Murder Attempt Antidepressants 30/11/1994 New Jersey Man Attempts to Kill Ex-Wife
 
 Summary:<br><br><div>Paragraph 5 reads:&nbsp; &quot;<strong>But he said his brother convinced him to do it - partially by<u> keeping him on anti-depressants for the month or so leading up to the April 20, 1993, attack.&quot;<br /><br /></u></strong>______________________________________________________________________________<br />CAPE MAN ADMITS PLAN TO KILL EX-WIFE <br />Press of Atlantic City, The (NJ)<br />November 30, 1994<br />Author: VICKI SMITH Staff Writer <br />Estimated printed pages: 2 <br /><br /><br />Just hours before the start of a trial that would have pitted twin against twin, a Lower Township man pleaded guilty to the attempted <strong>murder</strong> of his ex-wife.<br /><br />The guilty plea came early Tuesday afternoon as a panel of potential jurors for the trial waited in another room. <br /><br />Robert Schick, 29, of the Villas section of the township, confessed around 12:30 p.m. that he and his twin brother, Adam, planned to kill Robert&#39;s then-estranged wife, Ellen, in 1993 for insurance money.<br /><br />Adam Schick had previously confessed to stabbing Ellen Schick 22 times.<br /><br />But he said his brother convinced him to do it - partially by keeping him on <strong>anti-depressants</strong> for the month or so leading up to the April 20, 1993, attack.<br /><br />On Tuesday, Robert Schick admitted to Cape May County Superior Court Judge Carmen Alvarez that he told his twin he wanted his former wife dead.<br /><br />Schick, standing beside Pleasantville attorney Steven Feldman, gave short, unemotional answers to questions from the judge.<br /><br />&quot;Why did you want Ellen Schick killed?&quot; Alvarez asked.<br /><br />&quot;I don&#39;t really know,&quot; Schick mumbled after a brief silence.<br /><br />Cape May County First Assistant Prosecutor Theodore Housel said the plea agreement calls for an 18-year prison sentence with a parole-ineligibility period of six years.<br /><br />As part of the pact, Robert Schick pleaded not only to the attempted <strong>murder</strong>, but also to two counts of receiving stolen property and one count of passing a forged prescription.<br /><br />He will remain in custody at the Cape May County Jail pending sentencing, which is set for Jan. 20.<br /><br />Adam Schick will be sentenced sometime after that, Housel said.<br /><br />Robert Schick&#39;s plea came just one hour before a scheduled pretrial hearing on a defense motion to suppress evidence - specifically, a tape recording of a conservation between the two brothers.<br /><br />According to Housel, authorities discovered the tape while searching Robert Schick&#39;s home for stolen property.<br /><br />Inside a tape case they found a cassette labeled with the brothers&#39; names, he said.<br /><br />On it, the pair discussed what they had done to Ellen Schick in an attempt to cash in on a $100,000 life insurance policy.<br /><br />Adam Schick had been scheduled to testify for the prosecution during Robert&#39;s trial.<br /><br />But the prosecution discovered that Robert has tried several times to get his brother to change their story while the two have been incarcerated, Housel said.<br /><br />That was a key reason for Robert Schick&#39;s plea Tuesday.<br /><br />According to jail records, Robert and Adam Schick met in the jail library 11 confirmed times, Housel said.<br /><br />That information could have led to an additional charge of witness tampering.<br /><br />Ellen Schick, who has since divorced Robert and relocated, was not in court Tuesday.<br /><br />Housel, however, said she had hoped her ex-husband would confess and spare her the ordeal of a trial.<br /><br />Authorities say she was asleep at her home on 116 Oak Ave. in the Villas when she awoke around 5 a.m. to find a knife-wielding Adam Schick stabbing her.<br /><br />Ellen Schick was in bed with her 2-year-old son at the time, but the boy was unhurt.<br /><br />Adam fled when Ellen awoke, leaving her bleeding heavily. She managed to call 911 for help.<br /><br />Ellen and Robert Schick had been married for about 10 years before the stabbing.<br /><br />ROBERT SCHICK Color photo<br />Edition:&nbsp; All<br />Section:&nbsp; Region<br />Page:&nbsp; A1<br />Index Terms: attempted <strong>murder</strong> conspiracy domestic violence<strong>; <br /></strong>Dateline:&nbsp; CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE <br />Record Number:&nbsp; 9411300142 <br /><br />OpenURL Article Bookmark (right click, and copy the link location):<br /><a href="http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&amp;rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:PACB&amp;rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&amp;rft_dat=0EAEAB2BBADC5D8B&amp;svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated4&amp;req_dat=0FC00B934DD580D0">CAPE MAN ADMITS PLAN TO KILL EX-WIFE </a><br /><br /></div> 
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