SAN DIEGO — Brae Hansen, the woman who organized the execution of her stepfather Tim MacNeil when she was 17, faced a parole board Tuesday and was denied freedom after more than 17 years in prison.
In a roughly four-hour parole hearing, Hansen said she was allegedly sexually abused by her brother Nathaniel Gann who also acted as her accomplice in the murder. Hansen detailed what led to MacNeil being shot four times just one day after his birthday and said she was motivated by greed and abandonment.
“I felt abandoned,” she said. “I was self-centered. I had low self-esteem. I felt like I wasn’t good enough to make it without financial backing and I was afraid of being poor.”
The midday murder on Marraco Drive
San Diego police found MacNeil dead inside of his Rolando home on July 19, 2007…