i mean, he had absolutely nothing in his record that would indicate that he would turn violent at all. but jeff thought he knew who was responsible. he even said to me, put me under hot lights, beat me with rubber hoses, i don t care what you do to me, but when you re all done with me, go see fred andros. he s behind this. fred andros was the superintendent for the town of poughkeepsie. a man with a terrible reputation. right out of the gate people told us what a scum bag he was. fred was a self-centered, mean, nasty prick. fred andros and susan fassett bumped into each other apparently one day in the hallway in the town building. they started a relationship. just one month earlier, jeff fassett learned his wife susan was having an affair with fred andros, an affair that had gone on for the last three years. off put some sort of tape recording device on his telephone unbeknownst to her.
she was caught receiving and making calls to fred andros. when jeff fassett confronted his wife about the affair, susan promised to end it. things were really up in the air. and then one day they just came to us and said that they were going to work on things. they were going to fix things. police wondered if fred andros might have been angry that susan ended their affair. but fred andros had an airtight alibi for the night of susan s murder. andros and his wife had friends over to dinner that night. fred andros was despondent and upset. he wanted to know i think he asked such thing like who would do such a thing and he cared about her. at the autopsy, the medical examiner recovered five bullets from susan s body. you re looking for a .45
dawn also denied having anything to do with susan s murder, saying she had no motive to harm her. she was so calm, so cool, so cooperative that we had to think geez, maybe not. maybe she s not involved in this thing. a background check showed dawn owned a .45 caliber handgun like the one used in the murder. she also had a vehicle that fit the general description of the vehicle seen leaving the scene. but forensic tests revealed that dawn s gun didn t match the striations used in susan s murder. it looked as if the gun had been tampered with. it was incapable of being compared to any projectiles found at the scene. if fred or dawn silvernail were involved in susan fassett s murder, police still had no evidence to prove it. ator: these tennis shoes skater kid: whoa
jeff fassett, a local policeman, had the night off and was home watching tv with his two sons. his wife, susan was at her church s choir practice. my mother was involved in church pretty heavily. she had always loved it. she was involved in the choir for most of her life. around 7:30 p.m., jeff fassett told the boys he was going down to police headquarters. he did go out to the town of poughkeepsie to get his paycheck, three miles west of his house. sometime around 8:30, choir practice ended at the pleasant valley united methodist church and susan fassett walked to her car to drive home. then shots rang out. people ran to the car to see what had happened and they found susan fassett mortally wounded. witnesses saw a light colored vehicle speeding from the scene.
no one indicated to us they could see a driver or how many people, for that matter, were in the car. in a search for suspects, police immediately looked at susan s husband, jeff. jeff fassett they learned left the house during the time that susan was murdered. there were rumors in the police force that there were problems in jeff and susan s marriage. we were pretty comfortable that jeff fassett might be involved here. shortly after jeff fassett returned home, police converged on his house. they look like they have shotguns and gear on and they re surrounding the house and they re going to come here and ambush this place. jeff wanted to find out why this was happening. he made several phone calls to his police department, to the state police. there are patrol cars outside of my house. what s going on?