Man who confessed last year to killing his 5-year-old son decades ago found dead outside Eilat

Asher Goldstein, an 89-year-old man who confessed last year to drowning his young son to death decades after the fact, was found lifeless in his car yesterday near Eilat.

The man’s body was found in a mountainous area south of the city, near a camel ranch, Channel 12 reports. Police have launched an investigation.

The man also served 11 years in prison for killing his wife with an iron bar in 1974. He attempted to erase any suspicion of foul play by paying his friend to drive her body out of the city and set fire to the vehicle with her remains inside, according to a Davar newspaper report from the time.

Last summer, Goldstein contacted police to confess that two years before killing his spouse, he drowned his five-year-old son to death, then staged it as an accident.

Goldstein, a resident of Eilat, reportedly suffered from a terminal illness during the last stretch of his life. The circumstances of his death remain unclear.