Leonard Jenoff, who has admitted arranging the murder of Carol Neulander, has told authorities the victim's husband, Rabbi Fred J. Neulander, also tried to set up the slaying of a witness.

Neulander suggested a stun gun be used against Pepe Levin, a Pennsauken businessman with a history of heart trouble, Jenoff told police. Neulander allegedly made the remarks after learning Levin, a former confidante, had testified against the rabbi before a grand jury in 1997.

Jenoff also said Neulander once asked whether his stun gun could be used to kill the rabbi's wife, who was beaten to death on Nov. 1, 1994.

"I said, no, it would just knock her out ... for probably three to five minutes," Jenoff said in a July 27 interview in the Camden County Prosecutor's Office.

One of Neulander's defense attorneys, Jeffrey Zucker, said Jenoff's comments "were as incredible as everything else he' s said."

Jenoff, a former private investigator from Collingswood, is now in jail after pleading guilty to aggravated manslaughter. He has admitted recruiting an associate to kill Carol Neulander, a 52-year-old mother of three, and then participating in the brutal beating at her Cherry Hill home.

Authorities have accused the rabbi of ordering his wife's murder so he could continue an extramarital relationship. Neulander faces trial next year, with Jenoff as a likely witness in the capital case.

Jenoff's comments about a suggested manner of death for Carol Neulander appear to contradict some of his earlier claims. He initially told authorities he did not know the identity of his intended target. Jenoff told police in April that Neulander had described the victim only as "an enemy of the State of Israel."

Jenoff gave no dates for the alleged stun-gun conversations.

Jenoff said the rabbi was "incensed" after Levin went before the grand jury investigating his wife's death.

In his testimony, Levin said Neulander had asked if he knew anyone willing to kill his wife. Levin also said the rabbi had expressed a desire to go home one night and find his wife dead on the floor.

"He (Neulander) asked me what we could do to take care of Pepe Levin," Jenoff told investigators.

"He said to me that Pepe had, uh, a bad heart or he had heart attacks that if the gun was placed on his heart, would it kill him?" Jenoff said. "And I said I really don't know. I said they have new models with like 200,000 volts, it probably would, but mine is an old model."

Jenoff said Neulander proposed Levin be attacked either outside his business on Route 70 or outside Gold's Gym in Cherry Hill, where Levin and the rabbi had played racquetball.

Jenoff said he turned down the rabbi's request, and that Neulander then proposed he get "the kid" to do it, an apparent reference to Paul Daniels of Pennsauken, who has also admitted his role in Carol Neulander's death.

"I said, `Just forget it. You're in enough trouble now,'" Jenoff recounted.

Jenoff's attorney, Francis J. Hartman, said he had not read his client's latest statement. Hartman said that once he pleads a client guilty, "I don't pay a whole lot of attention to discovery for the other defendants."

Levin's attorney, Jaime Kaigh, could not be reached for comment.

Jenoff also told authorities he met with Neulander's attorneys in August 1997, urging them to hire him as an investigator for the rabbi's case and to cover him with attorney-client privilege.

"Trust me on this one," Jenoff recalled saying to Zucker. " You don't want me testifying at the grand jury. I know too much ... We can all get burned."