{"id":550,"date":"2011-05-21T09:38:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T23:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/?p=550"},"modified":"2011-06-21T19:09:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T09:09:46","slug":"veterinarian-accused-of-mistress-murder-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Veterinarian accused of mistress murder"},"content":{"rendered":"A US veterinarian accused of fatally shooting his pregnant mistress has waived his right to a preliminary hearing in Lehigh County Central Court, Pennsylvania, USA.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nDressed in a blue prison jumpsuit and wearing brown-rimmed glasses, David Rapoport appeared with defense attorneys John Griffin and John Waldron before District Judge Jacob Hammond. Rapoport did not speak during the proceedings.\r\n\r\nRapoport, 30, faces charges of criminal homicide and criminal homicide of an unborn child. His formal arraignment has been set for June 10, before Judge Steinberg in Lehigh County.\r\n\r\nHe will enter a plea there. Griffin said that, at this point, it will be a plea of not guilty.\r\n\r\nAuthorities claim the defendant, a married veterinarian who worked at the Harleysville Veterinary Hospital, shot Jennifer L. Snyder three times before dumping her body in a nature preserve.\r\n\r\nSnyder, a Lower Macungie resident, was 10 to 12 weeks pregnant, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office.\r\n\r\nThe defendant remains in Lehigh County prison without the possibility of bail, according to the court.\r\n\r\nAuthorities arrested Rapoport on March 22 in connection with the shooting death of Snyder, whose body was discovered four days earlier in a wooded ravine in the Trexler Nature Preserve in North Whitehall Township, near Allentown.\r\n\r\nState police used an aerial search to find Snyder\u2019s body on March 18 along Game Preserve Road in North Whitehall Township, according to the DA\u2019s office.\r\n\r\nAn autopsy, completed the following day by county Coroner Scott Grimm, ruled the manner of death a homicide, with the cause of death being multiple gunshot wounds, according to authorities.\r\n\r\nTwo days later, they determined the cartridge casings found inside the victim\u2019s vehicle and recovered at the Game Preserve Road scene had been discharged by the Glock owned by Rapoport.\r\n\r\nThe relationship between Rapoport and Snyder, a technician at a veterinary office near Allentown, lasted three years, according to Trina Angelovich, Snyder\u2019s aunt.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis wasn\u2019t a fling,\u201d Angelovich said.\r\n\r\nAngelovich said her niece portrayed her alleged killer as caring man who intended to seek a divorce from his wife.\r\n\r\nSnyder believed that David and Elizabeth Rapoport were separated and that their marriage was going to end, according to Angelovich. She said Snyder brought David Rapoport to a family wedding in September 2009.\r\n\r\n\u201cHe was very pleasant,\u201d Angelovich said. \u201cJennifer portrayed him as a caring man. He never gave us any idea he was not caring. 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