http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/03/nyregion/03pelosi.html?oref=login&pagewanted=all
Time of Death Is Challenged by Pathologist in Pelosi Trial
By PATRICK HEALY
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. Dec. 2 - A forensic pathologist at the murder trial of Daniel Pelosi told jurors on Thursday that the victim had been killed at a time when Mr. Pelosi, according to his lawyers, was elsewhere.
The pathologist, Werner Spitz, testified that the victim, R. Theodore Ammon, a Manhattan multimillionaire, was murdered inside his East Hampton home between midnight and 1 a.m. on Oct. 21, 2001. Cellphone records show that Mr. Pelosi was at least 40 miles away at the time.
Dr. Spitz, testifying for the defense, disputed earlier testimony from a Suffolk County medical examiner who said that Mr. Ammon had been killed between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. Prosecutors say that time frame gave Mr. Pelosi, 41, ample time to commit the murder.
Mr. Pelosi, a Long Island electrician, was having an affair with Mr. Ammon's estranged wife, Generosa, when Mr. Ammon was killed; the Ammons were days away from finalizing a bitter divorce. Prosecutors have said that Mr. Pelosi wanted to gain control of Mr. Ammon's $80 million fortune.
Mr. Pelosi and Ms. Ammon married three months after Mr. Ammon's death, but later separated. She died of breast cancer last year.
Now it appears that a murder trial laced with stories of adultery, gambling and greed could boil down to the time of Mr. Ammon's death. ...