The “American Idol” govt murdered alongside her husband of their multimillion-dollar Los Angeles house had moved there “to be protected” — however had a break-in simply weeks earlier than they had been killed throughout a suspected housebreaking, a household good friend has revealed.
Robin Kaye and her husband, Thomas Deluca, each 70, had beefed up safety at their Encino house after a perp not too long ago broke in whereas they had been sleeping, the shut good friend instructed Fox Information.
“They added spikes to the highest of the fence… They’d spikes on the opposite aspect of the fence, and clearly up to date their video surveillance as nicely. They’d video surveillance already,” mentioned the household good friend, who didn’t need to be in any other case recognized.
The preliminary break-in was whereas they slept in the course of the night time, the good friend mentioned, saying it was simply weeks in the past.
“Their canine woke them up in the course of the night time… That’s what ran them off,” the good friend recalled.
“I feel they mentioned they broke a glass and the canine began barking, and the folks ran off.”
After ramping up safety and surveillance, the couple — “two of the nicest folks you’ll ever meet” — instructed mates they didn’t consider the suspect would present up once more, the pal mentioned.
In the meantime, it beforehand emerged Kaye had reached out to a personal safety agency within the weeks earlier than the bloodshed amid fears for her security.
“She felt threatened by any individual due to any individual round their house or round their neighborhood who felt suspicious,” Kris Herzog, proprietor of the Bodyguard Group of Beverly Hills, instructed NBC Los Angeles.
The couple by no means ended up hiring the corporate.
Kaye and Deluca had been discovered lifeless inside their house on Monday after cops had been referred to as to hold out a welfare test.
The suspect, 22-year-old Raymond Boodarian, was arrested Tuesday.
It wasn’t instantly clear if Boodarian can be a suspect within the preliminary break-in simply weeks earlier than the slayings.
Cops consider Boordarian had been burglarizing the house, which final offered for round $4.5 million in 2023, on July 10 whereas the couple had been out.
He allegedly opened hearth on them once they returned house and busted him, police mentioned.
The couple had been discovered 4 days later with gunshot wounds to the pinnacle in separate rooms — Kaye within the pantry and Deluca in a toilet.
Detectives don’t consider Boordarian knew the victims.
