Word: carper
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...Starr report. The loquacious lawyer and son of a self-made construction-industry tycoon is charged with murder in the first degree of his former lover Anne Marie Fahey, who had risen from her working-class background to land a job as scheduling secretary for Governor Thomas Carper...
Celebrity best sellers like Andrew Weil's 8 Weeks to Optimum Health (Knopf; $23) and Jean Carper's Miracle Cures (HarperCollins; $25) may promise more than they can deliver, but they do contain healthful hints. If you want to add adventure, read Mark Plotkin's Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice (Penguin; $14), which shows how ethnobotanists comb jungles for natural cures...
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...
...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...
CHARLOTTE FALTERMAYER has been following the trail of Anne Marie Fahey since the secretary, who worked for Delaware Governor Thomas Carper, disappeared 17 months ago. Last May, Faltermayer traveled to Fahey's Wilmington home and scouted out the posh neighborhood of her lover--and accused killer--Thomas Capano. After Capano was arrested, Faltermayer staked out O'Friel's pub, unofficial headquarters of the hunt for Fahey--or her murderer. For Faltermayer, detective stories are becoming familiar territory. She reported on a 1977 Philadelphia slaying and on the 1990 art heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Says...