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Nanette Johnston Packard McNeal is set to go on trial in November for the December 1994 murder of Orange County, Calif., multimillionaire Bill McLaughlin.
Bill McLaughlin met the much-younger Nanette through a magazine ad she placed looking for a wealthy, older man. Within months of meeting McLaughlin, Nanette brought her two young children to live with him. He provided her with a generous allowance and a lavish lifestyle. The couple were soon engaged and McLaughlin made Nanette a beneficiary of a million-dollar life insurance policy.
Nanette Johnston with Bill McLaughlin. Nanette is scheduled to go on trial for McLaughlin's 1994 murder in November 2011.
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UPDATE Former NFL Player, Ex-Lover Heading to Trial for 1994 Cold Case Murder of Bill McLaughlin
Nearly sixteen years after the murder of Newport Beach multimillionaire Bill McLaughlin , police have charged two suspects - McLaughlin's ex-girlfriend and her former lover, a former NFL linebacker.
Both Nanette Packard McNeal and Eric Naposki, who played with the Indianapolis Colts and New England Patriots, are awaiting trial after pleading not guilty at last year's preliminary hearing, reports KTLA.
Naposki is facing one felony count murder while McNeal is charged with one felony count of murder for financial gain in the December 1994 shooting death of the 55-year-old millionaire.
Prosecutors told The Los Angeles Times McNeal would have received $1 million in life insurance and $150,000 from McLaughlin's will in the event of his death.
Newport Beach officials are looking to reinstate former police Det. Thomas Voth who had been retired for fourteen years.
Voth who was the lead detective in the December 15, 1994 murder has spent countless uncompensated hours helping Orange County prosecutor Matt Murphy prepare for trial, and will most likely be "required to perform additional pre-trial preparation and be present during the entire trial," reports the Times
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Cold case brought to justice.
UPDATE: Girlfriend guilty of millionaire murder
OC Register reports Orange County jury deliberates for three hours before convicting Nanette Johnston of special circumstances murder for the shooting death of her wealthy boyfriend in 1994.
Nanette Johnston, 46, enters a courtroom where an Orange County jury handed down a guilty verdict with special circumstances in Santa Ana, Calif. on Monday, January 23, 2012, for the murder of her millionaire boyfriend, William McLaughlin on December 15, 1994. Prosecutors contend she put her ex-NFLer lover, Eric Naposki up to the murder for financial gain. Naposki was convicted last year of special circumstances and is awaiting sentences. Johnston, 46, faces a potential life term in prison without the possibility of parole.
The femme fatale at the center of a love triangle was convicted of special circumstances murder Monday for convincing her young lover to kill her rich, older boyfriend in 1994 for financial gain.
Nanette Johnston, 46, showed no reaction when court clerk Laura Hoyle read the verdicts: guilty of first-degree murder and guilty of the special circumstance of committing murder for financial gain.
The nine-woman, three-man jury in Superior Court Judge William Froeberg's court deliberated for about three hours before reaching the verdicts.
She now faces a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole at her sentencing on May 18.
Johnston was convicted of orchestrating the murder of William McLaughlin, 55, the health care entrepreneur she was living with in his expensive Balboa Coves bayfront home near Lido Village.
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