Martin MacNeill

By Emiley Morgan, Deseret News

Published: Wednesday, Oct. 3 2012 6:46 p.m. MDT

By Jessica Miller

| The Salt Lake Tribune

Provo >> During “pillow talk” with Martin MacNeill, Anna Osborne Walthall said her lover on several occasions admitted to having homicidal urges throughout his life.

Walthall testified in 4th District Court Thursday that early in their affair in 2005, MacNeill — who was recently charged with killing his wife, Michele MacNeill — revealed he had tried to kill his mother when he was 8 years old.

MacNeill’s mother had been drunk, he allegedly told her, and passed out on a couch.

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By Emiley Morgan, Deseret News

Published: Thursday, Oct. 4 2012 7:29 p.m. MDT

PROVO — The day his wife died, Martin MacNeill was “different,” “odd” and, according to at least three witnesses, “angry.”

Scott Van Wagoner, who said he knew MacNeill on a professional basis, said MacNeill seemed to be directing his anger at his wife, Michele. But that wasn’t the part of Martin MacNeill’s behavior that day that really struck him.

“The oddest statement, to the point of being bizarre, was he offered me $10,000 to not stop my resuscitation efforts,” Van Wagoner testified in 4th District Court Thursday. “Clearly, this patient came in dead. … It was a pretty odd request.”

Anna Osborne Walthall, a woman who said she had an affair with MacNeill in 2005, testified that they often talked about killing — specifically MacNeill’s history of killing that included his brother and his ability to kill without detection. She described these conversations as “pillow talk.”

Their testimonies were two of seven offered Thursday during the second day of a five-day hearing to decide whether the Pleasant Grove doctor should stand trial for murder in his wife’s 2007 death. Prosecutors believe MacNeill killed his wife by giving her a “dangerous combination” of drugs and drowning her. read more »

PROVO — Martin MacNeill was the “stronger” personality, the “dominant” personality, the one who neighbors talked to and the one who commanded conversations with the doctors who worked with his wife, Michele, witnesses testified Wednesday.

He taught Sunday School classes. She wrote on the board for him in her beautiful calligraphy. He answered questions about her medical history for her as she deferred to him. Neighbors who often talked to Martin MacNeill, 56, said they don’t remember doing much more than exchanging casual pleasantries with his wife. read more »