They, too, rushed to the scene, shocked by the death of MacNeil and seriously concerned about Hansen. While Brae received medical attention, police combed the house. They found a. They also collected neighbors' eyewitness statements about a man seen running away from the house and climbing into a truck and driving off.
Brae also told the police that she did not see the killer's face, which was obscured by a black mask with eyeholes cut out. She said she could not identify his skin color because he was wearing gloves. And she said he disguised his voice "like a cartoon character's. It was high pitched, kinda squeaky.
A home invasion robber, they want to sound like the bogey man," Smith said. The detectives wondered if perhaps the intruder was someone Tim MacNeil knew from his work as a defense attorney, such as a disgruntled client. He was really just a child at heart. Brae's brother Nathaniel had been at college in Arizona since Now Brae was grappling with the death of her stepfather -- whom she called Daddy -- all alone in a police station in downtown San Diego.
After she was questioned, she asked to be taken to Bonnie and Rick MacNeil's house. Later that evening, detectives visited Brae again so they could photograph her wrist wounds made by the zip ties.
While being questioned for a second time about what had happened, Brae suddenly blurted out a name she hadn't mentioned before.
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Why did a young brother and sister devise a plot to kill their stepfather, a veteran San Diego criminal defense attorney, who by many accounts had not harmed them? Did anger drive them to murder Timothy MacNeil in his Rolando home and try to make it look as though he was shot during a home-invasion robbery?
Or was it greed? Her brother, Nathaniel Gann, 20, was sentenced to 25 years to life. Both were convicted in April of first-degree murder. Hansen was also found guilty of a special-circumstance allegation of lying in wait.
Gann made no statements during the emotional proceedings yesterday except to answer a few questions from the judge. But Hansen tearfully told the packed courtroom that she was sorry for what she had done. Police had said the siblings planned to share any inheritance Hansen received. She said her father cared deeply for both of his daughters, including Hansen. According to testimony during the three-week trial, Hansen called on July 19, , and reported that she and her stepfather had been surprised by a masked gunman.
She said the intruder shot MacNeil after he refused to reveal the combination to a safe. When police arrived at his Marraco Drive home, they found Hansen — then 17 — standing in a downstairs game room several feet from the body with her wrists bound behind her back with plastic ties.
She told police she had dialed the telephone with her tongue. The murder weapon, a revolver, was found outside the house. Gann was arrested in Arizona, where he lived with his grandmother. New state districts could remake political boundaries in San Diego. Public Safety. El Cajon police warn public about suspect in violent, unprovoked stabbing.
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Among those considerations were her age at the time of the crime she was 17 , the circumstances of the killing and other pertinent information about her home environment. The Superior Court judge appeared to be particularly moved by evidence that Hansen had been physically abused by her mother, who committed suicide in , a point that was raised in her trial as well. How much that factored into the decisions Hansen and her brother made in order to kill their stepfather, Timothy MacNeil, is less clear.
But the law has changed since , when Hansen was convicted of first-degree murder and a special-circumstance allegation of lying in wait, which made her eligible for life in prison without parole.
Her brother Nathaniel Gann was tried in front of a separate jury that found him guilty of murder, but not the special-circumstance allegation. In , the U. The idea behind those changes, according to juvenile justice advocates, stems from a recognition that minors are different from adults in how they make choices, process information, respond to negative influences and evaluate risk.
MacNeil was shot four times in his Rolando home on July 19, , the day after his 63rd birthday. Although Gann, then 19, was the one who pulled the trigger, Hansen was the mastermind behind the murder plot, prosecutors said.
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