...And Never Let HerGo by Ann Rule

Author:Ann Rule [Rule, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1999-10-20T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-five

ON JULY 25, Connolly, Donovan, and Alpert had not one particle of physical evidence. But they suspected it was not a kidnapping case but a murder case they were striving to build against Tom Capano. They believed they had a motive, the oldest motive in the world: jealousy, possessiveness, maybe revenge. But they had no body. They had no eyewitnesses. They had no blood. They had no weapon. They had no crime scene. They didn’t even have signs of a struggle. Indeed, they were faced with an almost impossible task. Suspicion and innuendo and all the gut feelings in the world were not enough to get an arrest warrant—much less a conviction.

The three investigators had little money and less manpower; they were it. And they were motivated by the picture of a young woman whose absence had broken a lot of hearts and the challenge presented by an arrogant and powerful suspect who was thumbing his nose in the face of the law.

A searingly invasive look into Tom Capano’s private life was about to accelerate. The last week of July was very busy for the investigators—but they were discreetly busy. Donovan and Alpert continued their interviews with Anne Marie’s friends and associates. They were hearing the same elements over and over, although each person they interviewed remembered different anecdotes that illustrated the growing schism between Anne Marie and Tom.

Bob Donovan talked again to Lisa D’Amico, who told him that Tom Capano had once grabbed Anne Marie by the neck and called her a “slut” and a “bitch.” He interviewed Jill Morrison and heard the horrific details of Anne Marie’s struggle to escape from Tom over a period of almost a year, leading up to the night she vanished. The government team learned that Anne Marie had been desperate, frightened—but resolute—about extricating herself from Tom’s grip. And what they were hearing in their interviews sounded nothing at all like the relationship that Tom had described to them. Was Anne Marie as ditsy and spacey as he maintained, or was he only painting a picture he wanted them to believe?

Al Franke, whom Anne Marie had once dated and who had become a good friend, told Donovan about the time—only six to eight weeks before she vanished—when Tom climbed up the fire escape to Anne Marie’s building and made a forced entry into her apartment. At that time, she told Franke, he had been in a towering, bellowing rage, and once more he had started taking back various gifts he had given her.

On July 26, Connolly and Alpert were poring over copies of Tom’s credit card bills when one in particular caught their attention. On June 29, two days after Anne Marie disappeared, Tom had made a purchase totaling $308.99 at the Wallpaper Warehouse. That struck them as a little odd. Why would a man who was only renting a house buy wallpaper? They asked a few questions and learned that the Wallpaper Warehouse also did business as Air Base Carpets.

Alpert drove

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