Neil Entwistle convicted of double murder

Earlier on this blog, I reported on the likely beginning of a slayer case in which Neil Entwistle was accused of murdering his wife and daughter.  An “interesting” thing about this case was the recent revelation that four days before the murders, Neil did a Google search for the phrase “how to kill with a knife.”

On June 25, 2008, a jury found Neil guilty of the two murders.  According to Franci R. Ellement, John R. Ellement, & Andrew Ryan, Jury convicts Entwistle of double murder, BostonGlobe.com, June 25, 2008:

A jury took less than two days to convict Neil Entwistle of murdering his wife and infant daughter, rejecting the defense’s theory that the young mother shot her 9-month-old before committing suicide. * * *

Entwistle will be formally sentenced Thursday at 10 a.m. First-degree murder carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole and requires an automatic review by the Supreme Judicial Court. * * *

The defense did not call a single witness to testify and instead tried to exploit what it called missteps by police and pick apart the prosecution’s case, which was built largely on circumstantial evidence.

Special thanks to David S. Luber (Attorney at law, Florida Probate Attorney Wills and Estates Law Firm) for bringing this article to my attention.