Ex-Penn prof, leaving jail in wife's manslaughter, asks for funds
Ten years ago this week Rafael Robb bludgeoned his wife to death in their Upper Merion Township home as she was wrapping Christmas presents, later telling a judge he just "lost it."
And next month, Robb, a former University of Pennsylvania professor and leading scholar in game theory, will complete a 10-year prison sentence that members of the victim's family considered far too lenient.
One thing Robb will need upon his release, he says, is money. But he has to ask a judge for access to his money, because he owes more than $128 million to the estate of his wife, Ellen Gregory Robb.
That amount - awarded by a jury after a 2014 civil trial - would go to the couple's daughter, who was 12 when her mother died. Robb's assets remain frozen as he appeals a Montgomery County judge's ruling that his nearly $2.8 million in retirement assets are not exempt from going to his wife's estate.
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