At Any Cost unravels the twisted story of Rod Covlin, whose unrepentant greed drove him to an unspeakable act of murder and betrayal that rocked New York City.Wealthy, beautiful, and brilliant, Shele Danishefsky was on the cusp of total fulfillment. Having conquered Wall Street, she was eager to build a family with her much younger husband, beguiling and handsome Ivy League graduate Rod Covlin. But when Rod's hidden vices, from high stakes backgammon to rampant affairs, breached this facade of perfection, marital harmony gave way to a merciless divorce battle. Rod has been entirely dependent on Shele's earnings, and her threats to sever him from her will and the millions their two children would inherit soon unleashed his darkest impulses. In late December 2009, Shele made an appointment with her lawyer to expel Rod from her will. She would never make it to that meeting. Two days later, on New Year's Eve, Shele was found dead in the bathtub of her Upper West Side apartment. Police ruled it an accident, and Shele's deeply Orthodox Jewish family quickly buried their beloved without an autopsy on religious grounds. The sudden tragedy provided Rod a clear path to his ex-wife's fortune -- but suspicions about Shele's death lingered. As the two families waged war over custody of Shele's children-and their inheritance- Rod concocted a series of increasingly unhinged schemes, even plotting to kill his own parents, to finally secure Shele's treasure. And as investigators closed in, Rod committed a final, desperate act to frame his own daughter for her mother's death. Journalists Rebecca Rosenberg and Selim Algar reconstruct the ten years that passed between the day Shele was found dead and the day her killer faced justice in this chilling portrait of how one man's irrepressible greed devolved into obsession, manipulation, and murder.