{"id":69943,"date":"2025-07-17T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/69943\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:05:12","slug":"american-idol-exec-moved-to-la-neighborhood-to-be-safe-before-double-homicide-family-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/69943\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018American Idol\u2019 exec moved to LA neighborhood ‘to be safe\u2019 before double homicide: family friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d executive murdered<\/a> alongside her husband in their multimillion-dollar Los Angeles home had moved there \u201cto be safe\u201d \u2014 but had a break-in just weeks before they were killed during a suspected burglary, a family friend has revealed.<\/p>\n

Robin Kaye and her husband, Thomas Deluca, both 70, had beefed up security at their Encino home after a perp recently broke in while they were sleeping, the close friend told\u00a0Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey added spikes to the top of the fence\u2026 They had spikes on the other side of the fence, and obviously updated their video surveillance as well. They had video surveillance already,\u201d said the family friend, who didn\u2019t want to be otherwise identified.<\/p>\n

Robin Kaye and her husband, Thomas DeLuca, are seen in an undated photo. Facebook<\/p>\n

The initial break-in was while they slept in the middle of the night, the friend said, saying it was just weeks ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir dog woke them up in the middle of the night\u2026 That\u2019s what ran them off,\u201d the friend recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they said they broke a glass and the dog started barking, and the people ran off.\u201d<\/p>\n

After ramping up security and surveillance, the couple \u2014 \u201ctwo of the nicest people you\u2019ll ever meet\u201d \u2014 told friends they didn\u2019t believe the suspect would show up again, the pal said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, it previously emerged Kaye had reached out to a private security firm<\/a> in the weeks before the bloodshed amid fears for her safety.<\/p>\n

Robin Kaye and her husband Thomas DeLuca were killed in their Los Angeles home on Monday. 4CRNS, WCP \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n

The suspect of the murders is seen standing in front of a row of garages at a residential complex, with numerous cops surrounding him. TMZ<\/p>\n

\u201cShe felt threatened by somebody because of somebody around their home or around their neighborhood who felt suspicious,\u201d Kris Herzog, owner of the Bodyguard Group of Beverly Hills, told NBC Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The couple never ended up hiring the company.<\/p>\n

Kaye and Deluca were found dead inside their home on Monday after cops were called to carry out a welfare check.<\/p>\n

The suspect, 22-year-old Raymond Boodarian<\/a>, was arrested Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if Boodarian is also a suspect in the initial break-in just weeks before the slayings.<\/p>\n

Cops believe Boordarian had been burglarizing the home, which last sold for around $4.5 million in 2023, on July 10 while the couple were out.<\/p>\n

He allegedly opened fire on them when they returned home and busted him, police said.<\/p>\n

The couple were found four days later with gunshot wounds to the head in separate rooms \u2014 Kaye in the pantry and Deluca in a bathroom.<\/p>\n

Detectives don\u2019t believe Boordarian knew the victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d executive murdered alongside her husband in their multimillion-dollar Los Angeles home had moved there \u201cto…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[47417,1582,276,4219,2961,224,5337,27813,1154],"class_list":{"0":"post-69943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-american-idol","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-murders","16":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114868723912238491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}