COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. — A man sentenced to death for raping, strangling and dismembering his girlfriend’s 14-year-old daughter has died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm.
Jacob Sullivan died Thursday at a hospital, according to the Montgomery County coroner’s office. It is being treated as a natural death.
The 47-year-old Sullivan had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and other offenses for killing Grace Packer in 2016 as part of a rape-murder fantasy he shared with the teen’s mother.
Jurors decided in March 2019 that Sullivan should get the death penalty. Grace Packer’s mother, Sara Packer, received a life sentence in a plea deal with prosecutors.