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.
jeff fassett, a local policeman, had the night off and was home watching tv with his two sons. his wife, susan was at her church s choir practice. my mother was involved in church pretty heavily. she had always loved it. she was involved in the choir for most of her life. around 7:30 p.m., jeff fassett told the boys he was going down to police headquarters. he did go out to the town of poughkeepsie to get his paycheck, three miles west of his house. sometime around 8:30, choir practice ended at the pleasant valley united methodist church and susan fassett walked to her car to drive home. then shots rang out. people ran to the car to see what had happened and they found susan fassett mortally wounded. witnesses saw a light colored vehicle speeding from the scene. no one indicated to us they could see a driver or how many
michelob ultra. the superior light beer. susan fassett s autopsy revealed she had sexual relations within two days of her murder. dna from that encounter did not match that of her husband jeff. so who was it? her former lover fred andros denied it was him, although he refused to provide a dna sample. we knew it wasn t jeff, and we re thinking it had to be fred. who else would it be?
a call to the church and found out his mother had been shot. that s the only information they had. dad! dad! mom s been shot. not sure what to do, jeff turned off all the lights. it looked as if he was barricading himself inside the house. i remember sitting in the house in the dark in silence for what seemed like a very, very long time. they don t know what he s going to do now. if a man has killed his wife, his children may be next and then he may kill himself. two tense hours pass before jeff fassett and his two sons come out of the house. they are led outside with their hands behind their head, handcuffed and tossed on the ground face down like common criminals. i m waiting to find out what happened to my mother who all i know is she s been shot. and now all of a sudden, we re all, you know, seemingly under arrest. eventually, even jason fassett had to consider the unthinkable.
jeff put some sort of tape recording device on his telephone unbeknownst to her. she was caught receiving and making calls to fred andros. when jeff fassett confronted his wife about the affair, susan promised to end it. things were really up in the air. and then one day they just came to us and said that they were going to work on things. they were going to fix things. police wondered if fred andros might have been angry that susan ended their affair. but fred andros had an airtight alibi for the night of susan s murder. andros and his wife had friends over to dinner that night. fred andros was despondent and upset. he wanted to know i think he asked such thing like who would do such a thing and he cared about her. at the autopsy, the medical examiner recovered five bullets from susan s body. you re looking for a .45 caliber weapon. we determined that andros