Husband sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for arranging the murder of a doctor who failed to treat his wife

California widower Robert Elmo Lee, 83, has been sentenced to life in prison for arranging the murder of a doctor who unsuccessfully treated his wife.

Dr. Thomas Shock, 67, was gunned down outside his home on August 1, 2018 after Lee hired hitmen to chase him.

Lee felt saddened when his wife, Bonnie Lee, died after losing her foot to an infection following the doctor’s treatment for an ingrown toenail.

After being found guilty of first-degree murder last year, he was sentenced Monday to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Robert Lee (pictured left) was found guilty of the murder of Dr. Thomas Shock (right)

Lee (third from left) is seen with the men he hired to kill his wife’s podiatrist in August 2018

Bonnie Lee started seeing Shock in 2011 for treatment of an ingrown toenail.

When the doctor couldn’t fully treat the condition, Bonnie had her foot partially amputated.

In 2014, the doctor was charged with gross negligence.

The Medical Board of California found “repeated negligence” by the doctor.

Lee’s wife succumbed to an infection in her foot in 2016 and died at the age of 73.

There was no evidence that Shock’s actions caused her death.

Shock admitted the allegations against him and, after an investigation, relinquished his podiatrist license.

He also retired from Lodi Podiatry, which he founded in 1985.

Still devastated by the loss of his wife, Lee hired Christopher Costello, then 26, to kill Shock.

Costello introduced Lee to Mallory Stewart, then 27, and Raymond Jacquett IV.

In August 2018, Jacquett Stewart drove to Doctor Shock’s home and shot and killed the man.

His wife, Nancy, had gone to bed around 9:30 p.m. and fell asleep listening to a podcast after coming home from dinner with Shock.

She said she did not hear the three shots reported by a neighbor at 9:54 pm.

Police found shock lying on the floor with gunshots to his arm, chest and head.

He was pronounced dead on the spot.

Near the body, police found a single piece of paper containing the Medical Board of California report.

The paper had Costello’s fingerprint, which led to his arrest.

A search of Lee’s home revealed other pages of the medical board document.

Lee’s friends claimed he blamed Shock for his wife’s death and staged the murder out of revenge.

But the pensioner had denied any involvement in the podiatrist’s murder.

Nevertheless, he later told detectives that he was “glad” that the doctor was dead.

Christopher Anthony Costello was found guilty for his role in the murder of Dr. Shock in 2021

Raymond Jacquett (left) was hired as a getaway driver for the killer, Mallory Stewart (right)

Lee and the three hitmen were arrested in September 2018.

Jacquett was sentenced to 15 years in prison in December 2019.

Costello was found guilty of his role in 2021.

Stewart pleaded guilty in February 2022 to first-degree murder and charges of shooting Shock.