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Paul Bersebach / AP
Nanette Packard waits for opening statements to begin in her trial in Santa Ana, Calif. on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012.
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A woman was convicted Monday of arranging to have a former National Football League player kill her millionaire boyfriend more than a decade ago to collect on a $1 million life insurance policy and other cash.
Jurors found Nanette Ann Packard, 46, guilty of first-degree murder in the 1994 shooting death of Newport Beach mogul William McLaughlin and that she committed the crime for financial gain.
Former New England Patriots linebacker Eric Naposki was convicted of killing McLaughlin in a separate trial.
According to the Orange County Register, the two-week trial drew scores of court watchers including true-crime authors and producers for two television documentary shows.
Kimberly McLaughlin, the victim's daughter, clasped her hands and whispered "thank you" to jurors as they exited the courtroom in Santa Ana.
"This is in honor of my dad and all of the many people this woman has used and abused," she told reporters after the verdict. "It's a lot of closure for us."
Packard, who wore a white sweater and had her long wavy hair pulled back in a ponytail, sat with her back to dozens of McLaughlin's supporters in the courtroom. Her attorney, Mick Hill, briefly patted her back after the verdict was read.
Prosecutors portrayed Packard as a femme fatale who had manipulated McLaughlin while living with him -- and dating other men --as she was stealing his money, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Prosecutors accused Packard of convincing Naposki to kill McLaughlin, giving him a key to the victim's house and telling him when he would be home. She stood to collect $1 million on a life insurance policy and receive other benefits if McLaughlin died, authorities said.
Packard ended up getting at least $500,000 from McLaughlin's estate and by writing checks to herself from his account, said Matt Murphy, deputy district attorney. On the day before the murder, Packard wrote a $250,000 check from McLaughlin's account and deposited it into her personal account, authorities said.
"In this case, we really had two motives: there was love and there was also money," Murphy told reporters, adding that Packard filed a civil suit against McLaughlin's family after his death in a bid to receive more cash. "She's a greedy thief who committed this murder for money."
Packard and Naposki are each scheduled to be sentenced on May 18. Both face a sentence of life in prison without parole, Murphy said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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What a worthless bitch. Good thing that the state of California is locking her up, but I'm skeptical about how long it'll be until she's offered parole in the future to alleviate the state budget, regardless of her supposed to be in prison for life.
Very poor reporting... no explanation for why it took so long to convict this haggard witch and her boy friend.
People who are released early for budgetary concerns are non-violent offenders. Murder makes you ineligible.
that's good. violent offenses are very bad.
I have to say, I was wondering how such an ugly (inside and out) woman landed herself a millionaire, then I found this old picture from a CBS 48 hours Mystery: http://thelasttradition.blogspot.com/2011/10/sexy-oc-housewife-nanette-johnston.html
She was actually hot once. Well, prison clearly suits her.
Once upon a time. But now there's something going on with her nose. It's creeping me out.
Looked at the earlier picture - wow this new picture is awful. Crazy eyes, crazy nose! I wondered too why this millionaire was with this woman? Not that looks are everything, but she is creepy, so there had to be looks involved!
I know of a place where 200 people were cut loose!!!
Chances are she won't even serve 5 years. They'll release her on some BS thing and she'll be back at it, finding another guy to string along and then convince they need to die..
They'll release her on some BS thing, and then Obama will sign a law giving her a million dollars and a yacht. Then the yacht will capsize in a freak storm, and she'll be saved by Ashton Kutcher, who just happens to be nearby. They will marry (AK likes the older ladies) and Obama will attend the wedding and declare the day a National Holiday.
I mean, if you're going to fantasize, why not go all out and have fun with it?
The real chances are.... she'll die in prison. That's where I'd place MY money in a bet.
Remember... she killed a RICH guy. She'll serve every day of her sentence.
STUPID WOMAN!!!! Your greed cost you everything. Now instead of "living the good life" you're going to be sitting in a prison cell for the rest of your life.
A million must have gone a lot further back then. Not worth killing for now.
Never worth taking someone's life just for money. May she rot in prison for a very long time.
If they are guilty they should never be free again.
Karma is always a bitch!
Much like the Defendant...
Big fingers Bertha gonna have fun with her.
horrible story. Im glad she is getting what she deserves. Anyone who kills another person sould go to jail for life. Weird the way the story says "she had someone kill him" as if that person doesn't have any will or say in the matter, he just follows what she says.
Did she donate all the money to a noble cause?
Can it be?
Some "former member" of the National FELON league involved in a FELONY?
Personally, I am absolutely "shocked" that ANY... so called "professional athlete" could EVER be involved in any type of crime? NOT! Well, well, well... it is just another very normal and very average day for the National FELON League.
Just a group of what some morons actually attempt to "let off the hook" and suggest that these are men who could be considered "respectable criminals"...
These are the ones who represent those high moral standards of being "embarrassingly Illiterate" after 12 years of education, plus 4 or 5 YEARS on a University campus... yet still unable to actually ENUNCIATE or complete a single sentence in English, any better than men who arrived in the USA from some foreign country last week?
Then, there are those other outstanding moral qualities those FELONS seem to excel at, such as Lying, Cheating, Drug Dealing, Robbery, Wife Beating, Manslaughter, Animal Electrocution and Mutilation and my favorite, "a player actually shooting himself in a night club".
But, as everyone knows... they got hos in lots a areas codes.
Yes sir! This entire incident will come as "nothing of real importance" to all those brain-dead, neanderthals parents hoping their son grows up to be a World Class FELON, worthy of awards in the National FELON League !
Why this article is even called "news" is absurd. It's just another day in the life of a FELON.
It is about time the NFL began issuing "orange jump suits" and "black and white striped PJ's" for uniforms.
The only thing missing is there names across the back.
Wow!!! Not a football fan I see. Did you get beat out of a scholarship or something?
Probably not, probably just sick of seeing scum bag juicers making lots of money they don't have coming and scoring lots of hot chicks that a decent man doesn't have a shot at because he lives a clean life and ain't an illiterate thug.
It gets to regular men these days. They were raised to be gentlemenly, get a good job, provide a stable safe home environment and get a pretty little wife to give it all to. Then, the pretty lil' wife gets bored with her safe pristine life and fks some thug. They break up, she moves in with the thug who beats her, fks around on her, spends what lil' money she has on Xbox games. She leaves him and goes back to the husband, apologizes, says she doesn't know what she was thinking and then starts fkn around on him with a new thug.
Decent men are sick of this and women wonder why they end up alone in their 40's talking to cats.
Fortunately I married a stripper and I am an alpha male and thus never attracted the user btches anyway. I can still feel bad for my beta male friends though, they are nice guys and they get done wrong just because they aren't exciting. Us alpha guys ain't really that exciting either. You stupid women out there need to stop taking tv and movies so seriously. Most of us men with that 'edge' are not good men. Heck, I had to marry a stripper to find the right woman to settle me down. For most of you women out there, you will NEVER find the bad boy who will settle down for just you. That is a myth and NO you are not special enough to have it happen to you.
Case in point: do you ever bring a hot young stripper home to share with your husband? NO. This is one of the reasons you will never score and keep the alpha male. You just ain't that cool btches.
Speedy....
This article is called "news" because a wealthy person got killed.
For every felon the NFL produces, it produces to 2 Jim Kelly's. You're nuts to paint all NFL players with the same broad brush.
Thousands of NFL players have donated hundreds of millions of dollars since they started earning the big money over the past 30 years. Sorry your Dolphins had such a bad season, but lighten up on classifying all NFL players the same way.
too bad she didnt know ray lewis. he would have worked out a plea agreement to escape the murder conviction, just like the last time he murdered a guy
hang er high !!! don't put her in prison....i don't feel like paying for someone to eat 3 squares and smellin her own stinkin farts !!!
This took place in 1994. It is 2012. What ever happened to the right to a speedy trial? I'm disturbed that this took this long. Let's presume that someone was actually innocent of charges. The judicial system can completely ruin a person's life by falsely accusing someone and then taking 18 years to try them.
I'm more disturbed by this than I am of the actual woman in this story.
I wondered the same thing. The article doesn't explain why, it doesn't even say where she's been the past 18 years, in lockup or parole, or what.
As the British would say, she looks like a regular "See You Next Tuesday". Give her the chair! Oh, that's right, that's been abolished. Give her the needle!
Ah, the aging rich baby boomer male hooking up with the younger piece after ditching the older not so hot anymore original wife.... and then he gets wasted by the new girlfriend for his money cause she decides fkn him for cash is just too icky... an age old story.
Stupid old boomer men, do you really think these women want anything from you but money. NO NO NO.
Pathetic. Stop franchising boomer men and accept the fact that you are not and never will be again young and virile. That sht is dead and gone, kinda like your ability to fk without a lil' blue pill.
Pathetic, oops sorry, already said that.
Signed,
Not your friend Xer.
Two men ruined their lives due to this woman. What happened to common sense or good judgment?
Crappy people meet greed and this is what you get.
Seems like the ROI on this crime was a lot worse than if she had just tried to leverage a long term relationship out of the guy. What was it she planned to buy anyway that her sugar daddy couldn't have gotten her? She could have held out a few years, maybe gotten a really nice house or condo, nice car, some jewelry, then ended the relationship or let it run it's course and been on her way a free woman.
Most criminals just don't seem to think in the long term.
It was the constant s e x he wanted I'm sure. A fine young lil' thing with an aged old boomer, just the thought of it makes me pukish. How do you think it made her feel havin' that old wrinkly thing on top of her humpin' away.
This is impossible!
Athletes are heroes and role models and upstanding citizens well worth the full ride college scholarships, multimillion dollar contracts, and the admiration of children everywhere!
Surely there must be a mistake! No way would an ex professional athlete do something like this!
They're heroes!
Too bad you don't actually know what you're talking about. Ray Lewis was charged with & pled guilty to obstruction of justice. Lewis' companions on the night in question were charged, tried and aquitted of murder in 2000. Get it straight.
Yikes, and I thought my ex was mean.