Entwistle bought $88 worth of candles night before murders
Norman Miller/ Metrowest Daily News
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Neil Entwistle went shopping for $88 worth of scented candles the night before he allegedly murdered his wife and child, according to a candle clerk “disgusted” by her “freaky” link to the double-murder case.
Investigators recently shocked the clerk at the Marlboro Yankee Candle shop when they came in seeking surveillance footage of Entwistle after they tracked the credit card purchase to the store.
“I don’t remember it, but I know I waited on him,” clerk Kristin Richard said yesterday. “We were freaking out when we found out. It was kind of freaky, and we were disgusted, too.”
Yankee Candle did not have tapes available of Entwistle’s visit to the Solomon Pond Mall because the videos are cleared every 30 days, said Richard, an assistant manager at the store.
“I wish we still had the videotapes so I could see him,” Richard said.
Richard said Entwistle bought four large candles at $22 each. She did not know what scents the candles were.
The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office would not comment on the candles. According to search warrant affidavits, no candles were removed from the house. But investigators have all along said Neil Entwistle relied heavily on credit cards and was suffering from deep debt.
Entwistle is being held without bail at the Middlesex Jail in Cambridge.
He is charged with two counts of murder, accused of shooting his wife Rachel, 27, and daughter Lillian, 9 months, on Jan. 20.
He was scheduled to appear in Framingham District Court yesterday, but the hearing was postponed until April 18 to allow time for a Middlesex grand jury to indict him.
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