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Fashionista
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Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:01 pm |
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June 16th, 2008
June 16th, 2008
Gasps
Posted by Joe Dwinell at 2:11 pm
The silence of the courtroom was cut today by an image. This one.
State police chemist Deanna Dygan points to Lillian Rose Entwistle’s sleeper. (AP/pool)
Dygan holds up Lillian Rose Entwistle’s bloody “onsie” undershirt. (AP/pool)
Displaying the baby’s bloody and bullet-holed clothes forced Neil Entwistle, accused of murdering his wife and child, to lower his head and cry. He hid his eyes. Wiped away tears. Looked away. His mother, seated in the first row behind him, let out a gasp when the garments were shown for the jury to see. (Jurors remained professional, as they have every day in this case.)
There was a tightness in the court. (Or maybe that’s how this blogger felt.) A realization of a young child’s last outfit. The brutality of the moment. Seeing this image erases any doubt, if there ever was any, of the blistering brutality of a young infant’s end.
The prosecution has been careful not to turn this case into a circus. Evidence has been kept below eye-level. Not today. Jurors need to see this last outfit.
June 16th, 2008
The blue sweater
Posted by Joe Dwinell at 11:50 am
The Entwistle jury has been left hanging over results of gunshot residue tests on a blue sweater.
The sweater was tested for “primer residue.” That type of residue blows out the side and rear of a gun when it’s fired, state police chemist Deanna Dygan testified today. Basically, you must be real close — either holding the gun or next to it — when it’s fired.
“It doesn’t travel far. It’s like a dust,” Dygan said of primer residue. The testing for the residue is done by the state police Arson and Bomb Unit, so those results must come from those experts. It’s coming. It’s on the witness list. Keep an eye on Neil Entwistle’s blue sweater.
UPDATE: The sweater came out of the Entwistles’ white BMW X3 abandoned inside Logan Airport. Still, no word yet on what the results are for gunshot residue. It’s like a clock ticking down in this case.
UPDATE II: Forget it! Another big day for the defense. The sweater — Polo brand — tested “negative” for primer gunshot residue. In fact, the only residue that tested positive was on Rachel’s hands. Nothing on Neil. It’s a huge detail for this seventh day of testimony.
http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/city_desk_wired/
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| Fashionista
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Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:05 pm |
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Neil Entwistle's baby shot at point-blank range
By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
Last Updated: 9:44PM BST 16/06/2008
Neil Entwistle's baby daughter was shot at point-blank range with the gun pressed up against her polka dot pyjamas, a forensics expert told the British man's double murder trial yesterday.
Deanna Dygan, a scientific investigator, said gunshot residue around the hole in the front of nine-month-old Lillian's clothes came from a "contact shot", which she described as "a shot from a firearm, when the firearm is pressed directly against the target".
The shot travelled through the infant's body and left an exit hole in the pyjamas, she said. According to previous testimony based on post-mortem examinations, the bullet then lodged in her mother's chest as she cradled her daughter.
Ms Dygan showed jurors the murder weapon, a .22 Colt revolver which prosecutors allege Entwistle used to kill his 27-year old American wife, Rachel, and daughter in 2006. Mrs Entwistle was shot in the forehead at close range at the family's home in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Entwistle has pleaded not guilty.
The heavily blood-stained clothes Lillian was wearing at the time of her death were also displayed for jurors during Ms Dygan's testimony.
Entwistle did not look at the one piece sleep suit and pyjamas as they were held up and instead looked ahead at the judge's bench.
But his mother, Yvonne, from Kilton, Worksop, collapsed in her seat at the front of the court's public gallery as the clothing was displayed. She was comforted by her husband, Cliff, a Bassetlaw district councillor, who looked away from the evidence. Entwistle's brother, Russell, also looked away from the clothes.
Mrs Entwistle's mother, Priscilla, and stepfather, Joseph Matterazzo, looked at the clothes but showed little emotion.
Earlier, their daughter's blood-stained green shirt and floral underwear were clipped to an easel at the front of the court in Woburn, near Boston, Massachusetts, as Ms Dygan detailed how they were both stained with blood and semen.
The court heard how Entwistle's DNA was found on the grip of the revolver used to kill his wife and daughter, an ammunition container and a gun lock, while the DNA of Mrs Entwistle, who had no interest in guns, was found "both in and on the muzzle".
Mrs Entwistle and her daughter were killed as they lay in the four-poster bed in the master bedroom of the family home.
Under cross-examination, Elliot Weinstein, one of Entwistle's lawyers, quizzed Ms Dygan over what she saw in the bedroom.
"It was pretty obvious to you, scientist or not, that there was a pretty bloody mess there," he said.
The forensics expert agreed that she saw a "bloody and horrific mess" at the murder scene.
Earlier, she confirmed that she had written Entwistle's name as a possible suspect on field notes before arriving at the scene, but denied that this had "coloured" her thinking "throughout the investigation".
Prosecutors allege Entwistle, an unemployed IT specialist, was sexually dissatisfied, plagued by financial worries and had a secret life in which he trawled websites for sexual liaisons and information about killing and suicide before shooting his family.
He faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted of the double murder.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2141172/Neil-Entwistle's-baby-shot-at-point-blank-range.html
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| gwen
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Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:43 pm |
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Thanks, Fash...They should have made him look...How could someone do that to anyone, but much less to your own child... 
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| Hannie
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Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:38 am |
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Oh this is terrible,  That's heartbreaking to see...
Thanks Fash for all the updates!
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| Schmerty
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Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:50 am |
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Can you really put a gun to the body of your child, and BLAST ITS LIFE AWAY?? That is assuming you are a human being ?
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Skipping along my own path.
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| Hannie
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Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:16 am |
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Only monsters can be so cruel, 
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| yankee-in-france
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Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:39 am |
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"The heavily blood-stained clothes Lillian was wearing at the time of her death were also displayed for jurors during Ms Dygan's testimony."
I wonder if an objection was made by the defense and overruled. It might be the basis of reversible error.
Is he a monster or insane? I sure don't know. I think that anyone who takes a human life is insane, but he should be put away for life.
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| Ber
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Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:50 am |
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the impact has been made here...can we please remove the pictures? They are grotesque and just scream cruelty perpetuated upon the least susptecting of souls. Let the baby rest in peace, leave the evidence to the court. I think words would have been enough to get the point across about what happened in Court. It takes a lot to make me cry, but this brought me to tears in a heartbeat.
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