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>> a good career >> did you talk about that wit him? >> yes, he told me to study hard. >> what do you want your mom s no about your father >> that he was a good person he would always want to do things he would take me out when he had something to do. >> you are the apple of his eye? >> yes >> we love to be with him? >> yes [crying] >> two families and the great, fertile valle of california. one of them worth millions and the other? far more ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello, i'm andrea canning
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and this is dateline >> she can lie to you, mak love to, kill you, all in th same week. and not even cry at th funeral. >> she was living that dream california lifetime. you talk about housewives of orange county, she could'v been on the show she wrapped him around the figure, just like europe s many men around the figure >> she had it all. waterfront home, fancy cars, millionaire boyfriend. quite the life, until -- >> the shots were sets of two. he saw his attacker. >> her lover gunned down who wanted him dead? >> nanette johnston would no have done it, because there wa no financial gain for her. >> what about her secret friend? the former nfl linebacker. >> you lie to them, for on thing? >> i did >> the mystery was unsolved. then came a prosecutor who too on big waves and cold cases. could he find the key to thi one. >> this is not just a motive
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this is a motive on steroids ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello and welcome t "dateline" a gated community. a glamorous setting where th wealthy residents could feel safe but it was not safe from one multimillionaire, murdered i the kitchen of his waterfron house. police had suspects but th evidence was onl circumstantial that case grew cold. could it be that the key to th mystery, rather, two keys, wer right there at the front door? here is keith morrison wit "deadly trust" >> there is a place, call it a pot of gold at the end o ambition of the american dream. a place the few and the luck builder mentions by the sea. newport beach, orange county california were the most unexpected event would be
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murder >> things like this rarely happen in newport beach, let alone in an area that is a secure as this area. >> let alone involving peopl like this. attractive, charismatic, livin large. like nanette johnston packar mcneal >> she had a beautiful home. she drove an expensive car she was living that drea california lifestyle you talk about "real housewive of orange county", she could'v been on the show >> yes, in fact she told frenc she turned down an offer to be on that show about over the top access in orange county. though she did end up on a t show called "american thunder" about motorcycles. showing off her own access including a bike she bought fo $50,000. >> what's your say favorit part of the bike >> i love the way it looks >> and then there was eric naposki. ex football player, personal trainer, wannabe actor, wh
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starred in and never aired reality show called "newport 40". that here is where the sho ends and the real begins because of what happened i that house, behind the gates, long time eagle. it was december 15th, 1994 9 pm >> the shots were pattern in sets of two. two shots. two shots. a pause. and then two shots >> detective tom voth arrive to find a millionaire dead o his floor. his name was bill mclaughlin 55 years old nice guy, deeply religious and a true believer in the american dream a man who had made his to come through. kind of a self made guy, right >> absolutely. yes. >> bill, said his daughter jenny, was the first in hi family to go to college. the first to found a company first to end up with millions.
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not someone you would thin would wind up murdered, bu here he was. >> you could tell there was no a physical struggle. they wear things knocked off counters things like that >> you could tell, said both,. bill mclaughlin saw a coming saw his. keller >> one if his movements was to put his hand up and try to block a shot he got shot through. the underside of a finger. so, he saw his attacker. >> now voth needed to figure out who was that last person bill mclaughlin saw? >> you are trying to tak everything in and you're tryin to remember as much as you can right down what you feel i important. what is going to come up in th investigation. >> what was important, what wa in it was hard to know in those first few hours. as you can see in this video the police shut the night of the murder, a house was as nea as a pin except for a glass on a peep table.
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some papers askew from a lawsuit brought by an ex business partner and there were six bulle casings on the kitchen floor and one more thing, a post-i note from his girlfriend nanette stuck to the side of a lamp she would be home late, her so had a soccer game. nanette johnston, and she wa known back then. before reality shows and a couple more marriages, had bee bill's girlfriend for more tha three years. and they seem to happy despite the almost 30 year eac difference, said his daughte kim. >> they seemed to be good ca companions >> she was like your age >> she was my age. yes. >> the nets helped build tak care of his disabled son, kevin, who suffered a severe head injury after be being hit by a drunk driver and she help with some busines ventures >> he found that interesting about her. that he could have possibly romantic relationship, but als a mentoring relationship possibly a business partner.
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>> he had hopes for this >> i think that he did >> they live together in bill' house on the newport bay as did her little ones part of the time she brought some children? >> correct >> did he like that? >> yes, he thought that wa important. he thought that it showed sh was compassionate. >> on the night bill was killed, nanette was with her childre at her son's soccer game the kids went to their dad's house afterwards and nanette headed to the mall to go christmas shopping she arrived home to a crim scene. and to detective voth. >> anybody involved has possibility of being the murderer >> so, voth questioned nanette and bill's own grown kids. couldn't eliminate anybody yet >> we looked at the girlfriend and we also looked at th daughters. because anyone that stands t gain money in this situation i a potential suspect. >> bill's ex-wife was way of in hawaii. there's been divorced divorc for years. still, the detectives talk t
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her. then there was kevin, bill disabled son, and the only other person in the house at the time of the murder >> newport beach emergency police, fire how can help >> it was shortly after 9 pm when kevin heard the gunfire he was upstairs. still debilitated by it's a ca accident injuries. and he labored to make his way down to the kitchen. where he found his father. >> my dad was -- shot >> i can't understand what you're saying? >> too disabled to explain tha he needed help >> somebody is dying >> someone was dead. >> kevin was a suspect we needed to find out th validity of his statements whether he had gunshot residue on his hands whether he was even able t shoot a gun, given he had hi physical disability. >> but a suspect they checked his hands for gunpowder residue. negative >> you have to look at
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everybody unfortunately. sometimes it hurts feelings, but you have to get down to th facts. >> but facts can be tricky things and in this case, far more elusive than anyone might have imagined >> some clues were lucid, bu some were right on in th front. like the two that dramatically narrowed down the circle o suspects coming up -- >> those are huge. it eliminates everybody down t only those people that hav access to those two keys >> when "dateline" continues (vo) if you've had thyroid eye disease for years and you go through artificial tears in the blink of an eye, or...your eyes feel like they're getting kicked in the backside, it's not too late for another treatment option for thyroid eye disease, also known as t-e-d. to learn more visit treatted.com
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bill's murder, his childre wandered, overwhelms, throug the essential events tha follow a sudden death. >> the funeral must of been, i don't know >> the funeral was horribl because we were in shock and we had to hold up, i don't remember much, but i d remember nanette sitting in th front with each chelan eithe and. and they were both balling a the top of their lungs and then i remember my brother speaking, to, at the funeral and telling everybody what a amazing man he was and what great dad he was for him >> bill's girlfriend, nanette, moved out of the house t another house she owned righ on the beach kim and her sister moved bac into the family home with he brother. they clung to each other for dear life. >> we cried on each othe shoulders and did a lot of
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counseling and therapy and grieving >> what made it worse was th didn't know who did it, or why any more than did the newpor beach police when a thing like this happens i mean, it's a really an execution style killing. this was obviously somebody wh intended to kill your dad. it must immediately have wonde who? >> right well you wonder if this is completely random act. some stranger and it was a mistake. or you developed a list of people that might have a reaso to have shot him >> two police, it did not look random nothing was taken. that killer struck wit precision accuracy and got cleaned away but there was something that intrigued detective voth tha night. it was a clue they found i bill mclaughlin's closet >> we do a search of the house with permission of kevin and were told their weapons in a closet upstairs. and when you come across a lot of weapons like that, it's
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surprising >> in a few years before his death, bill had become an avid gun collector. he kept dozens of them in hi newport beach house. but not just antiques. there were pistols, revolvers, semiautomatic weapons. including including and 16 rifles dangerous stuff in the wrong hands. >> we didn't know if somebod was maybe upset with a seal he had done or something >> he nanette was worried abou that to >> nanette told us that bil was dealing with a lot of shad people >> and that was one theory that was something else, to. a rather, someone else >> they only person that w knew was frustrated with him was his business partner he wa in a lawsuit with >> all of them, bill's kids an nanette, told detective voth about that business business partner. >> because he and mr mclaughlin were in a heate multi year lawsuit about the invention of a device. >> a device?
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>> bill had made his million from a revolutionary medical invention. a machine that separates plasm from blood it's still in use today, worldwide. just the sort of thing bil wanted to do something useful helpful. and make lots of money, to >> he enjoyed learning new things, discovering a ne thanks and especially if it helpe people benefited people he could make money off of a idea >> how had hal fischel worke with bill on an early phase of the machine. it was after fischel left th company that the money cam rolling. in fischel thoughts hi contribution to the inventio deserve more than what he got, so he sued his former friend and partner, bill mclaughlin and here's the thing it was just two weeks before the murder that the courts decided for bill, any day he was to get a 9 million he an fischel had been fighting over four years so, was a revenge killing? sounded at least plausible
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except for something tha killer left behind something fischel didn't hav access to. no, it was in dna, not fingerprints something more mundane tha that >> when we got here, the doo on the right was open, and there was a key stuck in the locker right here. in addition to that, there was a key on a matte laying righ next to the door here. >> two keys. too close. one was a brand-new copy of th front dorky. the other was a key to the community pedestrian get not a copy >> those are huge, because i eliminates everybody in th world from being a suspect dow to only those people that have access to those two keys >> the circle of suspects wa getting smaller. >> coming up - police focus on one particular suspect who did have access to those skis and to somethin else
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>> he bought a 9 mm in the summer e beretta 92f. >> you lie to them, for one. thing. >> i did >> when "dateline" continues i'm your overly competitive brother. check. psych! and i'm about to steal this game from you just like i stole kelly carter in high school. you got no game dude, that's a foul! and now you're ready to settle the score. game over. and if you don't have the right home insurance coverage, well, you could end up paying for all this yourself. so get allstate, and be better protected from mayhem, yeah, like me. thanks, bro. take a lap, rookie. real mature. ♪ ♪ ♪
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>> two keys that demande attention. one of them was stuck in the front door the night bil mclaughlin was murdered. the other was dropped on him outside.
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the person who killed bill had obtained those keith somehow which meant whoever it was was in his inner circle. or, had access to it now police began looking ver closely for relationships like maybe secret ones. >> what is your involvement or relationship >> nanette is a pretty goo friend of mine >> and that is how they foun eric naposki who, they learned, was livin in a studio apartment in one o those southern californi "melrose place sort of complexes. just not quite as nice had naposki played football, but his promising career as nfl linebacker had fizzled too many injuries. too many hours on the bench. by the early nineties, he wa trying to figure out what to d next >> i was in seattle with the seahawks when i retired when i left. and i drove down the coast and it was a great place to land >> it kind of nirvana for a gu like you >> it was. >> big, good-looking e football player like him it was easy to get work.
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and women, in southern california like nanette he met her while working one day at this gym. what did you think when you sa her? >> i thought she was a sno when i first met her >> eight up? >> yeah. a little stuck up. she had the sunglasses on. she was a little snobby. >> well, at least she was at first. but -- >> so what made your friends >> proximity she was a fun girl we worked out together i'd say we probably worked out together than we did anythin else together. >> he was impressed by her intelligence by what she told him about herself. that she had a business degree for example. >> she graduated early fro high school and she graduate early from college >> in february, 1994, te months before bill mclaughli was killed, nanette's affair with eric was in full bloom. which given that eric was no exactly flush, turned out to b just fine.
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because -- >> she had no loss for money as she talked about things and as she drove her new cars, a she footed the bill fo everything we did together >> so, what did eric know abou bill and bill's relationship with nanette? >> i never met bill. >> do you know who he is >> i just knew of him. i knew of him and his, you know, his partnership with nanette as far as business goes an stuff like that. >> eric told us nanette said she invented things. medical equipment, blood separators sound familiar and bill, she told eric, guide her through their process. >> that was her mentor that was her business partner. and she could make her own schedule she can work out all morning grab lunch, do whatever she ha to do, pick up the kids, tak them to practice and be the mom >> pretty nice job eric and nanette spent time ou
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what she said was her house, right on the beach what did you think >> it was beautiful. beautiful house. right on the beach right in newport upstairs, downstairs, full furnished. she had a picture of herself i the upstairs bedroom a blown up - >> kind of a glimmer picture >> kind of a glimmer shot, yeah >> it never occurred to him, h said, that nanette and bill di more than just busines together >> it was a business relationship and if you looked at nanette and took into account her age, then you looked at bill an took into account his age, why would you think -- >> orange county, california hello? >> i guess i'm a rookie to orange county. >> when it comes to murder and relationships, sometimes to' company, three is a motive if eric found out that bill wa much more than just nanette' mentor, was it a motive fo murder in their interview investigators got right to the point. what was he doing that night
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>> i was with nanette at the soccer game. she dropped off and took off and i got dressed and went t work later on, probably around 9:30 >> curious thing about eric' jobs he was a bouncer up a nightclu about a football field and a half away bill mclaughli from's house not that far for a nfl linebacker so the cops asked a few more questions. >> did you do any armed work >> no. >> no, that didn't mean he didn't own any guns, just took him a while to tell th detective that >> okay, you said you don't ow any firearms at all? >> no i i -- bought one i haven't seen it i so long. i bought one in dallas that gave my dad. >> we first asked him if h owns any weapons he says, he doesn't own any. and then he says, oh, that's right i did buy one in texas a little. 380.
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but i sent it to my dad in new york and then we talk a little bi longer and he says, oh i bough another. 380 >> did you have to register or anything in dallas >> i basically just signed registration >> the light must have gone of in his head that we were going to find out by checkin registration, because a fe minutes after that he says tha he bought a 9 mm earlier in th year in the summer a beretta 92f. >> no that was interested. a 9 mm was what killed bil mclaughlin and no one knew tha at the time but the cops and the killer there are a lot of 9 mm guns around but why did eric naposk seem so dodgy about him. >> where is your 9 mm? i >> have no idea. >> that's my statement >> if he thought he was helpin himself, he wasn't why did you ask for a lawyer >> i didn't think i needed one innocent people don't need lawyers, do they >> you said some things that didn't help you out. that's for sure. >> absolutely.
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>> you lie to them, for one. think >> i did >>, of course line does no make you a killer. but jealousy maybe. did naposki know he was in a love triangle? did he want bill out of th week and if so, did nanette quite literally hold the key >> at the center of this case, the younger girlfriend with th shady past she was trying to hide coming up -- >> in the big bold print it wa basically looking for wealth men. i'll take care of you, if yo take or me >> when "dateline" continues ♪♪ allergies don't have to be scary. (screaming) defeat allergy headaches fast with new flonase headache and allergy relief! two pills relieve allergy headache pain? and the congestion that causes it! flonase headache and allergy relief. psst! psst! all good!
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what the hours top stories recovery efforts are underwa after deadly storms battered parts of the south, an midwest. tens of thousands lost power
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and buildings were destroyed down to their foundations. at least 25 people were killed pope francis was discharge from the hospital saturday after being treated fo difficulty breathing due t bronchitis he joked by saying quote, i' still alive. he also offered priotor the couple whose daughter passed away at that hospital. now back to dateline >> welcome back to "dateline i'm natalie morales. who shot millionaire invento bill mclaughlin? investigators were talking t his girlfriend, nanette, who was cheating on bill withi other man. and when the interviewed him he was deceptive about whether he owned a gun meanwhile, bill's daughter were trying to get their fathers affairs in order what they were about to find that things weren't adding up. who else had access to bills accounts here's keith morrison with mor of "deadly trust". >> on the afternoon of the day he was murdered, bil mclaughlin drove from a hous he kept in las vegas two mccarran airport he climb into the little air playing he own, flew up abov
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all his troubles this is where he was free an happy. pure joy up here just around sunset he landed a john wayne airport in orange county called nanette to tell her h was back and drove home to newport. to the place he was about to die. but for all their efforts, investigators can find not one bit of evidence in those movements of his nothing that could lead him to the man who is fast becoming their prime suspect, eri naposki. back at the house, bill' daughters took it upon themselves to sort through all their debts financials maybe there would be a clu there. we had to figure that all ou yourself >> yes >> must of been very complicated. >> it was very complicated and we did not trust many people a that point >> understandably. so, bill's poured through it
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all. the little stuff and the big stuff. there's been the feel real estate deal in the desert. two houses to deal with in nevada soon money would be coming in, but when he died, millionair bill mclaughlin was low on funds. and things were missing. bills and bank statements, check registers, that kind o thing. the sisters turned to nanett for help because she was the person who handled bill' day-to-day money matters in fact, she was the trustee o the trust that held most o bill's money but every buddy greaves in his or her in her own way. it nanette was very hard t reach. she just disappeared >> yes, we contacted her ove something missing and sometime she would return our calls and sometimes she wouldn't >> she was not far away, min you. just in the house on the beach in his, well bill left nanette quite a consolation prize.
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1 million dollars in lif insurance. $150,000 in cash and the use of the beach house for a year but it was hardly enough frankly, to fund the lifestyle to which she has becom accustomed didn't he pay for everything for her? cars, even plastic surgery >> he treated her very well. he provided a very pos lifestyle for she and he children >> which made bill's daughters move nanette down the list o suspects >> i said in front of her, i believe, of course nanette would not have done this i this were no financial gain fo her in this. >> after all, had bill survive nanette and her two children might have live very well, indeed and then bill's daughter notice something odd about his books. >> notice in one of hi business accounts a 250,00 dollar check that was written. >> that's a lot of money >> a heck of a lot of money. >> the czech dated decembe 14th, one day before bill wa murdered, was made out t nanette nanette johnston trust >> you saw the signature >> yes >> does it look like you father signature
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>> no. and i showed it to the police. >> detective voth didn't lik the looks of it either >> oh, hi nanette, this is jenny. >> the detective told th daughters to give nanette call and recorded. >> first of all, a lot o checks, there are a lot of times that i signed for him on many things. >> >> >> >> >>,. >> >> nanette , bill's nanette. voth ,. married at 18. two kids by 22 divorced at 23 and determined to leave dust arizona behind for the coast o california in particular, newport beach
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married at 18. two kids by 22 divorced at 23 and determined to leave dust arizona behind for the coast o california in particular, newport beach >> so this was the play sh wanted to move into and said - >> i found a place >> it was an even finished being built. >> it turns out, before bill before eric naposki, there was tom. he met at nanette a nightclu and six weeks later he found himself moving them both into brand-new town house in th heart of newport beach she had actually found the place before she even met him. what was attractive, do you, about her? >> smart, intelligent. definitely very determined
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forging ahead on her own two feet wanting to make things happen. >> oh, and she did she just happened to lik shortcuts. which tom discovered when he found something nanette ha been hiding. and ad >> in the big, bold print it was basically, looking for wealthy men. i'll take you care of you, i you take care. of me. >> did you confront her afte you found? >> absolutely. >> nanette denied it was her but soon enough she had move out and up and in with bil mclaughlin it was clear to detective voth that was nanette johnsto greedy i was stop at nothing fo money. it was clear to him that she has been cheating on bill. it was also clear to him tha she been cheating on bill with eric he even knew that her key to the community pedestrian gat was missing. and remember, there was on found. could have been a, on the ma at the murder scene. but did all of that make hurry color? she and her lover, eric? do you remember what you thought at the time? >> i thought the police woul
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be able to have a closed case. >> wishful thinking, isn't it? >> probably naive. >> in fact, it looked like someone or, to someone's, migh just get away with murder. >> - if that's what the thought >> and without the story from new witness. >> she said, i don't even want to know if you had anything to do this. >> he said, maybe i did, maybe i didn't >> when "dateline" continues i have moderate to severe crohn's disease. now, there's skyrizi. ♪ things are looking up ♪ ♪ i've got symptom relief ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me. ♪ ♪ ♪ control is everything to me. ♪ feel significant symptom relief with skyrizi, including less abdominal pain and fewer bowel movements at 4 weeks. skyrizi is the first and only il-23 inhibitor for crohn's that can deliver both clinical remission and endoscopic improvement. the majority of people on skyrizi
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had a case, there were the keys, the laws, the other lover. circumstantial, yes. but he thought that naposki an nanette committed murder together >> i thought we had it solve as far as who were the responsible parties. where it was just a matter o if we felt comfortable filin the case >> two times newport beach police brought the case to the da's office and two times th da's office said that th detective had not made his case nanette was arrested in th spring of 1995 but not for murder they got her for fraud and forgery. she pleaded guilty, spent year in jail and, though eri waited for her, by the time sh
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got out, she was ready to move on she married a real estate mogul, much richer than bil mclaughlin ever was. they had a baby girl and once again, nanette wa driving a fancy car and living where rich people, live in spending lots, and lots, o money and expensive clothes an hairdos. and then she met someone else another bill so she divorced the real estat mogul and agreed to receiv $17,000 a month and chil support. was that her idea all along? the new bill did not hav millions and when he married nanette he signed a prenuptial agreeing that she would keep herself all the money that she got from husband number two. or was that number three anyway, the real estate mogul. eric naposki won back east, go married, had, kids got divorced made that reality show tha
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never got going. he was meant to play a big scary bad guy. and what's of bills kids they tried to live how their father would've wanted them to the opposite of nanette. >> he really wanted us to make the world a better place so he encouraged us to do things i the community, the three of us kids would go to nursing homes and put on talent shows for th elderly. >> how unusual >> you have to understand wher my gut came from a very low income family, as w call today so he always appreciated wha he had and worked very har for. it >> builds children worked hard to, supported libraries in the third world, orphanages in africa, gave wheelchairs to th poor in latin america. rewarding work, but as tim passed, they began to thin that the fairytale had it al wrong. it seemed like this evil stepmother who got to live happily ever after, certainl not them five years after the murder in 1999, the sisters lost their brother, kevin, in a drownin
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accident he never recovered from th drunk driver or the trauma o his mouth murdered father. hope for justice it faded away. >> we thought, those two wil get arrested next week for killing my dad and when it did not happen month, after month, after month, and you then year after year after year, we ha to actually release the pain and the anger we felt from it. >> i'm conscious of the fact that you had to work on that >> very conscious of the fact >> and that might have been th end of the our story the before, him. ♪ ♪ ♪ this is matt murphy, surfer an prosecutor with just possibl an excessive confidence in his ability to prosecute in favo of mclaughlin all those year ago. >> when you have is an old old case, pretty circumstantia
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stuff. a lot of evidence had been los it degrades over the time. were you a little nervous abou that >> you're always nervous whe you try an old case. >> but not a foregon forgotten. one cold case investigator kept digging they found a real estate agent who showed nanette had - eric expensive houses after th pair said they were about to come into so many. they found a businessman who heard from nanette before th murder that she was about to have lots of money to invest and they found a neighbor of eric's from that "melrose plac type plays building, a woman who was too afraid to come for it at the time of the murder named suzanne kogan or >> she was important because she gave the best comprehensiv understanding of the way annette manipulated nepal sk into committing the murder
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>> susan told the prosecutor how she and eric would chat by the pool how in 1984 that eric was angry, said his girlfriend's boss meaning bill, had tried to rap or >> totally untrue. they're engaged to be married. they had been living together. as boyfriend and girlfriend fo over three years, but he didn' know anything about that >> and he wasn't a rage about? it >> he was in a rage about it >> after the murder, said susan, eric sought her out, saying if the police came around, tell them i'm a nice guy. >> she said, oh my god eric, i don't even want to know if you had anything to do with this o not. and he smiled and he said mayb i did, maybe i didn't. think about, it york used of a murder you never committed, ho are those words gonna come out of your mouth >> incriminating but hardly on of those intangible facts that could get someone sent a way for life >> this is one where every little piece of evidence had t be considered in light of al the other pieces of evidence >> in fact just the type o challenge met murphy was after
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so on may 20th, 2009, more tha 14 years after mclaughlin wa shot dead in his kitchen and it was plucked from he wells a life and charged wit murder nanette proclaimed her innocence, and her orang county friends stood by her. >> i'm just gonna tell you tha she is my friend, she is a goo person, she has been generou and kind, and a wonderfu mother, and a wonderfu neighbor >> across the country an connecticut, police picked u eric naposki and accused him o murder to. eric was also defiant. >> it was not eric naposki who shot bill mclaughlin this is a fact and matt murphy is wrong, i'll tell you right now, on m children, he is straight wrong >> did eric kill bil mclaughlin did he conspire with nanette where was matt murphy in ove his head up to a jury, soon
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mclaughlin's life was brough to such a violent, early and eric naposki when on trial her in the orange county courthouse >> what i want to do at this point, i want to take you folk through an overview of the evidence >> prosecutor matt murphy told the jury eric naposki voluntee to be nanette johnston's deadl trigger man. they have been copying keys in november doing target practice. and -- >> on august 2nd, mr. naposk purchase are very expensiv beretta 9 mm >> then a few months later, it nanette was's turn >> matt murphy told a second jury that nanette's greed wa insatiable she wrongly thought that a trustee of bill stress that sh controlled the money and that her stealing escalate as the murder date got closer. >> she steals $48,200 in the month of october alone so, in the month of octobe alone, she has beaten
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previous nine months combined. with her theft >> and so, the prosecuto argued, she asked eric to kill bill before he caught on eric's attorney told the jur to things. one, eric couldn't have done it 18 minutes before the murder h was on ap phone at this danny's, which is an even newport beach true, the phone bill which might have proved it had bee lost but the point was, said hi lawyers, he couldn't have made it all the way to newport beac in time to commit the murder and anyway, they said, nanette did it >> the evidence in this case and at this trial shows that nanette johnston is the person most likely to have committe this murder. eric naposki was merely th patsy. >> but at nanette's trial, her attorney said she was innocent and it was eric who committe the murder >> over the course of this trial, the evidence is going t show that he murdered mr mclaughlin, out of jealousy, out of greed and on his own. part >> mutual finger-pointed.
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the nanette's attorney, michae hill had to agree, his clien was an exactly - >> eight her as much as yo want for being a thief, a liar a cheat. (bleep). >> (bleep) >>. just because you're treate people poorly doesn't make you murder >> if she thought she wa getting 1 million dollars ou of a life insurance policy, million dollars is a lot o money. >> just because you're treated people poorly doesn't make you murder >> if she thought she wa getting 1 million dollars ou of a life insurance policy, million dollars is a lot o money. >> 1 million dollars is massive amount of money to people like me but 1 million dollars for her, that is pittance he was worth 55 millions whe he died. so, her long term plan is no to be with a deadly a deadbeat loser, want to be nf linebacker >> that's harsh. >> it's true >> it which was the -- question we put to the
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prosecutor she's getting a little bit o money for a lot of money from. him she could it can cheat a the same time but come on, why would sh kill him >> the problem is, if he lives he either finds out she' cheating or she finds out she' stealing best-case scenario for her, sh winds up with nothing. worst-case scenario, she goe to jail. so, this isn't just a motive it is a motive on steroids >> in the end, murphy got hi verdict. >> guilty. >> guilty of the crime o felony >> then after conviction, th oddest thing happen. an epilogue, if you like but eric called up matt murphy from jail and said, if he wa finally ready to tell th truth. of course, he told us, to. >> first thing i wanted to d was clear up with math that didn't do the crime. but i also wanted to share som other information with him tha i hadn't shared with anybody i 17 years >> had eric a new story. >> if nanette wanted bil mclaughlin dead, then bill
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mclaughlin was as good as dead whether it's to get me to do it, whether to pay someone else to do it. >> eric's story now, tha nanette asked him to kill bill mclaughlin and he refused. but put her in touch wit someone who could do it. and they use the beretta, which, said eric, wasn't his afte all. he had given it to nanette as gift, he said. and she supplied it to the hitman so, what did matt murphy think of eric's new story? >> it doesn't make any sense here's the problem the first story had was i ha nothing to do with it. then he messed up and said nanette it's totally innocen and i'm innocent then we get to trial and i changes to, nanette is not innocent, but i'm innocent and i had nothing to do with anything we interview him afterwards an it changes again to somethin radically different. >> michael hill didn't buy i either >> have you ever heard o hiring a hitman, but he goes yeah, i'll take the job, but you know what, i don't have gun. can you lawyers?
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>> so, eric sits in jail and contemplates that long ago lov affair with nanette. >> nanette johnston is the worst type of person she can lie to you, make lov to you, kill you, all in the same week. not even quite a few to. it she was my girl heard and what's going >> it's for bill's me. they say they're grateful. believing nanette and eric a right where there belong how do you make sense of all this stuff >> there is no sense of it they are just very sick. the most selfish, people. when we actually started learning how nanette's min worked, it was really hard t comprehend in a very dark police to unravel. >> and so she does what he
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father taught her. she lives for others as well a herself. she flies, like he did and she looks at the light >> when it comes down to it, our dad taught us, pass ou goodness forward make this world a better place and give it to others who ar less fortunate and so, we do that my sister and i both knew that today. that's part of our mission i life and we go about with my dad, our dad as an angel. and my brother as an angel o the other shoulder >> that's all for this edition of "dateline". i'm natalie morales. -- i'm andrea canning thanks for watching. >> welcome to a special editio of ayman it has been a wild 48 hours. and you certainly know the new by now donald trump has been indicted

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