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MyspaceA Faria Beach couple are dead after a man reportedly wearing a black motorcycle helmet and dark coveralls slipped into their house through an unlocked sliding door, stabbing them both to death late on Wednesday night. Identified by neighbors as Brock and Devina Husted, both 42 years old, the two victims - who were expecting a child - were found dead by Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies. The couple’s children, a 9-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl, were in the house at the time. The boy told law enforcement officials that he witnessed the assailant’s original confrontation of his pregnant mother, while the girl was asleep in her room. The two children were able to escape without injury to a neighbor’s house, where 911 was called.
Bill Stratton, 78, who lives next door to the Husteds, said that he hadn’t heard anything at the time the attack took place. He described Brock as a successful businessman and Devina as a nice person. Located in a quiet, gated beachside community, the house that the couple was reported to have remodeled was recently put up for sale.
The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department is still investigating the crime, but currently, no new information about the suspect or his whereabouts has been released. Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Ventura County Sheriff’s office at (805) 477-7000.
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I notice there is alot of comments in the Ventura county Star but none here..I was wondering if the experts think this homicide is connect to the one in Santa Maria a day or so later..(The woman found in the bathtub?)
Byrd (anonymous profile)
May 27, 2009 at 1:14 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I read today in a search of Google News that search warrants were issued, but that police declined to comment on them. Strange, since a search warrant is a public document unless sealed by the Court. But then this is a strange case. I really do hope the Ventura County Sheriff is following up on every lead possible. For example, checking cell phone records for the cellsites in Faria at the time of the murders. Or checking the neighbors criminal histories to see if the wrong house was targeted. Check the baby's paternity? In this day of being under constant surveillance, is there not ONE security camera the on whole stretch of road the assailant had to travel down after the murders??
Hopefully they will have DNA tests done soon and have something. It would seem difficult to physically assault and murder two people without the assailant's blood being present, even from just a scratch. Brock looked like a pretty big guy, at least big enough to inflict a split lip or bloody nose. Assailant's hair? Assailant's skin under victims' fingernails? All routine and there may yet be a surprise arrest. I'm hoping that the police not commenting on the lack of presence of any of that means they at least have something to test.
Rumors are flying from everyone supposedly "in the know" about this. Some say that Brock was a "slow payer" to his workers. Another said that he had paid someone the day before in cash from the home. And of course, people have put the reported arrest of a person said to have "received stolen property" in connection with the investigation together with a rumor that a black guy was found wearing Brock's bloody watch. Probably none of it true, the the police really need to run down every lead. For the amount the County collects in property tax up here, we get practically no County services but for an occasional police car passing through. Residents up here need this one solved.
MusselShoalsResident (anonymous profile)
May 27, 2009 at 1:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)
O.J. did it.
chopsticks (anonymous profile)
May 27, 2009 at 4:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)