Cops: Entwistle Researched Killing

Documents Say Murder Suspect Went Online For Info On Suicide, Escorts

(CBS/AP) 
In one document, State Trooper Michael Banks said the couple had recently paid $8,100 for three months rent on their Hopkinton home. They charged more than $6,000 to buy furniture and mattresses in the week before the killings.

"It appears that Neil and Rachel Entwistle had accumulated a sizable amount of debt and may have been living well beyond their means," Banks said in his affidavit.

Investigators also say Rachel told her mother, Priscilla Matterazzo, that her husband had made a lot of money while they were living in England, where Neil said he did military research for a firm called Kinetic.

Rachel told her mother their money "apparently had been tied up in offshore accounts which Neil would not talk about," according to the filings.

Investigators also described a telephone conversation between State Trooper Robert Manning and Entwistle on Jan. 23, three days after the killings, while Entwistle was at his parents' home in Worksop, England.

Entwistle allegedly told Manning that he woke up around 7 a.m. on Jan. 20, fed his daughter, then left the house to do some errands.

When he returned around 11 a.m., he said, he checked the baby's room. When he did not see Lillian, he went to the master bedroom, where he found his wife partially covered with the comforter.

"Neil said that he pulled down the comforter, saw his wife was pale, saw blood on the baby and that the baby had been shot, and they were dead," Manning recounted in the affidavit.

"Neil said he pulled the covers back over his wife and daughter, went downstairs, grabbed (a) knife from the kitchen and considered killing himself, but then put it down because it would hurt too much, and then decided to drive to Carver and tell his in-laws what had happened."

Entwistle told Manning he went to his in-laws' house in Carver, a town about 50 miles from his home, to get one of his father-in-law's guns to kill himself, but found no one home when he got there.

Authorities allege Entwistle used a .22-caliber handgun owned by his father-in-law, Joseph Matterazzo, to kill his wife and daughter, then drove to Carver, where he returned the gun while no one was home. Investigators said they found keys to his in-laws' home locked inside Entwistle's BMW when it was discovered at Boston's Logan Airport.

Entwistle told Manning he left Carver and drove to the airport, walked around a bit, then left to start driving back to his house. He then turned around and went back to the airport, where he boarded a flight for England, according to the affidavit.

Prosecutors said Monday that Entwistle has not told them he has an attorney in the United States.