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Excerpts from Anne Marie Fahey's Diary
Wednesday, 3-2-94
I am back in therapy. Bob and I have been working together for about 9 months. What difference! Bob is great and I am able to trust him 100%. He is one of the few whom I know beyond a shadow of a doubt, that will never judge me. That is a pretty great feeling. I started taking Prozac (3 weeks tomorrow) Still no effect. That's not totally true. It's giving me horrific headaches! Hopefully soon we shall see results.
My family along w/ some of my friends (Jill, G.R.) are worried about my weight loss. I, on the other hand, am quite pleased! 5 more pounds to 130. I am starving myself as well as avoiding situations where food is involved. I now think of food as poisonous. I cannot ever imagine eating a sandwich! (too much food) I'll be okay, I will stop before it gets out of control.
I have fallen in love w/ a very special person whose name I choose to leave anonymous. We know who each other are. It happened the night of my 28th Birthday. We have built an everlasting friendship. I feel free around him, and like he says "He makes my heart smile!" He deserves some happiness in his life, and it makes me feel good to know that I can provide him w/ such happiness. Who knows if anything serious will ever happen between the 2 of us (I only know what I dream)
Ciao,
AMF

March 7, 94
Monday
...We (Tomas and I) had lunch on Friday at the Shipley Grill. It was very food. I hope that tonight he will visit me before working in Philadelphia. I am alone in my house tonight drinking a beer and listening to music ("When Harry Met Sally) We have problems because he has a wife and children also. I don't want to be in love but I can't help it. By god, please don't judge me!....No news on the weight loss. I am stuck at 135 pds, and it's pissing me off! I can't starve myself anymore than I already am. I suppose I should be thankful that I have not gained any weight either. I still avoid situations where there is food involved. G.R. was for making mussels marinara and linguine w/ shrimp and chicken tonight but I was afraid if I went over, --- I would eat, and when I got on the scale in the morning, I would have gained a pound or two. So, I declined the invitation. When I lose my last 5 pds, I will treat myself.
? Where is my friend ?
Ciao
AMF

Thursday 24-3-94
My boyfriend (Tomas) asked me today if I wanted to be a girlfriend and live alone and he would pay rent for my room. I need to think. I love him, but, he has four children (girls) and a wife. I will be a silent girlfriend. Oh my God.
Today is he day my father died! How sad. (My dad was a bad father, but he was the only father I ever had so therefore I loved him.) I do no think that he conscienciously meant to be a bad father, -- he just had no clue! (He really made my life very sad + lonely. I will never forget the pain he caused me.) He forced me to lie to protect my identity.
Ciao,
AMF
April 24, Sunday
... I had a great day on Friday. My friend and I went to his house to eat. What a house! He enchants me. During the weekend, my thoughts were devoted to Tomas. I am afraid because I am in love with a man who has a family. I need to realize that our relationship will never be anything other than a secret. I fantasize my life with him all the time. He is very gentle, intelligent handsome and very interesting. Why does he have to be married??? More information later
My weight has remained the same (133 - 135) I must get down to 130. I am still staying clear of eating situations. I will only be happier if I keep losing weight. Keep it up Annie! More later.
I spoke to P.J. on Friday. He leaves for Mississippi on 5-7 for a year. I always thought my life would be w/ P.J., --- but not any more. I wish him well, and there's a part of me that will always love him....

Tuesday 26-4-94
Wow. What a day! I talked with Tomas last night after he dinner here in my house. Our relationship is finished. He told me I need to find a man without children who has a lot of time for me, because I am very special and deserve much more. Well, after what he said, I was very sad and I cried all night. I know it is my problem and my fault because from the beginning I knew what I was getting myself into. Sometimes it is very easy to write but very difficult to cope. I have dreams about him and me making love and living together, --- but it will never happen.
After he left, I was so empty, sad lonely. I told him things that were hidden inside me. I feel so comfortable w/ him, -- I can say anything. I watched him get in his car and drive away. I went to bed and cried myself to sleep.
Ciao T, I love you
AMF
Tuesday 26-4-94
Tomas called today at ten thirty and told me love you. We decided that we will still se each other. All morning I wondered if he would call (I prayed he would, however I vowed to myself that I would not call him) Our conversation was good, but I felt a little sad. He is going to Canada from Wednesday until Friday for law school. Poor thing! Ciao Tomas I love you!
My session w/ Bob today was quite tearful. I cried a lot as well as informed him of my eating disorder. ..... I also feel that my world is so out of control, and the only thing I can control is my food intake. I know one thing, Prozac is not for me! Bob is aware, so I suppose we'll take it from here.
Cheers ---
AMF
Sunday 6-19
I would first like to start off by talking about Mike Hines. We had our first date last Sat. night June 11 w/ Robert + Susan in Avalon.
The 4 of us went out to dinner at Marabella's It was great fun. After dinner, Mike and I went to his house. What a house! .... It was great. Mike dropped me off with a kiss good night. I really like him a lot.
On Sunday he came by to say good bye. He is so handsome!
On Wednesday (6-15) he came down, and we went to the festival. All we did was talk all night until the cops finally kicked us out. I think I'm falling for his real fast! I see myself marrying him....
P.S. My weight is 129. I have a serious problem but right now I am not able to confront it.
Cheers!
AMF
Tuesday 28-6-94
My dear one! .... I want to talk about last weekend with Michael at the beach. .... We really seemed to enjoy one another's company. I only hope my feelings for him are not stronger than his for mine (?) In a way I believe I am falling too hard, and he's enjoying a casual relationship w/ me w/ the possibility of dating others. (God I hope not)
...... Actually I am good at dealing w/ rejection. Much better than dealing w/ compliments...... There is a part of me, a rational part believe it or not that thinks we will get married. Wow. Me thinking about the "m" word.
I love you Michael,
Ciao
AMF

Wednesday 6-7-94
Hi Diary. Well it's official Michael does not like me. It's been four days since we talked to each other.
I am very sad. He is charming. Why? What's wrong with me? .... I was not up / I am not up for dealing w/ a broken heart. What did I do or not do to make him not want to get involved? I must have said something wrong or hurt or offended him in some way....
AMF
Feb. 25, '95 Saturday
.... One of the most influential, helpful persons in my life has died. Bob Connor was killed on 1-24-95 by a drunk driver coming home from work. The phone call from Mary Ellen the next morning (7:45 a.m.) was one of the most lonely, difficult X's in my life! I loved Bob, and he has helped me grow so much, but we had a lot more to do until I got to where I need to be at this point in my life. He was the only person who knew everything (even a little bit about Tommy (not much) about me, and it felt great to get all this shit inside of me --- out. ..... Bob was, and probably be the only person who really knew me and understood my insecurities. .....
Now, I need to write about my friend / boy friend / love Tomas. Last week (Saturday, 2-28-95) he called at 4:00 in the afternoon. We talked and he told me he had a party for Buddy in Al Carter's house and then at Buddy's bar that night. Well, at midnight, Jill, Binny and I went to the bar and saw Tomas. Tomas was furious because I was there (I think so).
The women were drinking three beers and a shot of vodka with lemon. I did not say good bye to Tomas when I left because he was sitting with his wife. I was sad and very sick in my stomach. I am madly "in love" with him and did not truly realize just how deeply I felt until that night when I could not be near him, and I then realized the fact that he is and never will be mine! Sunday, the day after, I thought about Tomas every minute of the day. I had a feeling that he did not want me at the bar so I stayed clear across the room from him. I am sorry Tomas -- I never wanted to hurt you or make you feel uncomfortable.
Monday arrived and I did not hear from Tomas. I finally called him around 5:00 and checked in. He was cold and seemed very dis-interested in talking with me and I asked what's up? he said to me "nothing Ana Maria, my life sucks!" I asked him if he was mad at me and he said no, just everything in my life is wrong and sucks! He was eager to get off the phone, and said he had a very busy week.
Wednesday 2-22
I wake up feeling sad and depressed. I need to talk to Tommy. If it's over between us, -- I need to have some closure. Tomas why won't you talk to me? Jesus, how and why did I allow myself to fall in love w/ a married man??? I know exactly why: Tomas is kind, caring, responsive, loving , has a beautiful heart, extremely handsome and was kind and gentle to me. If he loves me like he used to say (which I still believe he does) then why is he treating me like this??? God, please help me!
Like a fool, when I got back to the office from VIP, -- I called T., and asked that he call me. Well, he called and was nasty. It was the first time that T. raised his voice at me. I asked What is it, you are furious with me, why aren't you talking to me? He said to me "Drop it Annie and quit ----ing talking like this in the office we'll talk later.
I asked if I would ever hear from him again, and he said Do you want to? I said of course! He said "alright" I will call later Went to Diane's for dinner and I cried and cried, etc. because I am losing T, and I do not know why? When T. asked me how I would like to spend my last day on earth, -- I told him by playing Hookie from work making marinara sauce together making love while it was cooking, drinking red wine, eating bread and watching all the movies we have talked about watching together. He said he did not believe anything I just said. Where has this sudden come from. Did somebody say something to him. What has he hears? I wish I knew because I also would like to know. You are breaking my heart T. Please communicate w/ me what the ---- is going on in your mind!
I often fantasize about T. and me, and how I would love to spend the remaining yrs. of my life w/ him. There is so much I want to do with him. wake up in his arms in my bed, lay next to him and read books together, travel w/ him, etc. Will any of this ever happen? I am madly in love w/ T. !
Thurs. 2-23
T. called me at five o'clock in the afternoon while I was at the office. The conversation was superficial. ..... There were so many things I wanted to say to him, but I was afraid that he would fly off the handle again like he did on Wednesday. While we were talking, tears were rolling down my face. I wanted to tell him that he was breaking my heart and ask him to please STOP! Instead, I clammed up and let him go. I came home from work, got into bed and cried myself to sleep.
I called T. When I got home and left a message asking him to call me at work tomorrow B-4 he came in at 3:30.

Below (People's Weekly Article)
The verdict
People Weekly; New York; Feb 1, 1999; Thomas Fields-Meyer; Gerald Burstyn;

For days winter had been closing in on Wilmington, Del., leaving the city damp and dreary. But on the morning of Sunday, Jan. 17, the clouds disappeared, and the sun shone brilliantly. "I think the reason it's so pretty today," 12-year-old Kathleen Messick said that afternoon, "is that Annie got some justice."

Anyone who had to ask who Annie was probably hadn't spent the previous dozen weeks in Wilmington, where, from a wood-paneled room in a downtown courthouse, a murder trial had transfixed the state. Defendant Thomas Capano, 49, a former state official and heir to a large real estate fortune, stood accused of the 1996 murder of his mistress, Kathleen's cousin Anne Marie Fahey, 30. As Capano's clandestine life was exposed, layer after layer, the case seemed to devastate nearly everyone involved in it. "There aren't many people who haven't been affected by this," says former Wilmington Mayor Thomas Maloney, a onetime Capano friend. "A lot of innocent people's lives will never be the same."

None were shattered as much as those of Fahey's family. Fahey, the pretty, outgoing scheduling secretary to Delaware Gov. Thomas Carper, was first reported missing on June 29,1996, when she failed to show up for dinner at the home of a brother. The last person known to have seen her alive was Capano, her lover of three years, who had taken her to dinner two nights earlier. Capano told police he had dropped her off at her apartment around 10 p.m. But within weeks, when there was still no trace of Fahey, he became a suspect in the case; on Nov.12, 1997, he was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.

The arrest shocked Wilmington, where Capano had grown up the oldest of real estate developer Louis Capano's four sons. In 1971 he graduated from Boston College and in 1974 from Boston Law School. In 1972 he had married nurse Kay Ryan, with whom he had four daughters before the couple's 1998 divorce. Having returned to Wilmington, he did a stint as a state prosecutor in the mid-1970s and rose to become one of the state's most prominent attorneys, serving as chief counsel to Delaware Gov. Michael Castle. "His reputation was excellent and unsullied," says former Delaware Attorney General Richard Weir, for whom Capano served as deputy in the late 1970s. "And he was well connected."

But his public persona concealed an unsavory private life that included an overlapping series of mistresses. One of them was Fahey, whom he started seeing secretly in 1993. The affair was known to only a few until June 1996, when Fahey disappeared. With no body, no murder weapon and no eyewitnesses, police were hard-pressed to make a case against Capano, who maintained for more than two years that he knew nothing of Fahey's fate.

He abandoned that claim only when he went on trial last October. Defense attorney Joseph Oteri opened Capano's case with the shocking revelation that Capano admitted to disposing of Fahey's body -dumping it at sea on June 28, 1996-but vehemently denied committing the murder. Rather, Oteri said, Fahey died because of an "outrageous, horrible, tragic accident."

Prosecutors told a different story. They said that Fahey, weary of Capano's domineering personality and psychological abuse (in an April 1996 diary entry she had called Capano "a controlling, manipulative, insecure, jealous maniac"), had started seeing bank executive Michael Scanlan, 34. Angered by Fahey's new relationship, prosecutors charged, Capano had murdered her out of jealousy.

Taking the stand in his own defense, Capano denied that his affair with Fahey had cooled. Then, telling the jury, "If things were boring up till now, wait for this," he gave his version of what had happened on the night Anne Marie Fahey disappeared. After dining out in Philadelphia, he said, he and Fahey had returned to his house, where he returned a call from another mistress, Deborah MacIntyre, a former private-school administrator he had been seeing for 15 years. They had an "unpleasant conversation," said Capano, who told her she couldn't drop by because he had company. Minutes later, he testified, she showed up with a pistol, threatening to kill herself and crying, according to Capano, "All these years I've waited for you, and now I've got nothing to show for it!" Capano testified that when he grabbed at MacIntyre's gun, it went off, killing Fahey. "It was absolutely, positively, I'm certain, accidental," said Capano, who admitted it was "cowardly" of him not to call 911. (MacIntyre denied any knowledge of the murder and was never named as a suspect.) Instead, he said, he stuffed the body into a cooler and got his brother Gerard, 36, to help him take it 60 miles out into the Atlantic. When the cooler did not sink, he chained Fahey's body to anchors and dumped it overboard. "This was the body of somebody I loved," he said. "I turned my eyes and looked away."

Incredible? Prosecutors thought so, and, after three days of deliberation, so did the 12-member jury-6 men and 6 women. On the morning of Jan. 17, as two devastated families and much of Delaware waited anxiously, superior court Judge William Swain Lee asked the jurors for their verdict. "Guilty as charged," said the foreman. Outside the Daniel L. Herrmann Courthouse, there was cheering. Meanwhile, defense attorney Oteri, whose client could face the death penalty, says he would try to "save Tom's life" in the trial's penalty phase, which was to begin Jan. 20. Shortly afterward, the Fahey family gathered at a friend's Irish pub for a somber celebration and to recall the personable young woman they remember as forever smiling. "It's kind of a hollow victory," said Kathleen Fahey-Hosey, Anne Marie's sister. "What we want, we can never have, and that's Anne Marie."

Case of the Missing Corpse

THE CASE OF THE MISSING CORPSE
Sex, intrigue and family feuds abound as an ex-prosecutor is tried for murder
There's endless talk of the trial of the century here in this tiny city, but none of it has to do with that impeachment thing going on 100 miles to the south. No, what has folks here riveted is the really sordid trial. That would be the murder trial of Thomas Capano, a former state prosecutor and high-profile attorney, which comes complete not just with O.J. Simpsonesque details of sex, class, betrayal and death but also with a surprise nearly every day.
So each morning of the trial--and there have been 11 weeks of mornings so far--scores of Wilmingtonians stand in line at the colonial-style state courthouse for hours as they compete for the most coveted seats in town.
"Monica who?" deadpans a regular trial observer, and there's no doubt that the details that have unfolded during Capano's trial are far more lurid than anything in the Ken Starr report. The loquacious lawyer and son of a self-made construction-industry tycoon is charged with murder in the first degree of his former lover Anne Marie Fahey, who had risen from her working-class background to land a job as scheduling secretary for Governor Thomas Carper.
No one expected Capano's admission on the witness stand that he disposed of Fahey's body by stuffing it into a 3-ft. Styrofoam cooler, and then, with the help of his brother, dumped it at sea. (The cooler was later found by fishermen.) Neither did anyone expect him to point the finger at another ex-mistress, Deborah MacIntyre, who, he says, "accidentally" shot Fahey as Capano tried to wrest a gun from her--an action he claims he later covered up by getting rid of the body, which has never been found. MacIntyre denies the entire story. "It's not a whodunit--it's a whodunwhat," says Cris Barrish, a local reporter.
And few foresaw that Capano's brothers Louis, 47, and Gerard, 36, squeezed by prosecutors and threatened with jail time, would turn on Capano in court and testify that he recruited them in the cover-up of the case. The latest twist: last week Capano's only sister Marian and her husband, local lawyer Lee Ramunno, each mounted the witness stand to defend brother Thomas and attack the credibility and honesty of brothers Louis and Gerard.
And then, of course, there's the sex. The case, which is expected to go to the jury after closing arguments early this week, has been punctuated with such bizarre and graphic accounts of Capano's sexual activities that at times the local newspapers have chosen not to publish some of the testimony. Some in the courtroom refer to the defendant as the "man with the Velcro fly." At one point a mortified Delaware deputy attorney general was forced to testify that he had had a "threesome" with Capano and MacIntyre. Capano, he said, watched through a window while he had sex with Capano's mistress. Capano in turn seemed to have no remorse over his admission of numerous liaisons throughout his marriage, and he left behind a trail of graphic love letters as evidence. "Dear Slutty Little Girl" began a letter to one of what came to seem like a platoon of girlfriends.
Unfazed by the accounts of his peripatetic sex life, the arrogant defendant fenced constantly with prosecutors. But Capano finally unraveled in court last week when prosecutor Colm Connolly accused him of using his four daughters to mislead investigators. At the mention of his children, he shouted, "You heartless, gutless, soulless disgrace for a human being!" and accused the prosecutor of harassing his mother. The judge then had Capano escorted from the courtroom, and the trial adjourned for the day. A few weeks before, Capano had abruptly fired his four attorneys--only to take them back the next day.
"This is better than any series on television," says flight attendant Susan Friedenberg, who knows what she likes, and has garnered occasional trial seats. "I always wanted to see a trial of a white-collar person from high society who falls in a hard way."
At restaurants and bars, the speculation is ceaseless. This is a small town (pop. 70,000) and a small state, and the avalanche of disclosures has stunned the many who know everyone involved. Capano, once referred to as "the white knight" of a family with a history of legal problems, could face the death penalty if convicted.
The situation "definitely has torn relationships and friendships apart," says Kevin Freel, a longtime friend of the Fahey family's, who no longer speaks to another old friend who is one of Capano's attorneys. Sometimes it seems as if the only people in town not reveling in the daily details are Anne Marie Fahey's four brothers and sister, who attend the trial daily and coolly keep their distance from members of the Capano family outside the courtroom. "They are determined and resolute to see this to the end," says Freel. "But things will never be the same around here again. Anne Marie will still be gone."

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By Elaine Rivera/Wilmington, Del.

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