21: Deadly Divorce | The Murder of Ted Ammon
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Season 2: A New York State of Crime! Today, Alicia has the story of the lethal love triangle, and gruesome murder, that sent shockwaves from Long Island to Wall Street. The 2001 slaying of multi-millionaire investment banker Ted Ammon in his East Hampton home generated salacious headlines for years. Our man Nick covered the case in a 2005 episode of Power, Privilege, and Justice, and today's Done & Dunne also includes contemporaneous reporting by Vanity Fair's Michael Shnayerson, The Daily Mail's Lydia Warren, and more.
Sources:
- Murder in East Hampton | Vanity Fair | January 2002 (archive.vanityfair.com)
- The Murder in East Hampton | Ted Ammon | Crime Documentaries (YouTube link)
- A Murder Mystery, A Money Mess (BusinessWeek via archive.org)
- Twins adopted by wealthy banker who was bludgeoned to death by mother's lover in Hamptons home reveal guilt at how she turned them against him before his murder (dailymail.co.uk)
- 59 Middle Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937 (townandcountryhamptons.com)
- MY SLAY-DAY SEX WITH TED – AMMON'S LOVE TELLS OF HOT TRYST (nypost.com)
- MERRY WIDOW RAKES IT IN WITH TED'S PROPERTY (nypost.com)
- Court TV’s Power Privilege and Justice: Rich Man, Poor Man, Season 7, Episode 31. Original airdate February 16, 2005.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | That's audible.co.uk slash Wondery. |
| 0:11.5 | Hello, investigators. |
| 0:13.4 | Welcome to Dun & Dun. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Alicia, your hostess on this journey, All Things, Dominic Dunn. |
| 0:19.3 | Thank you for joining me today for our first episode of |
| 0:23.0 | our New York state of crime season. Today, Dun and Done covers the lethal love triangle and the |
| 0:29.4 | gruesome murder that sent shockwaves from Long Island to Wall Street when in October 2001 |
| 0:35.7 | multi-millionaire investment banker Ted Ammon is found slain in his |
| 0:41.6 | East Hampton home. There is no crime in East Hampton, not like this. There has not been a murder |
| 0:48.4 | in two decades in this quiet seaside hamlet. Ted's murder and the pending investigation will dominate the headlines |
| 0:56.7 | statewide for years, as suspicions arise that Ted's estranged wife, Generosa, Ammon, and her not-at-all-discreet |
| 1:04.8 | lover, Danny Pelosi, were in fact the instigators and perpetrators of this crime. |
| 1:11.1 | Dominic Dunn covered this case in season 7 of his power privilege injustice, |
| 1:16.2 | originally airing in February of 2005. |
| 1:20.1 | Our coverage today on Dun & Dunn comes to you from this particular power privilege |
| 1:24.7 | and justice episode, as well as many other journalists and authors who |
| 1:29.3 | have followed the narrative of this grisly crime through its timeline, including Michael |
| 1:34.0 | Chenyerson for Vanity Fair, Lydia Warren for the Daily Mail, Business Week, as well as Newsday. |
| 1:41.6 | All sources for this episode can be found on doneandun.com if you are interested in |
| 1:46.8 | further reading about this case. Ted and Generosa started so much in love. How does it all go so |
| 1:54.4 | terribly wrong? Let's investigate. |
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