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she seem to be scared that the killer might hunt her down at the beach house.
    Escorting her to the house on Seashore, the police assured that she got safely inside around one in the morning.

    Back in 1994, the city of Newport Beach, also known simply as Newport, had about 66,000 residents. Today, its population has grown to about 87,000 people, who are fortunate enough to live in one of the nation’s wealthiest communities.
    Located about fifty miles south of Los Angeles, and about eighty-five miles north of downtown San Diego, Newport spans fifty square miles of land surrounded by water, which flows around seven islands and is home to more than ten thousand recreational vessels. The clean white, beige, and pastel facades of the waterfront homes—many of which have pristine landscaping and private docks—convey the unspoken language of money.
    Some folks here are so affluent they can afford to keep a helicopter on the deck of their yacht, where they enjoy cocktails and watch the sun set, or sail over to Catalina Island for the day. In the ritzier parts of town, attire can range from yacht club or business casual to upscale designer wear, with sparkling multi-carat diamonds or trendy boutique jewelry.
    And then there are the wannabes, the gold diggers who want some of that money but don’t want or know how to work for it themselves. So they hang around the swanky restaurants and nightclubs, perch themselves seductively along the boardwalk, and hope to snag a sugar daddy or mama.
    Newport’s natural beauty, juxtaposed with the ostentatious materialism of some of its residents, made this area the perfect setting for the television show The O.C., as well as frequent episodes of the hit reality show The Real Housewives of Orange County. In addition to the nouveau riche women who keep their hair perfectly coiffed, their nails manicured, and their clothing just so, Newport Beach has drawn celebrity athletes such as basketball’s bad boy Dennis Rodman and superstar Kobe Bryant. Eccentric actor Nicolas Cage made news here when he expanded his boat dock to 156 feet to accommodate his personal flotilla and later sold his home for a record $35 million.
    Every December, Newport has its renowned “Christmas Boat Parade,” an event that dates back to 1907 and features more than one hundred boats of all sizes, lit up with bright holiday lights, cruising around the harbor like beacons of the good life.
    In 1977, Bill and his then-wife, Sue, purchased their home in Balboa Coves, to which they eventually added a second floor. Tucked into the southernmost corner of the community, just south of Coast Highway and east of the Newport Boulevard Bridge, the McLaughlin house abutted the Newport Channel, which feeds into Newport Bay and pours into the Pacific Ocean.
    In 2012, homes in Balboa Coves were selling in the $3 million range, and this particular 2,932-square-foot house was valued at $2.3 million.
    In 1992, after Sue left, Bill purchased the 2,376-square-foot beach house on Seashore Drive as a teardown, intending to fix it up and sell it later. He had good instincts, because the home sold in late 2004 for $3.54 million.
    Farther to the south and west of Balboa Coves, a fingerlike stretch of land called the Balboa Peninsula juts out into the ocean. Locals simply call it “the peninsula.”
    As of 2012, the murder of Bill McLaughlin was only the second—and the last—murder to occur in this community. As many as nine murders have occurred in one year in all of Newport Beach, but often there is only one or even none.

    On the night of the murder, Detective Tom Voth, a tall, mellow father of three, was relaxing at home when his lieutenant called around nine-forty.
    Lieutenant Doug Fletcher told Voth that Sergeant Steven Van Horn and Detective Bill Hartford were already headed into the station. Fletcher told Voth to do the same. From there, the investigators caravanned over to Balboa Coves, where they