Cook County medical examiner’s office marked her cause and manner of death as pending further investigation.
The body
‘was found tied up from her legs, arms and wrists,’ Bartoli wrote in an email. The woman was bound across her thighs with a tied cloth rope and her wrists were bound with clothing, according a preliminary police report.
Pictured, Melissa Grilli Chicago woman found dead in alley. Image via social media.
Case treated as a death investigation
More clothing and rope were tied around the woman’s body the report noted.
Bartoli said the case is being treated as a death investigation.