Husband left incoherent after drinking milkshake, court told
The wife of a top American banker served her husband and a neighbour spiked strawberry milkshakes made with her 'secret recipe' before murdering her spouse, a court heard yesterday.
Government laboratory tests identified four types of hypnotics and an anti-depressant in the stomach of Robert Peter Kissel, 40, after his body was found rolled up in a carpet in a storeroom of Parkview, Tai Tam, in November 2003, according to government prosecutor Peter Chapman.
The prosecutor alleged that Nancy Ann Kissel, 40, handed her husband and neighbour Andrew Tanzer, two large glasses of pink milkshake while their children were playing in their luxury flat on November 2.
When Mr Tanzer asked what was in the drink, Kissel replied that it was a 'secret recipe', the Court of First Instance was told.
When Mr Tanzer returned home his wife noticed that his face was red and he seemed tired, Mr Chapman said. She became concerned and shouted at him after he lay on the couch for 20 minutes.
David Noh, a colleague and good friend of Robert Kissel, said the banker sounded incoherent and very tired when he last spoke to him on the phone on the afternoon of that Sunday, Mr Chapman said.