Taking the stand in
his own defense, the Delaware attorney, Thomas J. Capano, gave his version of what
happened on the night Anne Marie Fahey disappeared. Fahey, a scheduling secretary to
Delaware Governor Thomas Carper, had been a mistress of Capano and was first reported
missing on June 29th, 1996. Capano claimed that he and Fahey had dined out two days
prior. After they arrived at his house, he returned a call to another Mistress,
Deborah MacIntyre. He told MacIntryre that she couldn't drop by as he had company.
He claimed that minutes later she showed up with a pistol, threatening to kill
herself. Capano testified that he grabbed at MacIntyre's gun and it went off
accidentally killing Fahey. According to MacIntyre's testimony, she was not at
Capano's house that night. She also testified that Capano had asked her to buy a gun
for him about a month earlier. MacIntyre was never charged or a suspect in the
shooting.Rather
than calling 911 (which Capano admitted was "cowardly"), he stuffed the
5-foot 11-inch body into a 192-quart large fishing cooler. He then got his brother,
Gerard, to take him and the cooler with the corpse about 60 to 70 miles out into the
Atlantic ocean. When the cooler would not sink, he proceeded to be rid of the body
by attaching anchors to it and dumping all overboard.
On January 17th, 1999, Thomas Capano was found guilty of murder by a 12-member jury
comprised of six men and six women.
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