from the outside looking in, you're having an affair with this man, the wife dies, you show up to her funeral. it looks like you've come in to claim your prize. >> when my father turned 50, he started acting strangely. >> he decided she should get a facelift. >> out of the blue. >> he decided to take care of his wife, personally. what could go wrong? >> she started to cry, saying, if anything happens to me -- >> i was screaming. just screaming, you killed her. that was my first instinct. >> we came to find out, my dad

had been dating gypsy before my mom's death. >> he crashed her funeral. >> he chose the nanny. >> so, were you the nanny or the girlfriend? don't you think it's a little funny he goes from saying i love michelle to oops, she died, move in. let's continue sleeping together while you take care of my kids? >> i think in a bad way, they were perfect for each other. >> his wife was dead. and the young children needed to be gone. >> there's mama. >> my curling iron didn't work today. >> she's just beautiful on the inside and out. just very graceful and, and classy and loving. >> she was a dream of a big

sister, was popular, she was athletic, she was great in school. she also loved music and she played the violin. i mean, we were all very proud of her. >> michele somers, she's gorgeous. she was voted miss concord. homecoming queen, cheerleader. she was a straight-"a" student. >> she enjoyed acting and drama and she did a lot of modeling. >> michele somers is very, very involved in her church, the mormon church. and she is at an event for young singles. and it is there she meets martin macneill. >> he caught her eye. swept off her feet would be the word for it. >> michele was just 21 years old when she met martin macneill. and within months of meeting martin, the two of them eloped and were married and began a

family very quickly. >> and all she cared about is her family. and helping, helping people. >> incredibly empathetic to anyone's problems or situation and -- >> she would take anyone in. and just genuinely love them. >> her dream was to someday be a wife and a mother. and her dreams, seemingly, come true. >> she had four kids in five years. >> mm-hmm. >> boom, boom, boom. >> that was not enough for michele and martin macneill. they decided to give children that did not have homes a home. >> there's michelle and sharon inside the car. >> hi. >> so they proceeded to adopt children from the ukraine. >> that's it off in the distance. here's one of our drivers.

>> so i were the first to be adopted? >> yes. >> what did you think? >> i liked them right away. my mom seemed to be really sweet. >> the family grew to not just four children, but eight. >> growing up i -- i had a wonderful childhood. i mean, my mom was always there and just the best person you could ever, you could ever ask to have as a mother. >> she doted on all of us. and really -- >> really was there emotionally there for every little thing. my father, i was very close with my father as well. i mean, we all were. and i had just a really good relationship with both of them. >> so from the outside looking in, it sounds like the perfect family. >> yeah. >> she was very quiet, was always very pretty and very well-kept. >> all the girls were just dressed perfect, like a tea party. >> if martin was ever around, it was him that, that always

dominated every conversation. >> martin macneill was appointed by the governor of utah to head up a large medical facility. it was a very big job for someone who, by all accounts,had a very big ego. >> he just made sure to say that he was a doctor and a lawyer. >> he walked in the room and sort of took it over, like, "look at me.” like he was above everybody. >> the somers family had a long history with martin. they did not like him with michele and thought that he was controlling and manipulative. >> i never liked him. he seemed arrogant to me. he seemed all about himself. >> he wasn't anybody that you'd ever want to be around. >> everybody hated him. i was constantly trying to explain my father. >> when he'd come home, he was a completely different person. so we thought we knew the real, the real person. >> my sister seemed to grow more distant, like, he would pull her away from the family.

she just seemed to be more withdrawn. >> did any of you ever feel like you could say, "michelle, there's something about this guy that we don't like"? > we did try to warn her, but there was no talking to her. it was like he had his grips around her. he had total control. >> i first met alexis and rachel back in 2010 when i was doing a story on their father, martin macneill, for "20/20.” >> when my father turned 50, he started acting very strangely. i just thought he was going through a midlife crisis at first. he became obsessed with losing weight and his appearance. he's going to tanning salons. >> he lost weight. >> he'd start exercising just all the time, just in the middle of a conversation, jumping and doing push-ups, things like that. >> it was really bizarre. really strange. >>very out of the ordinary. >> how did your mom react to all of this behavior all of a sudden? this focus on physicality. >> she was suspicious. she thought her husband was having an affair.

>> michele confronted martin macneill with allegations of an affair. ever the manipulator, he turned the tables on her and told her that she should make some changes, too, martin macneill convinced her she needed a full-on facelift. >> my mom had never talked about that before or anything. she'd never been into plastic surgery. >> are we talking just a little eye tuck? >> no. it was, it was a full facelift. >> so, how much convincing did it take? >> quite a bit, actually. she saw my dad tanning, getting all in shape. and so i think, you know, my mom was just a little concerned too. "oh, maybe i should do a couple things, you know, maybe that will help.” >> she was afraid that she was losing her husband. >> i actually went to the consultations with her to meet this plastic surgeon and she told him all of her concerns, saying, "maybe i'll wait till this summer.”

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alexis had been there the week that michele had had her plastic surgery. >> when she came out of surgery, how did she look? >> she looked bad. she was very, kind of groggy and in a lot of pain. after the first night of having my mom home, my dad told me to leave. he said, "i'll take care of her, her medicines tonight.” >> you say the next morning when you saw your mom, she was heavily medicated. >> she was completely sedated and out of it. and i went right to my dad and he said, "oh, maybe i gave her too much.

and your mother threw up, so then i gave her more medicine.” i said, dad, don't give her any more medicine. i said, i'm going to take over. >> and at that time, she had a little eye patch on. so she couldn't see, you know, what he was giving her. she said your dad just kept giving me medicines. so she told me, she said, um, "give me each of the pills, so i can feel it with my finger. so if he tries to give me something else, i'll know what he's giving me.” and so i did that, i let her feel all the different types of medicines. >> one night while alexis was washing michelle's hair, michelle, all of a sudden, literally, drops a bombshell. >> she started to cry. she said, "if anything happens to me, make sure it wasn't your dad.” and i said, "mom!” i kind of got upset. >> the night before alexis went back to medical school, alexis said her mom looked great. she looked happy.

she was recovering. and so it was fine to get back on an airplane and go back to medical school. >> they dropped me off at the airport. i just remember looking back and seeing my mom and waving. >> on april 11th, martin went in to work as normal. picked up ada from school, and arrived at the house around 11:35. >> ada said my dad told her to "go check on your mother.” and so she ran in, just calling, "mommy, mommy.” and my dad stayed in the kitchen while she went into the bathroom and found her. and then she screamed for my dad. >> my wife has fallen in the bathtub! >> who's in the bathtub? >> my wife! >> okay, is she conscious? >> she's not! >> can you calm down? >> i need help!

>> it was really hard to understand him 'cause he was yelling very hysterically at me. >> she's unconscious! she's underwater! >> okay, did you get her out of the water? >> i can't. i couldn't lift her up. i let the water out. >> is she breathing at all? >> she's not! >> i tried to calm him down and tried to get the information from him, but he didn't want to stay on the line with me and he hung up. we got the phone number, called him back, and he did answer. >> okay, sir, the ambulance has been paged. they are on their way, okay. do not hang up. >> i need help! >> they are on their way. is your wife breathing? >> she's not! i am a physician. i've got cpr in progress. >> he yelled, "i am a physician, i have initiated cpr," and disconnected the phone call again. and he seemed very irritated at me and bothered that i was even asking him these questions. > okay, do you know how to do cpr?

>> i'm doing it. >> okay, do not hang -- >> it was about 11:48 a.m. or so. i got a medical call. a female who had possibly drowned in the bathtub, so naturally, you know, we were going lights and sirens to the call. >> he couldn't lift her out of the tub, so he said that he had ada run next to the neighbor's to get help. >> she said, "my dad needs some help.” i ran in, and followed his voice into the bathroom and he says, "i've already called 911. i need a male's help.” >> martin was kind of standing over her head. michelle was in the tub. i just immediately went straight to her legs and i grabbed her legs and we lifted her out of the tub and onto the floor. >> we went into the bathroom and observed two male individuals performing cpr on a female victim.

>> he would calmly be doing puffs of air, and then he would suddenly have an outburst of yelling, you know, "why? why?” >> he actually was pulled aside into another room so ems could do their job and try to revive her. i could hear him in the background yelling. i couldn't tell if he was upset with himself or at her or at us. but he was, he was upset. >> that's when martin macneill decides to call his daughter, alexis, who he reaches in medical school. >> he said, "your mom. she's in the tub. she's not breathing. i've called an ambulance.” and then he hung up. i just started driving to the airport and i was just screaming. just screaming. he killed her. that was my first instinct. he killed her. >> before you left, your mom said, "if anything happens to me, make sure it wasn't your dad who killed me.” >> my dad had no idea that my mom had confided in me. and i knew i was the only one that knew this.

so i needed to start figuring out what had happened and protect the rest of my family. because my dad was a killer. >> she said, "rachel, dad murdered mom. i know, i know he did.” >> alexis knew right away that there was something off and that this was not just a normal death. >> i said, "where's the medicine?” and he said, "i don't know where it is. check in the garage.” >> when alexis arrived at the house, the very first thing she wanted to do was count how much medication was left, see how much michele had taken and what had possibly led to her death. >> but by the time alexis gets home, martin has had somebody flush all the medication down the toilet. >> it was making him too sad to look at. to see this medication.

as soon as i heard that, things were just starting to add up. everything was adding up. >> my mom was concerned because rather than spending more time at home, he was spending more and more time away at the office. >> michele became very suspicious and confided in her daughter alexis that she thought that her husband was having an affair. >> while he was sleeping, i logged on to his phone and printed out all of his phone records. and we found this number that he'd been calling a lot. the name of the person popped out. gypsy jillian willis. i mean, we thought it was maybe some stripper or something. who's named gypsy? >> gypsy jillian willis was a woman that martin macneill had met online. >> he sent me a message. he asked me what i knew about quantum physics. >> you bonded over quantum physics? >> there was just instant chemistry. he was tall, he was handsome, he

was very well-spoken. >> did you know he was married? >> i did. >> and that didn't ring any alarm bells for you on the ethics front? >> not at that point. i wasn't looking for a serious relationship. and he told me that he had a perfect life. that he had a perfect wife. >> martin macneill was about to take a flamethrower to his perfect life and his perfect wife. it was all about to be destroyed.

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a healthy 50-year-old woman doesn't just die. >> police didn't really conduct much of an investigation at all. they didn't collect any of the evidence. closed the book on this case and ruled it a natural death. >> i thought that if this is a healthy woman that died that there would be some sort of big police investigation. their police report into my mother's death is about 2 1/2 paragraphs. i thought the police were going to be doing an investigation. i was waiting for the autopsy to come back. >> and what did the autopsy find when it came in? >> the autopsy said she died due to natural causes. >> natural causes, she's not an old woman. she's -- >> no. >> she just turned 50 years old. i mean, she had a few issues. she had a little bit of high cholesterol, some high blood pressure. >> martin seemed really ready to move on right away. he wanted this closure. >> my father demanded that we have a funeral within just a

couple of days and we were all still devastating and reeling from the shock of my mother passing away. >> my dad said we need to have the funeral on saturday. that would have been three days after her death. >> martin was just adamant things were gonna be done his way. >> her own brothers and her own sisters weren't allowed to attend the funeral. >> martin threatened the somers family, if anyone showed up, he was going to call police and have them escorted from the funeral. >> certain members of the family were told, if they showed up, that he'd have them escorted out by police. >> among the crowd of michele's friends and neighbors was one mysterious dark-haired woman who was not invited to the funeral, who had never met michele. and that was gypsy jillian willis. >> why would you go to her funeral? who invited you?

>> no one invited me. i just found out where it was. >> you crashed her funeral? >> i had felt sorry that i had been involved with martin inappropriately. i felt sorry. >> and that was the way to show that sorrow, was to go to her funeral? >> no one knew who i was. >> martin knew who you were. >> martin knew who i was and that's why i was there. i knew it would be a hard time for him. >> gypsy was very concerned about staying connected with martin after michele's death. she was almost desperate to stay involved in martin's life now that michele was gone. >> you did send him two suggestive pictures of your naked back. why did you do that? >> i wanted to keep his attention. it's -- it's cold, it sounds heartless. i'm sorry. but i knew that he would -- he would be having a hard time. not thinking of me. and that was selfish. >> you understand that from the outside looking in, you're having an affair with this man, the wife inexplicably dies.

you show up to her funeral, send him text messages during the funeral. it looks like you've come in to claim your prize. >> i did not look at it like that. >> we'd come to find out that my dad had been dating gypsy for several years before my mom's death. >> both alexis and rachel volunteered right away that they would take care of the younger children. but martin had a set plan right away that he was going to hire a nanny. >> and he said, "oh, i found the perfect nanny.” and i said, "what's her name?” and he said, "oh, i think it's, i think it's jillian?” and i said "dad? gypsy jillian willis?” i said, "i know that woman. i know mom was worried you were having an affair with he and you are not to bring her in the home.” >> and he said, "there, there is going to be an interview for a nanny.” and there was only one candidate and that was gypsy. >> gypsy. >> imagine that. >> yeah.

>> she didn't cook, she didn't clean, she didn't take care of the children in any way. >> why did you move into the home? >> martin told me that he needed help with his younger children. >> were you still sleeping with him? >> i was. >> so were you the nanny or were you the girlfriend? >> i moved in to help with the kids. when we had opportunity, i still slept with him. >> so you were both. >> if you want to look at it like that. >> she walked into the house like she owned the place. and then when i questioned my dad, he said, "oh, she's a guest in our home and how dare you question me.” >> i was told that i needed to leave the home because i -- i wasn't nice to gypsy. >> so we were basically -- we were pushed out of the house by my dad. >> without our keys or shoes. >> not even a phone. >> he wanted to make it known that it was either gypsy or his children and he chose the >> yeah. >> the "nanny.” >> a few months after michele's

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case.” "sorry, i know that kind of shocks you because she was young to have a heart attack.” >> you just wake up and you try to do what you can. it is living a nightmare. >> i'd try to go to the authorities. i'd go to the governor's office. i went to every single newspaper in utah. i cannot understand why no one would listen. my mother was murdered. and no one cares. the fifth line down states that military records were brought in. >> i went to the governor's office. i had a manila envelope with all te documents we had. >> the tub was only 50 inches long at the top. we don't think she can drown. >> doug whitney and jeff robinson were two investigators with the utah county prosecutor's office, and these were two people that were assigned just to work special cases.

they were put on this case to dig into it, and that's exactly what they did. >> so i got information from the daughters, and i got enough to get an investigative subpoena. >> doug whitney went all the way back to martin macneill in college where he began investigating everything he did and uncovered a life of lies. martin macneill was not who he claimed to be. >> if you take a pyramid and you build it with bricks, and you pull those foundation bricks out, you have nothing. it crumbles. i found that the transcript used for martin macneill to get into medical school was totally falsified. instead of taking his transcript and altering it, he got somebody else's. the transcript was completely fake. >> so this man who proclaimed loudly to anybody who would listen that he was a doctor, you are telling me he wasn't?

>> his entire career is based on falsified transcripts from different colleges. >> so how did he go about practicing medicine? >> the guy is brilliant. i am not saying that he is not smart. he just -- >> didn't take the necessary classes. >> and he lies. >> martin had briefly served in the military, but had been discharged because he had claimed that he was schizophrenic and hearing voices. so he went on to collect medical disability throughout the next 30-something years, meanwhile practicing as a successful doctor and lawyer. >> how much money are we talking about? >> $3,000 a month. >> he was getting $3,000 a month from the army? >> yes, from the v.a. >> for decades after he served less than two years? >> decades. >> investigators also discovered that when he was in his early 20s, he went to jail for check kiting. he decided to open a checking account, take the checks and go on a shopping spree. >> he had rented a house, and he needed to furnish it.

he also bought himself some jewelry, diamond rings, watches, 60 pairs of socks, and 20 or 30 pairs of shoes, a year's supply of chocolate covered cherries. >> he was a convicted felon. he was charged with forgery, fraud. >> i remember him 'cause he was bright and he was a con, and cons always interested me. >> the bottom line was, here is a man who went to jail for 180 days, was put on felony parole for three years, was on felony parole when he went into medical school. >> it's possible to have served 180 days in prison, and be on felony probation, and keep that a secret from schools or employers? >> apparently so. it happened. >> okay, let me take the picture. cute. >> we basically found out that our entire lives had been based and surrounded on lies. that everything about our experience with our father was a lie. >> you're played a part in

destroying our whole family, dad. >> i am the victim, i am the victim. you can't even think of it as a possibility. >> if i think really hard i can't even think of that. >> my logic is i didn't commit adultery. i did't kill your mother. i did't have a mistress. i don't have one now. i'm planning on getting married in the temple, and i don't believe that is a bad thing to do. there's that possibility whether you want to accept it or not. i've done nothing wrong. i have done zero wrong. >> alexis and rachel started looking into what was going on, and actually discovered that martin was actually looking to have the younger children adopted by this other family to get them out of the house. >> he was going to give my sisters away. >> yes, to adopt. he sent us all a lengthy text message saying that our sisters are going to be given away.

>> he found a family in california. he was going to foist them off on this family without the knowledge of any of his older children, and without any explanation really. he just decided to jettison every single aspect of his old life. his wife was dead, and now the young children needed to be gone. >> and that is when i said, "there's no way you're going to do that. i'm going to fight tooth and nail.” he said, "if you fight me, i'm going to get you thrown out of medical school. i'm going to call your dean," he started threatening me. "i'm going to take you down.” i said, "i'm calling the police and i'm --" >> "i'm going to destroy you.” >> i said there's no way you're taking my sisters. there's no way. >> martin's plans for his daughter giselle were even more sinister. >> just a few months after michele's death, martin decided to send giselle back to the ukraine for the summer for what was supposed to be a very brief trip. >> he sent giselle back home to the ukraine for just two months, but then those two months began

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giselle's social security number and created a new identity for gypsy. >> he gave his daughter giselle's identity to his girlfriend. >> they went into court and changed the birth date 20 years. that's called perjury. >> gypsy willis used the identity jillian giselle macneill, and alleged that she was the spouse of martin macneill. the investigation also found that on that form the marriage date that was listed on that form so happens to be the funeral date for martin's former wife, michelle macneill, april 14th of 2007. >> how did this idea come up to take giselle's identity? >> when i got together with martin, i had a lot of tax debt, probably in the range of $50 or $60,000. this was martin. this was martin's idea, this was martin's activity. >> why did you do it? >> i said i didn't want to. he said that this is the best way to do it, it's temporary, it's not gonna hurt anybody, no

one will notice. >> you are talking about a state id card. you are talking about bank accounts that were opened up under false names. >> martin did a lot of things that were not very sensible. >> so you're saying martin did all of this without your knowledge? >> he would tell me he was doing things and i'd be like, okay, whatever. >> you got two fake military id cards, three joint banking accounts using a fake name, you got a fake birth certificate, a fake utah state id card, and a fake social security card. and you're saying all you did was sort of sign away and not ever ask or wonder how many laws i've broken? how could you be a passive participant in that? >> martin was very powerful. he was very influential. i just assumed that he knew what he was doing. he'd been successful all of his life. >> gypsy, you're an educated person. you bonded over quantum physics. and now you want me and us and the authorities to believe that you just checked your brain at

the door and agreed to all this? >> when you love someone you do things that don't make a lot of sense. he had everyone confused. he was this pillar of the community. he'd been bishop twice. he had all of the accoutrements to be convincing. >> giselle had no idea what was going on, that her identity was being stolen. >> so that was his whole motivation for abandoning his adopted daughter in the ukraine. >> michele adopted her for a reason, and that reason wasn't just to have her get shipped back. >> when michele's sister linda discovered giselle was still in the ukraine, she set plans in motion right away to bring her back and sent her daughter jill to go to the ukraine. once she arrived, she discovered that giselle had been living in deplorable conditions. >> there's one room, and it has a pull-out sofa bed, and it's her, her sister, her sister's husband, and their two kids, and they all share that bed. there was a little pan on the

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what is it you think your dad did to your mom? >> i think he drugged then smothered her. >> his own daughters believed he murdered mommy. mommy was just buried, and suddenly he's going to move gypsy into the home. >> people from every network television were covering this case. >> may they rot in hell. >> i'm hoping we'll get some exposure. i know there are other victims. >> people started coming out of the woodwork, saying he raped me, stole from me, threatened me. prosecutors often use props in trials, but i don't think anybody ever used a bathtub. i don't think anybody's ever used a bathtub. >> get her in the tub, hold her

head down for a little while. >> he goes i'm glad the bitch is dead. >> between michelle and gypsy, you chose gypsy. >> i'm so sorry for any part i played in anyone's pain. >> gypsy, you played a big part. >> martin's story isn't over yet. he still manages to deliver one more shock to the family, to take one more life. >> here's when alexis surprised him at christmas. it shows a little bit of who we felt like my father was. >> we would've done anything for him and my mom. none of us ever suspected that this person that i knew as my father, it was an act the entire time. our entire lives are a lie.

>> i really feel like to him we just were a part in a play. >> i'm really scared. it's been just over a year since he's been in jail and that was really the first time that we could sleep really well at night. knowing that he's not gonna be around the corner. >> and now, if he gets out of prison for the fraud, then he's like, all right, i got away with the grand ultimate scheme, i shipped my daughter away, stole her identity, gave it to the lady that i had an affair with. killed my wife, was able to get rid of my other children, and so he comes out on top, and he comes out unharmed. >> alexis has temporary custody of her sisters. last.he's afraid that won't - >> he'd come down here so many times trying to get access to the kids. saying that he's going to walk in ada's school and take her right from school.

saying he's going to grab elle and sabrina and take them back to ukraine and drop them off where no one will find them. >> guess what, if i want these children i'll come and get them. >> i know you can, dad. that's what i don't want. that's what i want to fight against. you know, when they're fearful of you and they don't want to see you. >> if i change my mind i can get them now. understand that. i can come anytime i want. >> and now investigators have dr. martin macneill and his lover, where they want them -- behind bars. >> the macneill family stunned, gypsy willis pleaded guilty to four felonies, but they believe she did something much worse than identity theft. they say she conspired with him to murder their mother four years ago. >> at the last sentencing hearing, the only thing he said to me is, i hope you're happy, alexis. i hope you're happy with what you've done. >> investigators became convinced that martin had killed michele because he wanted to be with gypsy.

while martin's serving time, the investigators have this very short window to get charges put together to get him on trial for the murder of his wife. >> all of michele macneill's sisters, her mother, her daughters believe that martin macneill killed her. what do you think? >> the reason we have a homicide investigation open right now is that we believe that there is probable cause there is foul play involved here. and we believe we are on the right track. >> the first thing they needed to do ws visit the medical examiner and get her to change the cause of death. >> the manner of death was listed as natural causes. that was a significant report, in that it looked like it was just a natural death, and there's no homicide. >> sometimes we would stand toe to toe, yelling at each other, "show me that this is a murder. give me any information.” it was a challenge. >> it was a huge challenge, because police had gathered very little evidence the day that michele died, so they went back and piece by piece tried to put

together the events of what happened in the macneill home. >> one of the most alarming things in the case was the discrepancy of the positioning of michele's body in the bathtub. michele was originally found by her youngest adopted daughter, ada. >> martin macneill had gone to pick ada up. he brings her home. >> he told her, "ada, go check on mommy.” she really remembers is vividly even though she was just 6 years old. she had to see something very horrible. >> what did you see when you walked into the bathroom? >> she was just laying down, in the bathtub. >> she was laying down, in the bathtub? >> she had to wet her hair. >> was she all the way in the bathtub, or just part way in the bathtub? >> all the way. >> and had you ever seen your mom wet her hair like that before? >> i don't want to talk about it. >> how does it make you feel, talking about your mom? >> sad. >> i can't believe that she was used that way.

>> the thought of her 6-year-old daughter finding her body, it haunted me, that for the rest of her life ada would remember mommy in the bathtub. >> ada had described finding her mom's body laying inside the tub with her head above the water. and that was the exact same position that the neighbor who first entered the house found michele's body in. >> michele was laying on her back in the tub, face up, with her head underneath the faucet. >> your dad said your mom's head was under water. >> yes, laying face down. >> you mean bent over the tub? >> yes. >> it seemed like martin was trying to create an image of his wife getting into the bathtub, but had fallen and slipped on her way into the bathtub. >> does anybody corroborate martin's version of events that morning? >> no. >> so it's martin on his own, and all the other witnesses on the other side describing pretty much the same scene. >> that's correct. >> martin definitely appeared to be up to something at the crime

scene. when he called 911 at first, he wouldn't give a clear address. >> i need an ambulance right away! >> he was yelling very hysterically at me. so i kind of had a general area of where the call was probably coming from, but not an exact house address. >> so the ambulance doesn't know where to go. and precious moments are lost searching for the address where this call originated from. >> there were a lot of things that martin had done that day that seemed very suspicious. a neighbor came over, and they tried to lift her out of the bathtub and put her on the ground and started performing cpr right away. >> martin and i did cpr on her for what felt like several minutes. >> he, as a doctor, presumably could perform that cpr. >> there was definitely no response from michelle. i do not recall the chest ever rising. >> there was no water aspirated out of her lungs until the paramedics arrived. >> as soon as the emts start performing cpr on michele

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during the time that macneill and gypsy willis are behind bars, it's not just the investigators hard at work. >> we've been gathering paperwork, whatever we can to help law enforcement. >> it's michele's family. >> i'm hoping this story will get some exposure, because i know there are other victims. >> they start drumming up interest in her death. >> the family wants you to contact them. >> if you know someone who may have been a victim, we want to hear from you. >> we didn't give up. to get the media involved, and "20/20" was huge with keeping that pressure going and keeping this case alive. >> good evening. a family in free fall after a

tragedy. >> the victims came out of the woodwork. our office was deluged with called. >> victims of what? >> sexual molestation, rape, inappropriateness, as far as a doctor. it became obvious, as this information was coming in, that martin macneill was a sexual predator. he would intimidate these people. and so they wouldn't file charges. there were no reports written. and he would move to the next hospital. >> and did it explain this nomadic existence, this sort of -- >> it did. >> why the family bounced around? >> absolutely. >> do you think that he moved on after some sort of incident of bad behavior or criminal behavior? >> it appears that way. >> one of the more intriguing tips came from another woman who claimed to be a former mistress. her name was anna osborne. >> she described some of the conversations that she would have with martin that were very troubling to her. >> anna became just a feast of information.

>> it was during pillow talk with anna osborne that martin macneill talked about previous murders. >> he bragged to a mistress that he killed his brother, rufus roy macneill because he "had become an embarrassment.” >> he was high on drugs. and he had a syringe. so he just stuck the syringe in the arm and injected him. >> he claimed he tried to kill his own mother, and that he had administered several mercy killings at various positions during his medical tenure. >> he told her he had killed those that were handicapped. >> in fact, anna personally believed that he was a serial killer. >> we requested information on a number of the patients and could never prove anything. she was giving us information that spoke directly to his character. it added a piece of the puzzle, who martin macneill was.

>> now with all the evidence that these investigators have managed to compile, they're trying to use it to hopefully pressure the medical investigator to reopen the case into the manner of death of michele macneill. >> investigated believed martin had actually manipulated the medical examiner. >> he had misrepresented a lot of the facts about how michele died, where she was, the position of the body and so forth. to distract any suspicion away from him. so a very cold, very calculating person, martin macneill. >> he killed michele, i know he did. we have got tons of evidence. >> michelle's sister became increasingly disturbed about the true cause of death and she

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them. >> finally, success. it was changed from natural to undetermined. long story short, undetermined opens the door to the possibility of murder. >> what is it you think your dad did to your mom? >> i think he drugged her and then smothered her. i don't know exactly what he did. but i do know he killed her. >> on friday macneill was released from prison after serving three years for fraud. this weekend macneill returned to the same home where his wife's body was found. >> he's out. but not for long. prosecutors are ready to pounce almost instantly. >> i like to talk about this case as sort of a puzzle.

we certainly had some pieces missing, but i believe we had enough, so we made the decision to charge the case. >> they told me that they arrested my father five minutes ago. >> martin macneill is now in a utah county jail on a $1 million cash bond, facing murder charges. >> it's horrible to be happy about your father being arrested but finally he's being held accountable for murdering my mother. >> this is really a bittersweet moment for the macneill children. seeing their father shackled here in court is something they've been pushing for for years. >> this case has no smoking gun. it's all circumstantial evidence. it's all strange behavior and the big question is, will it be enough? will it be enough to convict martin macneill of murder?

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>> it haunted me, but i had to know more. >> hundreds of thousands of people from across the country were watching this trial. >> the record should reflect that the jury is seated. >> martin was represented by his longtime attorney, randall spencer, and susanne gustin. >> martin macneill is innocent, ladies and gentlemen. >> the defense's position was that michele died accidentally. the prosecution presented a case that martin had meticulously plotted michele's death. >> he gave her drugs and sleeping pills to get her to pass out and die. >> that he had taken her to a doctor out of town and gotten way too much medication. >> the cephlex is the antibiotic, the phenergan is the anti-nausea medication, the valium is the anxiety medication, percocet is the pain medication. >> dr. scott thompson was the plastic surgeon who performed michele's facelift. >> hydrocodone liquid as well, so two pain medication prescriptions.

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her in the tub, hold her head down for a little while. >> martin described finding michele in the tub as if she was outside the tub but bent over, with her head down underneath the water. >> he described it as saw her face down, the wrong way in the tub. >> what did he tell you? >> he said he found her slumped over into the tub. >> when in reality, she was found entirely inside the tub with her head up above the water. >> ada had described finding her mom's body laying inside the tub with her head above the water, and that was the exact same position that the neighbor who first entered the house found michele's body in. >> i saw that michele was in the tub and martin was over the tub. >> will you show the jury where her head was? >> her head was right here. >> right here would be above the line. >> the eyewitness testimony was far different from what martin

was describing. >> and he asked his son's girlfriend -- her name was eileen hang -- and she testified at trial about martin asking them to flush these drugs. >> martin seemed frustrated. he said, "i don't want to do this anymore," and then he asked me to flush the pills down the toilet. >> did that request seem strange to you? >> at the time it did seem strange, yes. >> one of the more dramatic moments in the trial was when a former mistress of martin macneill's took the stand. >> please raise your right hand and take an oath. >> anna osborne walthall ended up testifying about how martin confided some very deep and dark things with her. >> did martin ever describe the process of making someone have a heart attack? >> yes. >> martin had described how he had the perfect way to kill someone. >> there's something you can give someone that's natural, that's there afer they give a heart attack so that it's not detectable.

>> and so you could cause someone to have a heart attack and the drug was supposed to be there anyway and so you wouldn't be able to tell. >> that's correct. >> it showed martin's knowledge about how he could make a murder look like it was an accident or naturally caused in some fashion. >> you've also written in emails to the investigators that you're really excited about the prospect of martin being off the streets for a very long time, right? >> probably. >> martin macneill showed little to no emotion during the entire trial. he sat there stoic, stone-faced, no expression, which was really something given the high emotion around him. >> i knew that something bad had happened. >> the extraordinarily emotional tearful testimony of his own children. >> who is martin macneill? >> he's my dad. >> who took the stand and testified against him. >> ms. macneill, if you will come forward here to the clerk's desk. >> to go and face my father and

to hold him accountable for what he'd done was incredibly difficult. >> how close would you describe your relationship with your dad growing up? >> growing up, my father was my best friend. >> the macneill daughters testified about their relationship with their father, how their trust was slowly eroded. >> that's gypsy jillian willis. >> his own blood relatives were turning against him, his own daughters believed he murdered mommy. a jury cannot turn away from that type of evidence. >> what really made me turn around initially was alexis. >> walking into that courtroom i felt a calmness come over me. itwas two days' worth of testifying. >> alexis takes the stand and immediately gets a serious blow. her testimony regarding what her mother told her. >> she said, if anything happens to me, make sure it wasn't your

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on the sixth day of testimony in the murder trial of martin macneill there was a huge amount of public interest, because that was the day that gypsy willis was set to take the stand. >> the state calls gypsy willis. >> and in the end the state

pulled out the trump card. the mistress. >> my name is gypsy willis. >> people wanted to hear what gypsy had to say. people wanted to see what happened when gypsy and martin macneill, who had been separated now for quite some time, were once again together in the same courtroom. >> how do you know the defendant? >> we were involved a number of years ago. we met online. >> did the relationship become sexual? >> it did. i think we probably had sex half the time. sometimes it was just lunch. >> gypsy was very cold on the stand. and she responded without emotion. she didn't really own up to the inappropriate behavior that that was. >> you appear to be minimizing your relationship with the defendant. >> i don't believe so. >> she wasn't telling a full and complete story. >> a difficult person to get to engage on the witness stand. >> this was two years after she passed away, i don't -- >> i'll ask the questions, thanks. >> or she was couching her story in terms that were beneficial to

martin. because she still had feelings for martin. >> there was one point where she lied about the extent of their relationship after they were both sent to federal prison. >> so you didn't have a relationship after that? >> after that he wrote to me while i was in jail, yes. >> okay, so he wrote to you? >> well, we wrote back and forth, yes. >> and you referred to each other with terms of endearment and such. >> prison is a very lonely place. >> and how does he address it to you? >> dear sweetheart. >> would you read this line he wrote to you right there? >> i will work hard to keep your love for me. >> gypsy willis was forced to read her love letters in front of the jury. >> i love you and miss you more than you can imagine. >> macneill had sat, stoic, for a large part of the testimony. but when that happened he had a visible reaction. >> i wish i could sleep for the next 20 months and do nothing but dream of being with you. i love you with all of my heart and think of nothing but a future with you. >> the jury was finally seeing the real martin macneill.

>> during the preliminary hearing, when she left the stand after testifying, when she walked by martin, she was touching the table and sort of dragging her fingers along the table so i think that was a clear signal to him that, martin, i still love you. i still have feelings for you. >> it was toward the end of the trial that the prosecution pulled out its big guns. they had a series of witnesses who had served time with martin macneill when he was in prison for identity fraud. >> we've discussed previously that we're gonna refer to you as inmate number three. is that okay? >> yes, sir. >> the judge ruled before trial that none of the jailhouse informants' faces or names would be mentioned in court because they could get labeled as a snitch and possibly get repercussions in prison or even be murdered. >> did you ever know martin? >> yes, sir. >> did he have a nickname? >> doc. everybody around him called him doc. >> according to inmates in the prison with martin macneill he got on pretty well with the other prisoners. >> one time my foot was

bothering me and he gave me advice on what was wrong with it. >> did you guys become friendly? >> yes, sir. >> how did that happen? >> i work out a lot, and we used to ask me a lot of questions about working out. soon we started working out together. jogged, ran, everything. >> prior to michele's death martin used to walk around with a limp and a cane, and claim that he had a bad foot because their theory was that martin was basically trying to set an explanation for why he would be physically unable to pull michele, his wife, from the bathtub. >> did he ever walk with a limp that you saw? >> i didn't see it. >> what about use a cane? >> no. >> he did a lot of different calisthenic type exercise. >> well, the inmates testified that that condition, whatever it was, magically disappeared. >> the state may call its next witness. the state calls jason porier. >> by the time trial came around he was out of custody. and his safety wasn't really

jeopardized in testifying. >> i would have him read my poetry. he would correct it and give me some advice on how to make it better. >> did martin talk to you at all about the relationship he had with his wife before she died? >> a little bit, yes. >> do you recall what he said? >> that it was going downhill and that they were trying to get his money, she was not gonna let him keep cheating on her. she wasn't going to allow that. >> while martin was serving time for identity fraud in a texas prison, inmates learned that he was suspected of killing his wife after watching a television show. >> someone came to me and said come look at the tv real quick and they said do you recognize that guy on there? is he in your computer class? and i said, yeah, that's doc. >> do you recall what the program was? >> yeah, it was "nancy grace.” the next morning i saw him coming through the breakfast line and i walked up to him and i said hey, doc, did you see tv

last night? and he said no, he said don't say anything to anybody. i'll talk to you later about it. he pretty much just opened up about it. he said he gave her some oxy and some sleeping pills and then got her to get in the bathtub. >> did he say what he did next? >> later on he just said he had to help her out. and i asked him what that was and he said he held her head under the water for a little while. >> if they could prove that, you think i'd be sitting her talking to you? so i said, well, did you do it? he said the -- drowned. >> he said his wife drowned? >> yes, sir. >> and he referred to her as a -- ? >> yes, sir. >> he said i'm glad the -- is dead. i was pretty shocked. >> i was very happy in large part with how the evidence came out. when we filed the case we weren't aware of the inmates' testimony at all. so it was purely circumstantial. >> the jury was left trying to

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>> the jury began to deliberate. it was in the early afternoon of a friday. >> we'd been in there about five hours, and i honestly felt, i think this is going to be a hung jury, and we're going to have to go with a not guilty. >> it was about 1:15 in the morning when the jury came into the room and delivered their verdict. >> thank you, please be seated. >> 11 hours. that's not a lot for a homicide case, especially one that's built on circumstantial evidence, you know. and i was worried then. >> we are on the record in the matter of state of utah versus martin joseph macneill. >> i was wondering if they were coming back too early for a conviction. >> mr. macneill, if you will stand, please. >> we the jury find the defendant as to count one, murder, guilty. >> i was so overwhelmed, when i heard guilty. i burst into tears. i was sobbing. so many emotions, so much

sadness, so much loss, but finally having my dad be held accountable for taking our mother from us, i felt very, very blessed. >> as to count two, obstruction of justice, guilty. >> some people don't understand. they say, "aren't you happy that your father is in prison?” but it was not a happy sensation. it was horrifying. >> for six years we've put everything we have into it, and we can finally take a deep breath and put it behind us. >> after the verdict, i was sitting, actually, in that room alone. and i heard the shackles being put back on my dad. just vividly remember that sound, and it took my breath away. 'cause i knew, you know, i knew he was going away now, for good, and i was very grateful and

relieved, and it had to happen, but it was -- it was hard. >> months later when it came time to sentence martin macneill, each one of them had the opportunity to stand up and tell the court, the world, and mostly their father what he did to them. >> today, i can finally look into the eyes of my sister's murderer, and say, martin, you haven't gotten away with this. >> i miss my mother more than words could ever describe, i miss her every day. >> the murder of my mother killed a piece of us all. nothing done here today will right that wrong. i ask for the maximum

sentencing. doing so will finally allow my family the chance to heal. >> thank you very much. >> i looked at my father, and i showed him how i felt with my eyes, and that was the time that i was able to look at him, finally. >> i remember them talking about the lack of remorse that they could see in their dad. in fact, martin was joking and talking throughout the sentencing with his attorneys, showing a complete lack of respect for his own daughters. >> judge polan handed down the harshest punishment, 15 years to life in prison. at least her family can rest assured that martin macneill will likely die in prison. >> do you think that martin macneill underestimated his daughters? >> absolutely, and michele's sisters. >> he just thought they would all fade into the woodwork and accept this?

>> that's right. >> gypsy was never prosecuted, but she's guilty. she's guilty of my mother's murder. i'm sure of it. >> she was the motive, and i know she knows more than she portrayed in court. >> gypsy willis was never charged with murder because we couldn't prove that she was involved, as either a direct participant in michele's murder or even an accessory. we believe she was the motive, but we simply did not have the evidence to prove that she murdered michele or was an accessory to her death. >> so many people think that you must have known. >> no. >> or that you were in on it. >> that is incorrect. i don't believe martin murdered michele. we have to respect the jury, but i don't. i mean, i don't -- i don't believe that of him. >> and what would you say to alexis and rachel, the daughters of michele, who loved their mother very much.

>> i would say to them, i am so sorry for any part i played in anyone's pain. >> gypsy, you played a big part. >> i realize that. and it was completely unintentional. >> well, you knew he was married and had eight children when you were sleeping with him. >> i knew who his wife was. if i had wanted to disrupt his life i could have gone and had a conversation with her. i am so sorry for their pain. >> i don't feel like she has any -- any remorse. she's a very evil person. she and my father, i believe, were perfect for each other. >> martin's story isn't over yet. he's in prison for the rest of his life, and yet he still manages to take one more life.

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if you come up here and you see these weeds, you want to just uproot them, you know. this is one of those things that when you're retired, you come out in the morning and you come out in the evening, when it's cool and nice. and it's a wonderful time to think. >> doug whitney, who came out of retirement to investigate martin macneill, is now happily back, tending the farm, so to speak. >> this is a wonderful place to retire and i've seen a lot of the ugliness in the world.

and now i get to see a lot the beauty. >> the investigators were just amazing. these are my heroes, my personal heroes. and i love them. >> and in 2017, martin macneill delivered one more shock. >> a utah doctor who murdered his wife was found dead today at the utah state prison. prison sources claim it appears to be a suicide. >> alexis called me. and we both just screamed and cried. >> it didn't surprise me that he committed suicide. he had recently lost his appeal. and he was going to remain in prison. and he probably saw it as just no life at all. >> he killed himself just a couple days before the ten-year anniversary of my mother's murder. rachel, vanessa, and i were standing over his body. seeing him in the funeral home.

>> i was able to finally feel some peace with my father. i was able to tell my father that i forgave him, that i loved him, and not feel fear and not feel anger. >> i was able to let go of feeling that hatred and that pain and just obsessing over my father's act. >> alexis ended up successfully adopting her little sisters, and has raised them with ada, sabrina, and elle. >> ady is 18 years old, she just graduated from high school. my little sister, elle, that just had her first baby a month ago. she has an 11-month-old little girl. >> i'm going to school to be a licensed clinical social worker, so i can help other people with therapy one day. >> alexis is now married with children of her own. >> i just can't imagine how much joy she'd have with my children,

being in our lives. she's missed out on so much. >> the sisters have done everything they can to erase evidence of martin in their lives. alexis has taken her mother's maiden name as her last name and now works as dr. somers. >> i don't want to be dr. macneill. i don't want to have any part of my dad. >> they even allowed a volunteer to sand off the words "wife of martin" from michele martin's tombstone. >> we celebrate her every january 15th, balloons and cake. she would've been 62. >> come on now, sophie. yeah, you did it. thanks for watching.

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