and agreed to receive $17,000 a month in child support. had that been her idea all along? the new bill did not have millions. when he married nannette, he signed a prenup letting her keep for herself all the money she got from number two. or was that number three? anyway, the real estate mogul. eric napolski went back east, got married, got divorced. and bill mclaughlin s kids tried to live the way he would have wanted them to. you need to understand where my dad came from. a very low income family, as we would call it today. so he always appreciated what he
that nanette johnston was greedy and would stop at nothing for money. it was clear to him that she had been cheating on bill. it was also clear to him she had been cheating on bill with eric. he even knew that her key to the community pedestrian gate was missing. and, remember, there was one found, could have been it, on the mat at the murder scene. but did all of that make her a killer? she and her lover, eric? do you remember what you thought at the time? i thought the police would be able to have a closed case. wishful thinking, as it turned out. probably naive. reporter: in fact, it looked like someone or two someones might just get away with murder. coming up this story from a new witness. she said i don t even want to know if you had anything to do with this. she said, maybe you did, maybe you didn t. you didn t
type building, a woman who had been too afraid to come forward at the time of the murder named suzanne cogar. suzanne cogar was very, very important because she gave the best comprehensive understanding of the way nanette manipulated naposki into committing the murder. reporter: suzanne told them how she and eric would chat by the pool, how one day in the fall of 1994 eric was angry that his girlfriend s boss, meaning bill mclaughlin, had tried to rape her. totally untrue. they re engaged to be married. she had been living at the house as boyfriend/girlfriend for over three years. but naposki didn t know about it. and he s in a rage about it. he s in a rage about it. reporter: after the murder, said suzanne, eric sought her out, said if the police came around, tell them i m a nice guy. she said, oh, my god, eric, i don t want to know if you had anything to do with this. he smiled and said, maybe i did, maybe i didn t.
she s actually getting a million dollars. a million dollars is a massive amount of money. $2 million for her he worth $55 million before he died. her long-term plan is not to be with a deadbeat loser. which was in a way the question we put to the prosecutor. she was getting a lot of money from him. she probably is stealing along the way and she can cheat it at the same time. why would she kill him? if he lives, he ought to find out she s cheating or stealing and she wants best case scenario for her on the streets with nothing and worse case scenario is she goes to jail. in the end, murphy got his verdict. guilty of the crime of felony. after conviction, the honest thing happens. eric called up murphy from jail
92. a few months later, it was yn t ynette s turn. she thought she controls the money and her stealing escalated as the murder got closer. she steals $48,042 in the month of october alone. in the month of october alone, she beaten the previous nine months combined. the prosecutor argued, she ask eric to kill bill before he caught on. eric s attorney told the jury two one, eric could not have done it. 18 minutes he was on the pay phone at this denny s. he could not make it to new port beach in time to commit the