Entwistle Trial Winds Down

Photo from the Boston Herald (link at bottom of entry) of the Prosecutor showing the jury how Rachel would have had to hold the gun if she shot herself in the head. she would also have to have held the gun over her head, even if she were lying down. with a bullet in her left breast already, and a screaming, dying baby at her side.

link to story about closing arguments.

Monday, during closing arguments, Weinstein and Fabbri presented very different versions of what happened on Jan. 20, 2006, in the 6 Cubs Path, Hopkinton, home the Entwistles rented.

Yup. Weinstein desperately scrabbled to find some other explanation, and Fabbri told it like it was.

"Neil found Rachel and Lillian dead," he said. "Neil saw that (the gun) and knew instantly what happened, and in those moments, he knew what he had to do."

Instead of calling the police, Entwistle decided to return the gun his wife stole from her parents' Carver home, Weinstein said.

So, now she's a thief as well as a killer. Though, he did say, later on,

"Do not misunderstand us," said Weinstein. "No one is blaming Rachel."

Right. He mentioned that she might have been suffering from post-partum depression. Right.

Lillian Rose was nine months old. I think that, if Rachel had been suffereing from post-partum depression, somebody would have noticed.

When Fabbri spoke, he had a thing or two to say:

"They want you to think Neil is a loving, caring husband, but they don't want you to think about this being on his person when he was arrested," Fabbri said, holding up a British newspaper advertisement featuring several ads for escorts found in Entwistle's pocket when he was arrested in 2006.

The gunshot residue results are not important, the prosecutor said. Only four particles out of thousands were found on Rachel's hands.

The residue on her hands only proves she was in the same room, close to someone who fired a gun, he said.

Weinstein is hoping that the jurors have watched too much CSI.

When Scotland Yard officers arrested Entwistle, he had a notebook in his pocket. One page detailed the loss he felt for the deaths of his wife and daughter.

The next page had a detailed plan to sell the story to the highest bidder, saying it was not just a statement, but "enough material for a week," Fabbri said.

Never mind that it is highly unlikely that anyone would hold the gun at arms length, in both hands, backwards, and shoot herself in the top of her head. Especially with a dying baby and a bullet in her left breast.

The SOB is one of the sickest eraser killers.

The ME said, in his testimony, that there was blood and semen in her vaginal and perianal area.

Ew. Just...ew. I'm glad he's up for Life, because he will be in the general population.
Boston Herald Blog