A rabbi serving 30 years to life in his wife’s contract killing has died, prison officials say

FILE – Rabbi Fred Neulander, center, listens to his son Benjamin, left, before the start of his bail hearing at the Camden County Hall of Justice on Wednesday, June 21, 2000, in Camden, N.J. Neulander, 82, a rabbi from New Jersey Serving a decades-long sentence in a 1994 murder-for-hire plot, he was pronounced dead shortly after 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, at a hospital in Trenton, NJ, after being found unconscious in his cell in New Jersey. Prison Hospital, news media reported, citing the state Department of Corrections. (Alejandro A. Alvarez/Philadelphia Daily News via AP, Pool, File)