Judge Sentences Former Neptune Cop To 30 Years For Gunning Down His Ex-Wife On An Asbury Park Street

FREEHOLD - Former Neptune police sergeant Philip Seidle will be in his late 70s by the time he is released from state prison for gunning down his ex-wife on a Neptune Street in front of their seven-year-old daughter, according to app.com.

Seidle, 52, must serve at least 85 percent of his sentence under New Jersey's No Early Release Act, said Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Joseph W. Oxley on Thursday.

Oxley also sentenced Seidle to 5 years of parole following his release.

Two of Seidle's children - Philip Seidle Jr. and Kirsten Seidle - both asked Oxley for the maximum sentence of 30 years. They both detailed decades of domestic abuse against their mother and them.

First Assistant Prosecutor Marc Lemieux also read remarks and statements from five more of Seidle's children telling of domestic violence incidents and cruel behavior.

Kirsten Seidle described the atmosphere of domestic violence in her home.

"I heard screaming and hitting behind closed doors, yet all nine of us felt so helpless," she said.

Philip Seidle Jr., 23, said it was painful to lose his mother at the hands of someone he had once considered a role model.

"I'm embarrassed to share his name. Whenever I hear it, it is like stabbing knives into my back," Philip Jr. said.

LeMieux said the Seidle's youngest daughter is permanently affected by the murder. She was only seven when she watched her father kill her mother after chasing her through Asbury Park .

Tamara Wilson-Seidle was pronounced dead at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune. She was a soccer coach, devout Catholic, religious instructor at Mother of Mercy Parish in Asbury Park and a five-year breast cancer survivor.

Seidle pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter earlier this year in a plea deal that spared him from life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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