Gardenista
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I found a Real Crime show on youtube last night on Neil and Rachel (and Lilly Rose, their 9 month old daughter) Entwistle. I found it very "on point" for this case. **Note if you read my post last night about Chris Coleman, I mistakenly referred to James List when I meant to say Christian Longo (had my FAs mixed up for a moment - what is it with FAs named Chris by the way??).
So many parallels with CW IMO with the Entwistle case. For those unfamiliar (I was): About 30 year old British guy with an American wife. He was quiet, shy, well liked, educated, and good looking. She was a teacher who loved kids and was considered very outgoing and full of life. In this case, as a computer savvy guy of the times (early 2000s), he is the one who creates and posts pictures online on a family web site of their life and travels and has a tag line of "happy family" for the pics with their new daughter on the site. Meet in England and move to Massachusetts. Her father bonds with him and teaches him how to shoot guns at his club (big mistake). He point blank shoots her and the 9 month old daughter while she is holding the baby in bed. He then drives to the airport (Boston) and flies home to England to stay with his parents, never reporting a thing. When authorities find his wife and child on a wellness check days later, they get ahold of him by phone and he says he just found them like that and in a state of shock, left. His story changes multiple times over the years. First he says he drove toward her parents house to get a gun to shoot himself after he "found" them like that because he was at a store when it happened, but no one was home so he left for the UK. He was asked on the phone call with police how he knew they were dead and he said he saw a gun shot burn hole on the baby's jumper but didn't see anything on the wife. So he just assumed she had been shot, too. Later, he is arrested (before it looks like he was about to go on the run after staying with his parents) and extradited. At trial...shocker...comes a new story by the defense after it has been figured out her father's gun was used in the crime (so how did a stranger do it?). Now he says he had found the gun on the bed and blames his wife - his wife had shot herself and the baby. To protect her reputation for being a murderer and committing suicide, he says took the gun and left. At trial they prove she couldn't have shot her baby (the bullet went through the baby and into her plus another in her head) even though there is gun residue on the front and back of her hands (a point people, including his parents and brother, cling to to this day as evidence of his innocence). No gun residue is found in his car that he drove at some point afterward to the airport. He does not testify. Unsurprisingly, like all FA fathers, he has a SECRET LIFE. He lied about proceeds from his old job and was living on credit cards in America while living the high life. He was trying to produce hard coresites and frequently trolled for escorts online. Was even online after the murders trolling for escorts on his computer (at the house). Her family and friends felt re-victimized by him blaming it all on his wife and throwing mud at her at trial. Also, no surprise, a fangirl who wrote to him after trial years later was convinced of his innocence until he wrote her of seeing the look in his wife's eyes when she pulled the trigger and his daughter call out in pain, hence putting himself now in the room at the time of the killings even though he had always maintained he wasn't home. Now, she is convinced he is guilty after all. Anyway, amazing parallels IMO, no?
Interesting! There are so many similarities to other murderers, it's like CW studied FA cases before he did it himself. I'd like to watch - can you please post the link?
