A Utah doctor and former bishop who drowned his wife in a bathtub so he could begin a new life with his mistress has been sentenced to 17 years to life.
Prosecutors said Martin MacNeill, 58, gave drugs to his wife, Michele MacNeill, after she had cosmetic surgery, which he had pressured her into.
The father-of-eight helped the 50-year-old former local beauty queen into the tub before holding her head underwater.
"My father is a monster!" his daughter Alexis told Friday's hearing.
"He has never shown any remorse for his crimes."
A family photo of Michele and Martin MacNeill A prosecutor told the trial "it was an almost perfect murder", and that the doctor had given his wife drugs he knew would be difficult to detect once she was dead.
The murderer's mistress, Gypsy Willis, testified that she had a 15-month affair with the doctor at the time of Mrs MacNeill's death.
She said she was hired as a nanny and MacNeill proposed marriage shortly after his wife's death.
But Ms Willis said she ended the affair years ago and did not know anything about the death.
The case captured national attention because MacNeill was a wealthy doctor with a law degree, a picture-perfect family and a former bishop.
The crime shocked the Mormon community of Pleasant Grove, just south of Salt Lake City.
Before he was charged with murder in 2012, he served time in a federal prison in Texas on fraud charges.
He also served time for using the identity of one of his adopted daughters to escape a debt-heavy history.
His only son committed suicide in January 2010.
MacNeill was medical director of the Utah State Development Center, a residential centre for people with cognitive disorders.
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