'I just lost it': Ivy League prof admits killing wife

NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A former Ivy League professor pleaded guilty Monday to voluntary manslaughter for killing his wife as she wrapped Christmas presents last year.


Rafael Robb, once a tenured economics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, faces a prison sentence of no more than seven years for bludgeoning his wife, Ellen, on December 22.

Robb, 57, said Monday that he got into an argument with his wife about a trip she was taking with their daughter and whether they would be returning in time for the daughter to return to school.

"We started a discussion about that. The discussion was tense," Robb said. "We were both anxious about it. We both got angry. At one point, Ellen pushed me. ... I just lost it."

Ellen Robb, 49, described as a stay-at-home mother who doted on their only child, died in the kitchen of their home in Upper Merion Township, outside Philadelphia.

Detectives believed the scene had been staged to look like a burglary. The murder weapon, which Robb described as an exercise bar, was not found.

The couple married in 1990 but had long been estranged, keeping separate bedrooms.

Rafael Robb apologized to his daughter and family in court Monday.

"I know she liked her mother. ... And now she doesn't have a mother," he said, stifling tears

'I just lost it': Ivy League prof admits killing wife - CNN.com

An economics professor should know that crime doesnt pay..

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That was awful...That actually caused me pain...

Besides...An economics professor should know that murder, like credit cards...

...cnredd hangs his head in shame...

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Worse yet...

He faces a prison sentence of no more than seven years ..

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Yeah that's what I'm wondering. What the heck?

But I guess the law states 4 1/2- 7 years for manslaughter in that jurisdiction?

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Seems scant to me. Maybe the old prof did outsmart them after all.

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No...I sat down for DAYS...even before I knew this thread would come about...and wrote it just in case it was needed...

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