Murdered in Their Bed

Thursday February 02, 2006 12:00 PM EST

Neil Entwistle, with Rachel and newborn Lillian

Entwistle Family Web site/AP

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The visitors knew immediately something was amiss. Arriving for an informal dinner party the night of Jan. 21 at the spacious, two-story home on a Hopkinton, Mass., cul-de-sac, they saw no sign of their hosts, Neil and Rachel Entwistle, or their baby daughter Lillian. Even their car, a white BMW SUV, was gone. Rachel's mother, Priscilla Matterazzo, of Carver, Mass., already concerned that she hadn't been able to reach her daughter all day, alerted police, who searched the house and found nothing suspicious.

"The bed was in disarray, with several layers of thick bedding and pillows," Middlesex County District Attorney Martha Coakley said later. "However, it only appeared to police that the bed had not been made that day."

They took a closer look the next night, after relatives spent a frantic and fruitless day searching the area. Returning, police immediately detected a foul odor, says Coakley, "indicating that there may be deceased individuals in the home." Under the pile of blankets on the Entwistles' bed, they discovered a heartrending sight: Rachel, 27, and Lillian, 9 months, curled up together – and dead.

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