stopped paying rent. movers were coming to clear out the rest of the furniture after the weekend. but when they arrived early monday morning, april 3rd, 2006, they made a ghastly discovery in the basement. body of andrew michael kissel was found dead within his residence at 10 dairy road. according to police whoever murdered andrew kissel pulled his shirt over his head and stabbed him multiple times. a second kissel brother dead, victim of foul play. he was 46 years old. for a while, it seemed police were intent on quickly nabbing a suspect. there was even an amateur detective theory floated that had a weird appealing logic to it, that andrew hired someone to do him in. even his friend, brian howie, says kissel loved his own children, two daughters, enough to pull off one last con, insurance fraud. a policy that would pay off for murder, but not suicide.
though, that was a complete blur. he tried to pick a fight by mentioning divorce. he says, supposedly, i m taking the kids, i m 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 months of trial, the jury didn t 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.
evidence. he hired shay s investigators to surveil his wife at the ski chalet. he called him in hong kong to report what they were seeing in real time. this gentleman arrived in a van, parked on a dirt road and snuck into the house. i told rob what was going on. same time, on-going as we re talking. that gentleman was michael del fiore, a local tv installer. on the phone, kissel took the news stoically, hung up, immediately called his wife. minutes later, there was a stir in the vermont house. the male came out of the house, got in his van and drove off. so rob called me back at my house, told me that he had spoken to nancy to not to let her know the house was watched. he said, nancy, don t do anything stupid. we have the children. it seems she had been chastened. she quickly returned to her husband in hong kong, presumably
when kissel missed the conference call that night and was a no-show at the office the next day, the friend called nancy kissel. she told him she and rob were dealing with family issues. but as days passed, the friend suspected something more sinister at play, and filed a missing person s report. police inspectors later knocked on mrs. kissel s door. she let them in and explained her husband had walked out on her after a fight. they didn t suspect anything until they go into the bedroom. and he says then that it is a gut feeling just from experience. meanwhile, another team of inspectors was investigating reports of a strange smell coming from the kissel storage unit. the police eventually asked mrs. kissel for the keys. after some hesitation, she handed them over. as soon as they got to the door, the smell was so overwhelming, they knew straight away there was a dead body in there. they found the missing husband? right.
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.