He was a well-known allergist and specialist in childhood asthma. By 1998, he was director of clinical allergy at Brigham and Women's Hospital, one of the best-known hospitals in Boston and one of the nation's top research facilities. To explain bloodstains and other evidence, Greineder told police he and his wife had bloody noses the morning of the killing. He also said his wife had given him a back rub that day, an explanation for why his skin cells would be under her fingernails, Grundy said in court. Greineder's children, Kirsten, Colin and Britt, have stood by him.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin today.
The trial is expected to last three to four weeks. Greineder's attorney, Martin Murphy, has asked the judge to allow jurors to hear about two unsolved slayings as part of a defense theory that Greineder's wife was the victim of a serial killer. The judge did not immediately rule on the request. Something to celebrate.