Thomas Capnano Case

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Danielle Nicole Ford Forensic Science January 27, 2011 THOMAS CAPANO ACCIDENT OR MURDER Thomas J. Capano (born October 11, 1949) is a disbarred American lawyer from Wilmington, Delaware, who was convicted of the 1996 murder of his lover Anne Marie Fahey. The case made headlines because Capano is from a wealthy family and was a former deputy attorney general of Delaware. In 1994 Capano was a partner at the Wilmington office of the law firm Saul Ewing LLP when he became involved with Anne Marie Fahey, the 28-year-old appointments secretary to then-Governor Thomas R. Carper. Fahey did not want to continue her affair with Capano. Fahey had been attempting to end her relationship with the married Capano and had begun seeing another man. She was last seen on June 27, 1996. Fahey was killed at the house Capano rented. Thomas then went to his brother Gerry Capano. Gerry Capano helped his brother dump her body in the Atlantic Ocean. November 8, 1997 is the day Gerry Capano was interviewed by detectives. He told them that his brother had asked him to use his boat and he then told them that he had murdered someone who was attempting to extort him. Gerry and Thomas went to Stone Harbor with a large cooler that contained Fahey's body. This type of cooler was frequently used by fishermen, no one considered this suspicious. The Capano’s went exactly 62 miles out to sea and pushed the cooler overboard. The cooler floated, Thomas began to shoot the cooler and it still floated. Thomas pulled the cooler back out of the water, and then took the body out. They then wrapped the anchor chains around it. Gerry Capano owned a boat and, when it was sold, its two anchors were missing. Detectives suspected the boat's anchors were used to weigh down Fahey's body. Thomas then asked his brother to help him dispose of a

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