LAS VEGAS - A federal judge has sentenced a Las Vegas man to serve the maximum prison sentence of about eight years in a case linked to the September 1999 disappearance of the man's wife.
David Fitch, a convicted felon, pleaded guilty in July to 10 new felony counts involving his possession of firearms, ammunition and false identification documents.
Prosecutors, who argued Tuesday that Fitch has tried to obstruct justice in connection with the ongoing investigation of his wife's disappearance, recommended the top penalty for the defendant.
Fitch, 42, is suspected of killing his 46-year-old wife, Maria Bozi, to steal her property. He married another woman, Patricia Molano Gutierrez, a 30-year-old Colombian woman who lives in England, in January.
Bozi, an Englishwoman, married Fitch on April 23, 1999, in England and moved with him to Southern Nevada. She purchased a trailer in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, where she was last seen around Labor Day last year.
Fitch traveled to England in November 1999 under the name David Lee Krause and married Gutierrez there on Jan. 20. He later returned to Southern Nevada, where he was arrested in February.
