Denise Annette Huber

In an effort to keep the man accused of bludgeoning their daughter to death from profiting from the case, the parents of Denise Huber have filed a wrongful-death suit seeking unspecified damages. Dennis and Ione Huber filed the suit Wednesday in Orange County Superior Court against John Famalaro, 38, a former Orange County painter who is accused of raping and killing the 23-year-old Newport Beach woman and storing her handcuffed body in a freezer outside his Prescott, Ariz., home.

In an effort to keep the man accused of bludgeoning their daughter to death from profiting from the case, the parents of Denise Huber have filed a wrongful-death suit seeking unspecified damages. Dennis and Ione Huber filed the suit Wednesday in Orange County Superior Court against John Famalaro, 38, a former Orange County painter who is accused of raping and killing the 23-year-old Newport Beach woman and storing her handcuffed body in a freezer outside his Prescott, Ariz., home.

When Denise Annette Huber's nude and handcuffed body was discovered tucked inside a freezer on a summer day in 1994, it solved the baffling mystery of what happened to the stranded Newport Beach motorist who disappeared three years earlier. Now, as John Joseph Famalaro's long-awaited murder trial is set to begin today with jury selection in Orange County Superior Court, many of the painful and troubling questions that still surround the bizarre case might finally be answered.

When Denise Annette Huber's nude and handcuffed body was discovered tucked inside a freezer on a summer day in 1994, it solved the baffling mystery of what happened to the stranded Newport Beach motorist who disappeared three years earlier. Now, as John Joseph Famalaro's long-awaited murder trial is set to begin today with jury selection in Orange County Superior Court, many of the painful and troubling questions that still surround the case may finally be answered.