“My sister told me, I’m smart.
My love will cure.
This is going to work out.”
Gail Katz-Bierenbaum
From the outside many people, including Gails parents, thought they had the perfect life.
Gail met Robert when she was in college.
Robert was a genius doctor who was a licensed pilot and could speak 5 languages.
He was also known as a skilled skier and a gourmet home cook.
My love will cure.
This is going to work out.'
Gail had Robert see a therapist for the health of their relationship.
Thetherapist wrote Gail a letteradvising her to run away from her marriage to Robert.
The therapist said he was concerned Robert might kill her and called him psychotic.
Gail started to realize she needed to leave Robert for her safety.
On July 7, 1985 Gail Katz-Bierenbaum disappeared.
Her body was never found.
During the search for Gail, Robert partied in the Hamptons and wooed other women.
In Vegas, he met a chiropractor named Dr. Stephanie Youngblood and the two began dating.
Chillingly, the relationship progressed much the way it did for Gail Katz-Bierenbaum.
In 1996 Robert married Dr. Janet Challot, a gynecologist he met in Vegas.
The couple had a baby daughter and moved to Minot, North Dakota to again escape Roberts reputation.
Finally in 2000, a grand jury indicted Robert Bierenbaum for second-degree murder.
Notably, all the evidence against Bierenbaum was only circumstantial.
A fact many people used to him and even blame Gail for her own disappearance.
The defense team also painted a picture of Gail Katz-Bierman as a mentally ill woman with a drug problem.
Robert said she was suicidal and having affairs.
Miraculously, Robert Bierenbaum was found guilty and sentenced to twenty years to life.
His New Jersey medical license was revoked in 2002.
Robert Bierenbaum claims the reason he murdered his wife is that she wouldnt stop yelling.
The actual reason, according to the victims sister, is that Gail Katz-Bierenbaum had asked for a divorce.
In his own words, I wanted her to stop yelling at me and I attacked her.
He continued, I went flying.
I opened the door and then took her body out of the airplane over the ocean.
Robert Bierenbaum has another parole hearing in November.
He hasnt changed … he is incapable of a shred of remorse.
