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.She and her internet supporters claimed that she could not receive a fair consideration of her appeal because the transcript was tainted.However, months of reconstructive work brought the transcript up to scratch, and on this basis the judge ruled against the appellant.The rest is history, but the full picture certainly explains why the dog didn’t bark in the night.Inmate # 999220, Darlie Routier, is at Texas Department of Corrections, Mountain View Unit DR, 2305 Ransom Road, Gatesville, TX 76528, USA.NANCY KISSEL: ‘THE MILKSHAKE KILLER’‘A sham masquerading as the best marriage in the Universe.’NANCY KISSEL IN AN EMAIL TO A FRIEND‘This case? It’s better than a Hollywood movie.’POLLY HUI, A REPORTER AT NANCY KISSEL’S TRIAL IN HONG KONGHer husband’s body was wrapped in plastic film and a sleeping bag and then rolled up in a carpet.Days later, Nancy Kissel hired four Chinese workmen to carry the bundle to a storeroom, coolly ignoring their complaints that it smelled like rotten fish.According to their wealthy friends and work colleagues in the former British colony of Hong Kong, 41-year-old Nancy Kissel and her husband, Robert, 40, seemed to be the ideal couple.They had three children: Elaine, June and son Reis.But the couple both had dark secrets: Robert scoured the internet in search of weird sex with gay men; Nancy had a younger lover and trawled the web for drugs with which to kill her husband.New York-born Robert had been educated at the University of Rochester’s College of Engineering and had an MBA degree from the Leonard N Stern School of Business at New York University.He worked as a Vice President of Research for Lazard Freres & Co from 1992 to 1997, before he and Nancy moved to Hong Kong in 1998 with the Goldman Sachs Group Inc, to head its distressed asset business in the wake of the Asian financial crisis.In 2000, he was hired out to Merrill Lynch’s Global Principal Investment as managing director of the Asia-Pacific division.Born in Minneapolis, Nancy Kissel attended the University of Minnesota.She married her husband in 1989.A small, petite woman with raven-black hair, and a prominent member of Hong Kong’s Jewish community, she had owned her own photography business and carried out a string of volunteer activities, which included work for the Hong Kong International School – the $15,000-a-year school attended by two of the couple’s three children.The family lived in an expensive rented apartment within the Parkview complex, set into the lush green hills that overlook the harbour, and, according to Jane Clayton, Robert’s sister, at the time of his murder Robert’s estate was valued in the millions.The deceased held two life insurance policies in Hong Kong worth a total of US$1.75 million, as well as a personal insurance policy from the United States with a face value of about US$5 million.In 2003 the banker’s annual income was US$175,000, not including the US$5.9 million he had amassed in bonuses in his three years with Merrill Lynch.The principal beneficiary of Robert Kissel’s will was his wife, Nancy.It stated that, if he died before his wife, his entire estate would go to her.If she died before him, the estate would be distributed as 20 per cent to his brother, 20 per cent to his sister, 20 per cent to his father-in-law, 20 per cent to his mother-in-law and 20 per cent among friends.There was a lot at stake.In December 2002, Robert’s sister Jane noticed that her sister-in-law had become distant during a skiing trip to Whistler, Canada.‘Nancy argued a lot with other people,’ she said.‘I was very careful when I was with her.’ Jane added, ‘Nancy left the holiday without saying goodbye.’For his part, Robert Kissel had recently returned from Bali, Indonesia, where he had undergone a back operation.In January 2003, without Nancy’s knowledge, the banker, suspecting that his wife was having an affair, installed E-blaster spy software on both her laptop and her home computer.The software tracked her emails and sent reports to a Hotmail account read by himself.In March, Nancy Kissel and her children left Hong Kong to evade the SARS virus outbreak [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]