HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s top court on Thursday rejected a
final bid for an appeal by an American convicted of drugging her
wealthy banker husband and bashing him to death.
A three-judge panel at the Court of Final Appeal dismissed Nancy Kissel’s application.
Kissel
was convicted twice for the 2003 murder of her husband, Robert Kissel,
who worked for Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs. The case, dubbed the
"Milkshake Murder," grabbed world headlines with its lurid tale of the
breakdown of a wealthy expatriate marriage in the southern Chinese
financial hub.
She was sentenced to life in 2012, matching the result of an earlier trial that was overturned.
Prosecutors
said that Kissel, a native of Adrian, Michigan, gave her husband a
sedative-laced milkshake and then bludgeoned him with a metal ornament
before wrapping his body up in a carpet.
The defense had argued she was suffering from clinical depression and was acting under diminished
responsibility.
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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s top court on Thursday rejected a
final bid for an appeal by an American convicted of drugging her
wealthy banker husband and bashing him to death.
A three-judge panel at the Court of Final Appeal dismissed Nancy Kissel’s application.
Kissel
was convicted twice for the 2003 murder of her husband, Robert Kissel,
who worked for Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs. The case, dubbed the
"Milkshake Murder," grabbed world headlines with its lurid tale of the
breakdown of a wealthy expatriate marriage in the southern Chinese
financial hub.
She was sentenced to life in 2012, matching the result of an earlier trial that was overturned.
Prosecutors
said that Kissel, a native of Adrian, Michigan, gave her husband a
sedative-laced milkshake and then bludgeoned him with a metal ornament
before wrapping his body up in a carpet.
The defense had argued she was suffering from clinical depression and was acting under diminished
responsibility.
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed.