In the days after she allegedly bludgeoned her investment-banker husband to death, Nancy Kissel told one of her domestic helpers not to clean the master bedroom, a court heard yesterday.
Maxima Macaraeg, the maid, told the Court of First Instance that on November 3-4, 2003, she did not clean the room.
Nancy Kissel is being retried, accused of murdering Robert Kissel, 40, on or around November 2, 2003.
'I was told by Mrs Kissel not to clean her room, to leave it alone, so therefore I did not do it,' Macaraeg said while being questioned by prosecutor David Perry, QC.
Her employer also told her that she 'had an argument and a problem or fight, something like that, with her husband, so her husband moved away from the house', the former helper said.
Macaraeg said she noticed marks on Kissel's right hand. 'I asked her what happened to her hand and she said, 'I just burned it on the oven. It was pressed on the oven'.'
Kissel did not say anything else about that injury, Macaraeg said.