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Monday, January 12, 2009

Inquirer staff writer Joelle Farrell reports:

22-year-old Montgomery County woman and her boyfriend have been charged with the execution-style murder of the woman’s father, whose body was found rolled up in a carpet last month in a wooded area of Hamilton Township, New Jersey.

Christina E. Rubin allegedly asked her boyfriend, Jeffrey W. Leinheiser, 20, of Jenkintown, to shoot her father on Nov. 28, 2008, while he was sleeping at the apartment he shared with her in the 100 block of Old York Road in Jenkintown, said Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman.

The couple began talking about killing Marc Rubin, 46, after he had yelled at his daughter, Ferman said.

“Apparently, that so offended her boyfriend of three months that they decided he should lose his life,” Ferman said.

The couple left the body in the apartment for a week and then made a failed attempt at dismembering it with a chainsaw, Ferman said. They enlisted the help of a friend, Daniel Dougherty, 19, of Jenkintown, to wrap the body in trash bags, roll it up in a carpet and drive it to New Jersey, where they dumped it in the woods, according to police.

A deer hunter found the body on Dec. 8 off Tamminen Road.

With help from the FBI, the police identified the victim through a fingerprint last Thursday, according to a police affidavit. The police also found one of Leinheiser's prints on the trash bags that covered the body.

Christina Rubin, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and sociology from Pennsylvania State University last spring, allegedly admitted to the murder when police questioned her Saturday, according to a police affidavit. She said she paid Leinheiser $1,000 and planned to give an additional $1,000 to Dougherty.

Christina Rubin and Leinheiser were arrested Sunday and ordered held without bail on charges of first-degree murder and a series of lesser charges including abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence, according to Ferman. Dougherty was charged with evidence tampering and sbuse of a corpse and was being held yesterday at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in lieu of $25,000 cash.

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