wasn t there, couldn t have killed her. this is 6-year-old ada macneill s kindergartner teacher. and mr. macneill picked her up that day? yes. and he was there between 11:30 and 11:35 to pick up ada? yes. and all of those competing facts took closing arguments to put them together. the prosecutors was aggressive. make no doubt, he intentionally and knowingly caused the death of his wife. the motive is there, the means is there, opportunities there. and the defense had to concede that martin was a cat and a cheat. but insisted that the prosecution hadn t even prove there was a murder, let alone that martyr meridian committed it. i submit to you that none of the circumstances that the prosecution has submitted to you is consistent with homicide. they don t rise to
there were practical matters to deal with, such as who should care for the four younger macneill children? alexis returned to medical school so rachel volunteered. their father martin insisted they find a nanny instead right away. he asked me he demanded that we go to the temple to pray about having a nanny which was very strange because my father was not a very spiritual person at all. and there outside the temple they were approached by a mysterious brunette. she said, oh, i was at the funeral and i am so sorry for your loss and my father said, oh, i m sorry, i only - what s your name? and she said, my name s jillian. and my father said, oh, okay. about a week after that encounter, martin hired that friendly, sympathetic woman and told his daughters oh, i found the perfect nanny. i found someone that s going to be great. and i said,
deferred to them and went back to studying my nursing. i did actually help with the children. though gypsy never did marry martin, they did have marriage date of april 14th, 2007, the date that michele was buried. and remember, gypsy had to testify as part of her plea deal. probably didn t want to. she clearly minimized their relationship but i think in so doing the jury saw that. but just to be sure, the prosecutor had gypsy read love letters martin wrote to her from federal prison. i love you and miss you every minute. i can think of nothing but how wonderful you are. so gypsy, said the prosecutor, was martin s motive for murder. that is, if it was a murder and if it was, was she involved? in light of all this information, are you telling us you don t know anything more about michele s death? that is correct. do you believe she had something to do with it? well, as far as the actual death, we have no evidence to show that she did. as far as
defense attorneys believed, perhaps more than martin himself, that he would be acquitted. i think martin took it better than we did. he was like, i m okay, i was thinking, i m not okay. and then according to defender randi spencer, martin said something quite remarkable. this may seem strange, but he even respects what his daughters did. not because he killed his wife but because if they really believed that he killed his wife, he would expect them to advocate for her. and so he understands. he told you? that. he did. we are just so happy can t hurt anyone else. we miss our mom. we ll never get her back. but that courtroom was full of so many people who love my mom. do you feel you finally got justice? there was justice for my mom today. martin mcneill was sentenced