Murder Antidepressant 08/06/2005 Hong Kong Woman, American Wife of Banker, Kills her Husband
 
 Summary:<br><br>Paragraph 4 reads: &quot;&#39;Chapman said she had earlier poisoned him with a milkshake containing a cocktail of &quot;four types of hypnotic drugs <strong>and one antidepressant&#39;&quot;. <br /><br /><br /></strong><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/08/news/newsmakers/hong_kong_banker.reut/">http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/08/news/newsmakers/hong_kong_banker.reut/</a> <br /><br /><br /><strong>HONG KONG (Reuters) - The wife of a prominent Hong Kong-based American banker fed him a glass of strawberry milkshake laced with hypnotic and antidepressant drugs before clubbing him to death, a high court heard on Wednesday. <br /><br /></strong>Prosecutors said Robert Kissel, 40, a managing director for U.S. banking giant Merrill Lynch, had planned to tell his wife he was divorcing her, after discovering she was having an affair with a TV repairman and fearing she was plotting to harm him. <br /><br />Nancy Kissel, 40, who has pleaded not guilty to murder, was expressionless as prosecutor Peter Chapman accused her of clubbing her husband with a heavy metallic figurine in their bedroom on Nov. 2, 2003. <br /><br />Chapman said she had earlier poisoned him with a milkshake containing a cocktail of &quot;four types of hypnotic drugs and one antidepressant&quot;. <br /><br />Police found Kissel&#39;s body four days later in a storeroom that the couple rented in the luxury residential estate where they lived with their three children. <br /><br />Prosecutors said she disposed of the body by wrapping it in a carpet bought the day after the murder and then asking workmen on the estate to take it to the storeroom. <br /><br />Kissel&#39;s murder and his wife&#39;s arrest shocked Hong Kong&#39;s expatriate and banking community and the case has again grabbed headlines since the trial opened on Tuesday. <br />Chapman said Kissel had become suspicious of his wife in August 2003 after installing spy software on their home laptop. Using the software, Kissel traced his wife&#39;s e-mail correspondence with her lover, a television repairman in the United States. <br /><br />Prosecutors said she apparently met the repairman when she returned to the United States to escape the SARS epidemic earlier in 2003. <br /><br />Kissel also found that she had searched the Internet using key words such as &quot;drug overdose.&quot; He told a private detective and a friend in the United States he was concerned his wife might be trying to harm him, Chapman said. <br /><br />Prosecutors said the banker had intended to tell his wife that he was filing for divorce. He had also apparently consulted lawyers about divorce and child custody arrangements. <br /><br />Nancy Kissel was the beneficiary of life insurance policies worth a total of $6.75 million, the court heard. <br /><br />The trial is expected to last until mid-August. <br /> 
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