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Thomas Capano Trial: 1998-99
Defendant: Thomas Capano
Crime Charged: Murder
Chief Defense Lawyers: Joseph S. Oteri, Eugene Maurer and Charles M. Oberly Ill
Chief Prosecutors: Colm Connolly and Ferris W. Wharton
Judge: William Swain Lee
Place: Wilmington, Delaware
Dates of Trial: October 26, 1998-January 18, 1999
Verdict. Guilty
Sentence: Death
SIGNIFICANCE: The notorious murder trial of one of the state's most prominent attorneys stunned Delaware's legal and political establishment.
On June 27, 1996, Anne Marie Fahey, a 30-year-old scheduling secretary working for Delaware Governor Tom Carper, vanished. On the night of her baffling disappearance, Fahey had been seen in a restaurant with noted Wilmington lawyer and political wheeler-dealer, Thomas Capano. Capano, 47 years old, married with four children, had been dating Fahey since 1993. She was just one of his many ongoing affairs. Capano was charged with Fahey's murder despite the fact that her body was not found.
The Trial
At Capano's trial, which began October 26, 1998, prosecutor Ferris Wharton in his
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The players, places in the Capano murder case
The key players
Anne 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. She met Capano in 1993, and wrote in her diary she fell in love with him on her January 1994 birthday.
But in September 1995, she met Michael R. Scanlon, the community affairs chief of MBNA America Bank, and wanted to end the affair with Capano. She was last seen in public dining with Capano on June 27, 1996, at the Ristorante Panorama in Philadelphia. Her remains have never been found.
Thomas J. Capano, the oldest son of custom home builder Louis J. Capano, was a politically-connected lawyer who had worked as a public defender, a deputy attorney general, and later for the Wilmington law firm Morris James Hitchens & Williams. He was city solicitor under the late Wilmington mayor Dan Frawley, and later was former G
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20 years later: 12 details about Thomas Capano murder trial
Sex. Politics. Secrets. Family. Murder.
Lurid elements swirling around the capital murder trial of wealthy Wilmington lawyer Thomas Capano captivated the public and made it one of the most sensational and dramatic court cases in Delaware history.
Twenty years ago on Jan. 17, 1999 — a frigid, Sunday morning — a jury found Capano guilty of killing 30-year-old Anne Marie Fahey, a scheduling secretary for then-Gov. Tom Carper.
It was one of very few first-degree U.S. murder cases that got a conviction even though there was no body, no weapon and no witness to the killing. The prosecution was led by Colm F. Connolly, a then 33-year-old assistant U.S. attorney who had never before tried a murder case.
The crime
Fahey, a single, insecure woman, was trying to end her secret relationship with 49-year-old Capano, a married man with four daughters, who also had other mistresses. After a night dining out in Philadelphia, Capano apparently shot Fahey at his rented home in Wilmington's Highlands neighborhood and jammed her bo
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