Internet activity shows dead man's penchant for black gay men and Taiwanese actresses, lawyer tells court
Allegations on Robert Peter Kissel's sexual interests - including a taste for black gay men, Taiwanese actresses and French masseurs - continued to be put before the court yesterday by the defence on day two of cross-examination of a computer forensic expert.
Alexander King, SC, displayed more porn websites searched for or browsed between April 3 and 5, 2003, on a Dell desktop computer seized in the Kissels' Parkview flat.
Using software to trace internet use, the defence team found the user of the computer had, on April 5, visited websites advertising services for female and bisexual escorts in Perth, Western Australia, and a photo gallery under the header 'Male Cock Gay Sex Gay Men'. Numerous searches for sites on black gay men also were identified.
Mr King argued on Thursday that only Robert Kissel, a Merrill Lynch banker allegedly killed by his wife Nancy in their flat on November 2, 2003, could have used the computer as immigration records showed the accused and her three children were in the US.
Nancy Kissel, 41, has pleaded not guilty to a count of murder.
The defence also retrieved evidence from the deceased's IBM notebook computer, that showed it had been used many times in May and June 2003 to browse or search for websites on 'twinks', 'actresses for hire in Taiwan', 'escorts in Taiwan', 'Paris girl for hire', 'Paris gay massage', 'Paris x-rated escorts', 'gay sex' and 'anal sex'.