place called pleasant grove in utah and loved their family life so much they adopted four more little kids, three of them from ukraine. alexis from the first set of four, followed her father everywhere, was his little shadow. you kind of idolized him, huh? i did. i wanted to follow in his foot steps. i became a doctor because of him. so for people from the outside looking in, what would they see? a very happy family. a wonderful mother who doted on her children and a father who was a physician and an attorney and present a lot in their children s lives. rachel, the eldest, shared her father s love of books. i remember when i was little just holding on to my father s hand and just to walk with him and i was daddy s little girl. and their mother, michele she was an amazing and
dad, what s her name? and he said, oh, it s jillian i think it s jillian. the name, jillian, didn t mean anything to rachel. but alexis - i said, dad, i know that woman. i know mom was concerned you were having an affair with her. an affair? well, yes. or at least before michele died, that is certainly what she suspected. so worried about it she asked alexis to help her find out for sure. my mom confided in me about everything, all of her feelings, her concerns. and so i took his cell phone and was able to download his password and we did see a number that my dad had been calling quite a few times. you hacked into his phone? uh-huh. yeah. we called the number. and a woman answered and then hung up right away. so i paid for an online search and
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prosecutor say to you? you see this medical examiner s report? natural causes? that s right. there was a new medical examiner. they showed him their report, their files, the arrest for fraud. i said, have you read all of the reports? he said, i ve scanned it. i said, you cannot scan this report. i said, just read this much while we re here. and he did and he goes, okay, i think i m going to look at this deeper. after his review, the m. e. did agree to make one small change in the manner of death from natural to undetermined. but that hardly broke the case wide open. he refused to call it a homicide? sure. absolutely. macneill was just released from federal prison. and so by the summer of 2012, martin mcneill was once again a free man. he had served his time for fraud. we first spoke to alexis after her dad was released from prison. he s a free man. how does that make you feel?
had died of myocarditis and hypertension and it listed it as a natural cause of death. in other words, it was classic heart disease, a cause of death all too common among women michele s age, especially someone with high blood pressure. the daughter s suspicions, it turns out, were not based on palpable facts. the drug levels were at therapeutic levels, said the toxicology report. as far as the state of utah weighs concern, the matter was closed. the medical examiner in the state of utah is the ultimate say when it comes to the cause and the manner of death. the tension in the macneill family worsened. martin and alexis disagreed over how to care for the younger children now that michele was gone. he started saying, i m going to get a nanny. you need a nanny. i can t take care of these kids by myself. coming up, martin macneill hires help. i found a perfect nanny and i said, dad, what s her name?