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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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Neil Entwistle was sentenced to life in prison today for killing his wife and daughter, but Priscilla Matterazzo said she and her family received a sentence of life without Rachel and Lillian in January, 2006. "We were sentenced without the benefit of a trial and a jury," she said during victim impact statements this morning.
Jerome Souza, above holding paper, brother of Rachel Entwistle, supported by family and friends, reads an impact statement this morning during the sentencing hearing.
POOL PHOTO BY DARREN MCCOLLESTER
Family to Neil: 'One day, you will face the ultimate judgement'
By Norman Miller/Daily News staff
WOBURN - Neil Entwistle was sentenced to life in prison today for killing his wife and daughter, but Priscilla Matterazzo said she and her family received a sentence of life without Rachel and Lillian in January, 2006.
"We were sentenced without the benefit of a trial and a jury," she said during victim impact statements this morning.
"I have lost two generations of my family," Matterazzo said.
During the sentencing, several women were carrying flowers, roses and lillies.
Rachel's stepfather, Joe Matterazzo, told Neil that although he has been judged by a jury, that "one day, you will face the ultimate judgement."
Jerome Souza, Rachel's older brother, said no one will ever know how Lillian Rose would have grown up.
In sentencing Entwistle, Judge Diane Kottmyer called the crimes "incomprehensible."
"It is clear and easy to comprehend the magnitude of the loss and the pain Rachel's friends and family feel," she said.
Entwistle did not address the court before he was sentenced. Before he left the courtroom, he glanced at his parents and mouthed something to them. He will begin his sentence immediately.