Chauffeur Arrested for Real Estate Developer's Murder

Police arrested a former chauffeur and his cousin in the 2006 stabbing death of real estate mogul Andrew Kissel (pictured).

The crime baffled Greenwich, CT police, given the long list of people who could be upset with Kissel. He had embezzled millions, including from fellow residents in his Manhattan co-op. His own father was quoted, "Andrew did bad things. He took money from a lot of people. He was killed in an extremely vengeful, angry way."

A few days before he was to plead guilty to grifting financial institutions, investors, and title companies out of millions, movers found his body bound and stabbed to death in the basement of his mansion. Some even though Kissel had himself killed so his children would be entitled to a large insurance policy untouchable by creditors.

Two years later, Greenwich police arrested Kissel's former chauffeur 47-year-old Carlos Trujillo and Leonard Trujillo for the murder. The chief of police only said, "There is still a lot of information to be gathered and facts discerned."

Incidentally, Kissel's brother was killed in a notorious case: Robert Kissel was given a milkshake filled with sleeping pills by his wife, who then crushed his skull and hid his body in a rug.