Evidence links slaying of Crestline-area attorney and attack on New Jersey judge, FBI says

The FBI confirmed Wednesday, July 22, that investigators “have evidence” linking the July 11 slaying of attorney Marc Angelucci near Crestline to Roy Den Hollander, the prime suspect in the shooting attack at the home of a New Jersey federal judge that left her son dead and husband wounded.

“We are now engaged with the San Bernardino California Sheriff’s Office and have evidence linking the murder of Marc Angelucci to FBI Newark subject Roy Den Hollander. This investigation is ongoing,” FBI spokeswoman Doreen Holder said.

Angelucci, a prominent attorney in the men’s rights movement, died when he was shot at his home in Cedar Pines Park near Crestline in the San Bernardino Mountains.

Den Hollander was sought in the Sunday attack on the North Brunswick, N.J., home of federal judge Esther Salas. The attorney was found dead Monday in Sullivan County, New York from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.

As with the shooting of Angelucci, that attack on the judge’s home was by a shooter posing as a delivery man and opening fire.

Den Hollander was the author of misogynistic internet posts, including attacks on Salas. Harry Crouch, the president of San Diego-based National Coalition for Men, of which Angelucci was vice-president, said Den Hollander was kicked out of the organization around 2013.

Crouch said Den Hollander was enraged about not being used as co-counsel in a lawsuit Angelucci filed against the Selective Service System, and at one point threatened to come to California and  “kick my ass.”

Crouch, who Tuesday called Den Hollander an “outlier” in the men’s rights movement, said Den Hollander was removed from the organization and he had not contacted him since.

In the Sunday attack at Salas’s home, her son, 20-year-old Daniel Anderl, was killed and his father, Mark Anderl, 63, was wounded. Salas, 51, was in another part of the house and was unharmed.

Den Hollander, 72, had his own 2015 Selective Service System lawsuit, with Salas as the judge. He withdrew from the case recently, claiming he had terminal cancer.

In the 2013 lawsuit, Angelucci gained a 2019 decision that found conscripting only male service members into compulsory military service via the draft was unfair to men and unconstitutional.  Angelucci argued the case again in early March before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. No ruling had yet been issued.