Entwistle told the police he returned him from doing errands on Jan. 20, 2006, and found his wife and daughter lying together in bed, dead from gunshot wounds. He said he pulled a heavy comforter over them, and returned to England distraught, without calling the police.

Prosecutors say searches of Entwistle’s computer records from the months before the killings showed he had looked online for escort services, and had researched methods of murder and suicide.

Matterazzo said Entwistle called him from England the day after Hopkinton police found the bodies and in a “whimpering” voice told him that he had discovered his wife and daughter fatally shot in their bed three days earlier.

“He said, ’Hi, Joe. I don’t know how things got like this,’ “ Matterazzo recalled Entwistle saying.

“I asked him, ’Neil, did you do this or do you know who did this?’ “ Matterazzo said.

“He said, ’No, I do not.’”

Matterazzo said Entwistle also told him that there were many reporters at his parents’ house in England and “that he was concerned that everybody was pointing the finger at him.”
Entwistle also said that news reports about him searching Internet sex sites were “ridiculous,” Matterazzo said.

Matterazzo also testified about taking Entwistle target shooting with him twice during the fall of 2005. During the first outing, he said he showed Entwistle how to load and fire several guns, including the .22-caliber revolver authorities say Entwistle used to kill his wife and daughter.

During one of the phone calls Entwistle made from England, he talked about the guns, Matterazzo said.

“He mentioned a couple of times about the fact that he knew I had guns in the house,” Matterazzo said. “I asked him, ’Why do you care that I had guns in the house?’ "

The prosecutor asked Matterazzo what Entwistle’s response was.

“Nothing,” he said.