On the morning of July 8, 2016, Sullivan told detectives, he and Sara Packer drove Grace, still sleepy and in pyjamas, from their residence in Abington to a new home in Richland Township, Bucks County. Grace Packer, 14, died at the hands of Sara Packer and Jacob Sullivan, who conspired to beat, rape, poison and ultimately strangle the teen. Sara Packer and Jacob Sullivan then preserved the girl’s corpse for weeks in cat litter before dismembering and dumping her body.

Grace endured a lifetime of unimaginable pain and suffering and was brutally murdered and dismembered by her adoptive mother, Sara Packer, and Sara Packer’s boyfriend, Jacob Sullivan.

Grace was allowed to remain in the care of Sara Packer throughout her life due to the carelessness and recklessness of entities that provided various services to Grace throughout her life. In 2004, Grace was placed into the care of Sara and David Packer.

In March 2007, when she was six (6) years old, Sara and David Packer formally adopted Grace. On two (2) separate occasions Grace’s foster siblings reported to the foster and adoption agencies that Grace was being regularly abused by the Packers. In September 2010, when Grace was nine (9) years old, David Packer was charged with raping Grace and another minor female foster child in the Packer home. Sara Packer was “indicated” by ChildLine, meaning that she had been investigated as a perpetrator of child abuse and was aware of it occurring in the Packer home.

Despite this, Grace was allowed to return to live with Sara Packer. In 2013, Jacob Sullivan, Sara Packer’s boyfriend, moved into the Packer home. On July 8, 2016, Sara Packer and Jacob Sullivan carried out their rape-murder fantasy and brought Grace to a rented home in Bucks County.

Once there, Jacob Sullivan violently raped Grace while Sara Packer watched. Grace was then gagged, drugged and thrown into the house’s attic closet to die. The following day, Sara Packer and Jacob Sullivan returned to the attic and discovered that Grace was still alive. Jacob Sullivan strangled Grace to death while Sara Packer watched.