Anatomy of a family tragedy
November 2, 2003 Investment banker Robert Kissel is last seen alive at his prestigious Parkview apartment by neighbour Andrew Tanzer
November 6 Colleague David Noh files a missing persons report with police, who discover Robert Kissel's body in a storeroom at Parkview. Nancy Kissel denies renting the storeroom
November 7 A pathologist confirms the body was found wrapped in a rug. Nancy Kissel sees a doctor at Ruttonjee Hospital
November 8 The South China Morning Post reveals Robert Kissel has been bludgeoned to death. Nancy Kissel is charged with murder
November 14 Kissel is absent from court for a second time as she is still in hospital. The judge orders her children's passports to be held by the United States consulate
February 6, 2005 Sunday Morning Post exclusive: Kissel has been on bail since a private hearing in November 2004
June 3 Kissel's murder trial is set to run for eight weeks
June 7 The trial opens to a packed public gallery. Government prosecutor Peter Chapman SC tells the jury Kissel drugged her husband with sedatives before repeatedly striking his head with a heavy metal ornament
June 8 Mr Tanzer reveals he passed out after drinking Nancy Kissel's 'special' milkshake
June 10 Kissel's lover, Michael Del Priore, is exposed by a private investigator, Rocco Gatta
June 22 Mr Noh provides an insider's account of a marriage on the rocks
July 21 It comes to light that Robert Kissel had searched websites on gay pornography and sex services in Taiwan shortly before he went on a three-day trip there
August 1 Kissel claims she had to endure night after night of sexual and physical assault as cocaine, whisky, power and money changed her husband
August 2 Kissel says she tried to commit suicide and took up with television repairman Michael Del Priore as an escape
August 4 Prosecutor Peter Chapman begins his cross-examination of Kissel in the Court of First Instance, asking her: 'Do you accept that you killed Robert Kissel?' She replies: 'Yes'
August 8 Kissel screams out in court: 'I still love my husband'
August 22 After three weeks, the defence rests its case
August 26 The prosecution says Kissel killed her husband to be with her lover and avoid a messy divorce after he told her he was going to begin proceedings