In less than three years, Hubbard poured an estimated $3 million into the local economy as he redesigned the ranch to his exacting and elaborate specifications. As Ed Shahan recalled, “They were having trouble deciding whose name to put the property in.” Pat Broeker told the sellers, Ed and Sherry Shahan, that he had recently inherited millions of dollars and was looking to leave his home in Upstate New York to raise livestock in California.Īt the time, the Shahans were suspicious. They purchased a 160-acre ranch known as the Whispering Winds for $700,000, using 30 cashier’s checks drawn on various California banks. Hubbard became Lisa’s father, Jack, who impressed the locals as a chatty old man, charismatic but sometimes gruff. Pat and Anne Broeker went by the names Mike and Lisa Mitchell. Hubbard and the Broekers concocted an elaborate set of phony names and backgrounds to conceal their identities from the townsfolk. In those parts, people don’t ask a lot of questions about someone else’s business.

Then, in the summer of 1983, they decided to settle down in a dusty ranch town called Creston, population 270, where the hot, arid climate would be kind to Hubbard’s bursitis.Ībout 30 miles inland from San Luis Obispo, it was a perfect spot for a man of notoriety to live in obscurity. They lived in apartments in Newport Beach and the suburbs of Los Angeles. For months, they traveled the Pacific Northwest in a motor home.

Hubbard and the Broekers spent their first several years together on the move. She was cool under pressure and able to defuse Hubbard’s volatile temper. Anne had been one of Hubbard’s top aides for years.

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