NJ Radio: Murdered Host's Daughter to Speak

April Kaufman, daughter

Nearly six months after the husband of a murdered South Jersey radio host took legal action to obtain his deceased wife’s life insurance policy, the woman’s daughter will speak.

According to NBC Philadelphia, Kimberly Pack and her attorney, Patrick D’Arcy, plan to read prepared statements addressing the federal lawsuit regarding the May 2012 killing of her mother, April Kauffman, on Thursday at 11 a.m.

A worker found 47-year-old Kauffman, well-known for her job as a DJ at WOND 1400 AM, shot to death in the bedroom of her Linwood home. The next day investigators said the crime was not a random act, but they have yet to make any arrests and even said they lack sufficient evidence to prove a case in court.

About ten weeks after the homicide, an attorney for Kauffman's widower - Dr. James Kauffman- contacted the Transamerica Life Insurance Co. to collect on his wife’s two life insurance policies, which amount to a $600,000 combined payout, according to court records.

But Transamerica did not disperse the death benefits, insisting that a copy of the police report was required by law to make a claims decision. The refusal led James Kauffman to file a lawsuit against the insurance company in July 2013.

James Kauffman, who retained an attorney the day after the murder, denied any involvement in his wife’s death and challenged the notion that it is legally required to prove he was not responsible for her murder to collect the insurance, according to a response filed in October.

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