His Whole Family Hates Him // The Martin MacNeill Murder Story
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How did Dr. Martin MacNeill’s life and status set the stage for the crime?
What do you think caused this guy to turn and suddenly start hating his own wife of 29 years and all eight of his kids? Now, the guy's name is Martin, and Martin is around 50 when this story starts, and he's living in Utah. And Martin, he's got a lot going for him. He has a law degree. He's also a doctor, a general practitioner. He's also a Mormon bishop. But the guy has a problem. He doesn't love his wife anymore. I mean, they've been married 29 years, but he's just not feeling it. So he starts meeting women online in Internet chat rooms, and he'll meet up with them and he'll smash. And these affairs, they go on for a long while. But then one day in 2007, all that starts to fall apart. Because his wife finds out he's cheating.
Now his wife is this woman, Michelle. And so Michelle finds out that he's cheating and she goes and she confronts him. But instead of apologizing, Martin turns the blame back on her. And he tells her that maybe he's cheating because she just isn't attractive anymore. And if that isn't bad enough, he then suggests that she should get a facelift, because he says that she'd look much younger and prettier. And Martin doesn't just say this to her once. He keeps bringing it up over and over again, suggesting that this would save their marriage. And poor Michelle would do anything to save their marriage. So she eventually gives in, and Martin schedules the surgery for her. Here's the thing about all this, though.
For Martin, this was never really about the surgery. He doesn't want her to look younger. He wants her out of his life completely. So he comes up with a plan to murder her after the surgery during the recovery process when she'll be at her most vulnerable because he believes that once she's gone, he can then be with this side chick that he's been seeing. So he gets to work on this plan, and he visits the plastic surgeon who's going to perform the facelift, and he gives this surgeon a list of specific medications that he wants Michelle to be prescribed afterwards. Now, under normal circumstances, no doctor would let a patient's husband choose her medications, but Martin is a physician himself, and so the plastic surgeon just assumes that he knows what he's doing, and that Martin will properly monitor how Michelle takes the drugs.
So eventually, Michelle has the operation done, and afterwards, she returns home. And her face is all bandaged up, and she's wearing eye patches, so she can't see shit. In fact, she can barely even function on her own. And all of this is part of Martin's plan. I mean, she can't see anything, so she doesn't notice when he starts taking the medicine that she was prescribed and combining it, which now makes it more dangerous. So he gives her the combined meds, and she takes them, and before long, the drugs start kicking in, and Michelle is heavily sedated, and she keeps blacking out. And this goes on for several days. Then, about a week after the surgery, Martin decides that it's time to do what he's been planning, and he gives Michelle another round of drugs, and while she's barely conscious, he helps her into the bathroom.
Then he lowers her into the bathtub, and he drowns her. After that, he leaves the house for work. Later that day, he goes to pick up one of his daughters from school, and they return home together. And then his daughter goes into the bathroom, and she finds her mom there, and, you know, Martin, he pretends to act all surprised, and he calls 911. And later, the medical examiners conclude that Michelle likely suffered a heart problem before drowning in the bathtub. And so her death is ruled natural. So Martin's plan, it actually worked and no one suspects that he had any involvement. But here's where things start to go off the rails. So Martin and Michelle, they have eight kids together. Some of them are younger and some of them are adults.
But immediately after his wife passes, he decides to hire a nanny to move in and help him take care of some of the younger ones. And guess who he hires? He hires his side chick, this woman, Gypsy.
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