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 .
Anthony 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 Ogawa inherited money from her family in Japan .