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Victims:
Rachel Entwistle
Lillian Entwistle

Defendant:
Neil Entwistle

Judge - Diane Kottmyer
Defense - Elliot M. Weinstein and Stephanie Page
Prosecution - Michael Fabbri and Daniel Bennett


Short Case Synopsis - from Wikipedia
The bodies of 27-year-old Rachel and 9-month-old Lillian were found on 22 January 2006 in the master bedroom of the family's rented home where they had been living for ten days. Autopsy esults showed that Rachel died of a gunshot wound to the head and Lillian of a gunshot wound to the torso.

Hours after the deaths of his wife and daughter, Entwistle purchased a one-way ticket to London at about 5 am EST on 21 January and boarded a British Airways flight that departed Boston at 8:15 am.
On 23 January, Trooper Robert Manning of the Massachusetts State Police contacted Entwistle, by phone, at the home of his parents in Worksop. Entwistle told them that he had left his Hopkinton home at around 9 am EST three days previously to run an errand, and that his wife and daughter had both been alive and well, in the bed in the couple's master bedroom. He claimed that when he returned, at around 11 am, he found both had been shot dead. He covered their bodies with a blanket, and did not alert authorities.

Entwistle told the police that he was so distraught upon seeing the corpses of his wife and daughter that he decided to kill himself. However, because he was unable to bring himself to end his life with a knife, he drove the family car to his father-in-law Joseph Materazzo's house to get a .22LR caliber revolver. Finding the Materazzos' house locked, he told police that he then decided to fly home to England to see his parents.


T&T Trial Coverage - Donchias, Sprocket
05/28/08 Entwistle Murder Trial: There Will Be Live Coverage!
05/31/08 Entwistle, Steve Huff & MetroWest Daily News
06/04/08 Entwistle Murder Trial: Jury Selection
06/06/08 Entwistle Trial Finally Begins
06/06/08 Entwistle Trial: Day 1 Recap
06/09/08 Entwistle Trial: Day 2
06/10/08 Entwistle Trial: Day 2 Recap
06/10/08 Entwistle Trial: Day 3
06/11/08 Entwistle Trial: Day 4
06/12/08 Entwistle Trial: Day 5

06/13/08 Entwistle Trial: Day 6
06/14/08 Entwistle Trial Recap Days 3-6
06/16/08 Entwistle Trial Day 7
06/17/08 Entwistle Tidbits
06/17/08 Entwistle Trial Day 8
06/18/08 Entwistle Trial Day 9
06/19/08 Entwistle Trial Day 10

06/20/08 Entwistle Trial Day 11
06/22/08 Entwistle Trial Recap Days 7-10
06/23/08 Entwistle Trial Day 12
06/23/08 Entwistle Trial Closing Arguments
06/24/08 Entwistle Verdict Watch

06/24/08 Entwistle Trial Verdict Watch Day 1
06/25/08 Entwistle Verdict Is In!

06/26/08 Entwistle's Parents Statement on Verdict
06/26/08 Entwistle Sentencing
06/27/08 The Entwistle Notebook
07/01/08 Depression & Suicide - The Murderer's Defense

Mainstream News Media -
Entwistle Murder Trial.com (Maintained by MetroWest Daily News)

London Review of Books - Just Two Clicks by Jonathan Raban
Heartless by Michelle McPhee 
Wikipedia Entwistle Entry