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Arrested: Christina Rubin (age:22), Jeffrey Leinheiser (age:20)

Reason for arrest: Christina Rubin paid Jeffery Leinheiser (her boyfriend) to kill her father

Victim’s Name: Marc David Rubin (age:46)

Where the crime occurred: Abington Township, Pennsylvania ( Old York Road)

Motive: The only motive police have managed to come up with after questioning the suspects is that Marc David Rubin used to yell at his daughter a lot. Police say that Jeffrey Leinheiser was visiting Christina Rubin around November 17th 2008 . Marc David Rubin was apparently yelling at his daughter that day. When he heard his girlfriend’s father yelling at her, Leinheister allegedly commented something to the effect of “That’s not right, I wish I could kill him”. The girlfriend then decided Leinheister should have his wish. The two plotted the crime and then executed the act on November 28th 2008.

Other details: Jeffrey Leinheiser shot Marc David Rubin in the head while he was sleeping on the couch in his living room. Christina Rubin and Jeffrey Leinheister left the body of Marc David Rubin in his apartment for 7 days; then they returned to the apartment where Christina Rubin attempted to hack her dead father to pieces with a chainsaw purchased for just that purpose. The dead man’s shorts got caught in the teeth of the chainsaw so the hacking him to pieces part of the plan had to be aborted. Instead the killers went to a store in Northeast Philadelphia to purchase a carpet. They then returned to the apartment and wrapped the body in the carpet, dragged it down several flights of stairs and went off to dispose of it. Their intention was to dump it at sea, but they couldn’t find a boat to rent so they ended up dumping it in the woods where it was found by a deer hunter.

Here’s a screenshot from Christina Rubin’s myspace page of Christina Rubin with her boyfriend (we assume the boyfriend here is Jeffrey Leinheiser but we have no verification.

Quote from Christina Rubin’s MySpace Page:

“to have seen what i saw was to see Evil. to hear what ive heard was to listen to the Devil. to have lived my life was to live in Sin. to achieve what i want is to be Forgiven”

Commentary: When children kill their parents you’re tempted to think the parent must have been abusive in some way. When a young woman kills her father questions arise as to whether the father might have been sexually abusing the daughter. Clearly Christina Rubin was filled with contempt for her father. It’s one thing to pay your boyfriend to shoot your father while he sleeps; but to be willing to then hack your dead father’s body to pieces with a chainsaw, your hatred for your father has to be pretty intense. For anyone to have that much hate, they would have to be depraved themselves or the object of their hatred has done something pretty serious to earn their hatred. According to what Christina Rubin has told police her father’s only crime was yelling at her a lot. If that is indeed the case then Christina Rubin obviously has some serious psychological problems. After all, killing someone because they yell at you a lot is a bit extreme.

Time will tell whether or not there’s more to this story than has so far been brought to light; but whatever the truth, Christina Rubin had other options. She plotted to kill her father. This wasn’t someone who felt like they had no other choice. This was someone who was filled with hatred and wanted to kill the object of her hatred. She acted purely out of vengeance. She went on with her life afterward as if nothing had happened, living in her father’s apartment, using the money in his bank account and checking the internet every day to make sure his body had not been found. It sounds like this could possibly turn out to be exactly as it seems. A girl hated her father because he wasn’t a loving father; he yelled at her a lot, so she decided to kill him. There’s no way to excuse her in that case. She deserves the maximum punishment for her crime.

However, if there’s a deeper message beneath the quote taken from her MySpace page, if her father did more than just yell at her a lot, depending on what he did, what she’s referring to when she talks about seeing “Evil” and hearing “the devil”, and living in “Sin”, while there would still be no excuse for murdering her father, the maximum punishment might not be deserved. Again, time will tell.