Word: capano
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fahey's absence was felt just as strongly at Carper's office, where she playfully called the Governor "T.C." and meticulously arranged his appointments. Says Joan Donoho, a state accountant who lives across the street from the large brick home Thomas Capano rented on Grant Avenue: "When she disappeared, it seemed like the entire state office building was in shock...
...Governor's office that Fahey came to know the other T.C. in her life. Capano's bond work brought him there often, and during the summer of 1993 he and Fahey started having lunch together. But it was not until a search of Fahey's apartment uncovered letters from Capano, as well as a diary chronicling their ups and downs, that their affair was out in the open. In one of her last diary entries, on April 7, 1996, Fahey wrote, "I have finally brought closure to Tom Capano. What a controlling, manipulative, insecure, jealous maniac...
...closure wasn't quite at hand. On Thursday, June 27, she and Capano had a $154 dinner at Ristorante Panorama, a posh Philadelphia waterfront eatery. A waitress described Fahey as "solemn" and wearing a "forced smile." Fahey had reason to want to move on. According to friends, she had finally found happiness with a man her age, bank executive Mike Scanlan, now 33, whom she met through Carper. She had begun daydreaming about bridesmaid dresses and had got a grip on a long struggle with bulimia (the 5-ft. 10-in. Fahey reportedly once dropped...
According to an FBI affidavit, her hairdresser, Lisa D'Amico, said Fahey was "nervous and frightened that [Capano] might harm her." D'Amico said Fahey once jumped out of Capano's car after he grabbed her neck when she tried to end the affair. A close friend of Fahey's, Kim Horstman, said that after another break-up attempt, Capano took back some of the gifts he had lavished on Fahey, saying, "No man is going to watch the TV that I gave you or see you in the dresses I gave you." Fahey's therapist at the time...
...Kathleen who on Saturday, June 29, went to Fahey's modest third-floor walkup after Anne Marie failed to keep a dinner date. They were struck by strewn groceries and shoe boxes and a blinking answering machine, things the compulsive Fahey wouldn't have tolerated. When grilled by police, Capano admitted to the affair and called Fahey unpredictable and "airheaded." In other words, just the type to disappear without a trace...