Neil Entwistle broke down and cried today as jurors were shown a crime scene video of the bodies of his wife and baby daughter huddled together in bed in their Hopkinton home. The 20-minute video was visible only to jurors, who watched it on a monitor facing the jury box, and to Entwistle, his defense lawyers, and prosecutors, who watched it from another monitor on the opposite side of the courtroom. It was shown this morning during the testimony of Mary Ritchie, a state police sergeant who processed the crime scene. Before the video was shown, Judge Diane Kottmyer warned jurors about its graphic nature and reminded them to use reason, not emotion, to evaluate the evidence. Entwistle wiped his eyes and looked down several times as he watched the video. His mother, Yvonne, cried as well and was comforted by her husband Clifford and younger son Russell.
This is by far the most emotion Neil has shown in court. Previously he has always been calm, occasionally smiling at and whispering to his family in the front row of the gallery.
Other witnesses today included Trooper Emily Phaneuf, who helped Ritchie process the crime scene, Lisa Scoutelas, a recruiter at a company called Intrinsix, where Neil repeatedly applied for work, and John Soares, who works in the state police crime lab and also processed the crime scene. Elliot Weinstein is continuing with his strategy of proving that Neil may not be the only one who accessed computers that were allegedly used to visit sex sites and search for information on killing and suicide. He asked Phaneuf and Ritchie whether they had ever tested a laptop for fingerprints in the case, and both replied that they hadn't.
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