Nanette Johnston appears with Eric Anthony Naposki in a photo taken while at a wedding together.
Deputy District Attorney Matt Murphy projected this photo in the courtroom during his opening
statements at Naposki's murder trial of William McLaughlin in June 20, 2011.
(File Pool Photo: H. Lorren Au Jr., The Orange County Register)

Deputy District Attorney Matt Murphy projected an image of, from left, an unnamed wedding
party guest, Eric Anthony Naposki and his girlfriend Nanette Johnston. The photo was
presented by, Murphy during Naposki's murder trial, held in OC Superior Court in
Santa Ana, CA, July 12, 2011.
(File Pool Photo: H. Lorren Au Jr., The Orange County Register)

Nanette Johnson makes a face during her April 19, 1995 arraignment on grand theft
and involvement with the murder of William McLaughlin.
(File photo: Ygnacio Nanetti, The Orange County Register)

Nanette Johnston, 45, of Ladera Ranch was arrested and charged on May 20, 2009 by the
Newport Beach police department in the 1994 murder of multimillionaire businessmam William
Francis McLaughin. Johnston was McLaughin's live-in girlfriend at the time of his murder
 on Dec. 15, 1994. (Leonard Ortiz, The Orange County Register)

Nanette Johnston booking photo.

Nanette Johnston talks to her attorney, Deputy Public Defender Mick Hill, before opening
statements in her trial in Santa Ana.
(Pool photo: Paul Bersebach, The Orange County Register)

Nanette Johnston, 46, enters a courtroom where an Orange County jury handed down a guilty verdict
 with special circumstances in Santa Ana, Calif. on Monday, January 23, 2012, for the murder of her
millionaire boyfriend, William McLaughlin on December 15, 1994.
(Leonard Ortiz, The Orange County Register)

Nanette Johnston, 46, right, sits stoically next to her lawyer, Deputy Public Defender Mick Hill, during
sentencing at the Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Calif. on Friday, May 18, 2012.
(Leonard Ortiz, The Orange County Register)

Nanette Johnston, 46, right, sits stoically next to her lawyer, Deputy Public Defender Mick Hill, during
sentencing at the Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Calif. on Friday, May 18, 2012.
(Leonard Ortiz, The Orange County Register)

Nanette Johnston, 46, right, is escorted in handcuffs out of Superior Court Judge William Froeberg's
courtroom at the Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Calif. on Friday, May 18, 2012, after
 she was sentenced to to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
(Leonard Ortiz, The Orange County Register)

Kim Bayless, daughter of murder victim William McLaughlin, looks directly at defendant Nanette
Johnston as she gives her victim impact statement at the sentencing for Nanette Johnston in
 Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Calif. on Friday, May 18, 2012.
(Leonard Ortiz, The Orange County Register)

Jenny McLaughlin, right, daughter of murder victim William McLaughlin, gives her impact statement
at the sentencing for Nanette Johnston in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Calif.
on Friday, May 18, 2012. McLaughlin's sister, Kim Bayless, at left, listens in.
(Leonard Ortiz, The Orange County Register)

Eric Naposki booking photo.

Eric Anthony Naposki watches the proceedings of Nanette Johnson's arraignment on grand theft
and involvement with the murder of William McLaughlin, April 19, 1995. Naposki was suspected
at the time but not charged as being the triggerman. Naposki was later convicted of
special-circumstances murder in summer of 2011.
(File photo: Ygnacio Nanetti, The Orange County Register)

Eric Anthony Naposki appears in court as opening statements began during his murder trial
of Newport Beach millionaire William McLaughlin, June 20, 2011.
(File Pool Photo: H. Lorren Au Jr., The Orange County Register)

The victim

William Francis McLaughlin, 55 and his wife Sue in a photo during a holiday family
celebration before his death on Dec. 15, 1994.
(Ken Steinhardt, The Orange County Register)