife's upstairs bedroom.\n"She's up there," he said.\nSeveral hours later a handyman who worked for the Kauffmans would discover April's body sprawled on the floor next to her bed. She had been shot twice. One bullet had shattered her elbow. The other had ripped through her side, slicing through a lung, her heart and her other lung. A medical examiner would speculate that she struggled out of bed after being shot, then collapsed on the floor. She had bled to death internally, he said, estimating that at least two liters of blood had poured from her wounds.\nThe hit man was later identified as Francis "Frank" Mulholland. He was a junkie and, it would turn out, he was ill suited for the job. But he had been offered $10,000 to commit the murder. That was enough to satisfy his habit for several months. He was driven to the home that morn