Blood Brothers: Robert and Andrew Kissel

Red Collar

Catherine Townsend

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4.6 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Multimillionaire banker Robert Kissel was poisoned with a milkshake in his Hong Kong high rise; his brother Andrew was beaten to death at his mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut. One brother was a smashing success, the other was a con artist. Both were sucked into a world of high-society scandal involving sex, drugs, and massive fraud on opposite sides of the world.

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0:00.0	The newspapers called it the milkshake murder.
0:05.0	And it all started on November 6, 2004, when police went down to an underground storage unit near the Parkview Towers, a luxury high-rise building in Hong Kong.
0:16.0	They were looking for 40-year-old investment banker Robert Kissel.
0:20.0	One of Rob's co-workers at Merrill Lynch, where he was managing director of debt markets for the
0:25.0	Asia-Pacific region, had reported him missing.
0:28.2	As soon as investigators walked in, it hit them, the smell of decomposition.
0:34.3	They found Rob's body, wrapped in a large rug.
0:38.3	Rob had been beaten to death, so severely that his skull had been caved in.
0:43.3	The story would shock the expatriate community and make international headlines.
0:49.3	Rob was handsome and successful.
0:51.3	He made over $3 million a year.
0:54.9	He had a beautiful wife, Nancy, an amazing apartment,
0:58.4	three children, and two live-in household helpers who catered to their every need.
1:03.4	But then rumors started to fly.
1:05.8	Rumors that Nancy had been sleeping in the same bed with Rob's body for days,
1:10.7	and that Nancy was claiming Robb forced her to become his sex slave.
1:16.0	What happened to Rob Kissel was a tragedy,
1:18.9	but unfortunately, it would not be the last one for the Kissel family.
1:23.2	Because just three years later, Rob's brother Andrew, a wealthy real estate investor, was brutally
1:28.9	murdered at his mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut.
1:32.6	This is a case that I have been fascinated with since it happened, because you have these
1:37.4	two brothers who were pretty much opposites in every way.
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