since they didn't want to elaborate maybe this is information from the son regarding what happened during the attack. Maybe they screamed for the kids to get out of the house and run. I think they have information about the incident that has not been revealed to the public that indicates the Husteds did something to save the children. jmho of course.Me too........how did they know what their last wishes were?
GUILTY CA - Brock, 42, & Davina Husted, 42, pregnant, murdered, Faria Beach, 3 June 2009
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No, you didn't dream it.
Police say it's not related to this case.....I have no idea how they can determine that so quick.
I searched for new articles on this crime, but could find nothing since 5/22. I'm sure this article has already been posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ventura-slayings22-2009may22,0,3642542.story
This is a fairly complete artice, including the information about a neighbor, who around the time of the murders, thought someone was in their home moving furniture etc around and thought it was their house guest. Later they learned their house guest was stopped by police from entering the area. LE checked their home and feel it's not related. (???, by me)
I hate these de ja vu things, but this so reminds me of the Original Night Stalker. Random, high end home area, successful couple, late at night or early morning, murder, no sexual assault. Murder methods vary. I'm not saying it's related;............but could it be a copy cat? What is disturbing is there was a THS Investigates program ealier in May about the Original Night Stalker.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ventura-slayings22-2009may22,0,3642542.story
I highly doubt it's the (Original) Original Night Stalker because heck, he'd have to be really old by now,............but copy cat? I dunno.
JMHO
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PS.....FWIW, one of the couple's young son was the one who discovered them. It's been so long ago I read about this and don't have time now, but I believe he was actually in the home asleep in his room at the time of the crime. So, the fact that the children were home, ............fran
I don't know. From the moment I heard about this case I got the vibe that this was some wacked out guy who had the urge to kill and hit this family because they were so accessible. These homes are sometimes VERY easy to access from the beach.
I remember the case OBE cited. I do wonder if they are related. I'm not sure this family was specifically targeted. I think LE is serving search warrants as part of their investigation, ruling everything they can out...or in. But I think that they may be saying this family was targeted and that the disturbance the one neighbor heard was unrelated because they don't want to panic everyone along the beaches of So.Cal.
That would be very negligent however, because if their is some nut running around, we need to know about it. I know I've been more careful about locking my doors since this case broke.
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I don't know gitana1, first they said it was random then they said it was targeted... they can't have it both ways unless they were randomly targeted.
I think LE are getting things together to arrest someone, at least I hope they are.
I think LE are getting things together to arrest someone, at least I hope they are.
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Yeah, they are probably telling it straight. I'm sure I'm wrong but it was just the feeling I got when I heard the facts of the case. Something about the accessibility of the place, the sounds the neighbor heard in his house that night and the way the guy was dressed. I don't know. It gives me a feeling. But. I'm sure LE knows what's going on. I just can't imagine how someone targets a pregnant woman. Bizarre.
900 at funeral for slain couple
Friends, relatives eulogize Husteds
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Many wiped away tears as relatives and friends recalled Brock and Davina, both 42, as fun, hardworking people who were dedicated to their children and each other. Davina was four to five months pregnant, and the service included a remembrance of the couple’s unborn child, Grant.
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/may/30/no-headline---nxxfcfuneral31/
Friends, relatives eulogize Husteds
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Many wiped away tears as relatives and friends recalled Brock and Davina, both 42, as fun, hardworking people who were dedicated to their children and each other. Davina was four to five months pregnant, and the service included a remembrance of the couple’s unborn child, Grant.
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/may/30/no-headline---nxxfcfuneral31/
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Here is the latest:
"Detectives on Monday examined a silver Jaguar automobile at the couple’s beachfront home as well as a maroon Mercedes Benz, the search warrant information shows.
They also apparently examined a 1977 Sea Ray cabin boat and went to the couple’s business address in the 100 block of Garden Street in Santa Barbara and searched two Chevrolet pickup trucks.
All five of the search warrants were sealed, blocking public access to investigators’ comments about the evidence they might expect to find there.
All four vehicles are registered to Brock Husted, according to records of the state Department of Motor Vehicles."
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/jun/02/investigators-search-for-clues-in-faria-beach/
"Detectives on Monday examined a silver Jaguar automobile at the couple’s beachfront home as well as a maroon Mercedes Benz, the search warrant information shows.
They also apparently examined a 1977 Sea Ray cabin boat and went to the couple’s business address in the 100 block of Garden Street in Santa Barbara and searched two Chevrolet pickup trucks.
All five of the search warrants were sealed, blocking public access to investigators’ comments about the evidence they might expect to find there.
All four vehicles are registered to Brock Husted, according to records of the state Department of Motor Vehicles."
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/jun/02/investigators-search-for-clues-in-faria-beach/
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This case on Nancy Grace right now 
They're just speaking with a few reporters on the case, and Brock Husteds brother is on live. Says the children are with family members at a home where they "expect to spend a lot of time at". Says it's going to be a lifetime of difficult times for the kids (he started to tear up a little bit). Says they know their parents are gone, and that they ask about them and miss them everyday.
He also says the Ventura County sheriffs office communicates with them on a daily basis, and that they're working quite hard at trying to find a motive. He says it's been suggested that it's been a targeted hit, but "that's a pretty liberal interpretation of what targeted might mean". He says he's not able to comment on what has been taken from the home, when Nancy asked if anything was taken. He doesn't seem very convinced this was a targeted crime.
They're just speaking with a few reporters on the case, and Brock Husteds brother is on live. Says the children are with family members at a home where they "expect to spend a lot of time at". Says it's going to be a lifetime of difficult times for the kids (he started to tear up a little bit). Says they know their parents are gone, and that they ask about them and miss them everyday.
He also says the Ventura County sheriffs office communicates with them on a daily basis, and that they're working quite hard at trying to find a motive. He says it's been suggested that it's been a targeted hit, but "that's a pretty liberal interpretation of what targeted might mean". He says he's not able to comment on what has been taken from the home, when Nancy asked if anything was taken. He doesn't seem very convinced this was a targeted crime.
I don't know, but I think a stabbing is more of a personal crime (like the Coleman choking case). You have to get up close and personal to stab someone. Then again, it reminds me of the Matthew Cecci case that happened way back in 1998. I lived in Oceanside at the time, and it hit close to home.
Matthew Cecchi, was killed while his aunt waited outside the toilet, just steps from the family campsite in this town about 40 miles north of San Diego.
The suspect, Brandon Wilson of St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, is a transient who has prior drug arrests, according to Oceanside Police Lt. Dave Herring
The killer was schitzo and eventually sentenced to the death penalty (which he promptly responded with a wide grin).
IMHO - the house was (like someone said) a fish bowl. An easy target. A person with mental illness doesn't have to have a rhyme or reason not to kill the children - he could have looked at the wife and decided to kill her. When the husband came to help, he killed him too.
There are MANY people out there with schizoaffective, bipolar, antisocial personality disorder, psychopath, delusions of grandeur behaviour. Not all of them kill. But my gut is telling me that we may be looking for a loon who may kill again if not caught soon.
Prayers to the family - especially the children.
Best,
Mel
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I am trying to figure out why a gated community as they said this was would have such easy access from the beach
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Well the gates don't extend down the sand or onto the beach itself. The beaches down here are considered public property. Access cannot be denied the public by a private citizen. We had a lot of trouble recently between the public and celebrities in Malibu that were trying to cut off public access to "their" beaches, or the beaches that bordered their property.
The Husted house is right on the beach. There is a campground nearby. Someone could easily walk from any public access point to the beach, and then down the beach looking in every home.
I walk the beach by my home at night now and then. (Never alone!) It's very dark by the shore but the houses shine like beacons in that dark and you can see everything that's going on in them if they have lights on and windows open. For some reason, many, many houses have windows open (or no curtains or blinds) so everyone on the beach can see in, while they cannot really see out. Some like to show their beautifully decorated homes. (It's very common in Newport and Balboa for homes to have open windows at all times of the day and often at night so people from the street, the boardwalk or beach can admire their interior design). Others perhaps are enjoying the sea breeze. Guess that's one more of life's little pleasures that the nuts in society are taking away.
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Even gated communities that don't have beach access are easy to get into. IMHO, the 'gates' give people a false sense of security. Most of those gates can be climbed by just about anyone.
Athough we didn't live in a gated community ourselves at the beach, many of our children's friends did. It's not that hard to get in. You just wait for another 'authorized' vehicle to enter and follow behind them.
Oh........also, anyone or type of business that needs to enter the gated community for business, ie mailman, UPS, FedEX, real estate person, pizza delivery, etc., etc., etc., quite often knows a code to enter.
JMHO
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I missed Nancy Grace at both 8 and 10 tonight (so now I have to wait til 1am to see the rerun haha)..does anyone know if she covered this case, and what was said, if so? Thanks!
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Have not read anything as to a better descriptiion of this killer. Tall, short, stocky, his voice?
Wonder if one of them came across this guy earlier that day while shopping at the market or wherever. Maybe the Husted's have 'on star' in the autos and their where abouts earlier that day or the day before can be traced.
Wonder if one of them came across this guy earlier that day while shopping at the market or wherever. Maybe the Husted's have 'on star' in the autos and their where abouts earlier that day or the day before can be traced.
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Link to a video which shows the home and surrounding beach area. My boss lives in Santa Barbara, he says the locals say they believe it was a professional hit. I expressed some doubts about that based on the fact a knife was used. He replied the houses are too close together, gun would have been too noisy and attracted attention. Didn't have anything to contribute to a theory of motive, just the usual ... bf/Gf, drugs, angry employee/business partner.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/ventura_county&id=6840360
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What about using a silencer on the gun?
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This story makes me so sad. I hope they find the killer.
I have doubts about it being a professional killing too. It just doesn't seem to fit the circumstances as we now know them. I would think that a professional "hit" would have involved a gun or bomb and not a knife. Seems too personal to me. Plus, why leave witnesses?
My first thought when I heard about this on Nancy Grace was that the mother had a lover, the child was his, and he had too much to risk if things were revealed. She seemed to be the intended target, until her husband came to her aid. But the more I read about the family the less likely that seems to me.
So little facts are known to us.
Do you think the woman was targeted, or was it merely chance that the intruder saw her in the kitchen as the husband was in another part of the house?
Did the killer exit the front or rear or the house?
Is it fact or rumor that another neighboring home was broken into that night?
If each victim was stabbed 10 times, and we can assume that a struggle occurred, did the perp leave a trail of blood?
Obviously, these is a lot more we don't know. But these are some things that I'm curious about.