susan fassett s murder looked like a professional hit. the killer was apparently lying in wait. and had planned a quick getaway from the scene. i have seen brazen murders in my career, but i have never seen one this brazen that just seemed to vanish. all of susan s personal effects were found in the car indicating that it was not a robbery. susan s husband jeff, a 24-year veteran of the poughkeepsie police department denied any involvement in susan s murder, although he didn t have an alibi. we could not confirm where jeff was when it happened. and jeff s car was similar to the vehicle seen speeding from the crime scene. you look at his record and his record is blemish free.
caliber weapon. we determined that andros didn t have a registered .45 handgun registered nor a vehicle that fit the description of the vehicle leaving the scene. the victim s husband didn t own a .45 caliber weapon either. but the medical examiner discovered one additional clue. susan had intercourse within 48 hours of her murder. when jeff fassett was questioned about this, it was news to him. they test that semen against jeff fassett s dna and it s not a match. police ask fred andros if he had sexual relations with susan fassett before her murder and he said no. he had told us that he hadn t seen her in a month and had never been intimate. andros explained why he was unable to have sexual relations. fred said to us that he was unable to perform sexually due to a medication he was taking.
i mean, he had absolutely nothing in his record that would indicate that he would turn 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. off 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
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.