San Clemente doctor charged with murder in wife’s 2016 death
SANTA ANA — A San Clemente doctor suspected of killing his wife more than two years ago was charged with murder Friday.
Eric Scott Sills, who turned 54 on Saturday, is accused in the Nov. 13, 2016, death of his 45-year-old wife, Susann Stephanie Arsuaga Sills, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. Jail records show Sills was arrested Thursday and was being held on $1 million bail.
There was no immediate information on the woman’s cause of death, a possible motive or what prompted Sills’ arrest.
Susann Sills was managing partner and co-founder of the Center for Advanced Genetics fertility clinic in Carlsbad. Eric Sills is the center’s medical director.
After a busy week of surgery & procedures, time now to study the CAG datasets #crunchthenumbers pic.twitter.com/eY6bNoeEEF
— Dr. E. Scott Sills (@DrEScottSills) October 7, 2017
According to his online biography, Eric Sills holds a doctorate from London’s University of Westminster and earned his medical degree at the University of Tennessee.
Sills has practiced in-vitro fertilization in Europe and the United States and authored several books on the topic along with more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles. He also collaborated on the discovery of three previously unknown human gene mutations, according to his biography.
Eric and Susann Sills were the parents of twins.