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It was a balmy afternoon last July when the call came in: Dead
body found inside empty warehouse on the West Side.
Chicago police officers drove through an industrial stretch
of the hardscrabble Austin neighborhood and pulled up to the 4600 block of West
Arthington Street. The warehouse in question was an unremarkable-looking
red-brick single-story building with a tall barbed-wire fence. Vacant for six
years, it had been visited that day by its owner and a real-estate agent—the
person who had called 911.
The place lacked electricity, so crime scene technicians set
up generators and portable lights. The power flickered on to reveal a grisly
sight. In a small office, on soggy carpeting covered in broken ceiling tiles,
lay a naked, lifeless woman. She had long red-streaked black hair and purple
glitter nail polish on her left toenails (her right ones were gone), but beyond
that it was hard to discern much. Her face and body were bloated and badly
decomposed, her hands ash colored. Maggots feasted on her flesh.
At the woman’s feet, detectives found a curled strand of
telephone wire. Draped over her right hand was a different kind of wire: thin
and brown. The same brown wire was wrapped around each armrest of a wooden
chair next to her.
The following day, July 24, a pathologist in the Cook County
medical examiner’s office noticed something else that had been obscured by
rotting skin: a thin gag tied around the corpse’s mouth.
Thanks to some still-visible tattoos, detectives soon
identified this unfortunate woman: Tiara Groves, a 20-year-old from Austin. She
was last seen walking alone in the wee hours of Sunday, July 14, near a liquor
store two miles from the warehouse. At least eight witnesses who saw her that
night told police a similar story: She appeared drunk and was upset—one man
said that she was crying so hard she couldn’t catch her breath—but refused offers
of help. A man who talked to her outside the liquor store said that Groves
warned him, excitedly and incoherently, that he should stay away from her or
else somebody (she didn’t say who) would kill him too.
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