Because his daughter persevered: Utah Doctor Charged With Drowning, Drugging Wife 5 Years Ago

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Utah Doctor Charged With Drowning, Drugging Wife 5 Years Ago

By ALYSSA NEWCOMB (@alyssanewcomb) and ANTHONY CASTELLANO
Aug. 26, 2012

A Utah doctor who was recently freed from prison faces murder and obstruction of justice charges relating to the death of his wife five years ago.

Police arrested Martin MacNeill on Friday and booked him into the Utah County Jail. The doctor and former Mormon Sunday school teacher served three years in a Texas federal prison for fraud and was released in July.

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MacNeill's daughter, Alexis Somers, had long advocated for police to reopen the case, believing her father was responsible for murdering her mother.

A search warrant filed last year lays out the seemingly perfect motive: Martin MacNeill's alleged affair with Gypsy Willis, who moved into the family's home as a "nanny" two weeks after Michele's death. The warrant alleges that MacNeill "intentionally overdosed" his wife after she had plastic surgery because she approached him about the alleged affair.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/utah-doctor-arrested-murder-wife-years-ago/story?id=17082904#.UDtILqO04eM



Thank goodness the now deceased mother said something to her daughter before the mother died, or a murder might still be walking around free, but I have to wonder why the mother did not leave the father before her worst fear materialized.

Question: Given his moving his mistress in two weeks after his wife's death, why did the daughter have to work so hard and long to get the authorities to do their job?