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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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WOBURN - The jury deciding whether Neil Entwistle is guilty of murdering his wife and daughter more than two years ago failed to reach a verdict Tuesday in its first day of deliberation.
No verdict after day 1 of deliberations
By Norman Miller/Daily News staff
WOBURN - The jury deciding whether Neil Entwistle is guilty of murdering his wife and daughter more than two years ago failed to reach a verdict Tuesday in its first day of deliberation.
Entwistle, 29, is accused of murdering his wife, Rachel, 27, and his 9-month-old daughter Lillian Rose on Jan. 20, 2006, in Hopkinton.
The jury requested the Internet search history off Entwistle's computer from the day of the killings. The documents were read during the trial at Middlesex Superior Court last week, but only the actual hard drive was entered into evidence, not the printed record of the Web sites visited.
Neither prosecutor Michael Fabbri nor defense lawyer Elliot Weinstein objected to giving the jury that record.
The jury also asked for a receipt that had been entered into evidence, but jurors found it themselves before the issue was brought to the lawyers, Judge Diane Kottmyer said. The judge did not say which particular receipt was being sought.
Entwistle is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, illegal possession of a firearm and illegal possession of ammunition.
Jurors must decide Entwistle's guilt or innocence. If they decide he is guilty of murder, they will be asked to choose between first and second degree.
Prosecutors have accused Entwistle of murdering his family with a gun he stole from his in-laws' Carver home because he was dissatisfied with his sex life and had mounting debt.
The defense argues that Rachel Entwistle killed her daughter and then herself while suffering from postpartum depression. They claim Entwistle discovered what had happened and returned the gun to the Carver home to protect his wife's honor.
(Norman Miller can be reached at 508-626-3823 or nmiller@cnc.com.)