...And Never Let HerGo

it or informed of any of the events, details, or substance of the investigation.”
    And now, Connolly asked Keith Brady if Tom had ever confided in him about Deborah MacIntyre.
    “Yes—he first mentioned her when we worked together in the governor’s office in the early nineties,” Brady said. “He told me she was a wonderful person that he cared very much about.”
    “Did he tell you what the nature of his relationship with her was?”
    “My recollection is that he told me they had a long-term relationship.”
    “Did you ever have a sexual encounter yourself with Deborah MacIntyre?”
    “Yes.”
    An audible gasp rose from the gallery—save for the press rows. The line of questioning had turned on a dime and shocked everyoneelse in the courtroom. “Who arranged that sexual encounter?” Connolly said, moving ahead swiftly.
    “Tom did.”
    “Was this while he was having a relationship with her?”
    “Yes it was,” Brady answered. “My understanding of his interest in my having a sexual encounter with her was that that would be in the context of his relationship with Deborah MacIntyre.”
    “No more questions, Your Honor.”
    But Joe Oteri, for the defense, would have many questions. He had been briefed by Tom, who knew Keith Brady’s secrets. But first, Oteri suggested that Brady, five years Tom’s junior, had long been jealous and resentful of his client.
    “In other words,” Oteri said, “you really didn’t like the guy?”
    “That’s not true.”
    “You liked him?”
    “Yes.”
    And now Oteri had his opening. “And because you liked him, you confided in him and he confided in you. Correct?”
    “Yes sir.”
    “And you confided in him the fact that you had adulterous relationships. Correct?”
    “I confided in him that I had committed adultery.”
    “On numerous occasions,” Oteri said, “with three different women at least.”
    “No.”
    “How many women have you committed adultery with?”
    “More than one.”
    “More than two?”
    “I have committed adultery,” Brady said evenly, “with three women, not including Deborah MacIntyre.”
    Oteri labored the area of questioning, asking for the length of Brady’s adulterous incidents, and Connolly objected.
    Judge Lee sustained the objection and Oteri moved on to the night at Debby’s house. In answer to his probing questions, Brady testified that he had been unable to achieve an erection when Tom instructed Debby to perform fellatio upon him.
    He was a man in pain. Mercifully, Oteri changed the subject, asking about the carpets that Brady had helped Tom carry into the Grant Avenue house when he first moved in.
    Then, returning to the subject that fascinated the gallery, Oteri asked, “You had a second encounter with Deborah MacIntyre?”
    “I had a drink with her.”
    “She propositioned you?”
    “That’s not my recollection.”
    Before he was finished with Brady, Oteri returned once more to the night in Debby’s house after his golf game with Tom. Although it was true he was trying to save Tom Capano’s life, his questions struck many in the gallery as crude and irrelevant. “Let me ask you a question now, sir. You were thirty-nine, forty years old at the time. You didn’t want to be there. You’re butt naked or half dressed, you got your clothes off, you’re in a bedroom with a guy and a woman who are naked and doing the nasty, and you didn’t want to
be
there? Somebody holding a gun on you to keep you there?”
    “No one was holding a gun to me.”
    “Did Debby MacIntyre grab you and say you can’t leave?”
    “No, she did not.”
    “In other words, you were there because you wanted to be there, because you wanted some action.”
    “No.”
    “No? Never mind.” Oteri turned away with mock disgust.
    “I’m
ashamed
that I was there.”
    “Ashamed of the other relationships you had, too?”
    “Yes.”
    “I have no further questions.”
    I N his pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification, Tom Capano had left a number of victims behind. It was Connolly’s intention to prove that Debby had been one of them. And the man on the witness stand might well have been another. Connolly moved to ask a redirect question. “You’ve testified that you were involved in a sexual encounter with the defendant and Deborah MacIntyre and about your participation in some adulterous affairs. What are the repercussions of your testimony about that?”
    Brady gazed at him. “It has been a profoundly agonizing experience