The Truth About My Murder – UK Documentary (2022)

Forensic Pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd delves into a 1994 murder in Newport Beach, California.

ENT scenes when a murder’s committed it’s always a Race Against Time to find the truth to separate fact from fiction to catch the Killer and to make sure that Justice is served what happens when the truth vanishes with the victim I’m Dr Richard Shepard and I’ve spent my entire career

As a frenzy pathologist performing nearly 23,000 autopsies including on some of the most high-profile cases of recent times I’ve learned that the dead don’t hide the truth and they never lie through me you’ll be hearing directly from the victim from a state-of-the-art laboratory with groundbreaking technology that uses digitally scanned

Sample bodies I’ll be investigating a series of intriguing murders where from the victim’s bodies I’ll be revealing to you the truth behind those horrific crimes December the 15th 1994 a man was shot dead in his own kitchen and the killer escaped to catch this murderer the police had to piece together dozens of tiny Clues from the victim’s body and while America is no stranger to gun violence this crime scene was surprising

A million dooll home in one of California’s most wealthy and privileged communities Newport Beach the quintessential dream image of California is Newport Beach there’s a bay where people can have $100 million Yachts docked at their house it’s got a lot of money there um but it also has a a really kind of

Cool beach Vibe Surfers beautiful women in bikinis rollerblading you have Yachts you have marinas you have fancy restaurants on the water you have beautiful mansions on the water picture Beverly Hills meets the sea that’s what Newport Beach is but on December the 15th 1994 this idil atmosphere was

Shattered Kevin mlin who was upstairs in his home where he lived with his father and he hears what sound like gunshots he suffered severe disabilities he had problems moving he walked with a severe limp he gets downstairs and he sees his father uh face up on his back

In the kitchen and he’s as he’s watching his father die on the kitchen floor he dials 911 91 what’s your emergency and it’s this heart-wrenching 911 call where he’s trying to communicate um through his his deeply affected speech that his father’s been shot and the cops got there and once

They got there they were able to see exactly what was inside the house which was Mr mlin on the kitchen floor with bullet holes in his body paramedics couldn’t save him he was declared dead at the scene all the police could do was gather evidence about this terrible crime and that

Started with being sure who the victim was as a pathologist my first job is to identify the body that’s in front of me and I can show you on this sample body bodies Never Lie often the simplest way to identify a body is to look at the teeth teeth are fantastic things because

They’re strong they’re really resilient they resist decomposition and all sorts of damage but also particularly by middle age they’ll all be unique there’ll be fillings there’ll be other evidence repair there’ll be teeth that have been lost through accident or through disease and so looking at the teeth can be a fantastically useful way

Of identifying someone when we compare it to the dental record held by the dentist in this particular case we can see that there are gaps in the left upper and lower molers we can see that there’s a left upper wisdom tooth still present there’s also various irregularities of the teeth that are all

Going to be unique for this individual but if the uniqueness of teeth isn’t enough we can look at the uniqueness of the fingerprints but they’re much more susceptible to damaged by decomposition and by trauma and they too need to be compared with a record that held somewhere else usually by the police at

The time of this case the 1990s DNA was a research tool but identification by DNA was not common practice but fortunately when the pathologist came to look at this particular body the dental records were excellent and so they made a positive identification of Bill McLaughlin a 55-year-old

Male the police knew that every clue they could find at the crime scene might help bring Bill McLaughlin’s killer to Justice For example he still had his watch on in fact nothing was missing from this wealthy home we have no information anything was taken so therefore it probably wasn’t a robbery

If nothing’s taken except for the life it’s probably a murder what the police did find were shell casings from the murder weapon the casings that were on the floor and the bullets that came from the body were determined from the lab that they were from a 9mm handgun we know

That the ammunition that was used is what’s called Federal hydroshock ammo which is a particular kind of bullet that has a post in it and it’s hollow point round and those are bullets specifically made for killing somebody they’re too expensive to use for target practice they’re they’re used for deadly

Force the shots heard by Kevin and the neighbors had a distinctive pattern it was three sequences of Two Shots Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam the early evidence was pointing towards a targeted killing on the table near Bill’s body were some financial documents which may have been significant bill was entirely self-made

He grown up on the south side of Chicago kind of from a modest background he invented a medical Dev device that was able to separate plasma from blood it was a huge advancement in mod Medical Science it saved thousands of lives over the years and it’s still in use today

And U he made a fortune with that and so he was well off he was a businessman had a lot of opportunities have lots of deals to make money he sold the company he co-founded for tens of millions of dollars 20 years ago he bought a luxury six-bedroom mansion in this gated community

Balboa Coes in Newport Beach California now this is a multi-million dollar beautiful Bayside home with the CH with its own dock Bill had a jet set lifestyle just hours before he was killed he’d flown back from Las Vegas in his private aircraft but those financial papers found at the crime scene told a

Different story one of conflict and strife he was being sued by a former partner who didn’t feel that he was treated fairly and so there was about $12 million in like an escrow fund uh that was going to be determined who was going to get that 12 million depending

On how the the lawsuit went bill and his former business partner had been arguing in court for four years about how the proceeds of the sale of their company should be divided up and it turned out that just days before Mr mlin discovered that he won

The that and so all that money was going to be going to him they did not like each other uh bill mofin and his former partner so he was immediately suspected as being maybe he had something to do with it anybody who loses $12 million in a lawsuit might be

Angry but the police quickly established that Bill’s business partner was over a 100 miles away at the time of the murder this man lived in Santa Barbara he had an alibi was getting a haircut his wife backed it up like he did not do it other Clues at at the crime scene suggested

Bill was killed by someone he trusted there’s a Brand New Key freshly cut an Ace Hardware key stuck in the lock of the the dead bolt of the door and there is a pedestrian access gate key sitting on the on the M there’s a gate for pedestrians to go out right across from

The mlin home so you can gain access to that part of the community with that gate key somebody actually came in and did this with key that’s a huge clue they didn’t have any cameras back then so anybody who entered could go directly to Mr mclin’s house from that

Gate without being seen people were terrified in the community cuz nothing like this had ever happened in a nice wealthy gated area of Newport Beach and people were afraid that there was uh you know a killer on the loose the chilling conclusion was that the killer got keys to Bill’s house from

A member of his family who has access to keys that could get into the complex and who has access to keys to get into his house how did they get those keys Bill had been married to Susan mlin for 24 years the divorce just four years

Earlier had been messy and there was now a lot more money to be inherited they got married very young and it was one of those things that just the relationship itself they had three wonderful kids and it just kind of ran out of steam I think and she’d moved to

Their beautiful home in Hawaii where she still lives she was immediately eliminated because she was so far away at the time the couple’s son Kevin who had suffered brain damage in an accident a few years earlier was in the house at the time of the murder they interview Kevin and um very

Quickly they they know that this kid had nothing to do with the murder of his father and it’s it’s pretty obvious and he is he is incredibly distraught the couple also had two daughters Bill mlof and daughters were Kim and Jenny Jenny was down in San Diego Kim was actually

In Japan teaching and when police talked to them they were appropriately emotional they were devastated by the murder of their father they cooperated in every way the police were very quickly able to eliminate the entire mlon family as being suspects so who else had access to

Bill’s keys and who knew the truth about his murder this was one of the most Sensational cases in Orange County history and it’s kind of this Bizarre Love Triangle that ends in Murder Bill McLaughlin a wealthy businessman was shot dead in his home in Newport Beach California police hoped that his body

Would tell the truth about what happened in his murder they thought he’d been murdered by someone very close to him and then just hours after his murder Bill’s girlfriend friend Nanette Johnston arrived at the crime scene Nanette and Bill first met 4 years earlier Nanette Johnson was beautiful

Vivacious 20-some uh mother of two and everybody describes her as very beautiful but also really smart and Savvy Nanette was Slender she worked out a lot of the gym very fit very tan she was that type of girl nette put an ad in a newspaper and it was a basically

Singles magazine prior to internet dating that said wealthy men only I know how to take care of my man if he knows how to take care of me and it appears that that was the ad that Bill had answered and got to know her through because of that

Ad sometime in early 1991 bill and the net started dating she was much younger than him just 25 years old while he was in his early 50s but the romance seemed real quite soon Nanette moved in with Bill and they started living together in his Newport Beach Mansion she had two young

Children who lived most of their time with her ex-husband Bill welcomed them into his life and showed them real affection she would take them to Bill’s house once every other week and they had their own bedrooms and they got to go flying in his plane and they got to go

Be in Bill’s Boat so they enjoyed like a vacation house and so they were were treated very well by Bill and I think he liked them a lot at the time of the murder Bill and nette had been living together for 4 years the couple had made business plans together and N nette

Handled all of the couple’s joint finances she had checkbooks that she had access to had used his credit cards to buy things and she had access to all the accounts and everything that he was working on on December the 15th 1994 only an hour hour after the murder

Nanette arrived at her home and they were able to contact her outside and interviewed her in one of the police cars from what she said sounded that she was very upset about this nette told the police that she spent the afternoon and early evening watching her son at a soccer game in a

Town 30 m away after that she went shopping she was at a pretty large shopping mall maybe 20 minute drive from there during the time of the crime she was buying Christmas presents here’s the receipt which puts her about five or six miles away at the time of the shooting

She couldn’t possibly have committed the murder so net had a strong Alibi the police had to look for a different suspect for this brutal murder my job as a pathologist is exam examine the body as carefully as I can to find any information that may be of

Use to the police in their investigation in this case the pathologist found that there were six injuries to the front of Bill’s chest six small injuries that were absolutely typical of gunshot entry wounds when they looked at his back though they found there were only three wounds that were much larger much more

Irregular and contained muscle and bone that were absolutely typical of gunshot Exit Wounds so three bullets had gone right through but three bullets remained in the chest so looking at the grouping of the injuries to the front of Bill’s chest it shows that the killer must have

Been standing directly in front of him looking at him at the time the shots were fired in very quick succession and it shows that whoever killed Bill clearly Del deliberately intended to do so after such a shocking murder it’s no wonder nette said she was frightened she told the police at the

Scene that she was worried the killer might come back to shoot her I heard Nanette in the interview saying that she was scared she said I could have been the target I was supposed to be here at that time and I’ve pissed off people in

My life I could have been the target so that was a very important thing for me because that statement if true then she must be afraid of whoever did this she said I don’t want to be here I don’t want to stay here um she said I’m going

To go somewhere else so she took Kevin and drove them both to Bill’s beach house just a mile away on Seashore Drive but while this was a perfectly sensible precaution something about nette’s Behavior didn’t seem right to the police what’s Curious one of the things is she

She had an a car phone this is on the cusp of cell phone days right and she sat in the car for over an hour at the scene and she didn’t call anybody Bill McGloin had a had an ex-wife he had two adoring daughters and you got you got

Kevin he’s got relatives he has friends in the community and she never called anybody which was curious that you know just kind of kind of odd Nanette also seems strangely unemotional almost detached even at Bill’s funeral according to every witness that we interviewed they get into the church for

Bill’s funeral and everybody is crying including her two kids except for one person and that was nette she had no emotion the night of the murder now she’s got no emotion in the funeral she goes back to the beach house she changes and she drives directly to a place

Called Champion Yamaha which sells dirt bikes motorcycles and she goes and she buys three motorcycles right after the funeral Nanette was not the kind of woman who rode motorbikes and Kevin couldn’t ride one so who could they have been for the clue came from something strange that Nanette’s son said at the

Funeral her son said my mom’s boyfriend plays in the NFL and people at the funeral are like mom’s boyfriend is in that coffin up there like what are you talking about and that’s the first anybody in the McGlothlin family learned about the existence of another guy to

Find out who this other man was the police put in a net under surveillance they decided they were going to stake out the seashore house where she was staying and so they had the place surrounded they have undercover narcotics officers do this the report is just very two-dimensional

It’s we were we were on the beach we could see you know um Nanette Johnston inside with her two children um decorating a Christmas tree the curtains are open the windows are open she’s out there in the living room anybody can look in it and see this is not the

Actions of a woman who appears scared for her safety why is she in the house in a place where anybody could see her uh matter of fact there is a man with a gun in the sand outside her house at that time it’s a police officer but he’s

There and he’s got a gun and she can he could shoot her if he wanted to right there so how fearful is she of this man who she thought might be after her and then the surveillance officers saw something extraordinary they see this guy come tuling up in a

Black Nissan Pathfinder big guy strong guy formidable I mean he’s a somebody to be reckoned with and he walks into the beach house like Santa he’s got a he’s got a big bag full of Christmas presents and he walks in and he’s his head is not

On a swivel he’s not looking around and he just goes into the beach house where he was actually living so very soon after this murder police realize the net Johnson has moved in with another man so the police obviously want to know who he is when challenged by investigators

Nette identified him as Eric neosi Eric was a professional Sportsman a football linebacker he played for both the New England Patriots and the Indianapolis Cults but he never hit the big time Eric did not make a lot of money in the football field he played in the NFL and

He wanted playing for a while in the Canadian football league and he and he played for NFL team called the Barcelona dragons what a lot of people don’t know is when you’re on practice squads and you’re not in the with the big boys league minimum is not very much money

They they basically get all the french fries they can eat in training camp by the time nette met Eric naposki he was working in security he still had his looks and physique but not much else he’s working as a bouncer in a nightclub he was making poor money he wasn’t

Making a lot he was hanging around with a lot of rich people in Newport Beach but he was living in a a single studio apartment in Tustin and barely could make rent so he’s broke Nanette said she met Eric at a gym in the early ’90s at first she insisted that they were

Just friends but soon she admitted they started dating early in 1994 when she had already been living with Bill for 3 years the police urgently needed to speak to Eric so the police actually did some checking on him and discovered he had a warrant for his arrest just a minor traffic

Warrant got some stupid traffic ticket he never shut up to the court that means the judge has issued a warrant for his arrest so the police arrest him and they do what’s called an impound search of his of his car he’s got a notebook in his car and as they’re flipping through

These pages on the notebook there’s a bunch of letters and numbers written down that strike one of these very observant detectives like it might be a license plate and they run it as a license plate and lo and behold it comes back to Bill mcgloin’s Mercedes we tried to figure out kind of

The dates of a lot of these notes and looked like it’s probably about a month before the murder and that really started the ball rolling in regards to looking at Eric as a possible suspect Eric neosi was now in the police’s sights but they didn’t know

Where he was on the night of the murder until they were tipped off that Eric and nette were together watching her son’s soccer game that day the Newport Police got a very interesting phone call from um Kevin Ross Johnson nette’s ex-husband saying hey just so you know uh she was not

Alone at that game my ex-wife was there with her boyfriend Eric and she contacted me and said don’t tell the police that I was there with Eric he’s got nothing to do with this so of course he calls and says hey my crazy ex-wife wants me to specifically lie to you

About who she was with so and I’m not going to do that she’s with this big big dude named Eric it made them very suspicious that Eric and her may have done something he may be involved and they started to focus on that relationship the police were now sure

That bill was at the heart of a dangerous love triangle but they couldn’t prove that this led to Bill’s killing unless they could tie one of the suspects to the murder weapon the community was very very concerned that that there was a killer on the List police in California were on the hunt for the killer of Bill mlin at all Topsy the body had revealed the truth of what had happened the killer was standing very close to Bill and this was a deliberate assassination the police had a suspect Eric naposki a former football player

Turn nightclub bouncer he was no stranger to physical Force but did he fire the Fatal shots to prove that the police had to find the Killer’s Gun the police thoroughly searched the area around the murder scene but they came up empty-handed we had divers in the Channel which is the water right behind the house we had the Navy came out and sent divers trying to find the gun they check storm drains we never found it

That gun could be anywhere all the police could do was question naposki about his guns which wasn’t easy Mr naposki is a very strong willed individual he likes to control he’s a big man and he does not like to be controlled I start listening to one

Of the tapes and it was Eric Hy yelling at the police that’s how he conducted these interviews I mean it is he is aggressive and you guys lied to me and no I’m that’s that’s it you know that’s my statement cuz obviously that’s a lie now this is where you guys are lying

About something because close lying you’re lying someone’s lying because I know I’m not you’re using a strong word line yeah yeah so I try to mislead you what’s the big deal you guys arrest me I mislead you you know playing this mind mind F game like just it it’s it’s

Unbelievable they ask him do you have any any fire arms and he goes no I don’t I don’t have any guns and then it’s like well I did have I did have this uh this 380 a Jennings 380 which is a very small like Saturday night special type of

Semi-automatic handgun but I gave that to my dad in New York after he got mugged yeah he has a jing 380 just like I said okay same model same mod everything an hour later as they’re wrapping it up they’re like okay so just just so we’re clear just had the one gun

And no other guns he’s like oh well I did have a beteta 9mm a were at a 9 mm the bullets that killed Bill were 9 mm but naposki claimed that that gun had disappeared I gave it to my buddy uh do Joe David Jimenez when he was doing a security job

For me and he he got it stolen out of his car they go and they hit up his friend uh Joe David Jimenez who was in fact is cooperative and he said yeah I I did work a security job for for Eric he gave me a gun just like he said but he

Didn’t give me a bread a 92F he gave me a piece of junk Jennings 380 I told him that the gun got stolen out of my car but what I really did is I sold it to my friend I can get that gun for you so he

Gets the gun from his friend turns it into the Newport Beach police department and it was loaded with Federal hydroshock ammunition so a gun naposki admitted he once owned turned up loaded with the same make of ammunition used to Kill Bill mlin which means the police now knew he owned hydroshock

Bullets at the autopsy it was important to find just how much damage had been caused by these bullets and it was found that one of the bullets had in fact gone right through the heart causing extensive injuries that was on its own fatal for this particular case but the

Pathologist said that all Six Bullets could have killed Bill on their own and why was that the reason is there were so many crucial parts of the chest there’s the heart the lungs the major blood vessels of the aorta and the superior and inferior venne cave with the spine so many areas

That were critical to life all of which had been damaged by the passage of these Six Bullets the type of bullets used were hydroshock these have been designed for the FBI especially to spread when they hit the human body and this is designed so that Max maximum damage is

Caused and the chances of the bullet going right through are minimized so Bill had been hit by six of these bullets he clearly didn’t stand a chance and the only possible reason for using bullets of this sort is to make sure that you kill someone but the gun the police suspected

Was used to kill Bill McLaughlin a Baretta 92F which Eric had admitted to Once owning had disappeared so the police couldn’t connect Eric to the murder weapon they made more progress tracking his movements on the night of the murder starting from the Net’s Sons soccer game the games went into triple overtime and

They really hustled back to the car nette and Eric left the soccer field at 8:20 p.m. they were in such a hurry they didn’t even wait to see nette’s son receive his trophy naposki claimed he was in a rush to get back to to work on

Time he had no time to commit murder but when the police drove the same route they had time to spare they could easily drive all the way to Balo Cove and let naposki out and she can easily drive to the mall and start shopping he can easily go in with

The keys open the door shoot him and then actually it’s only a few hundred yards to where he worked and he could easily go under a bridge and be at work with within literally minutes after shooting Bill and so it all fit very nicely they ask him again they’re like

Hey you don’t have an alibi and he goes and and you see his brainwork he goes oh well um she dropped me off and then I went up to my friend’s house Up in Tustin to see if they’re there and uh then I got a page so I went over the

Denny’s to return the page it’s a completely different story than than the original one that he told so they drove that and they retraced the route and guess what he still had enough time and we did it numerous times to see and that’s what it was so the police proved

That naposki could have been at the murder scene but they couldn’t prove that he was at the murder scene they could however show that Eric and Nanette were very intimate with each other and even took holidays together they went to Eric’s house where his family lived and

The kids met his family along with nette and they then went to New York with the kids and had a full tour of New York and then they went to a wedding for Nanette’s sister Bill thought that she had gone back East just with her kids

Had no idea that Eric naposki went with her and the police could also prove that Eric and Nanette had been making big plans for their future just the two of them you’re talking about a woman who has no skills and you’re talking about a guy who is completely broke working as a

Bouncer those two people were meeting with real estate agents and looking at multi-million dollar homes and they’re talking about being able to pay for it sometime after the first of the year nette Johnson clearly believes that she’s coming into money soon the only way nette would have been able to come

Into money like this if his if his bill bill was dead Bill McLaughlin had a $1 million life insurance policy and N Net was the sole beneficiary and that wasn’t the only way she’d profit from Bill’s death she has a provision in the will for I believe $150,000 she’s got the right to

Live in the beach house rentree and she’s got title to the convertible Lexus and in addition to all that she fangled herself into becoming the trustee of Bill’s estate right after he has won this big lawsuit against his partner so he’s about there’s about to be $12

Million in that account but it turned out out that nette had been helping herself to Bill’s money even before he died about a month after the murder Kim and Jenny mlin contact the Newport Beach Police Department so these are Bill’s daughters there should be millions of dollars in his bank accounts and when

They when they get into the bank accounts and they get access to everything they see that there’s virtually no money left they were able to determine that Nanette started probably in January so good 12 months earlier p money from his accounts Bill had a series of bank accounts and nette

Did not have access to those accounts but she did have a a joint checking account that belonged to both of them with the same bank so it was actually very clever what she was doing she would simply she would fake checks and do transfers from one account to the other

It got more and more and more as the months went by she started out with you know $7,000 I think was the first check that that was that she she she did this with and then pretty soon it was 10 then 15 then 20 the most disturbing one is

The day before Bill mcgloin’s murdered they found a check for $250,000 qu million do check the day before Bill mcgloin’s murdered by the first of the year when all the they start looking for taxes and everything she was going to be found out if he’s dead she’s kind of free and clear

There’s no you know she can say that oh I this was normal he wanted me to do that or whatever so that was a big red flag in total Nanette stole nearly half a million dollars from Bill’s bank accounts in March 1995 Nanette Johnston was prosecuted for forgery and Grand Theft she pleaded

Guilty and was sentenced to a year in jail the police believe that there’s enough to charge her with murder and also Eric naposki with murder but the da disagreed they come back they’re like she’s stealing she’s cheating um and it got refused again DNA is in its infancy at that point

We’ve got no eyewitnesses there’s no fingerprints there’s no confession and so for the D that are looking at that at the time um they just didn’t feel like there was enough evidence to proceed with the Case when Nanette was released from jail 6 months later she and Eric separated she gets married to this guy Packard he goes back East gets married I believe and then uh divorced and has at least one child uh on the east coast and they essentially both go on with their lives

The case went cold the murderer seemed to have got away with it but what they didn’t know was that lurking in the files was the evidence that would one day convict them this was one of the most diabolical and heartbreaking cases I ever tried as a prosecutor

The Killers of Bill McLaughlin had gone unpunished for more than seven years his body had revealed the truth about the bullets that were used and the deliberate nature of the killing but the case had gone cold the suspects were getting on with their lives while Bill’s

Family was still grieving but a new team of investigators were determined to crack this case in 2002 Deputy district attorney Matt Murphy had just started a new job with a homicide unit of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office my predecessor Debbie Lloyd looked at it in

My very first day in homicide she said you’re going to want to look at the mlin case because I think if you put some work into that you’re going to solve it and I got assigned an investigator to work with me as my partner in the homicide unit named Larry

Montgomery Larry’s a a legend in law enforcement so this case that had sat idle we started working it up again Larry Montgomery started reading all the old case notes and listening to all the tapes of the police interviews there’s such a volume of work and virtually nobody has time to look at

That volume of work and so I made a a point of listening to every single tape and take every single bit of notes there’s a lot of times where there’s something on that tape that’s extremely important but nobody knew it at the time one of the 62 tapes Larry listened

To was recording of the interview with Nanette in the police car on the night of the Murder She said well I’m going to go to the other house and I’m going to go there and I thought interesting if she knows and she did know because the

Police told her that the killer had keys to this Mansion why is she willing to go to another house belonging to Bill and her and stay at that house who says the killer doesn’t have keys to that house and it struck me as odd over the next few years Larry was

Also able to uncover new incriminating evidence from the witness statements there was a woman who was a a neighbor of Eric naposki who said that he had talked about Bill moffen how he hated Bill mlin she had been talking to Eric and he had mentioned bill mcglauflin on several occasions and at

One point he told her that he hated bill so much he wanted to blow up his plane and then after the murder he ran into her again and said hey uh you know that mlin guy you know uh you know he got killed and she said oh my God Eric

Please tell me you didn’t do it and he smiled and said maybe I did maybe I didn’t an autopsy is not just to establish a cause of death it’s also there to seek out any possible clues that might help an investigation for instance did the deceased fight back in

Any way are there any bruises or injuries to the knuckles of the hand that will show that he’s fought back and punched someone that might enable the defendant to claim self-defense in the future in fact there aren’t any such injuries what there was though was an injury to his left eyebrow and that

Small mark on the body is telling us so much it’s an injury that is absolutely typical of the type of wound that’s caused when someone collapses after they’ve been killed and I’m sure that’s what happened in this case so there were no signs of a struggle there was no sign

Of a fight and the pattern of injuries grouped together as they were suggests that the killer came into the room saw Bill was in front of him shot him very quickly bill fell to the ground dead and the killer made his Escape all within seconds and it would seem this killing

Was planned weeks or maybe even months in advance made obvious by the keys found at the murder scene one newly cut from an Ace Hardware blank Ace Hardware blank I didn’t know this before I got this case can only be sold at Ace Hardware like nobody else cares him Ace

Keys are made at Ace so they go and they they go to the local Ace Hardware store closest to Eric npa’s house and the guy goes sure I know that guy I made keys for him right about the time of this can’t say that it was the same key but

He looked at the key and he goes this looks like a key that was cut on my machine turns out there’s several different kinds of key machines that will make the keys and this apparently was a a high-end key machine and there were very few in

The area it kind of made sense that he had those keys made so the police could tie the newly cut house key to naposki and when they checked nette’s key ring they found her original pedestrian gate key was missing exactly like the key found on the mat and new techniques could extract

More evidence from the six empty shell casings found at the crime scene there’s a whole science on expended shell casings left at crime scenes it’s like a form of firearm DNA because the little microscopic lands and grooves that go into expending a a shell casing um are

Unique to every firearm so they’re able to figure out if if they find a brass casing in a crime scene they can link it back to a specific gun but if you don’t have the gun to compare it to you can also look at the firing pen that was

Used in the back of the ammunition the exact make of gun that was used in the murder could now be identified originally the murder weapon was a known to be a 9mm for sure and the possibility of about 27 or 28 guns different types of guns could have shot

That that particular bullet But as time went on um technology advanced and you know eventually we were able to narrow that down to one specific firearm and that’s a Brea 92F so by the time I looked at the case the only gun that could have done it was a Brea 92F Eric

Naposki owned a Brea 92F and Eric naposki lied about that beta 92F and not only had naposki owned exactly the same gun as the murder weapon the police also discovered he had been training with it that boom boom boom boom boom boom um turns out Eric naposki had just gone

Through a firearms training course where he was trained to shoot twice re Aim Shoot twice re a shoot twice and that’s um it’s called the double tap technique basically it’s a it’s a technique to kill the investigators were also very skeptical about how recently naposki had started his job at the Thunderbird

Nightclub there were nightclubs throughout Los Angeles and Orange County hundreds of them and of all of the nightclubs that Eric naposki can get a job as a bouncer on December 1st two weeks before bill mofin is murdered he gets won 136 yards away from our murder scene yeah with with an easy like

An easy way to run over a bridge and be there in about a minute so that’s not a coincidence it’s just not Larry even found crucial evidence in nette’s Christmas shopping the night that bill died she said I’m at the the stores at the mall we have the actual receipts for what she

Bought and items that she bought were for her family and friends nothing for bill now if she knew he was going to be dead by Christmas no reason to buy prisons for nette even bought Eric size 12 pair of $795 shoes that day with Bill’s credit card Matt and Larry had

Pulled together a lot of complicated details but at its heart they belied this case was simple Nanette had two huge motives for wanting Bild dead One Financial one emotional she’s embezzling money from his bank account to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars and she’s got this lifestyle

Where she doesn’t have to work bill is financing plastic surgeries exotic vacations she gets to drive around in a convertible Lexus she’s living the life she’s cheating on them and she’s stealing from him and whichever one of those Bill McGloin finds out about first she’s out with

Nothing she has to Kill Bill McGloin if she wants to get away with this it took several years of hard reinvestigating to gather all the new evidence and in 2009 15 years after Bill mclin’s murder Nanette Johnston and Eric neosi were finally arrested and charged with murder I got one of these awesome

Moments where I got to call Kim mlin and I said hey I just want to let you know that we filed charges in the death of your father and there’s this pause and she said against who and I said well against Eric and nette and she started

To cry and she said For What and I said for the murder of your dad and she cried and cried and cried two years later Eric naposki was tried at the Orange County Superior Court 28 Witnesses were called and there were more than 240 exhibits I was absolutely utterly

Convinced that Nanette Johnston and Eric naposki murder bill mlin but you never know how it’s going to be perceived and you never know if your Witnesses are going to come off well if they’re not going to come off well so you always in a case like this you kind of go in with

Your heart in your throat a little bit after 3 weeks the jury was sent out to consider their verdicts they deliberated for 7 hours the jury came back and convicted Eric naposki of first-degree murder with a firearm and also was known as a special circumstance of murder for

Financial gain okay so he was doing this to help nette get money and the sentence was life without possibility of parole in California State Prison Nanette Johnston was tried a year later the prosecution argued that while nette didn’t pull the trigger she had planned the crime and aided in its execution and so she should also be prosecuted for murder the jury convicted her of murder for financial gain then that was also was sentenced to life

Without possibility parole in California State Prison after 17 and 1 half years Bill’s family finally received the Justice they deserved after the investigation that was done and the trial was done I did meet his exwife and I was also close to his daughters and U they’re very nice

People it was nice to be able to get some closure for them Bill McLaughlin’s family never stopped their search for justice in the end it was the tenacity of the investigating team that trapped these killers but bodies Never Lie Bill’s body showed that there had been no struggle he was shot in Cold

Blood by someone who intended to kill him eventually Justice was Served [Applause] [Applause]