Matthew Sullivan maintains he did not kill his wife Elizabeth Sullivan, but last year, the 36-year-old was found guilty of second degree murder

The mother of two daughters mysteriously went missing in October 2014

Sullivan, 36, was hand a sentence of 16 years to life by the San Diego Bay Suprior Court on Fridayy, with the sentencing judge noting that Sullivan ‘almost got away with it, but his final attempt to hide the body at the bottom of the bay failed’

The Navy veteran was convicted of murdering his 32-year-old, stabbing her at least five times in a jealous rage, because he believed that she was having an affair

The murder described by prosecutors as ‘messy’, happened inside their home in Liberty Station, San Francisco in October 2014

He cleaned up the crime, then hid her body in a freezer for two years, but did not report her missing, that was done by her friend

He was exposd after he tried to dispose of her body in the San Diego bay before moving eastt, wher it was found

A US Navy veteran who was accused of murdering his wife and hid her body in a freezer for two years before dumping her in the San Diego Bay has been sentenced this week to 16 years to life in prison. 
Matthew Sullivan, 36, maintains he did not kill Elizabeth Sullivan, 32, whom prosecutors said he stabbed at their home in Liberty Station in October 2014.
But last year, a San Diego Superior Court jury found the navy veteteran guilty of second-degree murder.
He was handed the maximum sentence on Friday, in a San Diego courtroom with Superior Court Judge Albert Harutunian III presiding.
The jury verdict and the evidence at 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,’ judge Harutunian said. Adding that, ‘he almost got away with it, but his final attempt to hide the body at the bottom of the bay failed.’
Matthew Sullivan maintains he did not kill Elizabeth Sullivan, 32, whom prosecutors said he stabbed in a jealous rage at their home in Liberty Station in October 2014. He has been sentenced to 16 years to life by a San Diego court.

Mother of two daughters Elizabeth Sullivan, mysteriously went missing in October 2014 from the family’s San Diego home.
Prosecutor Jill Lindberg told jurors during the opening statements of the trial that Sullivan may have stabbed his wife five times after learning she was having an affair.
He then hid her body in the freezer until he had to remove it because he was moving to the east coast, Lindberg said, and he needed to dispose of it.
But in 2016, her decomposing body was found in the San Diego bay around half a mile from the family’s home, and investigators later found blood under her bedroom carpet and a knife hidden in the attic. 
Her husband, Mathew Sullivan was arrested at his new home in Delaware in 20118. 
Lindberg repeated in court on Friday that Sullivan had ‘murdered his wife in their home as their children were in the other room.’
‘He made her look like the person who had abandoned her family, when that was not the case and he knew it,’ Lindberg said. She added Sullivan had allowed his two daughters to ‘twist in the wind and wonder what had happened to’ Elizabeth. 
Sullivan served eight years in the U.S. Navy before he was honourably discharged in 2016 with the rank of petty officer. He was deployed overseas, including in the Middle East.

During the sentencing hearing, the veteran said that he felt he would not have been found guilty if he had better defense witnesses to testify for him.
‘I firmly believe their testimony would have changed the verdict in this trial,’ he said.
But Lindberg replied: ‘There is clearly no remorse on the defendant’s part.
‘He thinks he could have gotten a different verdict.’ 
After his wife mysteriously went missing in October 2014 from the family’s home, Sullivan was not the one to report her missing, rather it was one of her friends to made the missing person’s report.
Detectives would later learn that Sullivan had bought carpet cleaner the day after Elizabeth disappeared.
Forensic tests found Elizabeth Sullivan’s blood soaked into the wooden floor in her bedroom and the carpeting, as well as on the alleged murder weapon. The knife, which was found in the attic, also had traces of blood.

Sullivan’s attorney explained the blood in the carpet was a result of Elizabeth self-harming, and that she was also likely the one who hid the knife to hide it. 
After around ten of trial and roughly a day and half of deliberation, the jury reached their verdict last March.
The jury cleared Matthew Sullivan of first-degree murder, but found him guilty on the lesser charge of second-degree murder.