Andrew Kissel (August 23, 1959 – April 3, 2006) was a former U.S. real estate developer who was found murdered at his rented Greenwich, Connecticut estate. Kissel had been accused of defrauding a New York co-op board of millions of dollars.
His body, found by workers from a moving company, was stabbed to death in the basement of the home. Details of his death remained a mystery, as there are many people who had problems with him, including those from the U.S. Justice Department, several multi-billion dollar corporations/conglomerates, and his own wife.
Kissel was a resident of Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey and later of Saddle River, New Jersey.
His brother, Robert Kissel, was murdered on November 2, 2003 in the infamous "milkshake murder" in Hong Kong by his wife, Nancy Kissel.
Fraud Charges
From 1994 to 2002, Kissel had been the treasurer of the co-op board at 200 East 74th Street in Manhattan. He had a great deal of autonomy and sole signing authority over the Board's bank account. He arranged a refinancing plan, to create a reserve fund and pay for renovations to the building, but also siphoned money into his own account, forged signatures, cut and pasted bank statements and eventually embezzled $3.9 million. When the Board confronted him, he confessed and agreed to pay $4.7 million if they agreed to not go public. He paid in October 2003, "confident that the matter had been resolved and the board would not go public."
At the time he was under house arrest and awaiting sentencing in a $20M fraud scheme.
Murder and arrests
Kissel and his wife, Hayley, were in the process of moving from the Greenwich house in March 2006. The Kissels were behind in their rent; their landlord had filed a lawsuit claiming the couple had neglected to pay the $14,300 rent for six months. The Kissels had agreed to vacate the premises by March 31.
Members of a moving crew arrived at the mansion to complete the move and found Andrew Kissel's body, with its hands and feet bound, in the basement. He had been stabbed to death.
Kissel's chauffeur, Carlos Trujillo, and Trujillo's cousin, Leonard Trujillo, have been arrested and charged in his death.
The Lifetime movie event: ''The Two Mr. Kissels" implied that there was a possibility that Andrew hired someone to kill him, so his family wouldn't suffer his financial mistakes.
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