'You're a terrible person': Minnesota man found guilty of killing wife and chopping up her body gets 13 years in prison

Norman Bachman, 53, was found guilty on Friday of killing and chopping up his wife in 1997

A Minnesota man who killed and cup up his wife was called a 'terrible person' by a judge, then sentenced to more than 13 years in prison on Friday.

Ramsey County District Judge Salvador Rosas told the killer Norman Bachman, 53, that he deserved more prison time.

But he acknowledged that prosecutors and the family of the slain woman, Toni Bachman, had accepted the plea deal. 

'You're a terrible person. ... You deserve more (time) than what I'm going to give you here today,' the judge said.

Toni Bachman's family agreed that the sentence wasn't stiff enough.

'You never get 100 percent closure in a situation like this,' said the woman's brother, Tim Reineccius, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

'It's reassuring that he's locked up, he can't hurt anyone else. I would like to see him spend the rest of his life in prison.'

Jody Reineccius, Toni Bachman's younger brother, said the killer 'doesn't deserve to be on this earth anymore.'

In 1997, Toni Bachman was strangled and then chopped up by her husband. Her body was never found, but her killer, Norman Bachman, admitted to the crime and was sentenced to 13 years on Friday

This picture shows the house that is said to be the location of the fight that led to the murder of Toni Bachman, 38, by her husband Norman Bachman

Because of Bachman, his sister 'never got to live out her dreams, achieve her goals,' he said.   

The judge told the 53-year-old Anoka man he could reduce his sentence to 10 years if he helps authorities find his wife's remains. 

While Bachman has helped in several searches since he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in October, the woman's body remains missing. 

Toni Bachman was 38 when she disappeared from her White Bear Township home in 1997. 

Investigators always presumed she had been killed, but the case went cold due to a lack of evidence. 

Norman Bachman was finally arrested in April and confessed in October.

The couple's 10-year marriage had been strained after four miscarriages and the death of the couple's infant son, Bachman said according to the Star Tribune. 

On the day of the murder, Bachman said, he and his wife had argued and that she was planning to leave him after she become romantically involved online with a man from West Virginia. 

Bachman claimed she hit him, so he grabbed her around the neck and strangled her. 

He said he kept his wife's body in their basement for a couple days, then used a filet knife and a hand saw to decapitate her and remove her limbs, the Star Tribune reported.

Then, Bachman put the body parts in three garbage bags. 

Norman Bachman, who was found guilty on Friday of murdering and dismembering his wife, is pictured in this 2002 photograph

The family of Toni Bachman, who was murdered by her husband in 1997, is holding up her picture after her killer's sentencing

A few days later, he said, he drove to a rural area about two hours from a home that he knew from his childhood, dug three holes and buried her parts.

Before the burial, Bachman removed the woman's arms, legs and torso from the garbage bags, but kept the head wrapped up.

'I didn't want to look at her,' he said.  

Rosas asked Bachman if he had anything to say before being sentenced.

'It's been a hard time for me — hiding for so many years, carrying this around with me. This secret,' Bachman replied.

'Through this, he has not shed a tear, no sign of remorse. He's made it sound as if he was a victim,' a family member of the slain woman, Tim Reineccius, said according to the Star Tribune. 

'Toni was the victim.'