LANSING
Jason Robert Cabello, 48, of Saginaw, was sentenced by Judge Manvel Trice III of the 10th Circuit Court in Saginaw County to 23 to 45 years’ incarceration for the 2003 murder and sexual assault of Jeanette Wilton, 57, of Saginaw, announced Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. Cabello pled no contest in April to one count of Second-Degree Murder and one count of First-Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct.
On February 22, 2003, Wilton was found dead in the Flint River near her Saginaw home. An autopsy concluded Wilton died of strangulation and multiple stab wounds to the neck. Wilton also sustained blunt force trauma to the head and face, contusions, and postmortem abrasions.