The victim's brother said in a statement read aloud in court by Senior Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Walker that when his sister immigrated to the United States for college in the late 1980s she lived with him at the time.
"We drove them to school every day, which involved a 1.5-hour commute one way and then still needed to go to work," he said."It put a lot of stress on everything. There were regular parent-teacher meetings on top of this, plus other school activities." The victim's youngest son, who was in high school at the time, had to be taken out of boarding school and get counseling, his uncle said."Thank God he got better and managed to finish his high school diploma and got into college."
She said she would"never understand how after hurting her, Peter was so barbarically able to dump her body as if she was a worthless piece of trash." Chadwick initially used a vast sum of money he took with him in his flight to stay at"high-end" resorts and hotels, according to Newport Beach Police Chief Jon Lewis.
Neither Chadwick nor his wife arrived to pick up their sons, then 8, 10 and 14 years old, from school the afternoon she was killed. Another student's parent drove the children home and requested that Newport Beach police conduct a welfare check when the Chadwicks could not be found. A subsequent search of the home revealed blood and signs of a struggle inside, according to police.