nancy fill their hours with children and charity work. they had begun their great life adventure. there was so much hong kong to explore. a glamorous city of 7 million people with business on its mind. but it was also asia. culturally alien for some westerners. after a long day, the kissel s could retreat to parkview towers, like america under glass. it is like disneyworld, kept green areas, pools, waterfalls, restaurants, tennis, driving range. so it has all the resort amenities? it does. the tragedy is you can live at parkview and not have to leave. this american lived there at the time. she never met the kissels there, but understands the initial giddiness they would have felt in the shiny new world of limos, world class shopping, and endless pampering. she also knows the darker side of the adventure. what you find out is the
check them off. and the woman who would become his fiancee was a fun loving restaurant manager from new york city, nancy. rob s college friend was there at the beginning. in 1987, when rob and nancy both in their 20s met and made sparks during a club med vacation in the caribbean. she was artistic, she was funny, she was friendly, she was outgoing. and she seemed to love rob incredibly. in just a few years, the handsome young couple was married and starting a family in the big city. rob with his knack for tracking baseball stats was a natural at the real thing. wall street banking. by the mid 1990s, he was well into a career that would make him millions. but new york neighbor says rob never lost his down to earth style. he wasn t flamboyant. i think what he was interested in was making that career, you know, going up that ladder as an
witnessed him on the cameras sliding out the service elevator down to the basement and running down 74th street to second avenue when the whole building became aware of the problems. skulking away? yeah. and where does a disgraced millionaire go? greenwich, connecticut, of course, home to big money. but instead of contemplating his misdeeds, in 2003, andrew kissel was dreaming up more schemes, playing more dirty monopoly with other people s money. he wasn t the only kissel in crisis mode either. halfway around the world in hong kong, his younger brother was worrying about a killer pandemic and his family s safety. sadly, it seems rob kissel was sweating over the wrong assassin. i said rob, i think nancy is trying to kill you. when dateline continues. i haough of feeling embarrassed about my skin.
i think for the moment, she is probably somewhat relieved that this ordeal is over. nancy s lawyers have told dateline that instead of appealing her conviction, she decided to petition for a transfer to a u.s. prison to serve out her sentence. the fact that she has been found guilty of murder doesn t amount to a complete story. we ll never know the truth of this case. it just won t be known. even if we did, it certainly wouldn t satisfy the bigger question here, the one about robert and andrew. how is it that two brothers so different in so many important ways could both end up discovered in basements in such grisly fashion. the childhood friend from new jersey doesn t know. one broke, quite a successful guy. one guy that wants to have the
holding her hand or rubbing her shoulders or trying to keep her calm. but tears wouldn t be enough to convince the jury. to do that, nancy would have to take the stand. over the course of five days, she retold her story of abuse at the hands of rob kissel. when the prosecutor challenged her testimony, nancy kissel lost it. she completely just was screaming, screaming at the top of her lungs, and it seemed like she was having a flashback. she was pointing at the floor saying he s there, he s there. he wouldn t stop. the courtroom was dead silent. everyone, everyone s jaws dropped. after almost two months of testimony that dissected the state of nancy kissel s mind that terrible night, both sides rested their cases. jurors now had two options. they could find nancy guilty of murder or if they believed she