Mystery Location No. 65: August 20, 2017

This is 59 Middle Lane in East Hampton, N.Y., where Ted Ammon, a Wall Street financier, was murdered on October 20, 2001, by his wife’s boyfriend, Daniel Pelosi. Ammon and his lunatic wife, Generosa, were involved in a bitter divorce and custody battle over the twins they had adopted from Russia. When Generosa was having a New York townhouse remodeled, she began having an affair with Pelosi, an electrician. Shortly after Ted Ammon’s murder, Generosa and Pelosi were married. She developed breast cancer and she and Pelosi were separated when she died on August 23, 2003, 14 years ago.

Ammon was found nude in his bed. He had been Tasered and badly beaten and there was blood all over the master bedroom. Pelosi denied he killed Ammon, but Pelosi had installed the state-of-the-art alarm system in the house and he removed the hard drive, which was in a remote corner of the attic, where someone who wasn’t familiar with the house couldn’t have found it. Generosa was never charged or arrested.

The twins, Alexa and Greg Ammon, now own the house. It was for sale for $12.7 million at one time, but now it’s for rent for $150,000 per month. The house once had beautiful dark paneling inside, but it has now been painted white, which ruins the interior, in my opinion.

Pelosi is serving a 25 years to life sentence.

Congratulations, Catherine!

I read the book about this murder and saw it on TV, but the clues just didn't make me think of it.