BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- A British man charged with killing his wife and infant daughter trolled the Internet just before the slayings, looking for escort services and other Web sites offering help finding sexual partners, according to search warrant documents released Monday.
Authorities said Neil Entwistle, 27, also did research online about ways to kill people and how to commit suicide in the four days before his wife, Rachel, and 9-month-old daughter, Lillian, were shot to death in their suburban home on January 20.
Entwistle was arrested in England last week and charged with first-degree murder in a case that has drawn widespread media attention in both the United States and United Kingdom.
He did not fight extradition, and British authorities signed an order Friday authorizing his return to Massachusetts. U.S. Marshals will bring him back to Massachusetts this week, but his travel arrangements were unknown.
Investigators said a search of Entwistle's computer revealed he did Internet searches seeking information about suicide, euthanasia and "killing people with a knife," on January 16 and 17.
The same week, he obtained the names and addresses of various escort services in the Boston and Worcester areas, including "Eye Candy Entertainment," "Sweet Temptations" and "Exotic Express."
He visited a Web site called "Adult Friend Finder," which helps subscribers find sexual partners through Internet chat rooms, personal ads and other services, investigators said.
'Dissatisfaction with his sex life'
Prosecutors said last week in an arrest warrant affidavit that they believe Entwistle killed his wife and daughter because he was despondent after accumulating tens of thousands of dollars in debt, and that he had expressed "a dissatisfaction with his sex life."
They also said Entwistle may have planned to commit suicide, but instead fled to his parents' home in England.
The documents released Monday include affidavits filed in support of search warrants for Entwistle's home, car and computers.
Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley opposed their release, saying it could compromise her investigation. But Framingham District Court Judge Robert Greco granted a request from media organizations to make public more than 200 pages from the file.
They depict Entwistle as a secretive man who was sinking deep into debt without telling his wife. He had not worked since the family moved here from England about five months before the killings.
Large expenditures
State Trooper Michael Banks said the couple had recently paid $8,100 for three months rent on their home. They charged more than $6,000 to buy furniture and mattresses in the week before the killings.
"It appears that Neil and Rachel Entwistle had accumulated a sizable amount of debt and may have been living well beyond their means," Banks said in his affidavit.
"This debt ... appears to have caused strain in their relationship, and by itself is indication to me of serious financial problems in the family which gave Neil Entwistle a motive to murder his wife and child."
Investigators also say Rachel told her mother, Priscilla Matterazzo, that her husband had made a lot of money while they were living in England, where Neil said he did military research for a firm called Kinetic.
Rachel told her mother their money "apparently had been tied up in offshore accounts which Neil would not talk about," according to the filings.
"Whenever Rachel asked Neil questions about this money, Neil refused to talk about it but said everything was under control and their financial future was set," the police said.
Told police his story by phone
Investigators also described a telephone conversation between state Trooper Robert Manning and Entwistle on January 23, three days after the killings, while Entwistle was at his parents' home in Worksop, England.
Entwistle allegedly told Manning that he woke up around 7 a.m. on January 20, fed his daughter, then left the house to run some errands.
When he returned around 11 a.m., he said, he checked the baby's room. When he did not see Lillian, he went to the master bedroom, where he found his wife partially covered with the comforter.
"Neil said that he pulled down the comforter, saw his wife was pale, saw blood on the baby and that the baby had been shot, and they were dead," Manning recounted in the affidavit.
"Neil said he pulled the covers back over his wife and daughter, went downstairs, grabbed (a) knife from the kitchen and considered killing himself, but then put it down because it would hurt too much, and then decided to drive to Carver and tell his in-laws what had happened."
Entwistle told Manning he also went to Carver to get one of his father-in-law's guns to kill himself, but found no one home when he got there.
Allegedly used handgun
Authorities allege Entwistle used a .22-caliber handgun owned by his father-in-law, Joseph Matterazzo, to kill his wife and daughter, then drove about 50 miles from his home in Hopkinton to Carver, where he returned the gun while no one was home.
Investigators said they found keys to his in-laws' Carver home locked inside Entwistle's BMW when it was discovered at Boston's Logan Airport.
Entwistle told Manning he left Carver and drove to the airport, walked around a bit, then left to start driving back to Hopkinton. He then turned around and went back to the airport, where he boarded a flight for England, according to the affidavit.
"Neil said he wanted to go home to be with his parents," Manning wrote.
Prosecutors said Monday that Entwistle has not told them he has an attorney in Massachusetts.
Coakley's office notified the Committee for Public Counsel Services that Entwistle was expected to declare himself indigent and request a state-appointed attorney, said Anthony Benedetti, general counsel for the committee, which pairs poor defendants with private attorneys.
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