Esther Salas was downstairs when she heard the doorbell. It was a Sunday afternoon in New Jersey, in July 2020. Her son Daniel, twenty years old and home from college, went to answer it.
A man stood outside dressed like a FedEx driver. When Daniel opened the door, the man pulled a gun. He shot Daniel in the chest, then turned the weapon on Salas’s husband, Mark. By the time police arrived, Daniel was dead. Mark was bleeding out. The judge, the intended target, was unharmed.
The man with the gun, Roy Den Hollander, had argued a case in Salas’s courtroom years earlier. He didn’t need insider contacts or a private investigator to find her home address. He found it on a people search website.
New Jersey lawmakers sprang into action, at least when it came to their own. They passed “Daniel’s Law,” which removed judges’, cops’, and prosecutors’ personal information from public view.
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