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Entwistle Caught On Video
Jun 10, 2008 | 10:54 PM
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At the murder trial of Neil Entwistle, the prosecution released surveillance photos of a well dressed Neil Entwistle calmly withdrawing money from an ATM at Logan Airport.

What's significant to me is that these pictures were taken roughly twelve hours after Entwistle says he found the murdered bodies of his wife Rachel and their infant daughter Lillian in their rented Hopkinton home.
Yet here is Neil Entwistle reaching for cash, and about to buy a one way ticket back to his native England. If Neil Entwistle is distraught, he is certainly hiding his feelings, as these pictures show Neil routinely trying to access cash.

The next day, it's a completely different scene back at his rented Hopkinton house. At 6 Cub's Path, Rachel's friends and Hopkinton police are looking for the missing family. According to testimony police walked through the house, looking in every room, but they missed the bodies of Rachel and Lillian buried beneath a pile of comforters in the master bedroom.

Rachel's lifelong friend Joanna Gately is so concerned, she and her sister stay at the house, sleeping in their car, all night long, Saturday into Sunday, just waiting for the Entwistles to return home in their rented BMW.

According to the prosecutor's opening statement, Neil Entwistle told his father in law that he found the bodies Friday morning when he returned to the house after running errands. But instead of calling for help, Neil said he was scared and shocked and drove to the father in law's house in Carver to get a gun to kill himself. Neil allegedly said he didn't follow through because the house was all locked up.

Yet the state says when they recovered the family's rented BMW SUV at Logan, the keys to the father in law's home were locked inside.

And on the surveillance video, here is Neil, perfectly coiffed trying to access bank accounts. There is no sign of the horror he said he found back at the house just hours before.

Here's another detail I find chilling. On Sunday morning, Joanna Gately found a neighbor who knew the code to the automatic garage door. And they got into the house.

Why was this so important?

Neil and Rachel owned a dog. The dog was locked in its crate. Joanna wanted to walk and feed the dog. This means Neil Entwistle left the family dog locked in its cage to fend for itself knowing he'd never return.

But he did manage to leave the TV on for the dog. The TV was in the same family room where the dog was crated. .

After Joanna took care of the dog, she and her sister walked through the house. Joanna herself walked into the master bedroom, she did not notice the bodies.

But Joanna did notice something else. She heard music playing in Lillian's bedroom.

So, while Neil Entwistle was recorded at the Logan ATM, his family lay dead in his home, the dog crated with the TV on, and music playing on the second floor from his infant daughter's room.

Testimony resumes Wednesday morning. We expect to hear more about the failed wellness check.

We also expect the defense to use that failed wellness check as a major part of its defense.

Bob Ward
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Chip read my blog view my photos
Jun 11, 2008 | 5:35 AM

A wellness check is not the search for a body. There are laws (search and seizure).
JuneInMA read my blog view my photos
Jun 11, 2008 | 8:58 AM

WHY is money being wasted on this piece of garbage?? This is absurd. I guess the ONLY reason this circus is happening is because one of the things our country was built upon is fairness of trial. Otherwise.....

After all, after I find my spouse and baby shot dead, offing myself is the first thing I would think of. Of course. Never mind running into the street screaming my head off like the devil is chasing me ( most folks normal reaction)...no...no....I'm going straight to level 2. Never mind finding out what happened first...no, no...I'm going to kill myself first.

This guy is a joke and a waste of time. Hang him already!
Chip read my blog view my photos
Jun 11, 2008 | 10:16 AM

Dammit, June...tell me what you really think!!!

And kill yourself? Naw...kill the guy who did it? In a nanosecond.
JuneInMA read my blog view my photos
Jun 11, 2008 | 10:32 AM

Definitely Chip. I was being sarcastic about his supposed train of thought. You mean to tell me this garbage is going to find his wife and daughter shot dead and his first thought is going to be "well, let me go to my father-in-laws house to get his gun to kill myself". PLEASE!!!! I'm not saying this wouldn't cross someone's mind, but the FIRST reaction is to scream like someone is beating you. Anyone would run out into the street like a mad person first, then call the police, THEN maybe think about not living anymore.

He can go somewhere else with that story. People here are smarter than that.
Mitch67 read my blog view my photos
Jun 11, 2008 | 1:55 PM

I am listening to the live testimony while at work. I'm glad for the opportunity to listen to it, since I can't watch in on Court TV (if it's on there). I have everyone that is interested in hearing this case giving their opinion on who did it and why. The signs do point to Neil (for me), and he certainly didn't act in a normal way like you would expect other people (re: JuneinMA)to act. I can't even imagine leaving the same room when someone you supposedly love is dead and YOU found them, let alone leave the country.
I'm very interested everyday to hear everyone's testimony and I guess time will tell. I wonder why they are off for the afternoon today. It makes my day go faster when I have something to listen to, while I work.
Thank you for the opportunity to listen.
gemini523
Jun 11, 2008 | 2:06 PM

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP. I CAN'T GET INTO THE LIVE CHAT (THE SHOUTBOX) IT KEEPS SAYING MY IP ADDRESS IS BANNED. CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW I CAN JOIN THE LIVE CHAT OR HOW TO FIX THIS PROBLEM. I'D APPRECIATED IT.
CandiceMcD read my blog view my photos
Jun 11, 2008 | 3:12 PM

This guy is a murderer. He not only killed and acted calmly afterwards, but he shot and killed his own infant. That is the most disurbing fact for me. How on earth could be shoot and kill an infant & act rationally afterwards? it makes me sick just thinking about it. Less focus needs to be made over how the police missed their bodies. More on the fact that this *expletive* murdered his own baby and wife and drove himself around, got money out of the ATM and flew to England without any suspicious activity whatsoever.
justwondering67 read my blog
Jun 11, 2008 | 3:30 PM

Bob,

I agree that NE looks very composed and not very upset while he is withdrawing money. I also found it interesting that he left the airport, drove to Newton and then returned to the airport. In some of the defense's line of questioning it appeared to me that they were suggesting that Neil didn't drive very much here in the US, but he certainly new enough to give Mr. Matterazzo directions to the new home, find the airport and drive around Newton. The Def. also seems to be suggesting that Rachel wanted an affluent lifestyle because they keep harping on who wanted the BMW. When Joanna Gately said that she thought it was Neil who wanted the BMW, the Def. then suggested that it was a family decision.

With respect to the dog, I would think NE would have had to crate the dog, otherwise the dog would have discovered the bodies and led the police to them on the first wellness check. It must be very disturbing to the officers and Joanna and her sister to know that the bodies were upstairs the whole time and if they had found them, would they have been able to track Neil at the airport before he for England.

You also mentioned the keys to the Matterazzo house were in BMW, I'd also like to know what happened to the other set of keys to the trigger locks that were missing from the Matterazzo bedroom. Were they ever found? Also, were the keys to the Carver home that were found, were they the extra set from the dog house in the back that were missing or were they the set that Neil and Rachel used while living in Carver?

How come the owner of 6 Cubs Path was not al
foxfriend read my blog view my photos
Jun 11, 2008 | 10:48 PM

Hi Bob,
This guy is so comfortable living an act that real life makes him nervous to the point he can't behave normally. Now the fascade is gone and his secrets have been exposed. People now see he is not the affluent,affectionate, family man he tried to present himself as, but rather a calculating, selfserving, entitled, sociopath who is still trying to fool people into believing he is something he is not. I believe the defence for him is the old spaghetti defence.....throw it all out there and see what sticks..
Bob_Ward read my blog view my photos
Jun 12, 2008 | 11:17 AM

Hi Jean,

I'm not sure what happened to the set of trigger lock keys. Joe Matterazzo said the set he kept on his bed stand is missing.

We haven't heard testimony on the search of the BMW, maybe that's where they show up? But I don't know.

BW
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