Lethal Guardian (40 page)

Kim Carpenter and Anson “Buzz” Cliton on their wedding day, January 17, 1993.

Cynthia Carpenter, Kim’s mother (in middle, leaning, over, talking to Rebecca), lost custody of Rebecca only weeks before this photo was taken.

Beth Ann Carpenter with her niece, Rebecca, during her sister Kim’s wedding ceremony.

Cynthia and Dick Carpenter were photographed by detectives.
(Courtesy of Connecticut State Police Crime Lab)

Beth Ann Carpenter’s senior class photo, 1981.
(Courtesy of Ledyard High School yearbook)

Beth Ann Carpenter lived in this lavish condominium at the Norwich Inn & Spa resort, in Norwich, Connecticut.
(Author’s photo)

In the late eighties, attorney Haiman Long Clein built a lucrative practice catering to Connecticut’s powerful and rich.
(Courtesy of Connecticut State Police Crime Lab)

Haiman Clein lived with his wife and children in this Twin Lakes mansion on Pond Edge Drive in Waterford, Connecticut.
(Author’s photo)

Acting on a tip, investigators of Buzz Clinton’s death first searched for evidence at the Fremut Texaco in Essex, Connecticut.
(Author’s photo)

Buzz Clinton thought he was going to sell this tow truck on the night he was murdered.

The area in back of the Fremut Texaco, where Mark Despres and Joe Fremut rehearsed how they were going to kill Buzz Clinton.
(Courtesy of Clerk’s Office, New London Superior Court)

Mark Despres was arrested on October 29, 1995, after arming himself with an AK-47 and leading Connecticut State Police on a 12-hour manhunt.
(Courtesy of Connecticut State Police Crime Lab)