Fatal Embrace by Cris Barrish

Author:Cris Barrish
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

11 Tom Turned Inside Out

Once the warrant to search 2302 Grant Avenue was signed, Tim Munson, the FBI’s top man in Wilmington, ordered a couple of agents to stake out Capano’s house without being seen, starting at daybreak the next morning, July 31.

Meanwhile, Connolly and some two dozen agents and police had assembled at the FBI’s downtown office to await word that Debby MacIntyre had left Capano’s house. That word was squawked over police radio at seven. The time had come.

The caravan of police cruisers, a forensic van, and unmarked sedans and sport utility vehicles snaked up Kentmere Parkway to Grant Avenue as Capano’s well-heeled neighbors left for work in their Jaguars, Porsches, and BMWs. While other officers began unpacking their evidence detection gear at the curb and in the driveway, five men—Munson was flanked by Connolly, Alpert, Donovan, and Daniels—walked up the brick pathway and banged on Capano’s front door. There had been no notice of this search given to Capano or any of his lawyers.

The suspect, perhaps thinking MacIntyre had returned, opened the door still wearing his bathrobe. In recent days, he had shaved his thick, graying beard, and his clean-cut, more youthful-looking face now showed shock.

Munson stared him in the eye, announced in a booming voice that he was with the FBI, and presented Capano with the federal search warrant. “His face turned ashen,” Munson recalled. “You could actually see the blood drain from his face. He never, ever expected the FBI to come knocking.”

Capano, who couldn’t slam the door on the interlopers with badges, let the men in, asking immediately for permission to call his lawyers. Munson nodded but directed one of his agents to go with Capano.

All pretense of politesse was now over. Tom Capano was an official suspect in what authorities now believed was the murder of Anne Marie Fahey.

There was “reason to believe,” read the search warrant, that “there is now concealed a certain person or property,” which included:

(a) hairs, fibers, blood, semen and any bodily fluids and parts of Anne Marie Fahey and Thomas Capano;

(b) any weapons or objects which could be used to inflict blunt force injury or strangulation;

(c) tools, mops, brooms, vacuums, cloths, other instruments, devices, containers, blankets, rugs, carpets, boxes, papers and other objects which could be used to dismember or conceal body parts, hairs and fluids;

(d) letters, notes, diaries, journals, calendars, files, memoranda, receipts and records which would provide proof of an affair between Capano and Fahey and establish that Fahey had been attempting to end their relationship and that Capano had attempted to prolong their relationship by blackmail, threats, gifts and harassment;

(e) cleansers, soaps, detergents, solvents and chemicals that could be used to conceal, dissolve or dismember body fluids or parts;

(f) the Oriental rug he bought at Air Base Carpet on June 29, 1996;

(g) new furniture which replaced the sofa removed from Capano’s residence.

Capano’s house was no longer his castle; it belonged, for today at least, to a small army of men and women, some in uniform,

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