Jacob
Sullivan who was sentenced to death in March 2019, for the murder of his
then-girlfriend’s 14-year-old daughter, Grace Packer died of cardiac aneurysm
on April 30, 2020.
Death row killer of 14-year-old Grace Packer dies of natural causes
by
Mensah M. Dean, Updated: May
1, 2020
Sullivan, 47, died of a cardiac aneurysm, a spokesperson for the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office said.
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Sullivan, who was incarcerated at SCI Phoenix in Skippack, died at a local hospital, said state corrections spokesperson Maria Finn, who declined to say what he was being treated for.
Sullivan made headlines for the brutality to which he and his then-girlfriend, Sara Packer, subjected Grace, her daughter, in a Quakertown, Bucks County, house in 2016.
Sullivan
admitted that he kidnapped, raped, and killed Grace with Sara’s help. After
raping the girl, Sullivan choked her to death, he told authorities. The couple
stored her body in kitty litter, cut up the remains with a bow saw, and
disposed of them in the woods of Luzerne County.
“You
have no soul,” Bucks County Judge Diane E. Gibbons told Sullivan when she
sentenced him to death. “You are not human.”
Sara Packer pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
On the witness stand, she
expressed disdain for the child, whom she had adopted with her ex-husband.
“Grace had become, for lack of a better word, a nonentity,” she said. "I
wanted her to go away.”
In July 2016, the couple drove
Grace from a home they rented in Abington to another they rented near Quakertown,
where Sullivan raped her after taking Viagra. The couple later drugged Grace,
bound her wrists and ankles with zip ties, gagged her, and locked her in a
cedar closet, Packer testified.
Finding Grace alive the next day,
a “panicked” Sullivan strangled her, according to trial testimony.
With Sullivan’s death, 130
inmates remain on the state’s death row. All are men, according to the
Department of Corrections. The state has not executed anyone since 1999.
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