A former navy seaman was sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment for the murder of his wife and then hid for two years. Identified as Matthew Sullivan, the man stabbed his wife, Elizabeth, to death in 2014 while their children were in another room.
Sullivan kept the body in a freezer for two years and eventually dumped it on San Diego Bay in 2016 when he and his children moved out of town. Here the authorities discovered Elizabeth’s body.
San Diego Assistant District Attorney Jill Lindberg revealed during the trial that Matthew killed his wife because Elizabeth was involved with another man, according to a Los Angeles Times report. She planned to leave him and even threatened to bring her two children and their more than $ 1,000 joint bank account with her.
Fighting to be innocent, Sullivan claimed that Elizabeth used drugs and that she didn’t come as regularly. The former seaman had no prior records and served in the Navy for 8 years.
It was last year when a San Diego Supreme Court jury found him guilty of second degree murder. He was convicted last Friday by Supreme Court Justice Albert Harutunian III, the San Diego Tribune reported.
“The jury’s verdict and the evidence at the trial made it clear that Matthew Sullivan brutally murdered his wife, methodically cleaned up the messy murder site, and then hid the body for years,” said Harutunian. “He almost got away with it, but his last attempt to hide the body at the bottom of the bay failed.”
During his conviction, Sullivan said that he felt that the verdict of the trial would have been different if some defense witnesses had testified for him.
“I firmly believe that your testimony would have changed the judgment in the process,” he said.
Lindberg reads between the lines and feels that Sullivan showed no remorse and did not regret his actions.
“There is clearly no remorse on the part of the defendant,” explained Lindberg. “He thinks he could have made a different judgment.”
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