government prosecutors were closing in on tom capano from all sides. and when colm connolly got a call from agents on his surveillance team, he decided to act. we were informed at that point from the surveillance team that tom capano had gotten a lot of luggage out and put it in the car and was driving on i-95, towards the philadelphia airport. so i called the head of the surveillance team and gave them the authority to arrest him. after months of painstaking investigation, capano was in custody. and if the cooler was a stroke of luck, other things were falling into place for the prosecutors. revelations about tom capano s private life that had been surfacing since fahey went missing. there is evidence that tom capano had gotten away with something very egregious before. that something was a tawdry tale about another affair capano had back in 1980 with a married woman in his office named linda.
surfacing since fahey went missing. there is evidence that tom capano had gotten away with something very egregious before. that something was a tawdry tale about another affair capano had back in 1980 with a married woman in his office named linda. capano s wife had been expecting their first child at the time but when linda tried to break off the relationship, capano attempted to intimidate her. joe riley was the fbi informant who d been hired by capano to make the threats. he wanted me to kill this girl or get somebody to kill her. riley had even recorded his calls. we have a new a friend, a mr. thomas capano. he was telling me some things about you that took place in his office. i don t know what you re talking about, sir. you don t want to talk about it? well, i ll talk to your husband. i know where you live. for prosecutors, this was proof of just how capano could intimidate women who rejected him.