Man to Be Sentenced for Dumping Friend's Body

Man to Be Sentenced for Dumping Friend's Body


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(KSL News) -- A Draper man accused of dumping the body of a friend who overdosed will be sentenced today.

Jasen Calacino is charged with abuse of a dead body. Investigators say he and friend Macall Peterson waited to call 9-1-1 when their friend, Amelia Sorich overdosed on cocaine and heroin.

The two then hid her body in the Bountiful foothills.

Peterson plead guilty to negligent homicide and desecration of a body, she is now serving five years in jail.

Homicide charges against Calacino were dropped because of a lack of evidence.

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