NEWTOWN, Pa. - Jacob Sullivan, 44, was charged with the murder of Montgomery County 14-year-old Grace Packer who was reported missing in July.
Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub announced the charges shortly before 1:30 Sunday morning.
http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/...ng-montgomery-county-girl-20170108-story.htmlJacob Sullivan, 44, was charged early Sunday morning in the kidnap, rape and killing of Grace Packer, 14, according to a criminal complaint filed in Bucks County District Court. Sullivan, described by authorities as the boyfriend of Grace Packer's mother, faces 19 charges including criminal homicide, rape, kidnapping and abuse of a corpse. He could face the death penalty, according Larry King, a spokesman for the Bucks County District Attorney's office.
Sullivan told investigators that he and Packer's mother, Sara Packer, 41, plotted to rape and kill Grace Packer and then carried out their plans, according to the affidavit released by the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. Sullivan's confession came on the heels of a Dec. 30 suicide attempt with Sara Packer, according to the affidavit.
http://www.montgomerynews.com/news/...cle_ac2eaea4-3f09-5e89-b30d-1a01f79094a9.htmlJacob Sullivan, 44, of Horsham, was arraigned Saturday night, Jan. 7, before Magisterial District Judge Michael W. Petrucci in Newtown on 19 felony and misdemeanor charges including criminal homicide, rape, kidnapping and abuse of a corpse, according to court documents.
He is currently being held without bail in the Bucks County jail.
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I'm horrified. Did sara packer also watch the sexual assault her ex husband was convicted of?
Mind you, this woman worked for DCFS for a period of time!!!
On December 30, 2016, Sullivan’s girlfriend called 911 and told the dispatcher she had found him barely conscious and unresponsive inside their home in Horsham, Pennsylvania...
Police interviewed Sullivan’s girlfriend and also found a handwritten suicide note at the home. The note, which police say was written by Sullivan, said the following, according to the affidavit:
Dear babies,
I love you all so much. You are the only people that I have always been able to count on. I’m sorry that I am taking the coward’s way out, but I don’t have any strength left in me.
People want to judge and lie and break me down. They have.
I can’t exist with Sara in jail and those f------ lying pigs and the *advertiser censored* media have made it impossible for us to live.
They don’t care how many lives or laws they break. I know you will always know that we had nothing to do with this no matter what lies they tell. I’m sorry to leave you. Remember all I’ve taught you. Be brave, stand tall and do your best to be stronger than I was.
I love you.
Daddy
he assaulted her, took her to the attic and raped her while Sara Packer watched. They then bound and gagged the teenager and left her to die in the third-floor attic, which Sullivan described as extremely hot. When the couple later returned to the attic, they were surprised to find Grace Packer was still alive and conscious, and subsequently Sullivan killed her.
The two packed her body in kitty litter and kept her in the attic for months. Sullivan told investigators the pair worried police would find Grace Packer's body after they visited the residence in October 2016, so the couple dismembered her body then disposed of it, according to the affidavit.
Sullivan and Packer planned Grace's murder for more than a year, killed her in July, stored her body in the attic of their rented home in Quakertown for nearly four months and later cut it up, according to the affidavit of probable cause against Sullivan. But first, Sullivan raped Grace while her mother watched, the criminal complaint says.
"This was a sexual fantasy that was shared between Jacob Sullivan and Sara Packer, and Grace Packer was the object of that rape-murder fantasy," Weintraub said.
According to the criminal complaint, Sullivan told investigators he and Packer had planned to kill Grace since fall 2015, when she returned from living with a relative in North Carolina.