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Timeline: So Far...
Jan. 16, 2006 -- Neil Entwistle visits the adult dating World Wide Web site "Adult Friend Finder."
Jan. 16 and 17 -- Entwistle views a Web site describing how to kill people. He also searches the internet on how to commit suicide, how to kill someone with a knife and euthanasia.
Jan. 18 -- Entwistle searches the internet for "escort services,'' including "Blonde Beauties Escort SVC.'' based in Worcester.
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Neil Entwistle will serve his time at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley. His conviction will be appealed. Under Massachusetts law, all first-degree murder convictions are appealed.
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Lawrence James, a Medford police officer and a computer forensics investigator, reads a printed version of the output he retrieved from Neil Entwistle's computer, shown as evidence today during the trial.
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Courtroom update - 6/18/08: Police say Entwistle computer used to search airline sites
posted at 1:27 p.m.: On Jan. 17, 2006, three days before Neil Entwistle is accused of killing his wife and daughter, someone used his laptop computer and searched for the words, "knife in neck kill," a Medford Police officer said this morning.
Lawrence James also testified that less than three minutes later someone using the same "ENT" login name searched for the words, "quick suicide method."
James also testified that someone also used the computer to access a map that gave directions to Blonde Beauty Escorts in Worcester.
Also, on Jan. 9, 2006, someone using the same ENT profile, searched several airline ticket Web sites.
posted at 11:20 a.m.: Someone used Neil Entwistle's laptop computer to look at a Web site on Jan. 16, 2006, that described the best way to stab someone.
Entwistle is accused of killing his wife, Rachel, 27, and Lillian Rose, 9 months, on Jan. 20, 2006.
Lawrence James, a Medford Police officer, testified about a site someone visited on Jan. 16 around 1:54 p.m.
The site featured a diagram of a human body and a brief narrative that read, in part, "So you may be thinking, why go for the aorta, why not the heart?"
The site also recommended to aim for the torso, right below the rib cage.
James also said someone visited the Web site, www.halfpriceescorts.com and www.adultfriendfinder.com that same day.
Also today, Michael Fee, an attorney for the Puigs, who owned 6 Cubs Path in Hopkinton, testified.
He played an audio recording of a phone message Entwistle left on Feb. 7, 2006, saying he was not interested in the house and to contact Rachel's family about the property left in the house.
In a subsequent phone call, Fee said Entwistle asked that any jewelry left in the house be packaged and sent to him in England.