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June 20th, 2008
RECAP from yesterday
Entwistle scorecard
Posted by Joe Dwinell
Yesterday was probably the wildest day with the pendulum of justice swinging for both sides. Here’s the list of the rocks being piled up by the prosecution and smashed by the defense …
PROSECUTION POINTS:
• British buddies testify Neil felt “isolated” back in the states because he had no shoulder to cry on. Huh? Jurors have been told he just ran and kept on running all the way home to Worksop, England. Running from what? Who? This one needs an answer, even if it’s in the closing.
• He also told one of his old rowing buddies he called 911 after finding his wife, Rachel, and child, Lilly, killed, according to testimony. So, he knows what 911 stands for?
• Entwistle reportedly put his laptop to work dialing up escorts, eBay, swinger sites, airline tickets, PayPal, Googling ways to kill with a knife, checking his e-mail for “jobs” on the day of the murders. The escort sites are the most damning.
• The fatal blow that killed his baby was a “contact shot” — the gun was pressed right up against her. Who gets that close?
• Rachel had her left arm extended, her index finger pointing out. Just a detail. Rachel’s right arm was also over the baby. Protecting her?
• DNA evidence points to the presence of semen on Rachel’s underwear.
Neil is the “major male” match. Normal for a married couple. So, who is restless?
• Neil Entwistle calmly walks to ATMs at Logan Airport the night of the murders to score some cash. The surveillance footage shows someone in total control. What about the dead bodies back in the bedroom?
• He tells his father-in-law in a call from England Rachel and Lilly were dead rolled up in the bed because, “that’s the way I left them, I mean, that’s the way I found them.” What does the jury make of that?
DEFENSE POINTS:
• The medical examiner was never told Rachel tested positive for gunshot residue in both her right and left hands. Investigators, share all you know. It feeds right into the defense suicide scenario and investigators having their minds made up.
• One of the laptop searches for “last-minute” flights was for two adults, no kids, no infant, coming to Boston from Manchester, UK, in April. There’s enough reasonable doubt cast on the I’m-outta-here-after-I-kill-the-family theory. I’m wondering what the other searches for plane tickets were seeking? Why not tell us?
• Blockbuster card. It’s the “pliable” card for all occasions for cops, as defense attorney Elliot Weinstein pointed out when grilling the Hopkinton police for using such a card to break into the Entwistle house. Breaking in is never a good thing.
• Why no search for “occult,” or unseen, blood at the murder scene? Plays to the defense accusation of forensic experts being told what to look for in the master bedroom of 6 Cubs Path in Hopkinton vs. be free to find anything you can. May make the jury wonder what was missed.
• The DNA. Neil’s DNA is on the grip; father-in-law Joe Matterazzo’s on the trigger; Rachel’s on and inside the muzzle. Old news because we learned early on Neil went target practicing with the weapon months before the Jan. 20, 2006, murders. Still, a fact you just can’t shake.
• All the “loving couple” testimony and doting dad comments. So what went wrong?
• British buddies saying Neil’s finances were “perilous” and he complained about Rachel’s expensive tastes. She’s not here to counter that.
• No gunpowder or blood found in the BMW. None on the keys or anything else on that X3. Key point for the defense. Very key.
• We all thought Neil was caught with a notebook saying he was ready to sell his story to “the highest bidder,” as a pre-trial filing claimed. It didn’t come out in court. Big development? Did the judge spike that? We’ll ask … and keep building to this list.
The prosecution team: Michael Fabbri, left, and Daniel Bennett. (AP/pool)
The defense team: Stephanie Page, left, and Elliot Weinstein. (AP/pool)
June 20th, 2008
Trooper takes the stand
Posted by Joe Dwinell at 8:52 am
Today could be the biggest day yet for the prosecution as at least one state trooper is expected to take the stand in the double-murder trial of Neil Entwistle.
State police wrapped up this case against Neil traveling across the pond to bring him back to face justice. The court is now setting up a tape machine. I believe we’re about to hear the defendant tell his side of the story. Stay tuned.
June 20th, 2008
Roll the tape
Posted by Joe Dwinell at 10:48 am
A two-hour conversation between state police Sgt. Robert Manning and double-murder defendant Neil Entwistle is set to be played in minutes in Middlesex Superior Court. The tape could be one of the last major items of evidence the jury hears before the prosecution rests its case.
What is on that two hours of tape? Will we hear it all? We’re gonna find out next.
Blog dilemma: Do you listen in down in the makeshift newsroom inside this court or do you sit on a court bench and listen and look for reactions? This blog will take a seat! Stay tuned.
June 20th, 2008
‘It was just a normal day …’
Posted by Joe Dwinell at 1:58 pm
“… Just a normal day,” said Neil Entwistle. Just a normal day coming home to see your wife and baby murdered on the bed. It’s all part of a two-hour tape just played for jurors in this double-murder trial.
Not a sound could be heard in the court. Rachel’s family, in a rare show of fatigue and emotion, bowed their heads and held to each other as the tape rolled. Here’s the passages that stick in this blog’s notes:
Did Neil kill his wife and child? (State police Sgt. Robert Manning asked on Jan. 23, 2006, the day after the mother and child were found.)
“No. No. … Just. No. I couldn’t do that. Why would I do that? No nothing. It was just a normal day … just a normal day.” (Look for an audio clip in the story in moments on this very passage.)
“I had to get out of the house,” Entwistle says after discovering the bodies.
“… Lilly … half of her face was out. I pulled the covers back … ahhh,” Entwistle says. Adding that Rachel wasn’t bloody, Lilly was. He says later in the tape:
“I saw it on Lilly. On chest. Like a hole, ah, a burn mark hole. I didn’t see anything on Rachel. I didn’t just so much around Lilly. Rachel got her arm, got her arm across her,” he says.
The officer asks, did he shake his wife to see if she was still breathing?
“I … I … No.”
Why pull the bed sheet over them before leaving?
“I felt I was closing them off,” he says on the tape.
Why didn’t he go through with stabbing himself with a kitchen knife after discovering the bodies?
“I just couldn’t do it. I thought it was going to hurt,” Neil says.
How’s he feeling now? Depressed?
“I haven’t even cried yet. Not properly.”
State police Sgt. Robert Manning holds up an audio disc today of a two-hour telephone
conversation he had with double-murder defendant Neil Entwistle on Jan. 23, 2006. (AP/pool)
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Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:01 pm |
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Entwistle 'did not cry over deaths'
6 hours ago
Briton Neil Entwistle told police he had not even cried "properly" three days after his American wife and baby daughter were murdered, a US court has heard.
Entwistle said he was "trance-like" when he found the bodies of his 27-year-old wife Rachel and nine-month-old daughter Lillian Rose and the first thing he wanted to do was to kill himself.
He told Middlesex State Trooper Robert Manning that he found the bodies in the master bedroom of their new home in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, on January 20, 2006, after returning home from the shops. He denies their murders.
The 29-year-old former IT worker said he saw their bodies in the bed and covered them up before fleeing to England on a one-way ticket.
Mr Manning told the Middlesex County Superior Court in Woburn, Massachusetts, that he spoke to Entwistle for two hours from around 1.30pm on January 23, 2006.
"I haven't even cried yet, not properly," Entwistle said.
"There weren't even that many tears. I don't know what I'm thinking about at the moment. It's almost because I'm here it doesn't seem real. It's almost a void."
In the two-hour recording, which was played in court, Mr Manning replied: "It is real. It is real. Something happened over here."
During the interview, Entwistle said there were "no problems" in the relationship between him and his wife and added: "It was perfect."
Entwistle continued: "It was just a normal day." The trial continues.
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iu4cBW-3ke0fmZnjxB-T-KG7wZig
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| Noor
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Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:49 pm |
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Thanks Fash.
Too bad we do not have a transcript of the whole conversation, those are tiny little snippets.
It was truly fascinating.
He sure is a talker, he can't shut up when he needs to, and does not have the answers when it's needed.
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Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:55 pm |
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| marco wrote: | Thanks Fash.
Too bad we do not have a transcript of the whole conversation, those are tiny little snippets.
It was truly fascinating.
He sure is a talker, he can't shut up when he needs to, and does not have the answers when it's needed. |
Marco ~ You are Welcome!
If you click on the Boston Herald link you can @ least listen to that part of the AUDIO tape
http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/city_desk_wired/
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June 20th, 2008
‘It was just a normal day …’
Posted by Joe Dwinell at 1:58 pm
“… Just a normal day,” said Neil Entwistle. Just a normal day coming home to see your wife and baby murdered on the bed. It’s all part of a two-hour tape just played for jurors in this double-murder trial.
Not a sound could be heard in the court. Rachel’s family, in a rare show of fatigue and emotion, bowed their heads and held to each other as the tape rolled. Here’s the passages that stick in this blog’s notes:
Did Neil kill his wife and child? (State police Sgt. Robert Manning asked on Jan. 23, 2006, the day after the mother and child were found.)
“No. No. … Just. No. I couldn’t do that. Why would I do that? No nothing. It was just a normal day … just a normal day.”
 (Look for an audio clip in the story in moments on this very passage.)
“I had to get out of the house,” Entwistle says after discovering the bodies.
“… Lilly … half of her face was out. I pulled the covers back … ahhh,” Entwistle says. Adding that Rachel wasn’t bloody, Lilly was. He says later in the tape:
“I saw it on Lilly. On chest. Like a hole, ah, a burn mark hole. I didn’t see anything on Rachel. I didn’t just so much around Lilly. Rachel got her arm, got her arm across her,” he says.
The officer asks, did he shake his wife to see if she was still breathing?
“I … I … No.”
Why pull the bed sheet over them before leaving?
“I felt I was closing them off,” he says on the tape.
Why didn’t he go through with stabbing himself with a kitchen knife after discovering the bodies?
“I just couldn’t do it. I thought it was going to hurt,” Neil says.
How’s he feeling now? Depressed?
“I haven’t even cried yet. Not properly.”
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| Noor
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Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:14 pm |
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Thank you again Fash.
That's all.
Where's the "waiving hand" smiley?
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Marco
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| Heli
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Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:36 am |
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“… Just a normal day,” said Neil Entwistle. Just a normal day coming home to see your wife and baby murdered on the bed.
Nothing like demonizing his comment which in no way meant what the editorial suggests and it was obvious what he meant.
Sure hope that's not the mindset of jurors. To make an absolute determination of a person's guilt and proceed to colour everything said and done by him in the context of his guilt is wrong. It's that kind of thinking that has hundreds if not thousands of wrongfully convicted in jails everywhere.
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