Ex-Professor Held in Death of Wife
A retired Stanford professor has been arrested in the strangulation of his ailing wife, whose death he initially reported to police as a suicide.
Harry Banoff, 76, a retired ophthalmologist and associate professor at Stanford, was being held without bail Monday, pending arraignment and a bail hearing. He was arrested early Sunday.
Alice Banoff, 69, was strangled late Friday or early Saturday at a retirement community where she and her husband lived in separate apartments, police said.
A family friend, Dr. Isaac Abrams, described Banoff as “a prince of a human being,” and said Alice Banoff had been seriously ill for years with colon cancer and a disease that causes muscle degeneration.
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