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Maybe he is upset because you might find out he doesn't have as much money as he led you to believe, or what you might have assumed.

Pretending in order to catch the girl.

Neil Entwistle, charged with the double homicide of his wife and daughter in Massachusetts, appears to be anything but a man of his word. One day after the murders, he'd skipped the country, landing in England, where he was arrested. By February 15, he was returned to the States.

Allegedly, he had a plan in place to commit murder and then suicide, but Entwistle, 27, backed out of the second part after reportedly shooting his family with his father-in-law's .22 caliber handgun and returning it to the man's home. Rachel, 27, and Lillian, nine months old, were found on January 22 in their Boston-area home, on the second visit by police.

Entwistle apparently had serious financial difficulties, a motive common to men who have wiped out their families. He was thousands of dollars in debt and his various fly-by-night Internet ventures had largely failed, but according to Fox News reports, he had hidden his looming collapse from his wife, opting instead for the impression of a happy family doing well together. They had charged up the credit cards furnishing their new home, and Entwistle probably saw no way to pay them off when the bills came due. Rachel apparently believed that her husband had made a lot of money that he kept in offshore accounts.
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Entwistle and his wife had recently rented their home in Boston, and since she was no longer teaching, the entire financial burden fell on his shoulders. They had a new baby as well, which upped the ante. Three mouths to feed, high rent, deep debt, no income, and high expectations: in certain men, it's a formula for disaster. Certainly, others have made similarly tragic choices when faced with no way out from the pressures of financial ruin.

Frenchman Jean-Claude Romand began with a small lie. He failed his final medical exams but said he'd passed. He got away with it, and through a succession of frauds, devised the persona of a humanitarian doctor for the World Health Organization. He offered "investment opportunities" to his family and friends, and with their money, he supported a nice lifestyle for his wife and two daughters. Finally, when pressured by questions he couldn't answer, on January 9, 1993, Romand murdered his wife, children, parents, and dog—to "spare" them the grief of realizing his deceptions. Psychiatrists noted his need to make a favorable impression and decided that he'd lied to stave off despair.


Jean-Claude Romand
In 1971, John List from Westfield, NJ murdered his mother, wife, and three children after a long period of deception about his failing finances. Although unemployed, each day he "went to work" and then sat for hours at the train station. All the while, he felt enormous pressure that inspired a fantasy and then a plan. He killed his family and fled to start a new life.


John List
So did Christian Longo in Oregon in 2001. After a series of failures, with the prospects of a dim future tied to an hourly-wage job, Longo had killed his wife and three small children, then left the country. He posed as a reporter from the New York Times and quickly found another girlfriend before he was finally captured.


Christian Longo
In Utah, Mark Hacking apparently lied wholesale to family and friends about his credentials and his plans. When his wife, Lori, who was five months pregnant, finally confronted him in an outright fabrication about being accepted to medical school, he shot her, dumped her body in a trash bin, and told everyone she had disappeared while jogging.