it seemed at the time a cute gesture, but not that significant. he had to have had so much on his mind that afternoon, the impending divorce, the possible loss of his children, and on top of it all, a critical conference call at home later that evening. it was so important that a colleague phoned him to talk about strategy for the meeting. hong kong reporter albert wong says the colleague thought rob sounded like he was on another planet. it was bizarre. groggy, out of it, not making sense? exactly. maybe stress was finally taking its toll on rob kissel. or maybe something else was afoot. maybe the goblins of halloween had one more trick to play. coming up. did a wife s secret recipe milkshake lead to another secret hidden in the basement. as soon as they opened the door, they knew there was a dead body in there. when deadly concoction continues. not ec-o.
he was in new york, doing fine. he would have done fine and continued, but this is the step, you deal with distressed companies i think he was a career guy. and wasn t afraid of flaunting it. the new york neighbor recalls one caddy remark from the banker s wife. one day she was wearing this great beaver coat. i said nancy, this is a great coat. she said it is a great coat, but you ll never be able to afford it. is that what she said? i looked at her and thought what a strange thing to say to somebody. you re giving her a compliment and getting something up side the head.
mentioning divorce, he says supposedly i am taking the kids and going and he s holding a baseball bat. then eventually through a lot of shouting, she gets dragged into the bedroom. violent fight under way. right. and she goes blank. on cross examination, the prosecutor cut to the chase. mrs. kissel, there s one thing we have to get over and done with. you do, of course, accept you killed your husband? and she said yes. gasps in the courtroom. gasps in the courtroom. in the end, after three hs ot buy nancy s claims of abuse or her argument of self defense. its unanimous verdict, guilty. nancy kissel would spend the rest of her life in a chinese prison. rob s friends in new york couldn t spare her much sympathy. the legacy she leaves the children is she murdered their father and said he was a terrible person. the children were sent to live with their uncle andrew in
separate the two. robert, his wife nancy and three was children would live jet lagged but privileged lives of ex-paths in hong kong. you find out husbands are never at home, even ones that don t travel. andrew and his family would find themselves ensconced in greenwich, connecticut. their lives played out in monopoly game board fashion. robert clubbed with a statue, andrew stabbed in the chest. bloody corpses found in basements thousands of miles away and years apart. it is unbelievable. it is like out of a movie really. it is like a horror movie. more on the strange deaths of the brothers. a final chapter in the killing of andrew, and in hong kong, after seven years in prison, nancy kissel goes on trial a second time.
debra mao has been following the latest in the saga. her hair used to be blonde, now she s a brunette. didn t used to wear glasses, now almost never seen without glasses. it may be hard for many to sympathies. after all, nancy kissel admitted killing the man she once loved. and yet she and her supporters believe her 2005 trial condemned her to life in a 7 x 7 foot chinese cell had been unfair. primarily because of hearsay evidence they thought had been introduced, greatly prejudiced jurors against nancy kissel. then last year, something remarkable happened. hong kong s court of final appeal agreed with nancy kissel. the justices overturned her conviction to the delight of family and friends. i think justice has been served. and the jce it began in january of this year, with officers leading the