After emotional testimony this morning from relatives of Betty Jean Schirmer, the man who killed her in 2008, Arthur Schirmer, was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
The sentence comes just weeks after Mr. Schirmer was found guilty of first-degree murder following an 11-day trial at which 60 witnesses testified.
Also found guilty of tampering with evidence, the judge imposed an additional several months on top of the life sentence.
Mr. Schirmer, 64, a former Methodist pastor, bludgeoned his wife to death with a metal instrument, like a crowbar, and then staged a car crash to make it appear she sustained the fatal injury as a result of a car accident.
Mr. Schirmer faces trial later this year in Lebanon County accused of murdering his first wife in 1999.