Robert Bierenbaum

Bierenbaum is currently incarcerated in New York State and is not eligible for parole until October 2020. His offender number is 00-A-7114.

Despite eyewitness testimony for the defense who stated he saw the victim in a Manhattan bagel shop during the time that Bierenbaum took his airplane flight, Bierenbaum was convicted and sentenced to twenty years to life in prison in New York. He appealed, but the conviction was upheld in the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division in 2002.

The Bierenbaum case was the subject of the 2001 New York Times non-fiction bestseller book The Surgeon's Wife. It was also one of the stories in the television show Dominick Dunne: Power, Privilege, & Justice on Court TV.

The Robert Bierenbaum case was featured by the television show Law and Order: Criminal Intent, in an episode entitled "The Good Doctor", which originally aired in November, 2001, and in an episode of the French series Paris enquêtes criminelles.

As a result of the New York state Medical Licensing Board's misconduct review following the court case, Bierenbaum surrendered his License to Practice medicine in November, 2000. In September 2002, New Jersey also revoked his medical practice license.

Lisa DePaulo profiled the Bierenbaum case in her story, "Intimations of Murder" published in the September 2000 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. The case was featured in an episode of OWN series 'Devil You Know'.

The prosecution stated that Bierenbaum discarded his wife's dismembered body in the ocean. The victim's torso was first thought to be found in 1989 but after exhuming the torso, DNA testing in 1999 proved it was not Gail's.

Robert Bierenbaum (born July 22, 1955) is an American plastic surgeon who was convicted in October 2000 of murdering his estranged wife, Gail Katz-Bierenbaum. The death occurred in their Manhattan apartment on July 7, 1985.