U.S. Woman Admits Killing Banker Husband

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U.S. Woman Admits Killing Banker Husband

Thursday August 4, 2005 2:16 PM

By SYLVIA HUI

Associated Press Writer

HONG KONG (AP) - An American woman who pleaded innocent to murdering her husband in Hong Kong testified Thursday that she beat the wealthy investment banker to death with a metal statue.

Nancy Kissel, 41, is accused of giving her husband a milkshake spiked with drugs, bludgeoning him to death during a quarrel, wrapping his body in a rug and placing it in a storage locker at the couple's luxury apartment complex in 2003.

Kissel has testified that the day her 40-year-old husband died, he told her he was divorcing her and taking their three children. She said that during an argument, he hit her with a baseball bat and she struck him with a metal statue with human figurines on it.

But the defendant said she couldn't clearly recall what happened in the struggle, although she said she did hit something and her husband's head was bloody.

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