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Chronology

Oct. 29, 1999	Dirk and Mabel "May" Greineder take out $500,000 life insurance policies on each other.
Oct. 31, 1999, early morning	The two set out for a morning walk at Morses Pond in Wellesley, Mass. Mabel Greineder is bludgeoned with a hammer and stabbed with a knife. Her husband later claims that the two separated and that he found Mabel's body.
Oct. 31, 1999, 8:56 a.m.	Dirk Greineder calls police on his cellular phone reporting that his wife had been beaten. Police arrive minutes later and pronounced Mabel Greineder, beaten at the scene within minutes and that state police arrived within the hour. Greineder was pronounce dead on the scene.
Nov. 1, 1999	Newly widowed Dirk Greineder calls a prostitute to arrange a tryst, according to prosecutors. Police execute a search warrant at the Greineders' home.
November 1999	Grand jury begins convening weekly to hear evidence against Dirk Greineder.
Nov. 12, 1999	Police execute a second search warrant in Greineder's home and car. Among their findings are drawings of the Morses Pond area, a blood-stained umbrella, a box of condoms and his computers.
Feb. 29, 2000	A grand jury indicts Dr. Dirk Greineder for his wife's murder. Shortly after, he is arrested in his Brookline medical practice and booked for murder.
March 1, 2000	Greineder is arraigned and held without bail.
March 8, 2000	Greineder's medical license is suspended.
May 21, 2001	Trial begins in Norfolk County court.

Affluent Massachusetts physician Dirk Greineder is convicted of murdering his wife after his secret life — of pornography and prostitutes — came to light

Prosecution witnesses

Defense witnesses

Porn Motion
State asks for permission to bring out evidence of Greineder's "prior bad acts" in an attempt to formulate a motive for murder

Porn Order
This decision about what evidence will be admitted reveals Greineder's other life filled with phone conversations with call girls, steamy e-mails and Internet pornography

Serial Killer Motion
In this motion, the defense suggests that Mabel Greineder — the third homicide victim found in a Norfolk County park in less than year — was murdered by a serial killer

Indictment
A grand jury indicted Greineder on Halloween 1999 for beating his wife Mabel until she was dead

Search Affidavit
In this document, a police officer outlines the facts in the case, including the evidence against Greineder, to obtain a search warrant for his home and van.

Defense Rulings
The court rules on topics ranging from blood spatter evidence to alleged statements made by the victim in this order filed in response to defense motions.

Discovery Order
Court addresses issues ranging from credit cards that were seized during a police search that the defendant wants returned to his request for bail.

911 Call
In the frantic moments after his wife was killed, Dirk Greineder calls 911 from his car phone.