Crime and Punishment: Body of Evidence

Wednesday 31 Dec 10.00AM

Thomas Capano was a famous Delaware prosecutor who thought he could get away with murder. Then his brother admitted helping dump the body of Capano's ex-lover.

The 1996 murder of 30-year-old Anne Marie Fahey in Wilmington, Delaware, shook the town to its foundations and the trial that followed riveted the nation. Her killer, Thomas J Capano, was no two-bit thug but rather a powerful and politically active lawyer from a wealthy and prominent family. Fahey herself was a secretary to Governor Thomas R Carper but when she tried to end a long-running affair with Capano, the high-flying lawyer’s jealousy and arrogance turned into an exercise in evil and murderous narcissism.