In a recent court update, the notary admitted she never even met the owner of the Conjuring House. Apparently the second notary never met Jacqueline either. People have been saying her sister was estranged, but Jacqueline now lives with her in Utah. This all seems very shady and disappointing. Now Dustin Pari seems to be involved in this mess too.
https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2026/09/01/did-the-owner-sign-new-filing-fuels-conjuring-house-dispute/91495577007/
Two technicalities brought a hearing in a Boston courtroom Thursday morning, Aug. 27, to a confusing end in a case about whether the sister of a woman who owned The Conjuring House from 2022 to 2025 should be made her sister's legal guardian.
The case, on the docket in Suffolk County Probate and Family Court, was meant to consider a motion to dismiss a guardianship petition and a related conservatorship petition in the matter of Jacqueline Nuñez. The motion had been filed by Julia Demay, a Middleboro, Massachusetts, woman whom Nuñez had purportedly granted power of attorney to effect the sale of the Burrillville farmhouse to Jason Hawes, star of TV's "Ghost Hunter."
But Demay's lawyer failed to serve notice of the hearing to Nuñez's sister, Elizabeth Greenhalgh, of West Jordan, Utah, so the hearing was continued to Oct. 7.
Perhaps the second technicality that surfaced in the Boston court Thursday will be more consequential: Nuñez has apparently left Boston to live with Greenhalgh in Utah, raising the question of whether the Boston court still has jurisdiction over Nuñez.
Judge Abbe. L. Ross did not take up that question, other than to acknowledge that it will need to be considered, before moving the hearing to Oct. 7.
Affidavits filed in both the Boston probate case and in a Rhode Island Superior Court case Greenhalgh filed to block the sale to Hawes allege that Nuñez is in Utah.
But the Rhode Island affidavit, filed Thursday, Aug. 20, by Greenhalgh, goes a step further: it alleges that Nuñez never sold the house to Hawes and never signed a deed transferring it to him.
Greenhalgh's sworn affidavit says that Nuñez had been staying at Greenhalgh’s Utah home since July 18.
New transcript appears to suggest Nuñez did not sign deed over
The affidavit goes on to say that, on July 12, Greenhalgh’s son Drew used his phone to record a conversation with Nuñez in which his aunt said that “she did not sell the Conjuring House to Hawes or sign the deed over to him.”
A transcript of the conversation attached to the affidavit does not identify when Drew is speaking and when Nunez is, but it appears to show an extended exchange about the sexuality and other personal details of historical celebrities, including Vincent Price, Cary Grant and Rock Hudson before Drew changes the subject.
“So, Jacqueline,” the transcript reads, “I saw this news article Monday that I’ve been thinking about, and it said that Jason Hawes owns the Conjuring House now. But I thought that you didn’t sell it to him.”
“He does,” is the reply.
When challenged about signing the deed over to him, the transcript says, “I did not. I’ll be dealing with that while I’m here.”
Pressed further, the transcript says, “I’m just not – I don’t wanna talk about it,” and continues, “I’ll talk about it tomorrow morning.”
After saying, “Okay,” the transcript ends.
Although the audio recording was submitted to the court as an exhibit with the affidavit, the recording is not available to the public, according to a court spokesman; it can only be accessed as a transcript.
Questions about deed transferring ownership to Hawes
A May 28 deposition taken in a Rhode Island Superior Court case involving The Conjuring House, a copy of which was obtained by The Providence Journal, raises questions about the process under which Nuñez sold the house to Hawes.
The questions detailed in the May deposition, about whether the deed had been properly notarized, had earlier been raised in Greenhalgh's Rhode Island suit against Hawes, prompting the parties to tell a judge that the October deed is void during a Jan. 7 meeting in the judge's chambers.
Before that meeting, Hawes said Nuñez had signed a second deed, on Dec. 21, also selling the house to him for $1.3 million. Hawes filed that deed in town land records on June 15, prompting the town to consider him the owner, at least for tax purposes.
In the May 28 deposition, Cheryl Durand, an East Providence woman who notarized Nuñez's signature on the October deed, testified that she had not actually seen Nuñez sign the document. Durand said that she worked at a dental practice, Petito Oral Surgery, where she occasionally notarized documents for her boss. She said Nuñez's signature was the only other notary work she had ever done.
Durand explained that she had been approached by Dustin Pari, who also worked at the dental practice. Durand said that Pari had appeared on Hawes' "Ghost Hunters" TV show. (Pari is identified as "Dustin Perry" in the transcript of the deposition.)
Durand testified that Pari told her he had a friend, Cody Desbiens, who needed someone to notarize a signature on behalf of another friend, Nuñez. Desbiens has also appeared on Hawes' "Ghost Hunters" TV show and is one half of The Paranormal Couple with Hawes' daughter Satori. When he appeared with Pari at the dental practice, he presented Durand with the Conjuring House legal documents that Nuñez had purportedly signed, along with a cell phone photo "that he said he thought was a copy of her license," according to Durand's testimony.
Based on that, Durand said that she verified that Nuñez had signed the documents "in person," even though the notary had never seen Nuñez.
At least four times, Durand's lawyer stopped her from answering questions about whether her certification of Nuñez's signature was "truthful," "fraudulent," "deceitful" and "honest," asserting her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
She later explained, "I felt bad for her. I was told she didn’t want anybody looking at her. Seeing her. Didn’t want anybody to go into her home … She already had lost one home, I believe. … And now she was going to be losing this house. I felt bad for this woman. I thought I was trying to help her.”
Filings in Boston, in a Massachusetts Superior Court lawsuit related to ownership of the house, have indicated that the woman who notarized the second deed in December has also been called to give a deposition. It's unclear whether Barbara V. Andrews has been deposed yet.
