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His motive, they allege, was to start a new life with his other mistress Gypsy Willis, Osborne Walthall had once told investigators that MacNeill confessed to having murdered his own brother when they were young as well as having mercy killed disabled patients at the last facility where he worked — but those claims were ruled not admissible at trial.

Testimony in the trial is expected to last until mid-November. MacNeill faces life in prison if convicted of murder. Michele's husband, Dr. Martin MacNeill, had withheld decades of secrets from his family - from mistresses and falsified transcripts to a hidden felony conviction — a history that bolstered the family's suspicions that he had killed his wife.

MacNeill was convicted of murder in She also loved music and she played the violin… we were all very proud of her. Michele met Martin MacNeill at an event for young Mormon singles. They married when she was 21 and quickly started a family.

She gave birth to four kids in five years. Those who knew him said Martin MacNeill made sure to let people know he was both a doctor and a lawyer. I never liked him. He seemed arrogant to me. He seemed all about himself. Michele MacNeill began to suspect her husband was having an affair and confronted him about it. He turned the tables on her, suggesting that she should also make some changes to her appearance. He found a plastic surgeon, insisted that the operation occur immediately, and then just prior to the surgery, Martin gave the doctor a list of post-op medications he insisted he prescribe for Michele.

They included Valium, Ambien, Phenergan, Percocet, and Lortab -- all central nervous system depressants, never meant to be taken at the same time. Somers, who was in medical school, told her father she would be giving her mother the medication going forward. At that point, Michele was still wearing eye patches. Over the next few days, her mother then appeared to be recovering well. But before Somers returned to medical school, her mother confided in her a chilling request.

A week after Michele returned home from surgery, her husband went to work as normal, picked up their daughter Ada from school, and the two arrived back at the house. Somers says that morning she had talked to her mother, who seemed to be doing fine.

But later, she received an odd phone message from her father that she needed to call her mother immediately. When Somers tried contacting her mother, it was Martin who picked up the phone. She's not breathing. I just started driving to the airport and I was just screaming.

Just screaming. He killed her. That was my first instinct. Somers wanted to count how much of the medication was left to see how much her mom had taken, but found out her father had already asked someone to flush the remaining pills down the toilet. Everything was adding up. However, police never questioned the family, and believed Martin MacNeill's story that it was an accident. Romney told Insider debates are "a service to the country and to the people to hear the prospective candidates of the two major parties duke it out.

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