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COPYRIGHT 2005 Newsday
Byline: James Bernstein
Dec. 19--In the summer of 2003, Rocco Gatta found himself hiding in the deep woods of Vermont, videotaping the comings and goings of a woman whose multimillionaire husband suspected her of cheating on him.
She was.
Two years later, Gatta found himself in a courtroom in Hong Kong, narrating the videotape that showed the woman and her television-repairman lover meeting at her Vermont vacation home, at a trial that was about far more serious actions than two-timing a husband.
She stood accused of poisoning and then bludgeoning her husband in November 2003, in what became known as the Milkshake Murder.
According to prosecutors, Nancy Kissel, 41, had given her husband, Robert Kissel, 40, one of the top investment bankers at Merrill Lynch who was then working and living in Hong Kong, a milkshake laced with Rohypnol (a central nervous system depressant infamous as the date-rape drug), three types of sleeping tablets and an anti-depressant. He passed out, and she bludgeoned him with a lead statuette. She is now serving a life sentence in a Hong Kong prison but has appealed her conviction.
The Kissel case was a shock even for Gatta. The former Nassau narcotics detective-turned-private investigator had been hardened by decades of rough-and-tumble police work -- a career in which a loaded revolver once was pointed at his head by a drug suspect.
The suspect pulled the trigger. The gun jammed.
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