think nancy is trying to kill you. how do you react to that kind of thing. the marriage may be on the rocks but she s killing me? he took in my statement. he didn t say that he bought it 100%, but he really was concerned about his safety. he even said he would probably think about moving out until this was cleared up. i said rob, let s get tested now. let s get this test over with. still, the urgency of it all seemed lost on rob. before he knew it, it was halloween weekend, the end of one month, the beginning of another. rob kissel never did send that sample out for testing, but he had made a decision. he was convinced his marriage had broken down and he was going to ask his wife for a divorce. in fact, friends of the couple say they intended to talk about the split on that sunday in november. we know rob kissel spent the day with his three kids he was crazy about. at one point, his daughter gave him a pink milk shake, mixed up by her mom, a secret recipe she called it in the s
been she intended to kill him. the prosecution said nancy was guilty of nothing less than cold-blooded murder. it resurrected the gory details from the first trial. the drugged milkshake, the lead statue, the bloody death. this case is emotionally unsettling. it s disturbing to reporters who heard it for the first time, it is disturbing to reporters who heard it for the fifth time. it s a disturbing case. in her first trial, her lawyers argued she killed rob in self defense. this time around they claimed something called diminished responsibility. through psychiatric experts, they tried to show nancy was a battered woman. the argument was she was in the throws of a major depression the night she killed her husband. as she listened to the testimony, nancy would sometimes break out in tears. sometimes audibly, sometimes just sort of to herself. and she is surrounded by three corrections officers who are constantly, you know, either
two years after the murder of his younger brother rob, andrew kissel was in a funk. friend and theater producer brian howie said not even a festive booze cruise on his yacht could cheer him up. parts of the trip andrew would be crying. you could tell he was deeply troubled and saddened. it was unusual to see the guy in charge and at the boat playing crying in front of strangers a little bit. it was kind of odd. he was emotional, which i had never seen before, before that trip. everyone assumed his grief was over the family s great tragedy. rob killed by his wife, the children left behind. but maybe the tears were for himself. it seems andrew s crooked monopoly game was catching up with him. he was about to draw the go directly to jail card. as his family was sitting through a traumatic trial in hong kong, andrew kissel was
she played tennis, she started a business. she had friends. she enjoyed it. close friend hillary reshard vacationed with nancy and rob during those years. if the move halfway around the world put stress on the kissel marriage, she says nancy didn t let on. quite the opposite. she would speak on at great length about how wonderful and passionate her relationship with rob remained. she talked about rob in bed. she did. and things were okay? things were great. she and rob were a hot ticket? that s the way she portrayed it. every now and then the veneer would shift. but a former later saw them on a home leave visit in 2000, little more than two years into their time in hong kong and something had changed. i couldn t connect to rob. he would working really hard, he was tired. that would be the best thing. i didn t get a sense of joy when i saw him. no wonder she saw fatigue. the two to three year hong kong
to work on the marriage. any hope he had for the couple was wiped away by summer, 2003 when he got a call from his client rob. the banker was telling the detective something unsettling. he would come home and have a two finger scotch, but the scotch was making him feel much different than he normally felt. would make him feel woozy, disoriented. not something he was used to. the former cop s instinct kicked in. shea urged rob to rush a sample of the scotch to a lab for testing. he realized his friend might not do it. he decided to do something extraordinary. he would pay rob kissel a visit at the exclusive club in hong kong to spell it out. i wanted to talk to him face-to-face to let him know i thought he would be killed. that bald of a statement? that bald of a statement. i sat down with rob kissel, looked him across the table at the china club, i said rob, i