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The Daily Crime

"There was no contrition, no sorrow"

The Daily Crime

VAULT Studios

True Crime

4.3627 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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A former Navy man shows no signs of remorse as he's sentenced in the killing of his young wife. KFMB reporter Richard Allyn tells about the case of Elizabeth Sullivan.   To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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coming up by all appearances before you drive off in the U-Haul he's you know dumping the body half a mile away from his home and then driving off he didn't give her a quick painless death it was essentially torture for vault studios i'm will johnson you're listening to the daily crime Just last month in March 2021,

0:27.2

36-year-old Matthew Sullivan was sentenced in a San Diego courtroom,

0:30.6

convicted in the stabbing death of his 32-year-old wife Elizabeth Sullivan in October 2016.

0:36.3

Elizabeth's disappearance six years earlier gripped the area and

0:39.7

details would eventually emerge in Matthew's trial, revealing the brutality of Matthew's crime

0:44.7

against the mother of his two young daughters. I'm joined by Richard Allen, a reporter at

0:49.2

KFMB in San Diego. Richard, thanks for being here. Tell me about Elizabeth Sullivan.

0:54.9

She was a really well-like person.

0:57.0

There was one friend in particular that testified throughout the trial.

1:01.6

He also spoke at the sentencing, describing her really just as, you know, an intelligent

1:08.5

woman devoted to her two young daughters.

1:11.7

She did have problems in her marriage, though.

1:14.3

All right, so tell me about their marriage.

1:16.4

Tell us about Elizabeth and Matthew before her disappearance.

1:20.3

Matthew was in the Navy.

1:21.6

He was in the Navy.

1:24.5

He was stationed in Virginia where he met Elizabeth.

1:28.0

And I guess they had essentially a whirlwind romance.

1:32.5

It sounds like they went from dating, maybe casual dating, to getting engaged to getting married.

1:40.3

And according to the friend, Matthew was very charming at first.

1:44.0

He basically told her he felt like he could give her a better life than the life she had

1:50.0

had in Virginia.

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