What to Watch Friday: 20/20 reports on an infamous NYC Upper West Side murder

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Here’s what’s on TV tonight.

20/20: New Year’s Evil (9 p.m., ABC)

Deborah Roberts reports on the notorious murder on Manhattan’s Upper West Side of mother of two and wealthy finance executive, Shele Danishefsky Covlin. Covlin was found facedown in a bathtub filled with bloody water on New Year’s Eve in 2009 by her 9-year-old daughter. The little girl called her father, separated from her mother but living across the hall, and he called 911.

Shele’s death was originally considered an accident, and no autopsy was performed. But suspicions grew surrounding the behavior of Shele’s husband, Roderick Covlin, a professional backgammon player, and her family had her body exhumed. A medical examiner determined she had been strangled.

A report in The New York Times said that Roderick’s motive was money — he was to be cut out of Shele’s will that day — and that after her death, he even concocted a plan to frame his own daughter for the murder.

Next at The Kennedy Center: The Roots Residency (9 p.m., PBS NC)

Hip-hop group The Roots perform. The band reaches beyond the stage to mentor and learn.

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