Features
- Cover Type: Mass Market Paperback with 384 pages
- Published by: St. Martin's True Crime January 2, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0312970315
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0312970314
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Book Dimensions:
6.7 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
- Weighs: 6.4 ounces
Product Description
When Anne Marie Fahey, gorgeous, ambitious secretary to the Governor of Delaware, disappeared in June of 1996, all eyes immediately turned to Thomas Capano, the high-powered attorney with whom Anne Marie had been having a clandestine love affair.
Well-respected, politically connected, married, and a father of four, Thomas Capano denied knowing anything about Anne Marie's disappearance. But when his brother turned him in to investigators, Capano's image was shattered. During the murder trial, he emerged as a sordid womanizer, a volatile man with a short fuse, and ultimately, as a brutal murderer who shot Anne Marie and recruited her brother to help dispose of her body.
Now acclaimed writer Peter Meyer and award-winning journalist Cris Barrish explore the astounding true story behind this sensational casehow a simple flirtation in the corridors of power turned into a very fatal attractionhow Capano stuffed Fahey's body in a plastic cooler, dumped it in the sea-- and what lurid final act would keep it from
ever being foundhow, in an explosive murder trial that galvanized the nation and pitted brother against brother, Capano became his own worst enemy-- and was convicted of cold-blooded murder
With eight pages of photos!
About The Author
Cris Barrish, 40, grew up in the Wilmington area, graduated from the University of Delaware and has worked as a sports, political and investigative reporter at the
Wilmington News Journal for the last 18 years. He has won numerous awards from the Associated Press, Best of Gannett, Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association and the Philadelphia chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists during his career. He has covered the Fahey-Capano case from start to finish, writing nearly 300 stories.
Fatal Embrace is his first book. Barrish and his wife, Mary, have a four-year-old son, Luke.
Peter Meyer is a former News Editor of
Life magazine and the author of numerous nonfiction books, including the critically acclaimed
Yale Murder,
Death of Innocence and
Dark Obsession. Meyer has also won journalism awards from the University of Missouri and the Robert Kennedy Foundation for his reporting and writing for such national publications as
Harper's,
Vanity Fair,
New York,
Life,
Time and
People.
Reader ReviewsI lived in Delaware through the Capano murder investigation and trial -- in fact, it marked my first years as a Delaware attorney. This was literally the talk of the town for many years as the investigation and trial dragged on; and as this is a small town, word gets around fast. Yet, I learned a few things from the book that I hadn't previously been aware of. It's hard to tell where Barrish's writing ends and Meyer's begins. Barrish is a reporter for the Wilmington News-Journal and covered the story from start to finish. I suspect he filled in some of the more obscure details about Delaware and its strange quirks. Yet, the book is peppered with first-person accounts by Barrish regarding covering the story which are out of place among the balance of the narrative. And some of the descriptive sentences in the book are practically Dickensian in their length. Finally, the trial is almost given short shrift as opposed to the investigation. More attention to the legal nuances of the trial -- and there were many -- would have been helpful.
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