A Broward man who allegedly said he "turned evil" when he brutally beat his wife to death was sentenced to life in prison Thursday.
Robert Oulton, 68, was found guilty last month of second-degree murder in the April 2010 killing of his wife Yvonne.
Oulton had testified at his trial and admitted to killing his wife, saying he snapped. Before he was sentenced by Judge Jeffrey Levenson Thursday, Oulton once again took the stand.
"I took Yvonne's life. I never hit her, I never raised my hand to her. I don't know what I did, I have no excuse for it, none whatsoever," he said. "I took away a very special woman.
"Whatever I get today I fully deserve."
Oulton said he and his wife were having an argument over his son's business when he lost it. The 62-year-old woman was brutally beaten in the back of their car. Yvonne Oulton had spent the afternoon gambling at the Isle Casino & Racing at Pompano Park.
Robert Oulton left a letter for his son, confessing to the murder and explaining what had happened, Broward Sheriff's officials said.
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"I turned evil; I woke up and remember everything," Oulton said in the letter, according to the BSO.
At Thursday's sentencing, son Bryan Oulton also took the stand to read a letter to his father.
"Robert, I once considered you my father, someone I loved and looked up to, but everything you've done and shown by your actions on April 4, 2010, through this trial make me ashamed of that," Bryan Oulton said. "You should never see the light of day again."
Bryan Oulton said his father pretended he didn't know where Yvonne was and they went searching for her before Robert Oulton led his son to the body.
"You had me find my own mother, who you beat to death," Bryan Oulton said. "You're a sick and twisted individual."
Bryan Oulton said it will be difficult to explain to his young children that their grandfather killed their grandmother.
"I hope you spend the rest of your days realizing everything you threw away, I hope you're miserable, you've shown me everything I knew about you was a lie," he said.
