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Throughout the trial, the Daily News has invited a panel of experts to comment on what is happening in the courtroom. The panel members are: Wendy Murphy, a former Middlesex assistant district attorney and current victim/witness advocate; John LaChance, a former federal prosecutor and current defense lawyer based in Framingham, and Steve Huff, a professional crime blogger who runs two Web sites. Check back often for our experts' opinions. And if you want to share your opinion, visit our blog.
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.
Coming Up
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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The list of prosecution and defense witnesses who might be called to testify in the murder trial against Neil Entwistle includes 29 people from England among the more than 160 names listed.
Security was tight at Middlesex County Superior Court in Woburn this morning as jury selection was underway.
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Potential witness list released in Entwistle case
By Norman Miller/Daily News staff
The list of prosecution and defense witnesses who might be called to testify in the murder trial against Neil Entwistle includes 29 people from England among the more than 160 names listed.
Among the Bay State residents expected to be called in the case against Entwistle, a British national accused of murdering his wife Rachel and infant daughter Lillian Rose in the family's 6 Cubs Path, Hopkinton, home more than two years ago are Rachel Entwistle's mother Priscilla Matterazzo and step-father Joe Matterazzo; her brother Zachary Matterazzo; Massachusetts state Troopers Robert Manning and David Mackin; Beth Fisher Abbot, a chemist with the state police crime lab in Sudbury; and JoAnna and Maureen Gately, listed as family friends.
Prosecution witnesses from the Hopkinton Police Department, on the list released at Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn this morning on the first day of jury selection in Entwistle's murder trial, include Detective Greg DeBoer and Lt. Richard Flannery.
Other witnesses are listed as Inspector Irving Brandt of Boston; Michelle Brant from Worcestershire, England; Detective Sgt. Clive Blake, of London; Kim Puig, who owned the Hopkinton house which the Entwistles had rented less than two weeks before the killings; and several Hopkinton police officers and law enforcement officials from England.
The 165 potential jurors were given a nine-page questionnaire. Jurors were then going to be questioned individually by Judge Diane Kottmyer. Each lawyer can eliminate 16 jurors without cause. Jury selection is expected to take three or four days, followed by a trial expected to last at least a month.
An SUV carries Neil Entwistle to the Middlesex County Superior Court in Woburn for the start of his trial.
DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY KEN MCGAGH
Defense attorneys Stephanie Page and Elliot Weinstein bring boxes of documents in to Middlesex County Superior Court in Woburn on the first day of client Neil Entwistle's murder trial, which began with jury selection.
DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY KEN MCGAGH