In separate incidents, four women have been strangled to death since Aug. 3, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found.
The victims were: An unknown female in her 20s found dead Aug. 3 in the East Side neighborhood; a 25-year-old woman found dead Aug. 5 in Dunning; a 36-year-old woman found dead Aug. 6 in Auburn Gresham; and a 57-year-old woman found dead Sunday in South Deering, according to information from the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
These incidents are “definitely, absolutely not related,” Chicago News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak told RedEye.
Strangulation is not a common method of killing in Chicago. Only eight of the 511 murders last year stemmed from strangulation, according to a Chicago Police Department report.
This month, 22 homicides have been recorded. Chicago police logged 49 murders in August 2008.
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tswartz@tribune.com
