A Hispanic has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the choking death and dismemberment of his wife, whose body parts were stuffed in a suitcase found by teenagers in a park almost a year later

Edwin Fuentes was sentenced after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter and tampering with physical evidence in the 2007 death of his wife. His lawyer called it a tragedy for everybody affected by the case. Prosecutors say the 44-year-old Fuentes admitted to putting his arm around his wife's neck and choking her, then later dismembering her body and putting some of the body parts in a suitcase which was placed in Forest Park.