From the years 1979 to 1981 the Streets of Atlanta were anything but safe children disappeared one after another in a string of heinous murders that dotted the cityscape one man. Wayne Williams was found guilty of some of the murders that occurred during this period but some think he's not the only killer some think he wasn't alone learn more today about the Atlanta child murders with an episode of Necronomicon pod or three guys. Sit and discuss True Crime called happenings. And even the Paranormal be ready for something strange want to support devil. We know please go to patreon at patreon.com devil. We know podcast and for $1 get two bonus episodes a month early release episodes and ad-free episodes. The dangers of the healthcare industry are Myriad and varied there is always a success rate for operations big and small and a success rate simply implies that there is also a failure rate. However, some procedures and treatment are riskier than others whether it's the use of a prescription for pain or a full-on invasive surgery. There is always the chance that something can go wrong and often. It's simply the luck of the draw. A person may have an obscenely low tolerance for the drug. They're given or they just may never heal if completely from a complicated spinal disc removal. But what affects patients more than luck is the skill and attention from their Healthcare professionals. The nurses and doctors that tend to your needs are the ones that are most likely to impact your so-called success rate. That disc removal gets bashed by the surgeon perhaps and when the surgeon admits nothing you are at risk for ever for enduring more back pain than ever before or perhaps the patient is given an over dose of anesthetic and they never wake up from their procedure at all. Whatever the case there is danger present and it's even more chilling to learn that in those white coats or behind those scrubs are people just like you and me people who for all we know live live. Of Deceit and violence to get what they think they deserve these people. Although not all bad are sometimes found to be unsuitable for their precarious positions in the field of Medicine. It's too bad that we can't usually tell until they've done something reprehensible. In fact, the evil that can hide in a doctor's coat is often worse and more powerful since it's been given free Reign Over the people in need the hurting patients. They are meant to serve and it's often that these people are not discovered for their crimes until years down the road but power and corruption go hand-in-hand and sometimes just sometimes it surfaces so that the world can see You were listening to devil. We know a true crime podcast, which may contain adult themes explicit language and graphic depictions of violence portions of the show may be traumatic for those under 18. Listener discretion is advised. Everywhere, we look everywhere we go every city every town every neighborhood every street. There is a devil we know this is devil. We know and I am your host Aaron. Life didn't begin easily for Martin macneill born in 1956 and his five siblings. Even Martin's early life was plagued with issues. There were the household Arguments for one which is parents Albert and Lillian had regularly soon the two divorced and although Martin grew up in Camden, New Jersey his dad Albert found himself all the way in Long Beach, California to live as far. Are removed from his ex-wife as possible. As if it wasn't enough to experience an inimical divorce at such an early age paired with the estrangement of his father. He then began to grow up in the so-called slums of Camden his mother Lillian in order to support the family began to sell herself for sex. It was during these transactions that Martin recalls his mother working in house with only a sheet as a partition between her and her six children. But Martin took his adversities in stride in school. He was known for his eccentricities and moodiness. And naturally he excelled In Theater Arts. He also spent much of his time reading another form of escape and it wasn't long after becoming a teenager that Martin resolved to go live with his father Albert in Long Beach. No matter what. He did. It seems that Martin found a means of escape and in fact at age 17, he joined the military telling the recruiters and superiors alike that he was simply a year. Older Martin though did not get to enjoy The Escape of the military for long only two years later. He was discharged as a latent schizophrenic and although mental health wasn't taken seriously enough for treatment during this period of time by the US military they found this that's reason enough to free him of his duty and service. It was during this period of discharge that Martin found comfort and yet one more Escape in one more deviation from the life that was once his he found the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints suffice it to say Martin did not adhere completely to the tenants of this new found religion. And after he attended college and Saint Martin's University in Washington where he uses the Army's extension program to complete an undergraduate degree majoring in psychology and sociology Martin soon found himself causing all sorts of trouble. Martin's Sister Mary lived in Mission Viejo, California where Martin moved after finishing College after that. He began a shopping spree that totaled $35,000 in bad checks closer to a hundred fifty three thousand dollars in today's economy buying everything from diamond rings to numerous pairs of shoes and socks after this moment in the world of crime and subterfuge. Martin was caught and served six months in jail. It was around the same time that Martin met Michelle Marie Summers a fellow LDS church goer and his soon to be wife Michelle who also came from a large family six siblings. All told was described by many as generous and as soft-spoken. She was called Beautiful by many but as a down-to-earth tomboy, she was considered approachable. She grew up with her mother Helen as the primary Homemaker whereas her father like Martin's did not participate much in the rearing of children as a Salesman Michelle's father Milton spent most of his time outside the home. So as an adult Michelle took to her mom's attitude maintaining a particular Devotion to her family Michelle like Martin participated in theater. Her and she maintained an impressive record of Straight A's while being a cheerleader and homecoming queen at Concord High School. Her time abroad in Switzerland as an exchange student also helped shaped her overall School experience. However, her schooling ended with high school and in lieu of attending her dream College Brigham Young University. She modeled during her late teens and early 20s in the same vein. She was a contestant in for beauty pageants winning the title of Miss conquered just a year before meeting Martin macneill for the first time. In 1977. She also made her way to Mission Viejo alongside her mother all the while becoming newly involved with the local Latter Day Saints Church in the area. That church was where she and Martin first crossed paths both attending a single's night event for young Mormons. It was not long before Michelle's family expressed their disapproval claiming that Martin was most likely bad news. Whatever their thoughts though. It didn't stop the two lovebirds from eloping early in 1978. There was of course the legal trouble that Martin had gotten into so after the new marriage Martin began serving his six-month sentence still Michelle remained a stalwart wife despite these early signs of trouble and the warnings from her parents. Besides it wasn't long before Martin was out of jail once more from then on Martin and Michelle worked on building their home life one child at a time. They had biological children to start but soon began to adopt kids as well. In fact, they had begun telling others including their families that the kids they adopted were all from the Ukraine. This was yet another transgression in Deceit by Martin as in reality only one of their adopted children was Ukrainian, In fact, one of the children they adopted was born of their very own biological daughter Vanessa and to hide the extramarital pregnancy. It made sense to take on little ad as their own as well. Martin had more to build than a family though while he was still on probation from the initial sentence. He served Martin had received a letter of acceptance from a medical school in Mexico. But even his career was built on lies from the fake transcripts that he took to both Mexico and to Western University of Health Services in California to the interviews with the VA to determine his eligibility for disability pay Martin took full advantage of this Gil. He seemed to have honed and deceit as a matter of fact Martin lied about his attendance at school and his inability to work which qualified him for at least fifty percent disability and soon after that first interview. And secured a hundred percent disability pay and a hundred percent Social Security pay still it wasn't enough that he had begun to bring home a considerable amount of money each month without working. No Martin for all of his deceit intended to work before and during his attendance at several schools. He first received his license as an osteopath and California and 1984 getting the same license in Utah. Only three years. Later. It was then that Martin began working part-time at Brigham Young Michelle's dream School while getting his law degree, although he graduated from BYU is law program in 1990 his work with our health center continued until there were numerous complaints about him unprofessional conduct misdiagnosis. And worst of all rape allegations began to allocate in 1998. Amidst many of these ongoing complaints Martin left the health center. However in 1999 he Back to work lasting a short three months before being asked to leave permanently. His work continued though Martin became the medical director of the Utah State Developmental Center in the year 2000 appointed by the governor himself. Although he received a lot agree. He did not practice law and in Martin spare time. He worked as a consultant for multiple other medical facilities. He also taught a Sunday school class at the church where he and his family attended all the while sitting on a fresher and fresher mountain of Lies not everything was a matter of Deceit. However other sins pervaded Martin and his interactions with his family and with others namely there was a precedent of violence and violent talk in the McNeil household. Throughout their marriage Martin's deceitful behavior and apparent disregard for the tenants of the church puzzled, Michelle and created trouble for everyone in the house. In fact during the summer of 2000. Martin had been caught looking at pornography but skipped discussing this and the expectations of their religious marriage and a civil way. Instead Martin grabbed a knife and began to threaten killing Michelle and then himself their son. Damian was able to get the knife away from the dear old dad, but not before the screaming Was Heard by a neighbor who decided to call the cops. Anyway, the police came and took Mark to spend the night at a mental health ward. The MacNeil family soon went back to business as usual with the hope that Martin had finished being obscene and violent. Shortly, though the whole family learned that he hadn't finished. In fact his most worrisome behaviors had only just begun. Martin macneill had begun to express an abusive side to his family which amounted to more than just the suicide murder threats that he had made in the moment as he was caught looking at pornography. He started to threaten to leave his family a tactic that proved especially damaging. He also took to saying he no longer loved Michelle and worst of all that he didn't want the adopted kids at all anymore his excessive verbal and mental abuse of Michelle was enough to get Michelle thinking she thought specifically that Martin was having an affair. She was right, but the revelations began to get darker Martin was having more than one Affair of course, but there were some that were more line of the man that Martin really was one such woman was Anna Osborne Walt Hall Whom he started seeing in 2005? Martin awful had pillow talk with Anna as he put it with one session revealing a particularly scary picture of Martin Martin told Anna on one of those times together that in 1986. He had found his brother Rufus bleeding profusely in the bathtub. He was committing suicide then Martin revealed another disturbing fact instead of helping Rufus Martin held him under making sure that if Rufus hadn't already blood out that he drowned instead it was Troubling Discovery for Anna but it was only one of multiple Martin also shared with Anna at one interval that he was capable of causing a person's death to look like a heart attack Anna who herself had dissociative personality disorder did not stick around long in the wake of Martin's apparent issues. So in November of 2005 Martin also found himself seen a nursing student by the name of gypsy Willis. Gypsy states that their relationship turned sexual the following January and that they would see each other at least monthly if not more meeting for lunch or for sex in March of 2007. They kicked up the relationship a notch with Gypsy moving close by and with Martin covering her expenses giving her a debit card to use Gypsy for her part began stalking Michelle unawares while taking methamphetamine so that she could lose weight another appeal to Martin. According to her friends. That wasn't although for Gypsy seem to exhibit a sincere obsession with Michelle, even though Martin told her that they need to cool it with their clandestine relationship to Kerr Michelle's growing suspicions Gypsy still talks sometimes with her roommates about poisoning Martin's wife or cutting her brake lines. It was clear that something was seriously amiss with Gypsy and the relationship she'd built with the man. She knew as Martin macneill as if the affair is weren't enough to Rouse the suspicions of Michelle Martin and the family moved from Orem Utah to the gated community of Pleasant Grove in the spring of 2006 Michelle then told her daughter's The Awful Truth. She thought this move was meant to prepare the family for divorce. There was more to Martin and Michelle's marriage troubles than met the eye. And Michelle sense that the worst was still yet to come. Martin had begun to tell people that he was dying of cancer or multiple sclerosis and he maintained these different stories by walking around with a cane and wearing a surgical boot. He had not been diagnosed though and seemed as though he simply wanted to appear powerless. Between February and March of 2007 Michelle ramped up her effort in getting her lying husband Martin to admit to adultery. He did not relent but instead called her ridiculous offering her a facelift as a gift. He told her that once she got the facelift he would also pay for her to go on a cruise. This seemed to placate Michelle only slightly. She had many questions and she wanted to lose weight before getting the procedure done Martin heard none of it and against her wishes. He set up a facelift consultation for her straight away by late March. Michelle was in her first appointment sitting across. Dr. Scott Thompson, according to the meeting the plan was to have surgical procedures done on her forehead mid-face and lower face. It was a relatively straightforward meeting and so Michelle proceeded in meeting with a physician named. Dr. Wells. Shhhh, whose job it was to ensure that Michelle was in proper shape to be getting the procedure done. Dr. Welsh noticed that Michelle didn't speak much. In fact, it seemed as though Martin had been doing all of the talking for her throughout the appointment answering questions on her behalf. Dr. Welsh then asked to speak with Michelle alone to which Michelle responded by confiding in the doctor. Once Martin had left. She was very depressed and stressed she stated, but she didn't or couldn't elaborate. Dr. Welsh noticed the Michelle very high incidences of blood pressure and he suggested once Martin returned that the couple wait before going through with the surgery. At this suggestion Martin expressed frustration. He stated that he wanted Michelle to have this operation done as soon as possible. It was also during this consultation that the dr. Michelle discussed her history of heart palpitations. At this dr. Welsh also showed concern and administered an EKG on Michelle to ensure that she didn't have any evidence of heart disease. The test did not show any such issues and dr. Welsh's worries were somewhat curbed for the time being as he sent the couple back home. Days later on April 1st, Martin and Michelle attended the final consultation session for the facelift alongside their daughter Alexis, then a first year medical student on the way to the appointment though Michelle through Martin a curveball. She did want to wait until her blood pressure was under control Martin grew angry and response telling Michelle that if she didn't get one now, she wouldn't be able to get a facelift at all. Michelle relented and the couple entered the office to discuss the operation with dr. Thompson once more In this discussion Martin made the recommendation that Michelle receive more medication for pain then is usually prescribed he made the case to dr. Thompson that Michelle couldn't handle pain as well as the typical facelift patient and that the additional medicine would be to her benefit. Dr. Thompson was reluctant. But when Martin insisted that he too was a doctor and that he would be monitoring Michelle's intake of the medicine he relented. It was only after all these consultations that Michelle finally had the surgery her facelift consisted of work in the lower face and in the mid face a lift of the forehead and surgery to her eyelids Michelle spent eight hours under the scalpel and then she stayed overnight for observation the next day April 4th. Alexis was ready and available there to care for Michelle at home. Michelle's eyes were still under bandages after all she would require some time to heal fully. Alexis planned on staying at Michelle side to take care of her even sleeping next to her Dear Mother to make sure she was well-managed Martin though would have none of it the day after coming home Alexis found Michelle to be unresponsive after a cursory check on her. She asked Martin about this in Martin told his daughter that he had accidentally overmedicated Michelle. When Michelle woke, however, she told Alexis a very different story. She said that her husband had kept on feeding her pills until she vomited and she asked her daughter for help. She asked if Alexis would help her feel the medications and learn which ones were which she will want to be sure of what Martin was giving her. She also then request one more thing of her daughter. If anything happens to me make sure it was not your dad. It seems as though Michelle suspected Foul Play and if her story of the pills was true, then Alexis and Michelle certainly had something to worry about still Michelle and her State could do very little and to ensure that she was on the right track. She went back to dr. Thompson for a follow-up appointment on the 6th. Michelle reported that she was still unable to open her eyes due to the swelling but that in itself was still normal for a post-op facelift patient four days later. Alexis was due back to Nevada for medical school and she wants again left her mother in the care of Martin. Michelle had yet another meeting with dr. Thompson this time clearly happy with the results. Michelle had once again become self-sufficient walking around and doing things for herself. She was even largely off. The medications that Martin had taken home to her things. Perhaps were looking up now, perhaps thought Michelle the worst was over. We will be right back after these short messages. They were soon a shift in the wind. In fact the very next day everything changed in the McNeil household. The morning had been normal enough Michelle sat and watched TV and her room and one of her youngest had come in to have a standard conversation with her when Alexis called her later around 8:45 a.m. That morning while Martin had taken the young kids to school and headed off to their Safety Fair Alexis and Michelle had a conversation over the phone where Michelle stated that she was feeling. Well and Alexis did not hear any. Of overmedication, no slurring and no confusion at all. Michelle said she planned to get the kids after school today and Alexis hung up shortly afterward at about 9:15 though. She suddenly received a voicemail from her father dearest Martin was asking Alexis to call her mother and tell her to stay home and in bed that day. It was a strange request but Alexis did as she was asked when she called Michelle though. There was no answer on the other end. Meanwhile, Martin attended a safety fair for the Utah State Development Center acting so belligerent and nervous that one employee at the fair filed a complaint against him. He was weirdly insistent on getting a picture of himself taken at the fair but a few hours later. He went to retrieve his daughter at a from kindergarten there to returned home and a data immediately went to find her mother. She found her. All right, Michelle fully clothed sat in the bathtub her head floating above reddish brown water and covered in a mucus-like substance. Martin soon joined at it in the bathroom where he told her to find a neighbor to help him lift his wife from the tub Adda making a beeline for the helpful neighbor in question found Christie Daniels and asked her to come in and help when Christie offered though Martin burst out that he needed a man's help not hers Christy understanding that the man in the bathroom must be completely distraught went to find a man to help him out. Meanwhile Martin began. Calling 9-1-1 the first time he did. So Martin told the dispatcher that Michelle had fallen in the bathtub. The dispatcher asked if Michelle was conscious to which Martin replied no affirming Norther affirming with her that he himself was a physician. He stated that she was unconscious and underwater. The dispatcher asked Martin if he had gotten her out of the water and according to the dispatcher. He began yelling hysterically that he couldn't lift her so he drain the tub instead. The dispatcher finally asked if he knew CPR and Martin stated that he was doing it already an impossible feat if she was still currently in the bathtub. During the emergency dispatch Martin gave the wrong address any hung up three separate times on the dispatcher due to this responders didn't arrive for over 30 minutes to the scene in this time. Christie was able to retrieve her husband Doug to help Martin lift Michelle from the tub. It was at this time that people reported seeing Martin give mouth-to-mouth CPR to Michelle, although his face was never covered in the mucus that was on her head and her chest never seem to rise and fall. Each breath as is common with rescues in CPR. However, when paramedics arrived their efforts to perform CPR on her got Michelle to regurgitate about 7 Cups total of fluid. It was interesting that this fluid came up when the paramedics did their CPR but that when Martin performed it nothing came of it. However, Martin was more occupied with his yelling while the paramedics attempted to revive Michelle. He yelled. Why did you do this all because of a stupid surgery after attempting CPR on site the paramedics then rushed Michelle to the hospital where they continued resuscitation attempts on her. The doctor stopped attempting to resuscitate her at precisely 12. T 5 p.m. But Martin offered him $10,000 to keep trying regardless at 103. Michelle was pronounced dead. At home Martin was acting as a puppet master between his children. He told his son Damian and Damian is girlfriend to get rid of the pills that Michelle had after the surgery. He said that he couldn't bear to look at them anymore and soon Alexis also arrived Martin told Alexis though that he didn't know what happened to the medication and that the police must have taken it Alexa. So notice not only the missing medication. She also noticed that Michelle's room itself had been cleared and she later came across the Rug a pile of wet towels and clothing and Michelle's belongings all together in the garage. When asked how he found Michelle in the bathtub Martin relayed many different versions of the events that day when he spoke with the paramedics he had said that he had found her hunched over the bathtub with her head inside that scenario though would have not required any assistance when Martin tried to lift her from the tub Martin had yet, another version of the story for people who asked what happened. He told some that she had likely Fallen while preparing a bath for herself while he told others that she passed out first and then fell in Martin told even another story to one of his daughters saying that Michelle had been fully submerged accept her feet. Aida who discovered her in the Daniels the neighboring couple disagreed according to all three of them. Michelle was on her back in the tub and she was slumped down in the water Martin amidst all the confusion did find time to text Gypsy his nursing school paramour the day of Michelle's death the two of them exchanged 15 text and they even had two phone calls one occurred early that morning 6:48 a.m. While the other occurred almost three hours later at 9:26 a.m. It seems that whatever Martin story was there was more to it than he was sharing Martin demanded an immediate medical examination following Michelle's death and according to his daughter Rachel. He was worried there would be a police investigation and that he'd be suspected if they didn't have the autopsy straight away. As Martin requested one autopsy was performed that day after Michelle's death the doctor believed after performing the autopsy that Michelle did die from natural cardiovascular disease after all there was no evidence available to take into consideration because the death was already being considered an accident Martin apparently had nothing to worry about the autopsy also included a toxicology panel reporting many drugs and Michelle system on the day she died. I'd drugs for anxiety and pain as well as sleep aid and a post-surgery sedative or found inside Michelle and the toxicologist present. Dr. Gary Dawson stated that this combination of Valium Percocet Finnegan and Ambien could have a range of side effects on the subject from mild impairment of her cognitive abilities to complete unconsciousness. The doctor then stated that it would be likely that the person would be obtained adore unable to respond constructively to their environment these results though showed that all the drugs were taken approximately an hour before she died that day. According to Alexis Michelle had stopped taking all of these medications. So why on that day was she taking Ambien a sleep aid in the morning? Something was amiss though. It wasn't clear yet what that was two days after the examination. Michelle's funeral was held at the Manila Stake Center on the grounds of the Mount Timpanogos Temple Martin spoke at the funeral mainly talking about himself and only mentioning Michelle and passing during his speech smiling widely. He found himself talking about how weird it was to be a bachelor. Once more Martin even joked about being single at the luncheon that followed the Wrong much to the Chagrin of his older daughter Rachel another strange Occurrence at the funeral was the presence of gypsy. Once again Martin and she had shared several text messages 22, in fact, but Gypsy even attended the funeral service itself and during the course of the funeral for of those texts were sent between the two of them. Incidentally for over a year following his wife's death Martin refuse to place a marker on her grave site. Only after a host of complaints did Martin fashion or marker himself out of concrete placing it a top Michelle's resting place the marker which was a six-foot tall concrete surfboard was considered a nice for by many visitors to the cemetery. However, only a week had passed since Michelle's death before Martin had apparently gathered himself enough to return to work. He began wearing a different wedding ring one that he said was an old ring that he hadn't worn in a while. While at work, he erased all of his emails and all of the searches a strange activity for someone who was not even under investigation for the supposed accidental death of his wife. But that wasn't all that changed for Martin in the coming weeks late April or May he began to attend the temple to pray apparently about getting a new nanny one day as he prayed Gypsy came to him outside the temple stating that she was a nursing student named Julian at this Martin took her phone number and considered her a candidate for the nanny job about which he had been praying while for people applied to be the nanny for Martin only Gypsy or Jillian received an interview and eventually was hired. She moved into Martin's basement and did no nanny duties while living at the McNeil house. Martin would cook in this new nanny simply watched him do so. The two of them would also wind up going away for days at a time. Whatever this woman was. She clearly was not meant to be the new nanny for the McNeil household. However, she was not the only one not doing what she was supposed to Martin himself had begun to act even more strangely than before on May 23rd Alexis. His daughter had been sleeping on the bed in the master bedroom while Martin had been on the couch when Alexis awoke though, she found her father feeling her up rubbing her buttocks inside of her underwear all while licking and kissing her hand Alexis shocked slap Martin's hand away and demanded to know what he was doing. Martin simply responded by saying he was sorry and he gave a flaccid excuse saying that he thought Alexis had been her late mother Michelle later that same day Martin made another comment. He told Alexis that he was glad it was her and not one of the younger kids because he would have gotten in trouble in that case Alexis for fear of her siblings did not wind up leaving after the incident and said she and the other older daughters in the house were kicked out in June after confronting Martin about their mother's death. They asked him whether he had killed her and why he had moved his mistress into the house with them. The girls had already figured out that so-called Jillian was actually Gypsy the known mistress. Michelle had discovered was seeing her husband before she died. Martin cowering under the pressure of the truth called the police to have the young women removed from the house Alexis upon getting kicked out feared even more for the young children trapped with their deviant father and she attempted to get on Martin's good side again to secure custody of the younger siblings what Alexis asked for custody though, Martin stated his intentions to send them off to a family friend that the siblings barely knew. This situation wasn't ideal for the children either. So Alexis threaten Martin telling him she would report him for sexual assault if he didn't relent and give up custody to her. Martin and Gypsy had made a lot of Headway in their Twisted new life together and Martin even proposed to her. Although Gypsy had gone engagement ring shopping months before shortly following Michelle's death. Martin had Rewritten his will to give each of his kids one dollar leaving the rest of his possessions to Gypsy under the false name. She had been hired with Martin and Gypsy even went as far as getting a marriage license, although they never actually sealed the deal it was during this time that Martin's adopted daughter Giselle left for the Ukraine to visit her biological sister. However, once she landed Martin stopped returning giselle's calls essentially straining her there for months while her family arranged for a translator that they had used years ago during her adoption. Giselle who had no money was living in squalor after her so-called father had begun ignoring her calls. It was truly a nefarious but it seemed as though Martin wanted to sell out of the way for a reason but more of Martin's plans Came Crashing Down around him as Alexis reported his sexual assault on September 1st 2007. As a result Martin was fired from his job as he was charged with one count of forcible sexual abuse and one count of witness tampering. In April of 2008 the charges were dropped on January 15 2009. The charges were brought forth again, but the witness tampering charge was later dropped. While the sexual abuse case was pending Martin was charged with the murder of Michelle McNeil. Upon this arraignment Martin asked for the sexual abuse trial to occur after the murder trial the court agreed and Martin's trial was set for July 2014. He was later found guilty of forcible sexual abuse, which is a second-degree felony. He was sentenced to 1 to 15 years on this account and Alexis eventually earned custody of the three adopted girls aiming to protect them from whatever harm Martin could do. After Martin's arrest Alexis also changed her last name to her mother's maiden name Summers. It was time to Mark the separation from her and her deranged sick father. However, Alexis was not the only one to have grievances against Martin Gypsy herself came forward in November claiming that she was a victim of domestic abuse Martin know when speaking with Gypsy and the presence of a notary public was able to get the complaint recanted and dismissed dominating the conversation as they went. In fact when the investigators looked at the dismissal they notice the misspelling of gypsies name causing them to instead believe that Martin was the one who wrote the dismissal. As for the murder of Michelle things first became a little more Lucid at the Utah County Attorney's Office in 2008 when Alexis and Michelle sister Linda convinced the police to look into the death, they wound up investigating it as a possible homicide and one investigator first uncovered a plan between Martin and Gypsy to steal the identity of Giselle the young adoptee that Martin had left stranded in the Ukraine for months. In the summer of 2008 one of the McNeil daughters went to Martin to discuss her struggle with drugs. Martin suggested she kill herself this and the newly started investigation spurred one more involvement from the medical examiner's and although the original examiner had recently passed away another doctor stepped in to review the autopsy report made over a year ago. Dr. Todd gray upon reviewing the autopsy report stated that he would not amend the cause of death since there was nothing in the report that conclusively pointed to homicide. It wasn't until October 2010 after hearing all the other evidence and circumstantial evidence against Martin that he amended the cause of death to include the possibility that the drugs in her system had played a significant part in Michelle's death that wasn't the last word on the medical condition. However, One more Doctor. Dr. Joshua / / reviewed the autopsy to determine that it was highly possible that Michelle died of drowning due to the amount of water. She had inhaled Dr. / / listed the cause of death as undetermined leaving the floor wide open for investigators to play out their scenarios of the day of Michelle's death. In 2009 the Paradigm shifted once more as January concluded in a document for nine counts on Martin's part and 11 on gypsies for identity theft it seems as if they had succeeded in using giselle's identity to create fake IDs to open bank accounts under the name Julian McNeil and to use Michelle's funeral date as the wedding date for their counterfeit marriage. Martin had even assumed the identity of Michelle's attorney to deed the house, which was in Michelle's name to himself in March of the same year Martin plead guilty to identity theft and he began serving his four-year sentence in August that September. He also pled guilty to State forgery and fraud charges earning a 3-year sentence that would run concurrently with his Federal sentence for identity theft. Following his three years. He was to have six years of probation that same month Gypsy was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for the identity theft she committed. She was forced to start her sentence early as prosecutors had reason to believe she would flee the country if they didn't enforce it immediately. Gypsy also received a sentence of three years probation when she was charged with State fraud and December of the same year the following January Damien committed suicide by overdosing on prescription drugs and in 2011 Gypsy was released from federal prison and returned to Utah. Over a year later Martin returned to his home in Pleasant Grove from federal prison, but it wasn't a long respite by the time Martin had been released. The investigated team had gathered everything they needed to put Martin away for much much longer. On August 24th, 2012 police felt like they finally had enough evidence against Martin Martin was charged with the first-degree murder and obstruction of justice the trial began on October 17, 2013 and Provo Utah the prosecution theorized that Martin killed Michelle to take up a new life with another woman Martin drug Michelle with the post-surgery medication, then either left her in the bathtub to drown or he held her head underwater. Martin as a physician himself knew the combination of medications he gave Michelle would be hard to detect during an autopsy. It was an almost perfect murder, but Martin's erratic behavior on the day of Michelle's death and after was Dripping with motive, The defense told the jury that yes, Martin had an affair, but that didn't mean he killed Michelle. They argue that Michelle died of natural causes that she had a heart attack and fell head first into the bathtub. The defense also stated that Martin could not have been at home at the time of Michelle's death since he was at the Safety Fair. During the trial 5 jailhouse informants testified the first and foremost testified that Martin told him he gave Michelle some oxy and sleeping pills. Then got her in the bathtub where he held her head under the water Martin told the first informant that he killed Michelle because she was in the way. The second informant testified that when he asked Martin if the rumors of killing his wife were true Martin said no one could prove he murdered her. The third and format testified that when he asked Martin if he killed his wife Martin said no, but if he did there was no evidence. The fourth and format testified that when he asked Martin about how he killed his wife Martin said the bitch drowned. V and Foreman said Martin told him he was getting away with murdering his wife and that he was glad the bitch is dead. After deliberating for 11 hours, Martin was found guilty of murder and obstruction of justice on November 9th, 2013. He was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for the murder and one to five years in prison for obstruction of justice. His first parole hearing was scheduled for 2052 in December of 2013 Martin tried to commit suicide with razors, but was interrupted on April 9th. 2017 60 year old Martin macneill was found dead in the prison yard. Of the Olympus facility the death was ruled a suicide. He had used a hose and natural gas line to kill himself in an area where no cameras could see what he was doing. It's often a dark notion to consider that death is around every corner you consider the likelihood of a car crash or an aneurysm. It's quite show-stopping to say the least but people in every Walk of Life know the cost of living. It's that no matter what you can stop living at any given time. When you realize that the same odds are allotted to all of us. It makes life much easier to live through being ignorant of the dangers out. There does not increase your quality of life. It simply makes your demise more likely. By knowing what to expect around the corner your life can be made much richer with this simple yet intelligent reasoning if it happens. It happens. There are things you can prepare for such as when you are taught to cross the street when done appropriately crossing the street the right way can save many people from getting killed by oncoming vehicles in the same way knowing that devilish characters. Wait on the other side of the door help someone way their decisions and prepare for the unexpected without any knowledge of the evils out there people can't act against it. The McNeil's learned of evil and saw the signs though. They weren't able to save Michelle. They Able to honor her memory by bringing her real killer to Justice before others were hurt more seriously in Martin's attempt to get the things he wanted. It's thanks to their knowledge that the McNeil children were able to survive and can live somewhat normal lives now. So remember there's strength and understanding you should learn all you can from the dangers around you so that you'll be able to fight back when the time comes for some it will come and you simply need to make sure you're well prepared. We would like to shout out our newest Patron Emily from Utah. Thank you so much for joining our patreon. Your donation means a lot to us. Also, I'd like to shout out a couple people that went to devil. We know podcast.com and hit the Donate button. That is gabo from Phoenix, Arizona. Thank you so much, gabo. Also Melissa from Canton, Ohio. Thank you so much for your donation. 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Put together a doctor with schizophrenia and an affair with an unstable nursing student, what do you get? For the MacNeill family, it was nothing good at all. In fact, Martin MacNeill's wife, Michele, didn't even make it out alive.Written by David Young, Researched by Haley GrayDevilweknowpodcast.comPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/DevilweknowpodcastTwitter: https://twitter.com/devilweknowpodFacebook:  https://www.facebook.com/devilweknowpodcast/ SOURCES:http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/09/21381212-utah-doctor-martin-macneill-guilty-of-killing-wife-leaving-her-in-tubhttps://www.deseretnews.com/article/865590264/Jury-convicts-Martin-MacNeill-of-murdering-his-wife-in-2007.html?pg=allhttps://web.archive.org/web/20131109210505/http://www.hlntv.com/interactive/2013/10/24/macneill-trial-timeline?hpt=hln10_1https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865590296/Martin-MacNeill-timeline.html?pg=allhttps://www.deseretnews.com/article/865685284/Martin-MacNeills-prison-death-officially-ruled-a-suicide.htmlhttps://www.insideedition.com/new-details-emerge-2020-examination-utah-mother-michele-macneills-murder-53701https://abc.go.com/shows/2020/episode-guide/2019-06/14-The-Perfect-Nanny https://web.archive.org/web/20131029060614/http://www.hlntv.com/article/2013/10/24/macneill-martin-doctor-wife-murder-utah-rachel-daughterhttps://web.archive.org/web/20131119070552/http://www.hlntv.com/article/2013/10/15/what-really-killed-michele-macneillhttps://web.archive.org/web/20131105005125/http://www.hlntv.com/article/2013/11/01/martin-macneill-murder-trial-wife-drug-drown-experthttps://web.archive.org/web/20131103143126/http://www.hlntv.com/article/2013/10/30/macneill-martin-doctor-wife-murder-alexis-daughterhttps://web.archive.org/web/20131028013734/http://www.hlntv.com/article/2013/10/25/macneill-martin-doctor-murder-wife-mistress-gypsyhttps://web.archive.org/web/20131121141237/http://www.hlntv.com/article/2013/10/17/martin-macneill-doctor-murder-wife-utah-live-blog https://web.archive.org/web/20131114111915/http://www.hlntv.com/slideshow/2013/09/30/doctor-martin-macneill-murder-trial-key-playershttps://www.deseretnews.com/article/700088382/Martin-MacNeill-Was-his-wife-Micheles-death-accidental-or-was-it-murder.html?pg=allhttps://casetext.com/case/state-v-macneill-6?q=martin%20macneill&p=1&tab=keyword&jxs=&sort=relevance&type=casehttps://casetext.com/case/state-v-macneill-4?q=martin%20macneill&p=1&tab=keyword&jxs=&sort=relevance&type=casehttps://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=58428717&itype=CMSID https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/deseretnews/obituary.aspx?n=michele-marie-macneill&pid=87190618https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/10/doctor-who-drugged-his-wife-left-her-to-die-in-bathtub-found-dead-at-utah-prison/?utm_term=.41e49ddffdf0https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=58416036&itype=CMSIDThe Stranger She Loved by Shanna Hogan https://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/martin-macneills-frantic-911-call-wife-22628499 