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May 6, 2006 By Jason Szep, Reuters Husband may hold clues in wife's death; His baby daughter also was slain - Boston businessman in his native England BOSTON He is described as a "person of interest" in the slayings of his wife and infant daughter in Massachusetts. But police said Friday that Neil Entwistle, a British citizen, is just one of several people who may hold important clues to the killings of Rachel Entwistle, 27, and Lillian Rose, 9 months, in a mystery followed closely in the United States and England. The two were found dead Jan. 22 in the master bedroom of their home in a quiet neighborhood of Hopkinton, about 30 miles west of Boston. Both had been shot with a small-caliber gun that has not been found. No arrests have been made. Authorities have not disclosed the time of death, but friends and relatives who had been invited to a dinner party at the Entwistles on Jan. 21 found the house dark and locked when they arrived. Police said Neil Entwistle flew to his native England close to the time of the killings, leaving his BMW behind at Logan International Airport. Massachusetts police say they would like to question Entwistle. On the advice of his attorney, he rebuffed Massachusetts detectives who flew to London to interview him, The Boston Globe reported, quoting an unidentified source. "Neil Entwistle is still considered a person of interest in this investigation, however, reports that we have indicated that he is the only person of interest are not accurate," Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley said Friday. She said there are a number of people friends, family, former colleagues and U.S. or British acquaintances who may have information that could advance an investigation that has captured public attention on both sides of the Atlantic. Coakley's spokeswoman, Emily LaGrassa, said the Middlesex District Attorney's Office has never called Entwistle a suspect. The case is drawing intense attention in prime-time television news and talk radio, as broadcasters and callers ruminate over what went wrong in the white colonial home of a seemingly happy couple in a quiet, affluent neighborhood. "It's so sad," said Abby Holmes, 29, of Plymouth, where a funeral for Rachel and Lillian Rose was held Wednesday before they were buried together in a single casket. Entwistle, 27, a computer engineer and Internet entrepreneur, has stayed at his family home in Worksop, England, and did not attend the funeral. The couple both avid rowers met five years ago when Rachel spent her junior year of college at the University of York. She graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, and the pair were married in 2003. They had lived in Hopkinton for just 10 days before the slayings. People found the killings particularly shocking because the Entwistles appeared to be a happy couple, and photographs posted on their Web site portrayed a family overjoyed with their baby. But Entwistle's eBay business, in which he sold get-rich-quick schemes and how-to manuals for pornography sites, ran into trouble and was shut down by eBay after customer complaints days before the slayings. Douglas McNabb, a Washington attorney who specializes in international criminal defense, said that state or U.S. officials cannot seek to extradite Entwistle unless he is charged with a crime. McNabb said the extradition process from Great Britain can be cumbersome. "This could take years," he said. | |