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73-Year-Old Bronx Man Charged With Killing Wife Is on Suicide Watch

Prosecutors have charged him with multiple counts spanning homicide to weapon possession as investigators build their case

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Members of the NYPD remove caged parakeets from a seventh-floor apartment Barnes Ave. in the Bronx after a woman found dead at the location on July 7, 2025. (Kerry Burke / New York Daily News)

Overview

  • Police say the assault unfolded around 7:25 a.m. Monday in the couple’s seventh-floor Pelham Parkway apartment where a large pool of blood marked the scene
  • Prosecutors lodged charges of murder, manslaughter, two counts of strangulation and criminal weapon possession against Jeffrey Kolin
  • Law enforcement sources report Kolin placed a 911 call to confess to bludgeoning his 77-year-old wife with a kitchen pot and smothering her with a pillow
  • The couple’s troubled relationship dated back to 2005, with at least two NYPD domestic-violence responses this year, including one on June 25
  • Kolin was hospitalized on suicide watch Tuesday as detectives collect forensic evidence and prepare for his arraignment