The Latest: Wife gets life for killing husband with vat of acid

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A biochemist from California was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole after killing her estranged husband by putting him in a vat of acid.

Larissa Schuster, 47, of Fresno, was convicted in December of murdering husband Timothy with the motive of financial gain.

Nearly a week after he was reported missing in July 2003, Mr. Schuster’s half-dissolved remains were found submerged in a 55-gallon (250 litre) vat of hydrochloric acid in a storage unit his wife had rented.

The Schusters were in the middle of a divorce that was to put an end to a 20 year marriage.

Associated Press reported that prosecutors said that Mrs. Schuster, alongside her former lab assistant James Fagone, used a taser and a chloroform-soaked cloth to immobilise Mr. Schuster.

They then bound his hands and feet before throwing him in the acid head first - probably while he was still alive.

The remains, when found by police, were only intact from the belt buckle down.

Fagone has already been sentenced to life without parole for murder and burglary.

The Schusters’ adult daughter, Kristin, told the court that she felt much safer knowing that her mother was in jail.

"I've been living for five years not knowing if I would have to worry for my own safety," she said.

"In your quest to become a dominating power freak, you became your own demon. You have hurt me for so many years and probably smiled inside, but look who's smiling now."