Martin Mcneill Case

Beauty queen, Michele MacNeill wife of Doctor Martin McNeill was found dead. Martin made a 911 call and stated that Michele had fallen while preparing a bath for herself and was unconscious. Michele’s death was initially said to be caused by a heart condition combined with hypertension with no further evidence. However, Michele’s three daughters suspected their father had been the one who had murdered her mother. They stated her father had planned the whole incident by telling Michele to get a face lift, then in her recovery he began to over medicate her, causing her death.

The three then began to try to convince the jury for three years to reopen the case under this suspicion to convict their father for his crime of murder on their mother. Alexis …show more content…
The most surprising factor of this was Martin saying that he was unable to get his wife out of the bathtub alone when he was certainly capable of doing so. Witnesses’ were called to the stand, the most important one was Doug the neighbor who Martin had called because he “couldn’t get her out alone”. Doug stated, “I could have gotten her out myself”. The next witness was Martin son’s girlfriend, who he had called to flush the pills Michele had been taking down the toilet. The next witness called was the surgeon who Martin had convinced to prescribe her the pills due to him being concerned about his wife. The most important factor to this case was uncovering that during this time, Martin had a mistress. Her name was Gypsy Willis a woman that Martin had met through the internet a year before his wife had died. Martin had moved Gypsy into his home and said she was to be the new nanny. Martin and Gypsy had then been sentenced to jail after stealing the identity of Martins adopted daughter in order to pay off Gypsy’s