The Investigation
“Based upon forensic information late Tuesday afternoon that linked the .22 handgun owned by Joseph Materazzo both to Neil Entwistle and to Rachel, we believed we had probable cause to seek an arrest warrant for Neil Entwistle’s arrest."
Middlesex County District Attorney Martha Coakley told a press conference after Entwistle’s arrest. Boston Globe, Feb 9 2007
With a loving wife and new baby daughter at his side, good-looking and successful and living the American dream, it looked to the outside world as if Neil Entwistle had it all. But he was living a lie.
At a press conference after Entwistle’s arrest, Middlesex County District Attorney, Martha Coakley tells the waiting press about the lead up to the police’s move on Entwistle,
"On Thursday night (19 January 2006), Rachel was alive and had spoken with family members.At some time on Friday morning, Neil Entwistle — with a firearm we believe he had secured at sometime before that from father-in-law Joseph Materazzo — shot Rachel Entwistle in the head and then proceeded to shoot baby Lillian, who was lying on the bed next to her mother. We believe possibly this was intended to be a murder-suicide, but we cannot confirm that. Obviously the murder was affected, but the suicide was not.”
On 9 February, the Extradition Unit of London's Metropolitan Police arrests Neil at the Royal Oak underground station in London. When police make the arrest, Entwistle has three things on him which prove helpful to the prosecution: a one-page eulogy to Rachel, a draft of his bid to sell his story to the newspapers and third is a page torn from the Daily Sport, advertising the services of prostitutes and escort agencies.
On 15 February, Entwistle is taken into the custody by US police and flown back to the United States after he waives his right to fight extradition.
On 28 March, US police indict Entwistle on two counts of murder.
