Martin MacNeill Murder Trial - WHO'S YOUR DADDY?

[HairOfTheDog]

What a despicable human being he is.

There's absolutely no doubt about that.


WITNESSES FOR THE PROSECUTION CONTINUED TODAY

Today, three of his daughters and another alleged mistress testified against Martin MacNeill.


Alexis Somers ^ told the jury about how she had taken care of her mother following her mother's surgery; a surgery which she says her mother Michele was reluctant to undergo, but her father Martin MacNeill was pushing for.

Alexis explained that her father insisted she not stay with Michele in their bedroom at night and descrobed how she'd found Michele highly over-medicated one morning during her week long care for her mother.

Alexis testified that Martin MacNeill admitted that he had given her too many meds. Alexis explained that Michele feared being over-medicated by Martin and wanted to feel all the pills so she knew what she was being given (her face was bandaged).

Alexis also explained that Michele had told her about Gypsy Jillian Willis, a woman who Michele suspected her husband was seeing. Michele had paid to have his phone records traced and they led to Gypsy Jillian Willis.

Alexis flew back to school on April 10^th - by that time she says that her mother was doing well and the two had gone out to dinner before she left. The next day, she got the call from dad and flew back to her parents' house. Michele was dead.

Alexis asked Martin MacNeill where her mom's meds were, along with the med log that Alexis had been keeping. Martin MacNeill told her that the police must have taken them. (Damian MacNeill's girlfriend tetified earlier in the trial that she and Damian had flushed the meds after Michele's death - on instruction of Martin MacNeill.)

A week later, Martin MacNeill began to talk to Alexis about a woman he referred to as "Jillian" becoming a nanny for the kids. Alexis confronted him and he grew irate at the cheating accusation.


Vanessa MacNeil ^, 32- she testified that she had volunteered to take care of the younger children after her mom's death, but her father told her that everyone had to get on with their lives and he was going to hire a nanny.

Martin MacNeill had asked Vanessa to be on the 3-person committee to interview nanny candidates (along with Damian MacNeill and his girlfriend Eileen Heng). Vanessa confirmed what Eileen testified to earlier in the trial; the only candidate that they ever interviewed was Gypsy Willis. Martin MacNeill had told them that the other candidates had cancelled their interviews.

Vanessa also recalled telling her sister, Alexis Somers, that she didn't think her father would be involved with Gypsy Willis because Gypsy was nothing like her mother. (Well, she was wrong about him not being involved with the tramp Gypsy, but right about Gypsy being nothing like Michele MacNeill.)

Vanessa was emotional on the stand - not to the extent of Rachel MacNeill, but Vanessa's also clearly devastated by all that's transpired.



Sabrina MacNeill ^, 19 - she's from the Ukraine and was adopted by the MacNeills when she was 11.

Sabrina testified that Gypsy Willis once made spaghetti during her tenure as the kids' nanny, but did nothing else in the way of nanny duties. She explained that Gypsy would go to her dad's room at night where the two would have "vacations".

Sabrina also testified that her dad and Gypsy never left the house together so as to avoid "suspicion".


Anna Osborne Walthall ^, another woman who claims to have had an affair with MacNeill, was called to the stand and testified that Martin told her you could make someone's heart stop with meds, without detection...

Walthall was discredited on cross, IMO. She has been diagnosed with multiple personality disorder and apparently also told investigators about bizarre dreams she's had about the case. (Personally, I'd not have called this witness were I the prosecutor.)

Tomorrow:
The Medical Examiner, Dr. Todd Grey, is expected to be called by the prosecution.