Woman, 65, killed Back of the Yards strangling

A 65-year-old girl was discovered strangled Wednesday in Back of the Yards on the South Side. A property supervisor referred to as 911 and stated she had not seen her 65-year-old tenant in a number of days, Chicago police stated. The Chicago Fire Department entered the lady’s residence about 9:30 a.m. within the 1500 block of West Garfield Boulevard and located her unresponsive subsequent to a mattress, police stated. The girl, recognized as Margo Flowers, was pronounced useless on the scene, police and the Cook County medical expert’s workplace stated. An post-mortem launched Thursday discovered that Flowers died of ligature strangulation, the medical expert’s workplace stated. Area Central detectives are conducting a murder investigation, police stated.