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租户报告遭性侵后,警方发现查塔姆一名女性死亡

租户关于遭持枪性侵的指控,促使警员发现另一名女性的遗体。据称的供认尚未得到经核实的尸检结果或已宣布的起诉决定印证。

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查塔姆公寓内发生了什么——房东据称承认的内容,对调查核心的两名女性究竟能说明多少?

一名28岁租户报告称,房东持枪对她实施了性侵。芝加哥警方因此前往一处公寓,在那里发现一名36岁的女性死亡。据《芝加哥太阳时报》引述的一份警方报告称,在一位朋友拨打911前后,这名58岁的房东走进警局,承认勒死了一名受害者。根据该报2026年10月23日的报道,侦探当时正在将他作为调查对象进行询问;尚未宣布提出任何指控。1

这些都是影响重大的进展,但尚未解答调查的任何一个方面。据称的供认不是定罪,也不是医学结论。现有报道依据的是《太阳时报》对警方、紧急通信、法医和法院记录的报道,而非经过独立审查的采访录音或事件报告。

一通报警电话、两名女性、各自不同的问题

据《太阳时报》报道,其所述的警方和芝加哥市紧急事务管理与通信办公室报告显示,紧急电话于10月22日星期四上午约9:20打来,来电者是租户的一位朋友。朋友报告称,租户指控房东在南埃利斯大道8100号街区的一套公寓内持枪对她实施性侵。这是据报的来电时间,并不能确定据称的性侵何时开始。1

据该报引述的记录,租户称袭击期间,她注意到沙发上有另一名女性,「可能已经死了」。租户被送往Advocate Trinity医院,并在那里接受了性侵取证检查。现有报道尚未确认任何检查结果或检测结果。她的身份暂不公开。1

警员上门查看公寓内那名女性时,发现门锁着,里面无人回应。消防人员将门打开。屋内,一名36岁的女性躺在客厅沙发上,身上盖着床单,已无反应。据《太阳时报》引述法医办公室的消息,她在现场被芝加哥大学医学中心宣告死亡。报道没有分别说明发现遗体或宣告死亡的时间。1

与此同时,房东去了大克罗辛警区警局。该报引述警方报告对在那里发生之事的描述:

承认勒死了受害者

《芝加哥太阳时报》引述的警方报告 1

警方报告中的措辞与房东的直接引语之间的区别很重要。这是警方报告对一项供认的描述,经由报纸转述,而非对他本人言辞的录音。该陈述是在何种情况下作出的、他是否有法律代理人,以及有哪些证据可以佐证,都尚未得到确认。

《太阳时报》的副标题明确将据称的供认与这名身份不明的36岁女性联系起来。警方报告中引述的措辞本身只称她为「受害者」。因此,这种联系是有报道依据的,并非仅仅根据两人住在同一套公寓而作出的假设。但这种联系和发现尸体这一事实,都不能确定这名女性何时死亡,也不能证明杀人发生在据称的性侵之前。1

这项供认无法定论的事项

库克县法医办公室安排于周五,即10月23日进行尸检。现有报道尚未确认尸检已完成,也未确定官方死因或死亡方式。据报道的供认所述,勒颈仍只是所称的作案方式,并非法医确认的结论。1

在10月23日的报道中,死者身份不明。本文无法确认之后是否已查明她的身份,她与租户或房东的关系也仍然未知。不能把死者与接受医院救治的租户混为一谈:她们是不同的人,关于其中一人的证据不会自动证明另一人遭遇了什么。

房东的法律状态也需要标明日期。《太阳时报》报道,侦探周五正在询问他,且当时尚未宣布提出任何指控。这不能证明他后来是否被起诉、拘留或释放,也不能证明他是否出庭。目前尚未核实这起事件之后的任何结果。芝加哥警方的公开逮捕查询页面提醒,页面所列信息并不完整,因此查无记录无法解答这些问题。1 7

案卷记录不是判决

该报还称,房东此前在库克县涉及数十起刑事案件,最早可追溯至至少1985年。其中一些案件涉及性暴力或家庭殴打指控。报道称,他于1987年承认犯有刑事性虐待罪,并获判缓刑;两周后,他又在另一起案件中被起诉。1988年,他承认两项加重性犯罪指控,被判处6年监禁。1

1992年,他承认犯有持械抢劫罪,被判处10年监禁;同一天,他承认另一起暴力重罪,被判处2年。报道还提到,他在分别涉及纵火、非法持枪和加重殴打的案件中被判入狱。在加重殴打案件中还包括企图一级谋杀的指控,但报道没有说明这些指控的结果。报道指出,最近的一项诉讼发生于2019年,他承认犯有入室盗窃罪,随后被判处2年缓刑。1

这些过往记录只是背景,并不能证明他对目前正在调查的任何一起事件负有责任。它们不能提供医学上的死因,不能佐证据称的供认,也不能判定租户的指控。

第二区侦探正在调查据称的性侵以及该女性的死亡。接下来有重大影响的发现包括:法医的结论、死者身份的确认,以及有证据支持的起诉决定。在这些事项确定之前,诚实的描述只能是事态严重但尚无定论——一名女性报告遭到持枪性侵,另一名女性被发现死亡,而房东据称的供认仍须由调查人员核实,不能代替调查工作。1

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  1. Police found a woman dead after a tenant reported a gunpoint sexual assault. The 28-year-old tenant received hospital care. Police say her landlord admitted killing a victim by strangulation. The woman's medical cause of death and a decision on criminal charges are still unresolved.
  2. A friend called 911 at about 9:20 Thursday morning after the tenant said her landlord had sexually assaulted her at gunpoint. The reported attack happened in an apartment in the 8100 block of South Ellis Avenue, in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood.
  3. That Thursday was October 22. During the alleged attack, the tenant said she noticed another woman on a couch who “may be dead.” Her account led officers to check the apartment while she went to the hospital.
  4. The tenant was taken to Advocate Trinity Hospital for medical attention, where a sexual-assault kit was administered. Her name is being withheld. The woman who received that care was 28; the woman later found dead was 36.
  5. Officers found the apartment door locked, and nobody answered. Fire department crews opened it. Inside, they found the 36-year-old unresponsive on a living-room couch. She was unclothed and covered by a sheet. She was pronounced dead at the scene through the University of Chicago Medical Center.
  6. Police say the 58-year-old landlord walked into the Grand Crossing District police station around the time of the emergency call. They say he admitted killing a victim by strangulation. Detectives were questioning him the next day.
  7. The admission was reportedly about the 36-year-old woman found in the apartment. She remained unidentified in the October 23 account. Police haven't said whether she died before the alleged sexual assault. The tenant's allegation and the woman's death are separate parts of the investigation.
  8. The landlord had faced dozens of criminal cases in Cook County dating back to at least 1985. Some involved allegations of sexual violence or domestic battery. His earlier guilty pleas and prison sentences provide background, but they don't prove responsibility for either event now under investigation.
  9. In 1987, he pleaded guilty to criminal sexual abuse and received probation. Two weeks later, he was charged in another case. In 1988, he pleaded guilty to two aggravated sexual-offense counts and received six years in state prison.
  10. His later cases also brought prison time. He pleaded guilty to armed robbery in 1992. On the same day, he pleaded guilty to another violent felony. The most recent proceeding identified in that history was a burglary guilty plea in 2019.
  11. The armed-robbery plea brought a 10-year prison sentence. The other violent-felony plea brought two years in prison. After the 2019 burglary plea, he received two years of probation.
  12. He also served prison terms in separate arson, illegal gun-possession and aggravated-battery cases. The aggravated-battery case included attempted first-degree murder charges, whose outcome hasn't been specified. Those earlier proceedings leave investigators with the same task now: determining what happened inside the Ellis Avenue apartment.
  13. The Cook County medical examiner's office scheduled an autopsy for October 23. The cause and manner of death haven't been confirmed. Strangulation is the method described in the landlord's reported admission.
  14. As of October 23, detectives were questioning the landlord as a person of interest, and no charges had been announced. Area 2 detectives were investigating the reported sexual assault and the woman's death.

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