Fertility Doctor Staged Wife’s 2016 Murder to Look Like Accidental Fall [Video]

A California fertility doctor was sentenced to 15 years in prison last Friday for staging his wife’s murder to appear like an accidental fall down the stairs, authorities said.

Eric Scott Sills, now 58, was convicted last December of one count of second-degree murder in connection with the 2016 death of his wife and business partner, 45-year-old Susann Sills, according to a press release shared by the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

Prosecutors said Sills called 911 on Nov. 13, 2016, and claimed he woke up to find Susann dead at the bottom of the stairs after an apparent fall at the couple’s San Clemente home.

But evidence presented at trial showed that she died due to strangulation, and blood stains were found on a wall in a bedroom where Susann was sleeping, the release states. A clump of her hair also was found in the room, indicating that there had been a violent struggle between …