September 23, 2025 • 9 mins
This week on #TrueCrimeTuesday, Gary and Shannon talk about a Wealthy 90210 Widow Found Dead in her home.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, it's time for True Crime Tuesday. The story
is true, that's true. No, it sounds made up. I
don't know. Parry and Shannon present True Crime.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We have spent a long time talking about the Menendez
brothers and reliving what went on leading up to that
double murder in nineteen eighty nine in Beverly Hills where
the two brothers shot and killed their father and their mother.
In fact, Mom wasn't completely dead, so they went back
to the car, got some more bullets, reloaded, and finished
her off. It was because they wanted more money. They
(00:41):
had been living the life of luxury and mom and
dad were finally telling them that that was going to
be over. They were going to have to go out
and get jobs support themselves, and they didn't like it.
They had been living high on the hog for far
too long. And in the days following the parents murder,
they went on shopping streets. They bought cars and roll
(01:01):
xes and the whole bit. They thought they were entitled
to it. And they aren't the only ones. There was
a woman named Violet Yakobe, and Violet was found dead
in her Beverly Hills home back in October of twenty
seventeen at the time. Her son Daniel, on what would
(01:24):
have been her birthday the following January, Daniel wrote, I
know you and Dad are up there smiling down on us.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Well it was just one month later that the son
was arrested and later charged with murdering his mother, and
it looks like the motive, unfortunately, was money.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Again.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Violet was sixty seven years old. Her husband, Solomon had
passed away just about a year before that. He was
preparing You're sorry. She was preparing to get back into
her active social life after her year long period of mourning.
Planned actually actually to visit family in Israel, and she
(02:09):
was very communicative.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
She had immigrated to the US in the nineteen eighties
after living in the Soviet Union and Israel, and family
was everything to Violet. A day rarely passed where she
did not reach out and call one of her kids.
She had a daughter and a son. She had a
Dina who was the daughter fifty six, and Daniel, the
(02:33):
son forty three, not only calling them but calling her
mother and brothers who lived in the area. Like I said,
family was everything. So when she didn't reach out and
she didn't respond to a call from her brother. The
family's like, what the heck's going on?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Their uncle calls Dina and Daniel, the kids, and they
end up meeting at the home there in Beverly Hills
about seven o'clock that night again October tenth, twenty seven,
to check on mom, and they make the discovery. They
find Violet deadline on the floor near the foot of
a big staircase.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It was the marble floor near the grand staircase in
the eight million dollar home, all of which are important
factors when you consider what was at stake. There was
no sign of forced entry, and initially police did not
suspect foul play. They thought that she died from an
(03:30):
accident or a suicide, because who would want to kill
this woman? Nobody came in from outside, at least, there's
no signs of that.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Except it turns out the medical examiner determines that Violet
dies by asphyxiation.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
The family is thrust into a state of shock, as
you can imagine asphyxiation. You mean somebody strangled mom?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
What?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
But there's no signs of fourth century?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Well, what could have happened?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Well, four months after Violet died, they arrested the Sun.
They arrested Daniel, charged with murdering his own mother, and
it looks like greed was the reason he.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Stood in herre at half of Violet's twelve million dollar estate.
As soon as they realized that and realized what Daniel
was really like, they were able to jump to that conclusion.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
We'll tell you what Daniel was really like. We're talking
true crime Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
The death of Violet Yakobe, found dead in her home
in Beverly Hills in October of twenty seventeen. When the
it looked as if it was no foul play because
there were no signs of any forced entry. She ended
up on the floor, the marble floor, near the foot
of a grand staircase. Maybe accident, maybe suicide, but the
(04:51):
medical examiner came back and said it was asphyxiation. Her son,
her forty three year old son, was arrested a few
months later in charge with murdering mom, and the motivation
was probably the half of her twelve million dollar estate
that he was standing to inherit.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So what do we know about the Sun, Well, he
was raised by a loving mom that he went on
to kill. Mom had stayed home, raised the kids, she
taught piano. Dad Solomon was a general practitioner. She was
really the matron of the family, taking care of the kids,
the family, the husband's who she was now Daniel. Daniel
(05:30):
grew up and graduated from Boston University's dental school in
two thousand and seven. He opens a practice and see
Me Valley worked in offices around the LA area, but
by twenty fifteen the business had stalled, and one of
his patients, Trish Brown, says, when he found out I
(05:51):
did pr he tried to get advice. He was struggling
to keep the doors open of his dental practice.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Now the facade was.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Fine, and only a few people apparently knew that pressure
was building within the family. That Daniel was deeply depressed,
that his parents had pushed him into dentistry is what
he was telling people. That he hated it, He hated
being in dentistry. That his mom was very controlling. He
(06:21):
was telling people that he hated his mother, he hated
his father. And one of the family friends in the
know told law enforcement about a troubling question that Daniel
had asked him just weeks before mom had been killed.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, this family friend, Joe said, we were having a
conversation about dental practices, and in the middle of that
he says, Hey, what do you know about inheritance tax?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Now, he told police that he said at the time,
I think your mom's healthy. Why are you asking me
about that? Which is an odd thing to say to
your friend.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
That's true, so Joe says, Daniel became lushed and left.
One of the other things that came up in trial,
at least according to prosecutors, was that Daniel had searched
online for this. Does the chokehold create a bruise?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Why? Why do people, especially smart people, continue to ask
Google about methods of murder, knowing that the police can
go through all of the things that you've asked Google
or your chatbots or whatever.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Just I guess blinded by It's just so dumb your
rage and you don't think that I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Prosecutors present a geolocation that tracked Daniel's white Jaguar to
Beverly Hills. Surveillance footage then showed the car in the
alley behind the house at about four o'clock the day
before she was found dead.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Just strangle someone, You've got to really hate them. That's
very personal. That's not smothering someone while they're sleeping or
anything like that. That is a very intimate.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I hate you.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Murder at I don't know, not to get too specific
and gruesome here, but was he facing her, did he
choke her with the hands, or was he doing a
chokehold with his arm from behind? Either way it's incredibly brutal.
But is he so broken that he can look at
her while he was doing that?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
And he has a child? He has a.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Daughter within the next four hours, According to prosecutors, they argued,
Daniel entered the house and strangled her. Now, his defense
attorney they got to throw something on the wall to
see if it sticks. And his defense attorney countered with
the findings of a different forensic pathologist who said that
(08:43):
Violet actually died from blunt force trauma and that it
would be more consistent with having fallen from the second
story balcony near the staircase onto the marble floor.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Like I've said numerous times, you pay him enough, you
can get an expert to take this stand and paint
any picture you would like. Unfortunately, that's why a lot
of that expert testimony is usually just canceled out.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
It took Jr.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
As a day one day to find Daniel guilty of
first degree murder a couple of weeks ago, the true
special and the special allegation that the killing was committed
for financial gain. This so technically eight years now after
she was killed is when he was finally convicted, just
a couple of weeks ago. He will face the possibility
of life without parole and will be sentenced sometime next week.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
October third is the date of the f schedule
All right, it's time for True Crime Tuesday. The story
is true, that's true. No, it sounds made up. I
don't know. Parry and Shannon present True Crime.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We have spent a long time talking about the Menendez
brothers and reliving what went on leading up to that
double murder in nineteen eighty nine in Beverly Hills where
the two brothers shot and killed their father and their mother.
In fact, Mom wasn't completely dead, so they went back
to the car, got some more bullets, reloaded, and finished
her off. It was because they wanted more money. They
(00:41):
had been living the life of luxury and mom and
dad were finally telling them that that was going to
be over. They were going to have to go out
and get jobs support themselves, and they didn't like it.
They had been living high on the hog for far
too long. And in the days following the parents murder,
they went on shopping streets. They bought cars and roll
(01:01):
xes and the whole bit. They thought they were entitled
to it. And they aren't the only ones. There was
a woman named Violet Yakobe, and Violet was found dead
in her Beverly Hills home back in October of twenty
seventeen at the time. Her son Daniel, on what would
(01:24):
have been her birthday the following January, Daniel wrote, I
know you and Dad are up there smiling down on us.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Well it was just one month later that the son
was arrested and later charged with murdering his mother, and
it looks like the motive, unfortunately, was money.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Again.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Violet was sixty seven years old. Her husband, Solomon had
passed away just about a year before that. He was
preparing You're sorry. She was preparing to get back into
her active social life after her year long period of mourning.
Planned actually actually to visit family in Israel, and she
(02:09):
was very communicative.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
She had immigrated to the US in the nineteen eighties
after living in the Soviet Union and Israel, and family
was everything to Violet. A day rarely passed where she
did not reach out and call one of her kids.
She had a daughter and a son. She had a
Dina who was the daughter fifty six, and Daniel, the
(02:33):
son forty three, not only calling them but calling her
mother and brothers who lived in the area. Like I said,
family was everything. So when she didn't reach out and
she didn't respond to a call from her brother. The
family's like, what the heck's going on?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Their uncle calls Dina and Daniel, the kids, and they
end up meeting at the home there in Beverly Hills
about seven o'clock that night again October tenth, twenty seven,
to check on mom, and they make the discovery. They
find Violet deadline on the floor near the foot of
a big staircase.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It was the marble floor near the grand staircase in
the eight million dollar home, all of which are important
factors when you consider what was at stake. There was
no sign of forced entry, and initially police did not
suspect foul play. They thought that she died from an
(03:30):
accident or a suicide, because who would want to kill
this woman? Nobody came in from outside, at least, there's
no signs of that.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Except it turns out the medical examiner determines that Violet
dies by asphyxiation.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
The family is thrust into a state of shock, as
you can imagine asphyxiation. You mean somebody strangled mom?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
What?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
But there's no signs of fourth century?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Well, what could have happened?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Well, four months after Violet died, they arrested the Sun.
They arrested Daniel, charged with murdering his own mother, and
it looks like greed was the reason he.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Stood in herre at half of Violet's twelve million dollar estate.
As soon as they realized that and realized what Daniel
was really like, they were able to jump to that conclusion.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
We'll tell you what Daniel was really like. We're talking
true crime Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
The death of Violet Yakobe, found dead in her home
in Beverly Hills in October of twenty seventeen. When the
it looked as if it was no foul play because
there were no signs of any forced entry. She ended
up on the floor, the marble floor, near the foot
of a grand staircase. Maybe accident, maybe suicide, but the
(04:51):
medical examiner came back and said it was asphyxiation. Her son,
her forty three year old son, was arrested a few
months later in charge with murdering mom, and the motivation
was probably the half of her twelve million dollar estate
that he was standing to inherit.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So what do we know about the Sun, Well, he
was raised by a loving mom that he went on
to kill. Mom had stayed home, raised the kids, she
taught piano. Dad Solomon was a general practitioner. She was
really the matron of the family, taking care of the kids,
the family, the husband's who she was now Daniel. Daniel
(05:30):
grew up and graduated from Boston University's dental school in
two thousand and seven. He opens a practice and see
Me Valley worked in offices around the LA area, but
by twenty fifteen the business had stalled, and one of
his patients, Trish Brown, says, when he found out I
(05:51):
did pr he tried to get advice. He was struggling
to keep the doors open of his dental practice.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Now the facade was.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Fine, and only a few people apparently knew that pressure
was building within the family. That Daniel was deeply depressed,
that his parents had pushed him into dentistry is what
he was telling people. That he hated it, He hated
being in dentistry. That his mom was very controlling. He
(06:21):
was telling people that he hated his mother, he hated
his father. And one of the family friends in the
know told law enforcement about a troubling question that Daniel
had asked him just weeks before mom had been killed.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, this family friend, Joe said, we were having a
conversation about dental practices, and in the middle of that
he says, Hey, what do you know about inheritance tax?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Now, he told police that he said at the time,
I think your mom's healthy. Why are you asking me
about that? Which is an odd thing to say to
your friend.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
That's true, so Joe says, Daniel became lushed and left.
One of the other things that came up in trial,
at least according to prosecutors, was that Daniel had searched
online for this. Does the chokehold create a bruise?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Why? Why do people, especially smart people, continue to ask
Google about methods of murder, knowing that the police can
go through all of the things that you've asked Google
or your chatbots or whatever.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Just I guess blinded by It's just so dumb your
rage and you don't think that I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Prosecutors present a geolocation that tracked Daniel's white Jaguar to
Beverly Hills. Surveillance footage then showed the car in the
alley behind the house at about four o'clock the day
before she was found dead.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Just strangle someone, You've got to really hate them. That's
very personal. That's not smothering someone while they're sleeping or
anything like that. That is a very intimate.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I hate you.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Murder at I don't know, not to get too specific
and gruesome here, but was he facing her, did he
choke her with the hands, or was he doing a
chokehold with his arm from behind? Either way it's incredibly brutal.
But is he so broken that he can look at
her while he was doing that?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
And he has a child? He has a.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Daughter within the next four hours, According to prosecutors, they argued,
Daniel entered the house and strangled her. Now, his defense
attorney they got to throw something on the wall to
see if it sticks. And his defense attorney countered with
the findings of a different forensic pathologist who said that
(08:43):
Violet actually died from blunt force trauma and that it
would be more consistent with having fallen from the second
story balcony near the staircase onto the marble floor.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Like I've said numerous times, you pay him enough, you
can get an expert to take this stand and paint
any picture you would like. Unfortunately, that's why a lot
of that expert testimony is usually just canceled out.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
It took Jr.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
As a day one day to find Daniel guilty of
first degree murder a couple of weeks ago, the true
special and the special allegation that the killing was committed
for financial gain. This so technically eight years now after
she was killed is when he was finally convicted, just
a couple of weeks ago. He will face the possibility
of life without parole and will be sentenced sometime next week.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
October third is the date of the f schedule
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