Man admits cutting, hiding body in suitcase after overdose

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SALT LAKE CITY - A man accused of cutting up the body of a Colorado woman and hiding her remains in a suitcase after she overdosed pleaded guilty to reduced charges Tuesday.

Raymond Cordova, 50, pleaded guilty to desecration of a dead human body, reduced from a second-degree felony to a third-degree felony, and obstructing justice, a third-degree felony.

It will be up to the judge to determine the final sentence and whether he serves time after a lengthy sentence Cordova faces in Colorado.

Cordova has been ordered to serve 60 years in prison for charges of conspiracy to distribute more than 112 grams of methamphetamine, and possession with intent to distribute more than seven grams of meth, according to the Daily Sentinel in Cordova's hometown of Grand Junction, Colorado.

Prosecutors say Cordova, West Valley resident Eduardo Nasario Delacruz, and a man identified in court documents as D.W. conspired to get rid of her body.

Delacruz and D.W. bought an electric saw, plastic sheets, gloves, masks, cleaning solution and a suitcase and gave them to Cordova, according to police.

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