Eric Sills, right, listens during closing arguments at his murder trial in Santa Ana before he was found guilty in December. A San Clemente fertility doctor who was convicted of fatally strangling his wife and making her death look like an accident has been sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison, according to the Orange County district attorney’s …
Dr. Eric Scott Sills was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday after prosecutors argued he had strangled wife Susann Sills and then staged her death as an accident. “We’ve got a patient here who’s fallen off the stairs and I don’t have a pulse,” Sills told the emergency dispatcher, in a recording played for jurors in Orange County Superior Court in …
