Charges were pending against a man after his estranged wife was strangled to death the day before Thanksgiving inside her Greater Grand Crossing home.
No charges had been announced by police as of Monday afternoon.
“She had a heart of gold,” Carolyn Jones’ older sister, Renee McDonald, told the Chicago Sun-Times. “She was kind, would give the shirt off her back. … She didn’t deserve that.”
The suspect, whom Carolyn Jones recently kicked out of her home, was seen on video surveillance entering and leaving her apartment building in the 6800 block of South Calumet Avenue several times in the early morning hours of Nov. 26, according to a Chicago police report and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
“At one point he is observed exiting while carrying bags, which he then puts into his vehicle,” the report states.
