Neil Entwistle

Neil Entwistle, 29, accused of murdering his wife Rachel, 27, and daughter Lillian Rose, 9-months, on Jan. 20, 2006, was born in England on Sept. 18, 1978.

He was raised in the working class community of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, by his parents Clifford and Yvonne Entwistle. He has a younger brother Russell.

Entwistle met his future bride in 1999 when she was studying abroad at England's York University. They were members of the same rowing club.

Entwistle lived in Droitwitch, an upscale community in Worcestershire, renting a three-bedroom home while working in the computer industry in 2002 and 2003.

Rachel Entwistle moved in with him after they were married at the Second Parish Church Plymouth, Mass., on Aug. 23 2003.

In 2004, while Rachel was pregnant, they took a cruise that included stops in Greece, Tunisia and Italy.

Lillian Rose was born on April 9, 2005 in England.

While in England, Entwistle worked in the computer field while his wife was a teacher at St. Augustines Catholic School in Redditch.

They moved to Rachel's parents Carver home in 2006. Neil was unemployed, but he ran a series of online businesses, including one where he offered to set up and support adult internet World Wide Web sites.

He also ran another company, Embedded New Technologies Limited, which was listed on several business scam web sites as a possible pyramid scheme.

Entwistle ran srpublications, an EBay business that sold people a way to make $20,000 a month.

At the time of the murders, authorities say Entwistle was more than $30,000 in debt, a fact he hid from his wife and her family. In the days before the Jan. 20 murder, authorities say he visited online escort sites as well as web sites that discussed murder and suicide.

After the murders, Entwistle flew to England and went back to his parents home until his arrest in London on Feb. 8, 2006.

He is currently being held without bail at the Middlesex Jail in Cambridge. If convicted of first degree murder, he'll be sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole.

Rachel Entwistle

Rachel Entwistle was born o Dec. 14, 1978 in Kingston, Mass., daughter of Priscilla Matterazzo and the late Paul Souza.

She graduated from Silver Lake High in 1997 and attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, where she majored in English and American studies. She was also a member of the college's rowing and tracks teams and ran cross country.

She met her future husband, Neil Entwistle, in 1999 while she was studying abroad at England's York University. She graduated from Holy Cross in 2001.

Rachel and Neil were married on Aug. 23, 2003 at the Second Parish Church in Plymouth, Mass.

The pair lived in England while she taught English at the St. Augustine's Catholic High School in Redditch, England.

She gave birth to her daughter, Lillian Rose, on April 9 at 12:57 a.m. in England.

They moved to Rachel's parents Carver home in early 2006 before moving to 6 Cubs Path in Hopkinton.

It was there that authorities say Neil Entwistle shot and killed Rachel and Lillian Rose on Jan. 20. 2006.
 

Lillian Rose Entwistle

Lillian Rose Entwistle, who was murdered along with her mother Rachel Entwistle on Jan. 20, 2006, was only 9-months old at the time of her death.

Lillian Rose was born on April 9 at 12:57 a.m. in England, she only weight seven pounds at birth.

Her life was chronicled on a World Wide Web site set up by her father, Neil Entwistle, is also accused of shooting her.

The web site featured several photos of the infant, including her baptism, her first Halloween when she dressed as a skunk and a photo of her reaching up and playing with a branch on the Christmas tree.

Authorities say she was shot to death on Jan. 20 while she was being held by her mother, Rachel Entwistle, 27, in their bed.

Rachel and Lillian Rose were buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Kingston on Feb. 1 after a Funeral Mass at St. Peters Church in Plymouth.

Her father is set to go to trial for the double murder on June 2.

The judge

HON. DIANE M. KOTTMYER is an associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. From 1991 until she was appointed to the bench in 1995, she was a partner at Bingham Dana LLP.

She had previously served as a trial attorney with the Department of Justice and chief of its New England Organized Crime Strike Force, as an assistant district attorney in Essex County, and as a law clerk to then Chief Judge Andrew A. Caffrey of the U. S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

She is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a founding member of the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Boston College and Boston College Law School, where she was managing editor of the Law Review. She has participated in many continuing legal education programs for MCLE and others.