Faria Beach Murder Suspect Found Guilty In Unrelated Case
VENTURA (AP) — The man charged with the 2009 stabbing deaths of a couple and their unborn child in their Ventura County beach house has been convicted in a separate case involving a hit-and-run car crash.
A Ventura jury on Wednesday found 21-year-old Joshua Graham Packer guilty of two misdemeanors and a felony for dissuading a witness related to a vehicle crash in December 2009, seven months after the beach house killings.
The Ventura County Star says Packer crashed into a parked car and prevented the victim from calling police.
Packer is facing a death penalty trial for the May 20, 2009, killings of Brock Husted, his wife Davina Husted and the couple's unborn child inside their Faria Beach home.
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