On this day, Oct. 6, in 1998, the murder trial began for former Delaware Deputy Attorney General Thomas Capano, accused of killing his lover, a 28-year-old secretary to the governor. Prosecutors said Capano killed Anne Marie Fahey and stuffed her body in an ice chest. He and his brother took a boat 62 miles into the Atlantic Ocean and tossed the cooler overboard.

When the cooler failed to sink, Capano shot holes in it, but that didn’t work. Capano pulled the body out and wrapped it with anchor chains.

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