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🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:00.0 | On April 11, 2007, a little six-year-old girl named Ada McNeil was with her dad, 51-year-old Martin McNeil, in their car. |
0:13.9 | Martin McNeil had just picked Ada up from school in the town of Pleasant Grove. |
0:18.6 | It's a small community about 35 miles south of Salt Lake City. |
0:23.0 | They got home at 1145. And as soon as they pulled in, they went upstairs to check on Martin's |
0:29.2 | wife and Ada's mom, 50-year-old Michelle McNeil. Michelle had recently had facelift surgery, |
0:35.4 | so she had been recovering at home. |
0:38.5 | Martin would later tell investigators that he had planned to have lunch at home with his wife |
0:43.2 | so that he could check up on her. |
0:45.4 | But when he and his daughter Ada went upstairs to the bathroom, they got a shock. |
0:50.8 | Michelle was lying in the jacuzzi bathtub. |
0:53.8 | She was totally unresponsive. She was dressed in a white |
0:57.7 | Mormon temple garment. Martin called 911 and he told Ada to run to the neighbor's house to get help. |
1:05.1 | So Ada did. She went to the home of their neighbor, Christy Daniels. Ada was frantic. |
1:12.1 | She told Christy that her dad Martin needed help at home. |
1:15.7 | So Christy ran out of her house and into the McNeil's house. |
1:19.6 | The door was already open, and she could hear Martin screams upstairs. |
1:25.0 | Everybody knew the McNeil's. |
1:27.2 | Martin McNeil was a wealthy doctor and lawyer. His wife, |
1:31.4 | Michelle, was a former beauty queen. They had eight children, four biological children, and four |
1:37.3 | adopted, and seemed to have the perfect, big, happy American family. Michelle McNeil was a stay-at-home |
1:44.1 | mom to their eight children. |
1:46.2 | She lived for her kids and spent all of her free time with her family. When Christy got upstairs |
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