Thomas J. Capano
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Thomas J. Capano is an American lawyer from Wilmington, Delaware, who was convicted of the 1996 murder of Anne Marie Fahey. The case is noteworthy because of Capano's close association with Delaware's political establishment and because Fahey's body was never recovered.
Capano is a member of a prominent family of Delaware land developers and building contractors. He became a wealthy, well-connected lawyer, state prosecutor, and political consultant, known to nearly everyone in Delaware's political community. Anne Marie Fahey was the personal scheduler to Governor Thomas R. Carper. She was a 30 year old member of another well-known family, and was attempting to end a romantic relationship with the married Capano. As a result of this, he murdered her and dumped her body in the Atlantic Ocean. U.S. Attorney Colm F. Connolly was the state's prosecutor and William Swain Lee was the presiding judge over the highly publicized Superior Court case that resulted in Capano being convicted, and then sentenced to death in 1999.
In January 2006, the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed his conviction for murder but remanded the case for sentencing because the death penalty was imposed by a non-unanimous jury verdict. In February of that year, the state abandoned its efforts for capital punishment, opting to leave Capano imprisoned for life without parole. Capano's attorneys stated that they would continue to appeal his conviction in federal courts.
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- Wilmington News-Journal. Archived news stories about Capano
- Crime Library. The Rise and Fall of Thomas Capano
- CNN.com. Delaware Supreme Court ruling on his appeal
- Philly.com Death penalty won't be sought anew for Capano
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