Oakland man who killed wife in church parking lot gets 35-to-life prison sentence

The first time Matthew McCall killed someone, almost 20 years ago, he was convicted of manslaughter and received one year in prison.

But for McCall's second killing, conducted in a church parking lot as dozens of parishioners were headed to Sunday service, the 43-year-old may spend the rest of his life behind bars.

McCall, who pleaded guilty last month to second-degree murder in the slaying of his estranged wife, Tanya McCall, was sentenced Friday to 35 years-to-life in prison, a punishment that, at the very least, makes him eligible for parole when he is 78 years old...