Eric Naposki and Nanette Packard McNeal Killed Her Boyfriend

[RaVen Blackehart]

A former professional football player and his ex-girlfriend have been charged in the killing of her wealthy boyfriend for money, a breakthrough in a cold case dating to 1994.
Officials say Nanette Packard McNeal gave Eric Naposki a key to Bill McLaughlin's house.

Eric Naposki and Nanette Packard McNeal face the possibility of life sentences over the shooting of Bill McLaughlin, according to the Orange County, California, district attorney.

Authorities said Packard McNeal persuaded her ex-boyfriend to kill McLaughlin so she could claim a $1 million life insurance policy, inherit $150,000 and get the right to live in his beach house for a year.

She gave Naposki a key to McLaughlin's house and information about when he would be home, officials said Wednesday.

Naposki shot the victim six times, then went to work at a nearby nightclub where he was a bouncer, according to authorities.

Packard McNeal met McLaughlin after she ran a personal ad that said, "I know how to take care of my man if he knows how to take care of me," the district attorney said in a statement. He supported her financially when they were dating and bought her a beach house, authorities said.

Packard McNeal has been jailed once for writing checks to herself from McLaughlin's account without his knowledge, including a $250,000 check on the day he was killed. She pleaded guilty to that crime in 1996 and was jailed for a year.

The Orange County officials said new evidence prompted the arrests of the two suspects, who were charged with special circumstances murder for financial gain.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/21/...est/index.html

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Nanette Ann Packard, a Southern California woman convicted in the 1994 shooting death of her millionaire live-in boyfriend, William Francis McLaughlin, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Packard convinced her then lover, former NFL linebacker Eric Naposki, to commit the killing, prosecutors said.

Packard, 46, was sentenced Friday in Orange County Superior Court. Prosecutors said Packard stood to collect on a $1 million life insurance policy on McLaughlin plus $150,000 and free rent for a year at one of his homes if he died.

McLaughlin was shot nine times in the torso with a 9 mm handgun in his kitchen in December 1994.

Naposki was convicted of first-degree murder last July and is awaiting sentencing.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_1...aits-sentence/