According to People, on the day of his death in 1994, Bill McLaughlin had just gotten home from a trip to Las Vegas. Not long after, his son — who was upstairs at the time, while McLaughlin was downstairs in the kitchen — heard gunshots. He rushed to investigate and found his millionaire father, wounded.
According to Heavy, the murder caused great concern for local residents but, ultimately, the case went cold. It wasn’t until 2009 when investigators focused on Nanette Packard — who also goes by the name Nannette Johnson in some instances — and Eric Naposki, with warrants subsequently issued for their arrests.
Packard was still living in California at the time of her arrest, but Naposki had spent years after the murder playing football abroad but was living in Connecticut when he was arrested by authorities.
Prosecutors made the case that the murder was the result of a plot to collect on McLaughlin’s $1-million-dollar life insurance policy. They also considered a second motive: that McLaughlin, who knew Naposki only as a friend of Packard’s, may have been close to learning the truth of their relationship.
