Re: 10/28/99 - Probers Seek Leads In Slayings of Brokers
Thursday, October 28, 1999
Probers Seek Leads In Slayings of Brokers
By MICHELE McPHEE
Daily News Staff Writer
s the families of two stockbrokers gunned down execution-style in the foyer of a posh New Jersey estate early Tuesday mourned their deaths, investigators scrambled to figure out who killed the men and why.
The bodies of Alan Chalem, 41, and Mayir Lehmann, 37 ? two men who dealt in penny stocks with their Israel-based Web site stockinvestors.com ? were found in the lavish home of Chalem's girlfriend in Colts Neck just after 1 a.m. on Tuesday.
One of two bodies found inside a N.J. home is removed Tuesday afternoon.
Lehmann, who was shot once in the head, was clutching a cell phone in his hand. Another cell phone was found near Chalem's body, which was riddled with bullets, Monmouth County Prosecutor John Kaye said. Investigators are checking those records, he said.
"It looked to detectives like he [Chalem] tried to get up several times and was shot several times," Kaye said at a news conference, "whereas Lehmann apparently died from one gunshot wound to the head, execution-style."
Lehmann, who lived in the tony Long Island community of Woodmere with his wife, Tammy, will be buried today, a family spokesman said.
"No one can talk to you. We are all in mourning here," said the spokesman, a relative who would not give his name.
"We have no idea what happened."
Chalem, who lived with his girlfriend, Kimberly Scarola, at the estate, will also be buried today. Scarola has been vacationing in Fort Lauderdale, and her 13-year-old son was with his father, Kaye said.
Kaye said his office was not the only law enforcement authority investigating the slayings at the 16-acre estate at 3 Bluebell Lane, but he would not elaborate.
Investigators have combed the cars parked at the home, and searched a suitcase found in the trunk of Lehmann's rented gray Dodge, Kaye said.
The contents of the suitcase were not revealed.
"This is a definite whodunit," Kaye said.
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