Wife 'killer': That's how I left them, I mean FOUND them

Joseph Matterazzo said Neil Entwistle called him after he fled to England.

The former IT worker, 29, denies murdering his wife Rachel, 27, and their nine-month-old daughter Lillian Rose at their home in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, in January 2006.

Mr Matterazzo told the jury in Woburn, Massachusetts: "He asked if Rachel and Lilly could be buried together because, 'That's the way I left them, I mean that's the way I found them.' That's exactly what he said."

Rachel Entwistle and her baby daughter Lillian, aged nine months at the time of this photo

Neil Entiwstle arrives for a hearing in 2006. He is accused of killing his wife and infant daughter

Mr Matterazzo owned the gun prosecutors said Entwistle used to kill his family.

Mr Matterazzo said he liked Entwistle "a lot" and "he was part of the family".

Entwistle told police he returned him from doing errands on January 20, 2006, and found his wife and daughter lying together in bed, dead from gunshot wounds.

He said he pulled a heavy blanket over them and returned to England distraught without calling police.

Prosecutors say searches of Entwistle's computer records for the months before the killings showed he had looked online for escort services, and had researched methods of murder and suicide.

Matterazzo said Entwistle called him from England the day after police found the bodies and in a 'whimpering' voice told him that he had discovered his wife and daughter fatally shot in their bed three days earlier.

Cliff Entwistle, left, and his wife Yvonne, centre, arrive with their son Russell, at the court where their son Neil's murder trial continues this afternoon

'He said, "Hi, Joe. I don't know how things got like this",' Matterazzo recalled Entwistle saying.

'I asked him, "Neil, did you do this or do you know who did this?"' Matterazzo said.
'He said, "No, I do not".'

Matterazzo said Entwistle also told him that there were many reporters at his parents' house in England and 'that he was concerned that everybody was pointing the finger at him'.

Entwistle also said that news reports about him searching Internet sex sites were 'ridiculous', Matterazzo added.

He also testified about taking Entwistle target shooting with him twice during the autumn of 2005.

During the first outing, he said he showed Entwistle how to load and fire several guns, including the .22-caliber revolver authorities say Entwistle used to kill his wife and daughter.

During one of the phone calls Entwistle made from England, he talked about the guns, Matterazzo said.

'He mentioned a couple of times about the fact that he knew I had guns in the house,' Matterazzo said.

'I asked him, "Why do you care that I had guns in the house?"'

The prosecutor asked Matterazzo what Entwistle's response was.

'Nothing,' he said.