Martin MacNeill complete with everything but....

[_moksha]

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865590296/Martin-MacNeill-timeline.html

Here is an information packed timeline from the Deseret News regarding recently convicted murderer Martin MacNeill, with interesting events leading up to the murder of the doctor's wife. Seemingly all things are covered except for when he was an LDS Bishop. That may sound trivial but that fact did not escape all the non-Utah media.

Actually I can't remember hearing that point on any local Salt Lake City news broadcasts.

Should such details be overlooked if they are not faith-promoting?

[_Bazooka]

Martin MacNeill timeline

• 1973: Martin MacNeill joins military at age 17 after lying about his age

• 1975: Martin placed on disability leave when he is deemed a “latent schizophrenic"; family and judge later question whether diagnosis was real but he received V.A. and Social Security benefits for years, even after he became a doctor and lawyer

• 1977: Martin arrested in California for forging checks; he tells friends he saw check forgers on “60 Minutes” and thought he could do it better and with fewer risks

• Feb. 21, 1978: Martin and Michele Somers elope; four months later he begins 6-month jail sentence for forgery, theft, fraud

• Early 1980s: Investigators say Martin falsified transcripts with inflated grades and lied on applications to get into two medical schools and later to BYU law school

• 1984: Martin is licensed as an osteopathic surgeon in California

• 1987: Martin obtains license to practice as an osteopathic physician and surgeon in Utah

• 1990: Martin taken to court over alleged Medicaid fraud and is banned from having any Medicare patients for 12 years

• 1990: Martin graduates from BYU law school

• 1999: Martin is terminated from BYU Health Center; his work there was punctuated by accusations of rape, complaints of unprofessional conduct and misdiagnosis

• 2000: Gov. Mike Leavitt appoints Martin medical director of American Fork Training School, later renamed Utah State Developmental Center

• August 2000: Police called to house after Martin threatens to kill wife and himself with knife after she caught him looking at pornography

• 2004: Couple adopts five more children, four from Ukraine; one adoption is later terminated, making a family of eight children: Rachel, Vanessa, Alexis, Damian, Giselle, Sabrina, Elle and Ada

• 2005: Martin has affair with Anna Osborne Walthall, who told psychiatrist she was dating a “serial killer” because she said Martin told her that he’d killed his brother in a bathtub and tried to kill his mother when he was young; she said he also offered to kill her husband and described writing an anonymous article about “mercy killing” in which a patient was euthanized with pain killers but was never held accountable, court documents state

• November 2005: Martin meets Gypsy Willis online and begins relationship with her

• February 2007: Michele’s suspicions that her husband is having an affair increase and she confronts him repeatedly

• April 3, 2007: Michele receives facelift at husband’s encouragement; plastic surgeon prescribes stronger drugs than he normally would at Martin’s request

• April 4, 2007: Michele is lethargic and unresponsive when daughter Alexis tries to wake her; Alexis takes over care after father tells her he “probably over-medicated” the woman

• April 6, 2007: Michele tells Alexis: "If anything happens to me, make sure it was not your dad"

• April 10, 2007: Alexis returns to school in Las Vegas

• April 11, 2007: Michele dies in bathtub of her Pleasant Grove home with four drugs in her system; Martin orders son to dispose of all her medication; Pleasant Grove police conclude death was accidental

• April 2007: Autopsy concludes she died of natural causes

• April 14, 2007: Martin speaks at wife’s funeral but only mentions Michele in passing

• April 17, 2007: Martin asks daughter Rachel to go to Mount Timpanogos Temple with him to pray about a nanny; mistress Gypsy Willis approaches them in what Rachel called a “scripted” encounter

• May 2007: Willis moves into family’s Pleasant Grove home as nanny

• June 2007: Police are called as Martin kicks out daughters Rachel and Alexis from home after they said they asked why Willis didn’t cook, clean or take care of the children

• Sometime in 2007: Martin changes his will to give just $1 to each of his children with everything else to go to Willis under her false identity, according to investigators

• July 20, 2007: Martin and Willis obtain marriage license but never marry

• July 2007: Daughter Giselle MacNeill returns to Ukraine to visit biological sister for summer; family and investigators believe Martin planned for trip to be permanent and a ploy to steal her identity

• September 2007: Linda Cluff writes letters to Gov. Jon Huntsman and Utah County Attorney's Office asking them to launch investigation into her sister's death

• January 2009: Martin indicted in federal court on nine counts of identity theft and other charges after he and Willis used his daughter Giselle’s identity to alter Willis’ identity to create fake IDs and open up bank accounts under the false name

• January 2009: Willis indicted on 11 similar charges

• August 2009: Martin sentenced to four years in prison

• September 2009: Martin pleads guilty to state forgery and fraud charges and is sentenced to three years in jail; sentence to run concurrent with federal case

• September 2009: Willis sentenced to 21 months in federal prison but begins sentence a month earlier than scheduled after prosecutors said she planned to flee to Mexico

• December 2009: Willis is charged in state court with fraud and other charges; she is later sentenced to three years’ probation and agrees to testify against Martin in deal with prosecutors

• Jan. 16, 2010: Martin’s only son, Damian, commits suicide by overdosing on prescription drugs

• October 2010: Autopsy changed Michele's cause of death to include "drug toxicity" and says Michele could not have administered medication to herself

• Dec. 4, 2010: Deseret News publishes extensive report about circumstantial evidence against Martin in his wife’s death

• March 2011: Willis is released from federal prison and returns to Utah

• July 6, 2012: Martin is released from Texas federal prison and returns to his Pleasant Grove home

• Aug. 24, 2012: Utah County Attorney’s Office charges Martin with murdering his wife in 2007

• Oct. 17, 2013: Testimony begins in Martin’s murder trial in Provo

• Nov. 9, 2013: After 11 hours of deliberation, jurors announce at 1 a.m. that Martin is guilty of murder and obstruction of justice for making the death appear to be accidental

Remind us, which year was he called as a Bishop?


From the 'comments' section of the article.

Vladhagen Salt Lake City, UT
Pornography again plays a role in deranged acts it seems. Makes me think of Ted Bundy. Well educated white man. Very slippery.

[_Rollo Tomasi]

Has it ever been confirmed that he did serve as a bishop? So far I have only seen this information coming from the killer's mouth at the scene of the crime. I wonder, too, if the LDS Church has excommunicated him yet -- perhaps when he was busted for identity theft a few years ago, but hopefully he has been ex'ed by now.

[_Madison54]

Has it ever been confirmed that he did serve as a bishop? So far I have only seen this information coming from the killer's mouth at the scene of the crime. I wonder, too, if the LDS Church has excommunicated him yet -- perhaps when he was busted for identity theft a few years ago, but hopefully he has been ex'ed by now.

I thought that committing a felony was one of the few things that still results in automatic excommunication. Am I wrong?

[_Equality]

April 14, 2007: Martin speaks at wife’s funeral but only mentions Michele in passing

At least he followed Elder Packer's advice to not focus on the deceased at the funeral.

[_Rollo Tomasi]

April 14, 2007: Martin speaks at wife’s funeral but only mentions Michele in passing

At least he followed Elder Packer's advice to not focus on the deceased at the funeral.

+1!!!!!

[_MrSimpleton]

In what year was he kicked out of BYU Law School for alleged Medicaid fraud which resulted in his 12 year ban of having medicaid patients?

In what year was he disbarred (if he ever was a licensed attorney) for the alleged Medicaid fraud which resulted in his 12 year ban of having medicaid patients?

[_rallychild]

Wow, what an interesting timeline. I'd be interested to know if he ever served as bishop as well.

[_lostindc]

Has it ever been confirmed that he did serve as a bishop? So far I have only seen this information coming from the killer's mouth at the scene of the crime. I wonder, too, if the LDS Church has excommunicated him yet -- perhaps when he was busted for identity theft a few years ago, but hopefully he has been ex'ed by now.

I thought that committing a felony was one of the few things that still results in automatic excommunication. Am I wrong?

Anyone know the answer to Madison's question?

[_Quasimodo]

I thought that committing a felony was one of the few things that still results in automatic excommunication. Am I wrong?

Anyone know the answer to Madison's question?

http://www.lds.org/new-era/1975/07/qa-questions-and-answers

There are very few reasons for excommunication in this Church. I can only think of three.

Church members can become candidates for excommunication as they involve themselves in gross iniquity.

Church members become candidates for excommunication as they become involved in or advocate plural marriage.

Church members become candidates for excommunication as they apostatize from the teachings of the Church.

Gross iniquity involves such transgressions as murder, adultery, sexual perversion, or serious civil court conviction such as a felony.

It seems a shame to excommunicate people just when they need moral guidance the most.