Police Reveal Few Details of Arrest in 2006 Killing
New York Times, United States
By ALISON LEIGH COWAN
In 2006, Mr. Kissel was on house arrest when he was found dead in his large home on Dairy Road. His estranged wife had just packed up much of the house and ...
...The police in Greenwich declined to discuss their latest theory of the case, or what led them to charge the driver, someone they had long believed was the last person to see Mr. Kissel alive.
While driving a limousine in Stratford, Conn., on Friday night, Mr. Trujillo, 47, was pulled over and arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit murder. The arrest warrant remains sealed. His cousin, Leonard Trujillo, 21, was arrested over the weekend in Worcester, Mass., on charges of being a fugitive in connection with the stabbing. He is being extradited as a co-defendant to Connecticut, where he will face additional charges of murder and conspiracy, the police said.
“This case is not over,” said the Greenwich police chief, David Ridberg, at a news conference on Monday morning. “The investigation remains open, and we have a lot more work to do.”
Deflecting reporters’ requests for possible motives and an account of the killing, Chief Ridberg said, “I know everybody wants a story, and it’s a good story, and when the warrant is unsealed, you’ll have it.”
“I hate to say no comment,” he said....
...A court-appointed interpreter translated the proceedings in Spanish for Mr. Trujillo, a native of Colombia. He was being held on $1 million bond and was due back in court on April 3. The judge said that prosecutors will have to release the arrest warrant by then or file a motion objecting to the unsealing.Outside the courthouse, Mr. Urso said that his client was “adamant he had nothing to do with it.”
Later, he complained that the police had failed to follow other leads while his client “has been scrutinized and followed and his phones have been tapped,” and everyone close to him had been pressured by authorities “to tell them what they want to hear.”....
...That policy remains the subject of pending litigation in federal court. The insurance company, Northwestern Mutual Life, has sued Mr. Kissel’s widow, Hayley Wolff Kissel, in an effort to rescind the policy because it contends that Mr. Kissel obtained the policy through fraud by failing to disclose problems like his drug habit, which the police and others have confirmed.
Mrs. Kissel, who was divorcing Mr. Kissel at the time of his death, has countersued, contending that the company must honor the policy because the broker “had full knowledge of the accuracy of all statements made in the application.”
On Monday, Chief Ridberg did not rule out a murder-for-hire scheme orchestrated by Mr. Kissel to benefit his survivors. Even so, he said, the killer would be guilty of a homicide. “It’s not an affirmative defense,” he said.
Chief Ridberg added that the arrests were part of a joint effort by his department and 25 other law enforcement agencies, including federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents and the U.S. Army’s military police in South Carolina.
For More Information Please see...
03/25/08 - Greenwich Police Chief David Ridberg Gets Caught Mis-leading To The Press In The Andrew Kissel Murder
03/24/08 - Media Frenzy - Lindy Urso said he believes his client has been charged because he was “the easiest suspect.”
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