were arrested separately during a bicoastal sting operation in may 2009 on murder charges by the time of their arrests packard and naposki had gone their separate ways packard had gone on to marry twice more and was still living in california naposki meanwhile had briefly gone back to playing professional american football overseas before returning to the us where he had a fiance and was living in connecticut the prosecutor alleged packard was the suspected mastermind behind mclaughlins death and that she convinced naposki to kill him so they could collect a substantial sum of money prosecutors argued that packard stood to benefit from mclaughlins milliondollar life insurance policy 150000 from his will and access to his beach house bill mclaughlin pictured in a business meeting courtesy of kim mclaughlin there was reason to suspect packard in 1996 she had pleaded guilty to forgery and grand theft after she was accused of forging mclaughlins name on checks and stealing from his accounts she served 180 days behind bars packard denied the murder charges against her saying she needed mclaughlin to continue her lifestyle i only gained money if bill was alive she said more south carolina love triangle a womans affair with a married man leads to her disappearance according to prosecutors naposkis story evolved during questioning he initially lied about owning a 9 mm handgun which was the same kind of weapon used to kill mclaughlin the single most important piece of evidence that we had against eric naposki was the way he lied to the police said abc news consultant and former orange county prosecutor matt murphy who tried the case defendant eric naposki listens as deputy district attorney matt murphy offers his closing statements during naposkis murder trial in santa ana calif july 12 2011 h lorren au jrap file when asked why he lied to police naposki told abc news i just didnt want to talk about it because if i wasnt at the scene and i wasnt in newport then i couldnt have killed the guy even if i had a bazooka naposki went to trial first and was found guilty of firstdegree murder in 2011 afterward he met with prosecutors and told them packard had orchestrated a murderforhire plot against mclaughlin and the killer had used his gun naposki said he was there in the room when they talked about the plot said author caitlin rother who wrote a book about the case titled ill take care of you but then he says but apparently the killer went behind my back and made arrangements with nanette so the two of them planned this it wasnt me the way he describes it he is a coconspirator in a murder case murphy added even if it was true the way he describes that he is still 100 guilty for exactly what he was convicted of packard was found guilty in january 2012 of firstdegree murder and guilty of the special circumstance of committing murder