Murders in Faria Beach
Neighbors embrace as a seaside community in Ventura County grapples with the murder of a husband and wife in their home. Police are looking for the man who stabbed and killed Faria Beach residents Brock and Davina Husted Wednesday night. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Authorities said they have no suspects in what they believe may have been the random killings of a man and his pregnant wife in their beach house a few miles up the coast from Ventura.
Ventura County Chief Deputy Dennis Carpenter talks to the media in front of the home of Husted family. Brock Husted and his wife, Davina, who was about five months pregnant, were stabbed to death in the home Wednesday night. Their children, ages 9 and 11, were also in the house. They fled to a neighbor’s home. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Bill Stratton, 78, talks about the murder of his neighbors. “The fact is, a beach house is quite vulnerable from the beach,” Stratton said. An intruder, wearing a motorcycle helmet and perhaps a dark jumpsuit, entered the Husted home through an open door on a patio overlooking Faria Beach. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
The beach entrance to the Husted home, where Brock Husted and his pregnant wife, Davina, were murdered Wednesday. Faria Beach is a gated strip of multimillion-dollar homes beside Pacific Coast Highway on the Ventura County coast. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
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Ventura County Sheriff’s Chaplain Ron Matthews comforts a house cleaner who showed up to work on Thursday. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
A Ventura County sheriff enters the Husteds’ multimillion-dollar beach home. As of Thursday morning, authorities said they have no suspects in what they believe may have been random killings. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
On Thursday morning, Scott Husted talked to media about his murdered brother and sister-in-law. “Theres a killer out there who came in and did this to a man and a woman with their children there. Thats the story.” (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
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