Eric Naposki on 48 Hours

Here is a police interrogation audio tape of Eric Naposki after multimillionaire Bill McLaughlin’s murder in December 1994.  Its a 48 Hours extra (if you didn’t see the show, click here).

In this clip, then a murder suspect (now a convicted killer), Eric Naposki, seems to be insinuating that he wasn’t even dating Nanette Johnston, the woman who people believe conspired with Eric to kill McLaughlin.  He calls her an acquaintance and a business partner.

Imagine that.

If you’ve seen 48 Hours, you will know that he has since confessed his love for Nanette. 

Detective Voth, who worked this homicide, said about Eric’s interviews, “He was very evasive.”

Detective Voth remembers Eric wouldn’t give him a straight answer about his relationship with Nanette.  

When it came to owning a gun, Eric again was not forthcoming, either.  He denied he owned a gun, but later confess to owning a .9mm–the same gun that killed McLaughlin. And ironically, Eric would never identify the location of his gun to police.  Hmmm….

In his interview with 48 Hours, Eric was asked, “You never suspected that she [Nanette] and Bill McLaughlin shared an intimate relationship?”  Eric replied, “I never once suspected.”

Yet if you watched the 48 Hours show, at the end, Eric flat out contradicts himself.  He seems to have a track record for that, doesn’t he?   When Eric tries to explain why he had written down McLaughlin’s license plate number (which he gave no explanation for at his trial), he now tells 48 Hours that he wrote it down because, “I wanted her followed to see what she was doing….See I was catching on to her. …I knew something was fishy.”

Yeah right.

Eric truly has no problem stretching the truth whenever it fits him.  He has demonstrated it multiple times in a short period of time.  I can imagine his trial was loaded with a lot more inconsistencies–that’s why he was convicted after only 7 hours of deliberation. I think his sentence was just.

You may have also noticed that Eric leaks micro expression smirks throughout his interview.  It shows his arrogance and it what experts call duper’s delight. Not only does his story not make any sense–neither do his emotions.

This jury got it right, if you want my opinion.