Pullman Area violent crimes detectives are seeking to determine if there are any links among at least four death investigations in recent months involving women who have been strangled before their bodies were placed in garbage bins on the South Side.
On Wednesday morning, the body of Patricia Scott, 30, was found in a trash bin behind Calumet High School, at 8131 S. May St., by a neighborhood man looking for aluminum cans. Scott lived in the 8300 block of South Halsted Street, less than a mile from where she was found.
An autopsy Thursday morning determined she had been strangled, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The other deaths under investigation in which the victims were also strangled are:
– Jordana Ashley, 24, who lived in the 9400 block of South Peoria Street. Her body was found last Dec. 30 by workers at a garbage-sorting and recycling center at 13707 S. Jeffery.
– Latrice Wood, 20, of the 7100 block of South Rockwell Street, whose body was found in a trash bin in an alley at 8251 S. Brandon Ave., on Jan. 4.
– Alicia Thomas, 29, whose body was found Jan. 12 inside a trash can behind 1116 W. 79th St., just two blocks from Calumet High School. Thomas lived in the 8000 block of South Ellis Avenue.
