BOSTON, June 10 (UPI) -- The stepfather of a Boston-area woman killed along with her infant in 2006 testified that the woman's husband called from an airport to give burial orders.
Neil Entwistle, 29, is accused of fleeing to England after shooting to death his wife, Rachel, 27, and their 9-month-old daughter, Lillian. Authorities allege that Entwistle stole a .22-caliber pistol from his stepfather Joseph Matterazzo, 61, and returned it to his stepfather's locked cache afterward the shootings.
"He asked me if Rachel and Lilly could be buried together because 'that's the way I left them, I mean, found them,'" Matterazzo said Monday in the second day of Entwhistle's trial in Middlesex Superior Court. "That's exactly what he said."
Defense attorney Elliot Weinstein is attempting a strategy of creating doubt about Entwistle's guilt by questioning the activities of Matterazzo, The Boston Globe reported Tuesday.
