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Anat Pliner. (Nir Keidar) Last update - 10:09 03/07/2008 Ramat Hasharon teen charged with murder in 2006 death of lawyer By Roni Singer-Heruti Tags: Ramat Hasharon, crime, Israel The 17-year-old boy suspected of murdering Anat Pliner outsider her Ramat Hasharon home in 2006 was charged with murder at the Tel Aviv District Court on Thursday. The teen confessed to the crim last month. According to details of the case, a gag order on which was partially lifted with his confession, the teen arrived at the home of Pliner, a 42-year-old attorney, on April 10, 2006. When she opened the door, the perpetrator stabbed her in the stomach. She collapsed and later died en route to hospital. The suspect confessed to the killing after a DNA sample that was found on the murder scene was found to match his own. Advertisement The boy was first apprehended in early June, after police detained him for riding a stolen motorcycle without a valid license. He was questioned, gave a DNA sample and was released. In processing the sample, police found that it matched the DNA that police believed to belong to the perpetrator, which they had extracted from a knife and gloves left at the murder scene. After the test results came back, the teen was rearrested and reportedly confessed to Pliner's murder a few hours later. He maintained that he arrived at Pliner's house and asked her for money, adding that he had not known her before. Pliner refused and when she started shouting, he stabbed her and fled the scene. Police questioned the suspect's friends and family in an attempt to establish whether any of them had been told by him about the murder, and had refrained from informing police. They were all released. The suspect has been a student in a high school in the prosperous suburb, and his arrest was received there with surprise. "He had many weird stories, but we could never have believed he was a murderer," one classmate said. Another student said he thought of the suspect as "a petty criminal with a big mouth," adding that "it's hard to believe that he actually did it." People who know the family say the parents both hold regular jobs and that the family was not known to suffer from any special financial difficulties. Since the night of the murder, Ramat Hasharon police had worked on the assumption that it was a result of a robbery that went wrong. Three suspects, previously convicted for robbery, were questioned, but were released for lack of evidence. En route to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Pliner reportedly told paramedics that she did not know the person who stabbed her, but described him as "a young guy." She died of her injuries shortly after being hospitalized. Four months later, the police scaled back a news blackout on the case, and the public was asked to help identify a knife sheath found at the murder scene, and to report anyone who possessed a sheath of that sort. Police say that in his interrogation, the suspect said the knife came from his a collection belonging to his father. He said he decided to rob someone "to make some money." He went on to tell detectives that he "went around town" looking for someone to rob. He did not decide to rob Pliner before he happened on her street, Gordon Street, he said. "He said he chose that house because it looked nice," police officer Amir Moshe said. "He came to the door, knocked and when Pliner opened he told her to give him all her money. He said that at first she didn't quite understand what he wanted, so he showed her the knife and repeated the demand. Then, according to what he said, she started screaming and he plunged the knife into her twice, before running away." Bookmark to del.icio.us   Terror in the capital A Palestinian rammed his bulldozer into a bus in Jerusalem, killing three. Poetic injustice Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish blends sarcasm and hope in his latest work.   1.   A collection of Knifes? 09:57  |  SJ 03/07/08   2.   FATHERS KNIFE COLLECTION 10:29  |  HAL 03/07/08   3.   Oh, come on both of you #`s 1 & 2! 12:01  |  S 03/07/08   4.   Re S #3 13:16  |  Esther 03/07/08

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