Son of Ventura couple stabbed to death tried to get intruder to leave

The 9-year-old son of a Ventura County couple stabbed to death by an intruder last year attempted to get the man to leave by offering him his mother’s wallet from her purse.

Details of the night of May 20, 2009, when Brock and Davina Husted, who was pregnant, were stabbed to death in their beachfront home in the Faria Beach Colony were included in affidavits used to support Ventura County Sheriff’s detectives’ search warrants that were unsealed recently.

The Husteds' children, ages 9 and 11, were not physically harmed in the attack.

Jonathan Packer, 20, was arrested in April and charged with three counts of murder. His trial is scheduled for early next year.

The son told detectives that the intruder entered the home from the beach, armed with a gun but then grabbed a kitchen knife. The boy said he saw the man take his parents into a back room, promising “not to hurt the children,” then heard his mother scream. The intruder then left. The boy discovered his parents stabbed to death, awakened his sister, and they slipped out of the house and ran to a neighbor’s home.

-- Sam Quinones

 

Comments

[blackone]

Insanely horrible.

[Marley]

Jailhouse justice is warranted here.

[Condo Fire]

why did he kill them if he was wearing a motorcycle helmet? they obviously couldnt see him through it. crazy

[sailbyme]

This monster should be killed ASAP. Please explain why we should warehouse this animal after proving he isn't fit to breathe the same air as the rest of us.

[All-Hallows-Eve]

I can't imagine what that must do to a child.
Poor baby boy.

[Michael]

This guy does not deserve a trial, or any consideration. Another useless waste of the tax payers money. He needs to be cut up while alive so he can feel what he did to these poor people.

Oh hell do it like in feudal japan, kill him, his whole family and burn down his house and bulldoze the ground, leave no DNA behind.

[Nero's Fiddle]

The accused and convicted should cease to live as soon as possible. Too bad we are so "advanced" in the west. The fact that this man destroyed the futures of these children counts for nothing in our justice system.

[FmX]

Wow just wow, I dont see how people like that even exist sad.

[u know]

Did you see the surname on the suspect? He is obvously an illegal immigrant.

[stephenwinkler]

We have forgotton to apply the death penalty. This is the result.

[Tigerloose]

Well now, this is sufficiently complicated that it will take years of work by the lawyers and judges to decide to give Packer the death penalty. Then because it's so complicated there will be thirty years of appeals to decide that he should finally die. Then the complications get even worse because the courts can't decide how to kill him in a humane way. The nine year old boy will be an old man when Packer dies of old while age watching reruns of Dukes of Hazard after a nice dinner.

[Castaneda]

Death penalty here,i don't care who he is and what race he is.

[Malby]

Obviously criminally insane--life in maximum security, at best. Poor kids. How horrible.

[Jake]

You really think he'd watch reruns of Dukes of Hazzard? He's only 20.

[Broapsley]

I doubt this was about a robbery. When will the police reveal if the alleged murderer knew the LONG TIME mistress of the husband, Brock Husted? Will the police pursue the rumors about the wife philandering and if the brutal stabbings were related to a jealous lover? There are a lot of questions that remain to be answered. This case is not cut and dry.

[USAPatriot]

This wasn't about a robbery. Brock Husted's affair outside his marriage spurred this incident which left the children without parents. Let the facts come out and justice be done. No more hiding the truth.