Sep 19, 2011 · Mark Fowser September 19, 2011 Thomas Capano, a once-prominent Delaware attorney who was convicted of killing his mistress after a dramatic trial more than 12 years ago, has been found dead in his prison cell. Capano, 61, apparently died of natural causes.
Dec 21, 2020 · Thomas Capano and Ann Marie Fahey dined at the Ristorante Panorama on Front Street in Philadelphia on June 27, 1996, around 7 pm. Thomas Capano was well known in Wilmington Delaware politics as used to work for a former Attorney General. He currently was a partner in the Willmington office of a Philadelphia based law firm.
Jan 16, 2019 · Boston attorney Joseph S. Oteri, whose clients have included drug dealers, was referred to Capano in 1998. Oteri's brash style became one of the trial's hallmarks, but he said the defense was full...
Apr 04, 2022 · Thomas J. Capano, a once-prominent attorney convicted for the 1996 murder of 30-year-old Anne Marie Fahey, his lover and a secretary to then-Delaware Governor Thomas Carper, was found dead today ...
Thomas CapanoDiedSeptember 19, 2011 (aged 61) Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Delaware, U.S.OccupationAttorney, political consultantCriminal statusDeceasedConviction(s)First degree murder4 more rows
A little more than two months after that last entry, Fahey was reported missing. Fahey's remains have never been found.Nov 15, 2017
30He got away with it for two years until his brother, Gerard, told police of helping Capano dump a body at sea on June 28, 1996. Fahey had lived 30 not very happy years when she died. She had been born into a tight-knit Irish-American family who originally came from Galway.
Thomas J. Capano, age 61, of Wilmington, DE, passed away suddenly in his sleep on the evening of September 19, 2011....Thomas Joseph Capano.Birth11 Oct 1949Death19 Sep 2011 (aged 61) Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware, USABurialBurial Details UnknownMemorial ID154855997 · View Source
Anne Marie Fahey's disappearance from Wilmington, Delaware on the evening of June 27/early morning of June 28, 1996 did more than eventually destroy Tom Capano's reputation, career and take away his freedom; it crushed the innocence of the city itself.
The Faheys , four brothers and two sisters, had grown up looking out for one another. Their mother died while they were children. Anne Marie, the youngest, had just started grammar school. Their father, an alcoholic, soon fell apart.Sep 19, 2011
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Gov. Tom CarperAnne Marie Fahey, 30, was a single, tall, pretty and vivacious woman involved for three years in an affair with Thomas Capano, a wealthy attorney and married man with four daughters. She worked for Gov. Tom Carper, now Delaware's senior senator after graduating from Dover's Wesley College in 1991.Nov 17, 2017
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Nearly a year after his indictment, Thomas Capano went on trial in the fall of 1998. The prosecution called a downstate Delaware fisherman to the stand, who testified that he found a cooler floating at sea and kept it for his own use. That cooler was presented as evidence to the stunned jury.
Capano, 61, apparently died of natural causes. He was found unresponsive Monday afternoon at 12:34 in his cell at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center near Smyrna and later was pronounced dead.
Years later, Capano was removed from death row based on questions about whether a jury or a judge should have the final say on a death sentence.
On October 6, 1998, Thomas Capano’s trial began. His trial would last 32 days spanning over 10 weeks . At the start of the trial, Capano admitted to the court that he had disposed of Ann Marie’s body and had asked for his brother’s assistance, but he denied killing her. Instead, he put the murder on Deborah MacIntyre, painting her as a jealous lover who had barged into his home that night and shot Ann Marie.
Thomas Capano and Ann Marie Fahey dined at the Ristorante Panorama on Front Street in Philadelphia on June 27, 1996, around 7 pm. Thomas Capano was well known in Wilmington Delaware politics as used to work for a former Attorney General. He currently was a partner in the Willmington office of a Philadelphia based law firm. Ann Marie Fahey was working as the appointment secretary for the then-governor of Delaware, Tom Carper.
Although Capano was their top suspect they didn’t have enough probable cause to obtain a search warrant for his house . Agents decided to talk with Capano’s housekeeper hoping she could offer some assistance. Capano’s housekeeper told agents that she had cleaned his home four days prior to Ann Marie’s disappearance. She told them that Capano told her not to come the following week. It wasn’t necessary as his daughters did not stay over since she last was there. When she returned three weeks later she noticed that the love seat and carpet normally in the living room were gone and replaced with two chairs and a new carpet.
Capano confirmed for investigators that he had been seeing Ann Marie Fahey, but that their relationship had ended some time ago. They had parted as friends and had even met up Thursday night for dinner. He also told them that they had come back to his house as he had a gift for her and some groceries that she needed.
Under cross-examination, the state’s attorney pointed out the Capano had tried a similar case in 1976 when he served in the attorney general’s office where someone had dumped a body in a creek. At that trial, Capano told the jury that had he dumped the body at sea he might have gotten away with his crime. In the state’s version of events, they claimed that Capano had forced Ann Marie to return to his home the evening after their dinner.
The trial. During the trial, Connolly, the young, unflappable federal prosecutor who led the investigation, endured Capano's intense hatred, which included verbal attacks. At one point, Capano had even planned to put a hit on him. Judge William Swain Lee sentenced Capano to death. It was later overturned.
Judge William Swain Lee could not talk to the media during the trial or for years after. But the judge, now retired, shared several never-heard-before nuggets about the Capano trial in a November 2017 interview with The News Journal.
Judge William Swain Lee sentenced Capano to death. It was later overturned. Capano died of a heart attack on Sept. 19, 2011, at age 61 at the Vaughn Correctional Center near Smyrna, where he was serving the life sentence.
After a night dining out in Philadelphia, Capano apparently shot Fahey at his rented home in Wilmington's Highlands neighborhood and jammed her body into a cooler. Capano's two brothers Louis and Gerry helped him get rid of evidence and later testified against him.
When the cooler wouldn't sink after firing a bullet into it, Tom Capano then dumped Fahey's body into the Atlantic Ocean. The cooler floated away and was later found by fishermen.
It closed in December 2004. When it was operating, the intimate Italian restaurant was visited by some of the big names on both sides of the Capano murder trial. The restaurant also is mentioned in at least one letter Capano mistress Deborah MacIntyre wrote to Capano while he was in prison.
Capano also said he had wrapped her body in a cotton blanket. Lee, who was just a few inches shorter and weighed about the same as Fahey, agreed to climb into the 3-foot-8-inch hard-plastic cooler. Lee, who left her high heels on to compensate for Fahey's height, wanted to see if a body would fit.
While the motive never came out, he is likely to have killed Fahey because she had fallen in love with another man. He never expressed any remorse over taking her life.
They went to Stone Harbor, New Jersey, with a large cooler that contained Fahey’s body. The Capanos went 62 miles out to sea and pushed the cooler overboard.
He never expressed any remorse over taking her life . Despite the lack of a body or murder weapon, Capano was sentenced to die after a highly-publicized trial. After a number of appeals, the Delaware Supreme Court changed the sentence to life in prison without parole.
The News Journal of Delaware was the first to report Capano’s death Monday. He was found in his cell at the James Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Del. He has been in solitary confinement since his arrest in 1997. Pause.
Capano was a former deputy attorney general of Delaware and he was a member of a wealthy and prominent family in Delaware. He was convicted of shooting Fahey after she decided to end an affair with him.