True Crime Stories

I finished researching this case asking myself a few questions. I did not ask myself if I thought Neil Entwistle was guilty of killing his wife and infant daughter; I did not ask myself if the evidence against him presented in trial was sufficient to convict him.  I asked myself if Neil Entwistle was my son what it would take for me believe in his guilt.  It has been over ten years since Neil Entwistle was tried, convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and his parents are still proclaiming his innocence.  This is even as his story has even changed over the years as to where he was when his wife and child died. On the night of January 19, 2006 it is known that Rachel Entwistle was alive because friends and family spoke to her.  By the 21st it appears that people were worried about her but I have to be honest in saying that I am unsure completely why.  I do not know if she missed an appointment with someone or she had mentione...

This case proved one of the reasons that I do not do a lot of cases about serial killers, there is just always so much information and years to span through.  It is not that I mind having a lot of information per se, but the more information there is, the more opportunity to have contradictions, which makes finding the truth harder.  This case was made even harder than that by the face that it took place in England, where the laws are much different than those here in the United States. I oftentimes avoid doing those cases for that reason.  However, keeping in the promise to myself to work down my list of cases, a list that is nearly 700 names long now although I do cross off the ones that I research, it was the next case to look into. In 1987 sixteen year old Heather West seemingly disappeared.  For the next seven years rumors would fly as to what happened to her, both inside the West home and in the community.  Finally it seems the rumors made it to the poli...