the seat belt, i pulled the gun up and i fired and i shot her. but why? dawn said fred andros wanted revenge against susan for ending their affair. given fred s ego, nobody was going to say no to fred. nobody would break up with fred. but why did dawn silvernail do it? dawn says andros loaned her more than $15,000 over the 20 years they had known one another. instead of paying him back, andros asked her to murder susan to erase the debt. andros basically said she had no choice. he threatened my entire family and told me that if i wouldn t take care of this problem with susan for him that something would happen to somebody that i loved. to find out if dawn silvernail s version was true,
investigators used a new tool called web test. that s the web enabled tem temporal analysis system. it assists with information analysis against databases. it co-lates information from cell phones, e-mails and ez pass trips. investigators compared all this data from the three main people from this case, susan fassett, dawn silvernail and fred andros. the majority of those communications were from fred to dawn. what that indicated was that fred was not only planning some activity, but also preparing the conspiracy. the evidence corroborated dawn s story. the records reveal that within 15 or 20 minutes of the time that she killed susan, she stopped at a pay phone and paged mr. andros to signal him that it had been done. if you accept what fred andros
violent at all. but jeff thought he knew who was responsible. he even said to me, put me under hot lights, beat me with rubber hoses, i don t care what you do to me, but when you re all done with me, go see fred andros. he s behind this. fred andros was the superintendent for the town of poughkeepsie. a man with a terrible reputation. right out of the gate people told us what a scum bag he was. fred was a self-centered, mean, nasty prick. fred andros and susan fassett bumped into each other apparently one day in the hallway in the town building. they started a relationship. just one month earlier, jeff fassett learned his wife susan was having an affair with fred andros, an affair that had gone on for the last three years.
murder, saying she had no motive to harm her. she was so calm, so cool, so cooperative that we had to think geez, maybe not. maybe she s not involved in this thing. a background check showed dawn owned a .45 caliber handgun like the one used in the murder. she also had a vehicle that fit the general description of the vehicle seen leaving the scene. but forensic tests revealed that dawn s gun didn t match the striations used in susan s murder. it looked as if the gun had been tampered with. it was incapable of being compared to any projectiles found at the scene. if fred or dawn silvernail were involved in susan fassett s murder, police still had no evidence to prove it.
andros told police he was having an affair with dawn silvernail at the same time he was having an affair with susan fassett. in fact, he said the three of them had five or six sexual encounters together. i told him i had never done anything like that before. and i went to the house and she was there and he introduced me to her, and we talked for a few minutes, and then we went upstairs and we engaged in a threesome with the three of us there that lasted maybe half an hour. fred andros suspected that dawn silvernail and susan fassett started seeing one another alone and perhaps had a lover s quarrel. dawn denied it. i never had any contact with susan fassett unless fred called me and set it up and we met with fred in fred s presence. i never had any independent contact of any type with susan ever. dawn also denied having anything to do with susan s