Macabre: He murdered his wife and hid her in a fridge for years pretending to be the one looking for her | the Chronicle

The frightening end of Elizabeth, wife of Matthew Sullivan The one the police have been looking for for over six years has terrified every citizen of San Diego.

According to the news portal of Telefe, the story begins in 2014, when the victim of gender violence disappeared from everyone’s life without leaving a trace, which allegedly worried her family.

It was known that the 32-year-old had been trying for years to separate from Matthew Sullivan, father of his two children and husband since 2010. Although the process was delayed, the two slept separately in their three-story home in Marina in the California city.

When speaking to the police, the murderer had pointed out that, while it was true that they had been going through “marital problems”, it was very common for him to give his wife his “space” to be. walk “at night.” And for this reason, He said he was not concerned about the matter.

However, after several weeks of absence, Sullivan went to the police and held a press conference to ask for help to find his wife’s whereabouts. At ten months without progress, it ended up being archived.

In October 2016, the case was reactivated after a person reported seeing a body floating in San Diego Bay, in an area near where the couple resided. Finally, expert opinion confirmed that it was Elizabeth’s body.

Some time after further evidence and evidence of the crime was found at the victim’s home in early 2018, Matthew he was charged with murder, and finally, he confessed that he had stabbed his wife to death. As if that wasn’t enough, he also said that he had kept his ex-wife’s body in a refrigerator, until he tossed it in the bay that year.

The argument with which he tried to justify his actions was that Elizabeth had had an affair with another man, with whom she intended to take her children.