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...Dramatic murders are a staple of Hong Kong's courts and media. Last year, the city was mesmerized by the trial of Nancy Kissel, an American expat convicted of drugging her banker husband with a poisoned milkshake and bludgeoning him to death. But despite its gangster lore and its flair for B-movie-style killings, the city of 7 million has one of the world's lowest homicide rates. Murders plummeted from 102 in 1997 to just 34 last year, in part perhaps because the city's gangs have shifted some of their focus to southern China. "Occasionally you have...
...will study the ethics of selling organs in India. In South Africa, another will examine HIV health care reform. This summer, six Harvard College students will tackle issues in practical ethics as the first recipients of grants sponsored by the late Harvard benefactor Lester Kissel, a 1931 graduate of the Law School. For Kelly W. Heuer ’07, the grant—which carries a stipend of $3,000—will allow her to travel to Beijing to research Chinese philosophy on justice and individual rights. “It’s really great to think...
...MURDERED. ANDREW KISSEL, 46, millionaire real estate developer and brother of "milkshake murder" victim Robert Kissel; by unknown assailants; in Greenwich, Connecticut. In 2005, a Hong Kong court convicted Nancy Kissel, Robert's wife, of bludgeoning the investment banker to death after serving him a milkshake laced with sedatives. Andrew Kissel, who faced federal and state charges that he defrauded lenders of $11 million and bilked a Manhattan real estate cooperative out of $4 million, was discovered tied up in the basement of his rental house with multiple stab wounds. He was expected to plead guilty this month to grand...
...time Andrew Kissel and his wife also cared for Robert and Nancy's three kids. Nancy Ann Kissel is serving a life sentence for sedating her husband with a doctored milkshake and then beating him to death with a metal figurine from the kitchen. Nancy Kissel claimed at her trial that her husband abused alcohol and cocaine and repeatedly forced anal sex on her, but she also admitted having an affair with a Vermont TV repairman. After Andrew ran afoul of the law, a Stamford, Conn., judge granted custody of the three kids to the Kissel brothers' sister Jane Clayton...
...week's end, the whodunit speculation had turned to Andrew Kissel himself. The Times reported that Kissel had an insurance policy worth $15 million for the benefit of his dependents; Kissel may have believed that if he were dead, that money would be available only to his children, not his creditors. (Where the money goes will surely end up in litigation.) It would have been a near impossible suicide, but perhaps Kissel arranged his own hit? "If he did, it's the most incredibly unselfish thing that anybody could do," William Kissel told the Times. After so many selfish years...