On the anniversary of Capano's arrest, The News Journal has asked some principal players to recall their memories of the investigation and trial. Time has a way of fraying memories and, 20 years later, some participants have slightly different versions of the same story and others share never heard before details. The News Journal has tried to clarify and add context to some of their words using information from court records and articles from the paper's archives.
Still, some of the people who were caught up in Capano's web of lies are more than ready to put the past behind them. MacIntyre is remarried and now working at the American Society of Cytopathology, a nonprofit organization in Wilmington.
The office is near the old Daniel L. In the old courthouse two decades ago, she talked about her longtime affair with Capano and about buying a gun for him six weeks before Fahey died. When reached by The News Journal via email on Nov.
Best regards, Debby MacIntyre Sheldon. While family members were concerned they would appear as seeking attention, they felt it was proper to keep the case in the public eye, and keep pressure on the Capano family.
After the trial, the Faheys decided as a group to stop talking to the media, and to draw no more attention to themselves. The Thomas J. Capano case captivated Delaware that's known, for better or worse, as a clannish community, especially concerning its native sons and daughters. Where did you grow up? Where did you go to high school?
Ties could be made to Capano and Fahey, both from large Wilmington-area families with high-profile jobs. He Tom was very prominent. He had been a prosecutor, a public defender, the administrative assistant to the Wilmington mayor. Capano had been a partner in a couple big law firms, Morris James and Saul Ewing.
He had been the governor's legal counsel. For a few days in the summer of , the disappearance of Anne Marie Fahey seemed to be little more than a missing person case. The eatery, which is still there, was considered one of the city's great wine destinations and featured classic Italian cuisine. Capano, married for 24 years, had recently separated from his wife.
Going to Philadelphia was his routine. He had multiple mistresses and liked to take them on dates far away from his home and nosy, prying eyes in New Castle County. Capano ordered the food without consulting Fahey. They drank wine and picked at calamari and bruschetta, both looking miserable. Fahey had met Capano in , and wrote in her diary she fell in love with him on her January birthday. He lavished her with attention, gifts and visits to expensive restaurants.
In September , Fahey met Scanlan, who was unmarried and closer to her age. She wanted to end the affair with Capano. But when they left the Panorama restaurant at about p. June 27, it would be the last time Fahey was seen in public.
Police looked through his home and a Jeep Grand Cherokee, but, at that time, found no signs of Fahey. Missing person photos of Fahey, a blue-eyed beauty with dark, curly hair, and yellow ribbons begin appearing on telephone poles, trees and signs around Wilmington. A billboard went up on I Her family started a vigil on the front porch of the Washington Street apartment.
Time marches on and the bar has closed. The building went up for sale in and later became a salon and spa. Tom Carper, now Delaware's senior senator, whom Fahey had worked for since her graduation from Dover's Wesley College. On July 5, , Clinton said the federal government would help with the search.
However, it seems he forgot to notify the U. He said, 'Well, I'll call over to Wilmington, and we'll offer our services. State prosecutors later agreed to bow out of the picture. A federal grand jury investigation, which had to remain secret, began.
Connolly, leading a team of investigators, began methodically chipping away at the investigation by conducting interviews, searches, and combing through phone and financial records. On July 26, , he and Wilmington police investigator Bob Donovan discovered, through financial records, Capano had made a purchase at a company listed as Wallpaper Warehouse two days after Fahey was last seen in public alive.
I know he's living in a rental house, so he wouldn't be buying wallpaper. That's what this is all about,'" Connolly said. Capano Jr. A search takes place Aug. The search is messy, and officers come up empty. A turning point arrives in October when federal agents raid the Wilmington home of Capano's brother Gerry and find illegal drugs and guns. Capano's brothers Gerald and Louis agree to began cooperating with the authorities in November to avoid federal charges.
Arizona, when Capano's petition before the nation's high court was pending. In the ruling, the Supreme Court held that juries, not judges, must decide whether a defendant is eligible for the death penalty. Capano's lawyers argued that his death sentence should be overturned because the jury's vote for death sentence eligibility was not unanimous.
Capano's jury voted in determining that Fahey's murder was the result of "premeditation and substantial planning," a statutory aggravating circumstance that made him eligible for the death penalty. Capano had shot her dead, apparently, because he feared losing that control. He had taken her to a meal on the evening of June 27, , to Philadelphia's trendy Ristorante Panorama, a minute drive from Wilmington.
She was adamant she wanted to end their affair, not least because she was falling in love with another man. Get ahead of the day with the morning headlines at 7. Enter email address This field is required Sign Up. Police believe Capano took her back to the house he had been renting since separating from his wife the year before, and shot her dead with a pistol, though neither Miss Fahey's body nor a murder weapon has ever been found. He got away with it for two years until his brother, Gerard, told police of helping Capano dump a body at sea on June 28, 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. She was the youngest of six children, but her world began to fall apart when she was nine and her mother died of lung cancer.
Her father lapsed into drink and led a rootless life until his death from leukaemia in She went on to study international relations and, after graduating, a family friend got her a job in Washington working for Thomas Carper, then an up-and-coming Democratic congressman.
He and Fahey started dating after being fixed up on a blind date by then-Gov. Tom Carper in September He didn't know about Fahey's involvement with Capano until after her June disappearance. Deborah A. MacIntyre , a Capano mistress for more than 15 years, testified she bought a. She said she gave it to him and never saw it again.
She also testified she lied several times about details of the case. She vehemently denied firing the shot that killed Fahey. Nicholas Perillo , a convicted burglar and forger, testified Capano tried to hire him to ransack the MacIntyre's home after she became a prosecution witness.
The burglary never happened. Courtroom of the Daniel L. Herrmann Courthouse — On Sunday, Jan. Capano of the murder of Anne Marie Fahey. Capano began renting the house after he moved out of W. After her disappearance, her family kept vigil on the front porch there for several weeks.
Ristorante Panorama, 14 N. Front St. It's now called Panorama. A waitress testified that Capano ordered all the food without consulting Fahey. It's now called simply Panorama. The bar has closed. The building went up for sale in and later became a salon and spa. It was a popular gathering place for many associated with the trial, before and after it began.
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