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Post by chrissy on Jun 26, 2008 3:31:27 GMT -11
Im sitting here watching the sentancing of Neil Entwhistle and his butthole has NO remorse whats so ever. Murdered his wife and baby with gun shots to the chest. I love that hes getting 2 life sentances without parole and can NOT profit off selling his story. I think that should be automatic law. What I dont like is that they are debating on whether he is goign to be in general population in prison or PCd. I know he is going to Walpole which means if he is in general pop he will not live long. But I think that its a chance that should be taken! Anyone else have feelings on this one ? Here is the link for those who may not be aware of the case : www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/06/26/entwistle_convicted_of_murder/
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Post by xXSpookyXx on Jun 26, 2008 5:33:09 GMT -11
My feelings on this case?
I feel that the jury did reach the right verdict.
I was not buying much of the defenses claims at all. For instance.... While they did show that no gun powder residue was found on any of his clothing, while plenty of it was found on his wife's hands, all that convinces me of is that it wasn't found on any of his clothes that they tested. It took them time to get him extradited back from England, and the clothes he actually wore that night are likely at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean.
The defense also contended that his finger prints were not one the gun while hers were. This is true, but the location of her finger prints were all around the barrel area, which seems more like some one grabbing at the barrel trying to get it away from them. The bullet wound just above her hairline is a very odd place for a self inflicted wound to occur and is more inline with a quick attempt to deflect the gun from the face.
The story about him being sooo distraught and grief stricken that he was no acting rational, was out of his mind with grief that it did not occur to him to call the cops or 911 and instead out of the irrational grief, flew a one way ticket to England. I can buy that some one could be grief stricken, not being rational and so out of their mind with grief that they may behave in ways that make them look guilty. However, what I do not buy is that this was the case with this defendant. After the murders he drove back to her father's home to sneak the gun back into his house that he had stolen for the purpose of the crime. He also had thought enough to occur to him to pack up his bags and then go through the booking and purchasing process to get to England. These to me show calculated thinking, not out of the mind, irrational with grief kind of thinking.
The motive that I do not buy from the prosecutor's end was that he killed his wife and baby so that he could be a part of sex groups combined with being buried in debt. I am more inclined to think he had every intention of a suicide/murder (a tragic event we've seen played out many times before with entire households) but could not go through with it when it came to taking his own life.
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Post by chrissy on Jun 28, 2008 8:55:58 GMT -11
I think that the reasoning is a simple one. He did not want to live in America, his family and everything he knew was in England and thats where he wanted to be. But she was not going to do that. He got more and more into debt wanting more and more to go home, he started to resent her for it to the point he thought if her and the baby were out of the picture he could "go home" and start over. I have seen that many times in my own life as well. I believe that was the case. A simple case of "till death do us part" literally.
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