...And Never Let HerGo

done my research accurately. And to Donna Renae, an outstanding reporter—late of Wilmington, now of Seattle—who was able to answer every question I threw at her about the long, long trial of Tom Capano. (And to her husband, Joe de Groot, for his ribs and iced tea!) To my daughter, Leslie Rule-Wagner, for her skill at photography. Even though she spent much of her time in Delaware taking “pictures” of regional ghosts for
her
new book, she captured every image I needed for
my
book.
    All books are team efforts;
this
book was more than that. Working with editors is a little like learning to dance with a new partner, and I am lucky that this is the fifth book I have written with Fred Hills and Burton Beals. We have long since learned to get along and understand each other almost intuitively. The rest of the team, all of whom worked overtime, are Leslie Ellen, Jennifer Love, Priscilla Holmes, Tracey Guest, Felice Javit, Chuck Antony, Andy Goldwasser, Edith Fowler, and the folks at Dix Type. Thanks to David Rosenthal, Annik LaFarge, and Carolyn Reidy for believing in this project.
    As always, I thank my first reader, Gerry Brittingham Hay, and my lifetime literary agents, Joan and Joe Foley of the Foley Agency, and my theatrical agent, Ron Bernstein of the Gersh Agency.
    This book reminded me that the bonds of family mean more than anything. I thank the family that stands behind me: Laura, Rebecca, and Matt Harris; Leslie and Kevin Wagner; Andy Rule; Mike Rule; Marni Campbell; Bruce, Machell, and O-Jazz Sherles; and Luke, Nancy, and Lucas Fiorante. To Freda and Bernie Grunwald, Donna and Stuart Basom, and cousins Chris McKenney, Sara Plushnik, Jim Sampson, Karen Hudson, Bruce Basom, Jan Schubert, Christa Hansen, Terry Hansen, Sherman Stackhouse, David Stackhouse, Lucetta May Bartley, and Glenna Jean Longwell and all their progeny.
    Most of all, I thank you, my readers, for your loyalty, your letters, and your input. I can be reached through my Web page at www.annrules.com . If you wish to contribute to the friends of Anne Marie Fahey, please go to http://links4you.com/AMF/

Photo Credits
    Author’s collection: 2, 3, 4, 27
    Eric Crossan: 1, 5, 6, 12
    Evidence photo: 18, 24
    Fahey family collection: 8, 9, 10, 11
    Emily Hensel: 23, 28, 29
    Bob Herbert,
News Journal,
Wilmington, Delaware: 19
    Mary Kemp: 7, 15, 17, 30, 31, 34
    Official court photo entered into evidence by the state: 13
    Official police document entered into evidence by the state: 16
    Philadelphia Daily News:
36
    Police photo: 20, 22, 25
    Leslie Rule: 14, 21, 26, 32, 33, 35

The four Capano brothers posed in the offices of Louis Capano & Sons, Inc., in the late 1980s. The sons of an Italian immigrant carpenter, they turned real estate in Wilmington, Delaware, into a gold mine. Left to right: Tom, Joey, Louie, and Gerry.

Tom Capano, his wife, Kay, and their first baby girl. Tom chose the law over his family’s construction business. Rich, ambitious, and politically well connected, he was on his way to the pinnacle of respect and power in Delaware.

Even though she was beautiful and the daughter of a socially prominent Wilmington family, Debby MacIntyre, even as a teenager, was lonely and looking for love.

Debby, her husband, David Williams, and their baby son. David and Tom Capano worked at the same law firm, and unhappy in her marriage, Debby was attracted by Tom’s charm and self-confidence.

Posing in Marguerite Capano’s kitchen in the summer of 1980, the wives of the young lawyers at Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams were the best of friends. Third from left: Kay Capano; third from right: Debby MacIntyre Williams, who would soon begin an affair with Kay’s husband.

The Capano family at a wedding in 1994. Standing, from left: Tom, Louie, Lauri Merton (Louie’s wife), Gerry, his wife, Michelle, and Joey. Seated, left to right: Kay, Marguerite and Joey’s wife, Joanne. Only Lee and Marian Capano Ramunno were missing. For the Capanos, family loyalty was everything.

The spacious house in Wilmington once occupied by Catholic bishops became the home where Tom and Kay Capano raised their four daughters.

Beautiful, high spirited, and extremely intelligent, Anne Marie Fahey also had moments of deep sadness and self-doubt that left her vulnerable to Tom Capano’s kindness and generosity.

Anne Marie and her brother Brian, both survivors of a tormented childhood, always looked after each other as adults. All of the Fahey family were extremely