Nancy Kissel and the Kissel brothers
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Nancy Ann Kissel
Nancy Ann Kissel (born Nancy Keeshin circa 1964 in Adrian, Michigan) was an American expatriate who was convicted of the murder of her husband, Robert Kissel in their apartment in Tai Tam, Hong Kong on November 2, 2003. Robert was an investment banker who worked for Merrill Lynch.
Kissel was prominent in the community and frequently helped out at the Hong Kong International School, which her two daughters attended.
Kissel is known as the "milkshake murderer" because she incapacitated her husband by serving him a strawberry milkshake full of sedatives before bludgeoning him to death. On September 1, 2005, Kissel became the first non-Chinese to be sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder in Hong Kong.
The Two Mr. Kissels
Hersam Acorn Newspapers: Lifetime original: Life and death of Kissels is basis for TV movie
The Two Mr. Kissels, a television movie depicting the lives and deaths of Greenwich resident and real estate developer Andrew Kissel and his investment banker brother, Robert, will play out on the Lifetime cable network at 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15.
The two-hour movie stars Full House and ER star John Stamos as Andrew and Anson Mount as Robert. Journeyman actress Gretchen Egolf plays Hayley Kissel, Andrew’s wife, and Robin Tunney from Prison Break and The Mentalist plays Robert’s wife, Nancy.
Andrew Kissel was found April 3, 2006, in the basement of his Dairy Road home, dead from multiple stab wounds with his hands and feet bound and a blindfold covering his eyes. Carlos Trujillo, Andrew’s driver and personal assistant, is charged with conspiracy to commit murder, while his cousin, Leonard Trujillo, is charged with murder, capital murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
Leonard and Carlos Trujillo have both entered not guilty pleas.
The prosecution has said the case is considered to be a murder-for-hire, but no other information has been released in court. A trial date has not been set.
Robert Kissel was found dead in 2003. Since 2005, his wife has been serving a life sentence in Hong Kong, where the couple and their children lived, having been found guilty of drugging Robert’s milkshake, beating him and hiding his body in a carpet in a storeroom. Nancy Kissel admitted killing her husband, but said it was in self-defense.
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celebgalz: Hayley Kissel, Robert Kissel, Nancy Kissel, Andrew Kissel in The Two Mr Kissels
The Two Mr Kissels is the real life story of the two Kissel brothers who died under tragic circumstances. Andrew Kissel, played by John Stamos, married a blonde ski coach, Hayley Wolff, played by Gretchen Egolf. The younger brother, Robert Kissel (Rob Kissel) played by Anson Mount, was a New York investment banker. Rob Kissel marries a social climber, Nancy Keeshin, played by Robin Tunney.
Rob Kissel and his family relocated to Hong Kong because of his job. His wife, Nancy Keeshin Kissel, hated his longer working hours. Nancy Keeshin Kissel had an affair and ended up drugging and killing her husband, Rob Kissel.
Andrew Kissel became an embezzler to support his expensive lifestyle and drug addiction. Andrew Kissel slowly became broke and his embarrassed wife, Hayley Wolff Kissel, filed for divorce. One day, Andrew Kissel was discovered dead in the basement of his home. His death remained a puzzle. The unsolved mystery asked if Andrew Kissel was murdered by his enemy or did he arrange for his own death to escape from his dire situation?
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truTV Crime Library: Nancy Kissel: The Hong Kong Milkshake Murder
It was almost midnight on Nov. 6, 2003, when Hong Kong police investigators, armed with a search warrant, entered a storage room at the exclusive Parkview high-rise apartment complex. They immediately found what they were looking for behind the door—a rolled oriental rug tied with rope and bound with clear adhesive tape. A pillow and a bag filled with bed sheets and clothing were on top of the rug. The rug seemed suspiciously bulky, and when the investigators unrolled it, they found what they expected—a body.
The corpse had been sealed tight in plastic wrap, the head covered with a black plastic bag. The entire body had then been placed inside a large white plastic bag and bound with red adhesive tape. It was then rolled into the rug. The investigators knew instantly that the victim had been dead for some time; the smell of decay was too powerful for this to have been a recent death.
Their search had been prompted by calls from David Noh, a vice president at the Hong Kong office of Merrill Lynch. His colleague and close friend, Robert Kissel, the head of the company's distressed asset business in Asia, had been not been heard from in four days. A friend of Kissel's, Bryna O'Shea, had called several Hong Kong hotels, looking for Kissel. He had been having marital problems, so it was possible that he had moved out of his apartment. But O'Shea had been unable to locate Kissel, so she told Noh, who then called the police, fearing that something was wrong.
Kissel, a high-flying investment banker, was a prominent member of the American expatriate community in Hong Kong. The report of his disappearance triggered an all-out search for him. Within hours of Noh's call, police investigators went to his Parkview apartment to interview his wife, Nancy Kissel. They questioned her about her husband's whereabouts and asked about a police report she had filed that morning in which she stated that her husband had assaulted her over the previous weekend after she refused to have sex with him. She said nothing about having a storeroom in another building of the complex.
That evening the police interviewed maintenance men at the apartment complex and learned that Nancy Kissel had called the management office the day before to have a rug moved to her storeroom. The workers who moved the rug told the police that it was unusually heavy and that it had taken four of them to move it. The police immediately requested a search warrant to enter the Kissels' storeroom.
Two hours after finding Robert Kissel's body, police arrested Nancy Kissel at 2:41 AM on Friday, November 7, 2003. She was charged with the murder of her husband.
Police pathologists examined Robert Kissel's body and determined that he'd been struck five times in the head with a blunt instrument. Tests revealed the presence of six prescription medications in Kissel's stomach, including the sedative Rohypnol, better known as the "date rape drug." Five of these drugs had been prescribed to Nancy Kissel by two different doctors in the months before her husband's death.
Nancy Kissel, who had three children with Robert Kissel and who was the sole beneficiary to his $18 million estate, maintained her innocence.
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Bloomberg: Nancy Kissel's Murder Appeal Dismissed in Hong Kong
By Bei Hu and Hanny Wan
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Nancy Kissel lost an appeal against a conviction for murdering her investment banker husband in 2003 for which she was imprisoned for life in Hong Kong.
Justice Michael Stuart-Moore announced the decision by the three judges who heard the case in the Court of Appeal today after almost five months of deliberation. Kissel, 44, plans to take the case to the city's Court of Final Appeal, her lawyers and family said.
Nancy Kissel was sentenced to life in 2005 for killing millionaire Merrill Lynch & Co. banker Robert Kissel, and hiding his body in a carpet in a storeroom. The prosecution said she drugged his milkshake then battered him with an ornament.
She admitted to killing him, saying he was abusive. Her lawyers appealed on grounds that she had been improperly cross- examined in the trial regarding statements made on her behalf for her bail application; the trial judge erred in allowing ``hearsay'' evidence based on conversations between Robert Kissel and various witnesses; the trial judge misdirected the jury on whether she acted in response to provocation.
