#Roy Den Hollander railed against Judge Esther Salas in misogynist screed

The man who allegedly gunned down a New Jersey judge’s son and critically wounded her husband was an “anti-feminist” lawyer who penned racist, misogynistic screeds rife with sexual fantasy about the jurist, it was revealed Monday.

Roy Den Hollander — whose Web site calls for clients to “help battle the infringement of Men’s Rights by the Feminists” — was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot in the Catskills town of Rockland on Monday, law-enforcement insiders said.

By his side, sources said, were a gun investigators believe was used in the assault and a package or envelope addressed to district court Judge Esther Salas, who was overseeing a still-pending 2015 case in which Hollander argued that the military’s men-only draft was discriminatory.

In an online manifesto first reported by NBC News, Hollander, 72, spelled out his bizarre lust-hate relationship with Salas.

“The case began over the July 4th weekend of 2015, and was assigned to this hot Latina Judge in the U.S. District Court for New Jersey whom Obama had appointed,” he wrote, referring to the draft case. “At first, I wanted to ask the Judge out, but thought she might hold me in contempt.”

But he alternately bashed Salas as “a lazy and incompetent Latina judge appointed by Obama,” and belittled the résumé that landed her a national role while he toiled on the fringes of the law.

“Salas worked as an associate in an ambulance chasing firm doing basic criminal work. Left that firm to work as a public defender in the New Jersey District Court representing lumpen proletariat ne’er-do-wells,” he wrote. “Joined 135 politically correct organizations trying to convince America that whites, especially white males, were barbarians, and all those of a darker skin complexion were victims.”

Hate won out and, disguised in a Federal Express deliveryman’s outfit, Hollander came to the door of Salas’ home on a tranquil North Brunswick cul de sac around 5 p.m. Sunday, gun in hand, sources said.

When the door opened, the attorney immediately opened fire, hitting both Salas’ husband, Mark Anderl, and their adult son, Daniel, according to authorities.

It was unclear how he obtained the uniform.

“At that time I didn’t realize it was a gunshot,” neighbor Jenny Wang said Monday. “It sounded like fireworks: Pop, pop, pop. And [then] it stopped.”

Anderl, 63 and a prominent criminal-defense attorney in his own right, was left hospitalized in critical but stable condition.

His 20-year-old son, however, was killed on the spot by what North Brunswick Mayor Francis Womack told ABC News was a “shot through the heart.”

Salas, believed to be in the basement of the home at the time, was unharmed.

The elder Anderl made his way outside, evidently calling for help from his driveway, a neighbor said.

“At that moment my husband was about to leave the house … and he saw the husband sitting on his driveway, making a phone call,” said Wang, noting that her husband didn’t notice anything amiss from the distance — and didn’t think any of a FedEx truck parked nearby.

But as emergency response vehicles raced up the cul de sac, it became clear to all that tragedy had struck.


“All of a sudden I collapsed. I just couldn’t believe it,” neighbor Marion Constanza, 76, said of learning of Daniel’s death. “I went out into the street to tell the neighbors and I just sat on the sidewalk. I just couldn’t believe it.”


Salas said in a 2018 interview that her son aspired to follow in his parents’ footsteps.

“I don’t want to dissuade him, but I was pulling for a doctor,” Salas told New Jersey Monthly of Daniel, then a high-school senior. “He’s been arguing with us since he could talk — practicing his advocacy skills.”

He had big shoes to fill: Salas is the first Hispanic woman to serve as a federal magistrate judge in the Garden State, and presided over several prominent cases.

They included a class-action lawsuit from Deutsche Bank investors who claim the company failed to monitor “high-risk” customers including late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — assigned to Salas just four days before the assault.

While Salas and her family had everything to live for, Hollander, apparently, had little left to lose.

In a January email to reporters titled “How Not to Treat a Dying Man,” Hollander wrote that he was “painfully dying from metastasized cancer,” and suing NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, its lawyers and his doctor under the RICO Act.

Acknowledging that the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act is most commonly used to take down organized-crime syndicates, Hollander vaguely likened the defendants to gangsters while detailing his hellish treatments.

“The hospital exploits the image of a caring family, when in reality, it acts like a vindictive Mafia family,” he wrote. The doctor “promised that the resulting intense pain would go away in 2 to 3 weeks—it lasted for 10 weeks.”

Investigators are exploring whether he decided to take out his rivals before the cancer claimed him, according to the New York Times, which said detectives are also probing any ties to the killing of another men’s rights lawyer, Marc Angelucci, in California by a gunman wearing a FedEx uniform.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether the suit was ever formally filed, or what type of cancer afflicted Hollander.

Either way, he vowed to go down fighting.

“They want to fight, fine,” he wrote. “I’ll fight them to my last dollar, my last breath and if there is anything after death — for eternity.”

Additional reporting by Bruce Golding, Tamar Lapin and Craig McCarthy