On this day, Oct. 6, in 1998, the murder trial began for Thomas Capano, the former deputy attorney general for Delaware accused of killing the 28-year-old appointments secretary to the governor.
Anne Marie Fahey was last seen June 27, 1996. She wanted to end her relationship with the married Capano.
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Capano killed Fahey and stuffed her body in a cooler. He took a boat 62 miles into the Atlantic Ocean and tossed the cooler overboard.
When the cooler failed to sink, he shot holes in it. Still, the ice chest floated. Capano pulled the body out and wrapped it with anchor chains.
Fahey disappeared into the deep.
Neither her body nor the murder weapon were ever recovered. Prosecutors built the case on circumstantial evidence, including entries from Fahey’s diary in which she called the politically connected Capano “a controlling, manipulative, insecure and jealous maniac.”
On Jan. 17, 1999, the trial resulted in Capano’s conviction, and he awaits his execution.
– Scott McCabe
