(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Chicago police say the person who killed the owner of a boarding house on the city's North Side -- allegedly dismembering her body -- was a tenant who had scared other tenants.
Prosecutors have filed first-degree murder charges against 36-year-old Sandra Kolalou in connection with the weekend murder of Francis Walker, 69, inside the house on Washtenaw near Peterson.
Chicago Police Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan told reporters Wednesday that officers arrested Kolalou after being called to the house Monday night.
Kolalou is expected to be in court Thursday. She is also charged with concealment of a homicide and aggravated assault.
Police say Walker was last seen on Sunday walking through her Northwest Side neighborhood. Residents said they heard an argument inside the house at some point and then a thud, the source said.
One of the tenants reported Walker missing on Monday night, noting it was unusual not to see her for more than a day, Deenihan said.
The person also warned police about another resident “that the other tenants were afraid of,” Deenihan said. That woman had recently hauled a “large plastic bag” to a tow truck and then dumped it in a garbage can at Foster Beach, where the bloody towels were later discovered.
Detectives then searched the home, the source said, and cameras worn by officers captured the grim discovery inside the freezer: a head and several limbs. It was not known what the killer used to dismember the body, but residents didn’t report hearing an electric saw or other power tools.
Contributing: Sun-Times Media Wire
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