(Vicki)Lombardi met the rabbi at a wedding and began seeing him—"Obviously, I don't go for hunky men," she says—when he was already a murder suspect. "He is way too brilliant to do something this foolish," says Lombardi, who ran errands for him during the trial. "There is no way I could believe he is capable of anything so horrendous."............
A few family members were upset when it was revealed in the press that Victoria Lombardi was driving the green Toyota Camry that once belonged to Carol Neulander. "I feel very bad about that stupid car," says Lombardi. "Fred asked me to take care of it. I thought it was his. If I thought they would be upset by me driving it, I wouldn't have. I never meant to offend his family."