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Episode 19: Dr. Martin MacNeill: The Doctor's Wife Part 1

True Crime Campfire

True Crime Campfire

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The MacNeill family was, to all appearances, perfect. There was beautiful and kindhearted mom Michelle. There were EIGHT bright and accomplished kids--some biological, some adopted. And there was the famiy patriarch, Dr. Martin MacNeill. A doctor AND a lawyer, Martin was handsome, brilliant, wealthy, and a devout Mormon--a bishop in his church.

But behind closed doors, there was a toxic mess getting more poisonous every day. Dr. MacNeill had always had a dark side, ever since he was a kid. Now that dark side was starting to eclipse all remaining light. And Dr. MacNeill's secrets were about to make themselves known in the most sinister way. Join Katie and Whitney for a twisting tale of love, lust, fraud, and premeditated murder.

Sources:

Book: The Stranger She Loved by Shanna Hogan
ABC's "20/20": The Perfect Nanny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bw41mu251M
https://www.deseret.com/2017/7/21/20616225/martin-macneill-s-prison-death-officially-ruled-a-suicide

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0:00.0

Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

0:05.0

We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.

0:08.0

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.

0:12.0

We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the

0:13.8

true crime campfire.

0:16.7

Charm and good looks can get you pretty far in life, which is fine, I guess, for those

0:24.4

who are naturally blessed with those attributes.

0:27.0

However, when all that smooth operator stuff hides a psychopathic heart and the cruelest of intentions, now we've got a problem.

0:35.3

Sometimes an unsuspecting person can get lured in with a kind-looking smile and the promise

0:39.7

of lasting love and end up in way over her head.

0:43.0

And once you're in the clutches of someone who doesn't think he has to play by the rules,

0:46.7

it can be really tough to get out.

0:48.5

One woman learned that lesson in the hardest possible way.

0:51.5

This is the doctor's wife, the murder of Michelle McNeil. So, campers, we're in Oam, Utah, April 11, 2007. A 911 call came into the local dispatch at 11.

1:17.0

A.m. There was a hysterical sounding man on the line shouting,

1:23.0

I need an ambulance, my wife has fallen in the bathtub.

1:26.0

He said he was a physician, he said his wife was unconscious, underwater,

1:31.0

he said he couldn't lift her out of the tub, and she wasn't breathing.

1:35.0

Scary.

1:36.0

So, the operator told him not to hang up, but he did it anyway, which was frustrating him sure for the dispatcher.

1:43.0

And a few minutes later he called back.

1:45.0

He said, look, I need help, don't you understand?

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