Friends Contradict Entwistle's Accounts
Expert Testifies About Internet Searches
POSTED: 8:40 am EDT June 17,
2008
UPDATED: 6:08 pm EDT June 17,
2008
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WOBURN, Mass. -- Friends of a man accused of killing his wife and baby daughter in their Hopkinton home testified Tuesday.Neil Entwistle is charged in the shooting deaths of his wife, Rachel, and 9-month-old, Lillian Rose, in January 2006.
VIDEO: Friends Contradict Entwistle's AccountsBenjamin Pryor, one of the defendant's friends who lives in London, said that he received a phone call from Neil Entwistle a few weeks after the slayings. Neil Entwistle told Pryor that he tried but could not kill himself after he found the bodies of his wife and baby, according to testimony."His next, sort of, thought was to tell someone what had happened -- so he set out to find his step-parents but they were at work at the time," Pryor said.Pryor said that Neil Entwistle then told him that he gathered with his wife's distraught family at their home."At that point, he spoke to the state police and, sort of, told him what happened," Pryor said.Pryor said that Neil Entwistle told him that he owned the home in Hopkinton and the BMW he was leasing and that his finances were in bad shape.Earlier, the prosecution's DNA expert testified that she took DNA samples from the gun believed to be the murder weapon.Chemist Laura Bryant said that she compared a DNA sample she took from the gun's handle to Neil Entwistle's DNA."The major profile matched the DNA profile from the alternate DNA standard of Neil Entwistle,"She told the jury that the DNA taken from the muzzle of the gun matched Rachel Entwistle's DNA.Computer expert Lawrence James testified that he examined Google searches that Neil Entwistle was making online."A search was preformed with six key words, 'how to kill with a knife,'" James said.James said that Neil Entwistle made the searches on Jan. 16, 2006, four days before the slayings.
VIDEO: Friends Contradict Entwistle's AccountsBenjamin Pryor, one of the defendant's friends who lives in London, said that he received a phone call from Neil Entwistle a few weeks after the slayings. Neil Entwistle told Pryor that he tried but could not kill himself after he found the bodies of his wife and baby, according to testimony."His next, sort of, thought was to tell someone what had happened -- so he set out to find his step-parents but they were at work at the time," Pryor said.Pryor said that Neil Entwistle then told him that he gathered with his wife's distraught family at their home."At that point, he spoke to the state police and, sort of, told him what happened," Pryor said.Pryor said that Neil Entwistle told him that he owned the home in Hopkinton and the BMW he was leasing and that his finances were in bad shape.Earlier, the prosecution's DNA expert testified that she took DNA samples from the gun believed to be the murder weapon.Chemist Laura Bryant said that she compared a DNA sample she took from the gun's handle to Neil Entwistle's DNA."The major profile matched the DNA profile from the alternate DNA standard of Neil Entwistle,"She told the jury that the DNA taken from the muzzle of the gun matched Rachel Entwistle's DNA.Computer expert Lawrence James testified that he examined Google searches that Neil Entwistle was making online."A search was preformed with six key words, 'how to kill with a knife,'" James said.James said that Neil Entwistle made the searches on Jan. 16, 2006, four days before the slayings. Copyright 2008 by TheBostonChannel.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
