A California man who had been hiding in Hawaii for seven years pleaded guilty Thursday to killing his wife and dumping her body in a desert in 2007 . Anthony Simoneau , 46 , faces 11 years in prison when he is sentenced April 30 for the death of his wife , Fumiko Ogawa . After serving out his sentence , he will be placed on parole for another seven years . Scroll down for video . Justice done : Anthony Simoneau ( left ) , 46 , has pleaded guilty to a voluntary manslaughter charge in the 2007 death of his wife , Fumiko Ogawa ( right ) Punishment : Simoneau , pictured here in court Thursday , faces 11 years in prison when he is sentenced April 30 . Troubled marriage : Prosecutors said Simoneau filed for divorce in 2002 but then changed his mind after his wife inherited a substantial sum of money from relatives in Japan . Simoneau originally had faced a murder charge punishable by a 25-year sentence , but it was later downgraded to one count of voluntary manslaughter as part of a plea deal . Fumoko Ogawa , 41 , was last seen alive January 4 , 2007 , near her home in Point Loma , California . After being unable to reach Ogawa for nearly a year , her family in Japan raised the alarm about her disappearance , but her husband never reported her missing , said NBC San Diego . Her body was found January 20 , 2007 , near the Bow Willow Campground in California ’ s Anza-Borrego desert , but she was not positively identified until June 2011 . By that time , her husband had left the state . According to published reports , Anthony Simoneau filed for divorce in 2002 after six years of marriage , but had a change of heart upon learning that his wife inherited a substantial sum of money from her family in Japan . When Fumiko went missing , police said her husband went on a spending spree , buying four luxury SUVs , four boats , a motorcycle and three other vehicles , according to Honolulu Star-Advertiser . Mystery : Ogawa was last since in early January 2007 . Her remains were discovered in weeks later buried in a shallow grave in the California desert . By the time they were identified , her husband ( right ) had fled . Nabbed : Last year , police tracked down Simoneau in Oahu , Hawaii , and had him extradited . Several months later , Simoneau picked up and moved to Hawaii , where he got a job as a tour guide on Oahu . Last September , detectives investigating Fumkio Ogawa 's killing tracked down her husband and had him extradited back to California . According to Simoneau 's plea agreement , the man killed his spouse because of a 'sudden quarrel in the heat of passion . ' Initially , Fumkio Ogawa 's remains uncovered in a shallow grave in the California desert were thought to be an unfortunate border crosser , but a DNA test determined that it was the missing woman . Prosecutors said the cause of death remains unknown to this day because of the body 's deteriorated condition . Throughout the investigation , Simoneau repeatedly insisted that he had nothing to do with Ogawa ’ s killing . During a court appearance after his arrest in Hawaii , a defiant Simoneau told the judge that he was looking forward to having his day in court and proving his innocence , reported KHON2 . Crime of passion : The plea agreement states that the 46-year-old husband killed his wife in a heat of passion during a fight . ‘ I miss my wife very much and I will state , for the record , I did not kill my wife . I love her very much okay , ’ said Simoneau to Hawaii News Now in 2011 . But when a California judge asked him Thursday how he pleads to his wife ’ s killing , a dejected Simoneau replied : ‘ Guilty , your honor. ’ Chieko Ogawa , the victim ’ s mother , told a Japanese TV station that she was disappointed with the outcome of the case . ‘ The sentence is so light , ’ she lamented in an interview with NTV . ‘ He got let off easy . We waited eight years and this is all we get . It ’ s unfair. ’ However , the plea deal will speed up the process of releasing Fumiko Ogawa 's body to her family in Japan for burial .
kit Simoneau , 46 , pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in wife 's 2007 killing and will be sentenced to 11 years in prison . Fumiko Ogawa , 41 , went missing in early January 2007 and her body was found buried in a shallow grave weeks later in a California desert . Remains were identified as the missing woman only four years later , and by that time Simoneau had moved to Hawaii . He was extradited last year and initially charged with murder . Plea agreement states Simoneau killed his wife in the heat of passion . He filed for divorce in 2002 but then had a change of heart after she inherited money from her family in Japan .