Barbara was sadly MURDERED in 2006. What a tragedy.
Here's an article about it.
June 01, 2007 By Carlos Sadovi, Tribune staff reporter
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The live-in girlfriend of a woman who was found killed in her North Side apartment last August was ordered held in lieu of $350,000 bail Thursday after being charged with the woman's murder.
Lisa Gunderson, 25, allegedly killed her roommate, Barbara Wolf, 50, after their yearlong relationship soured when Gunderson dated a man in their building at 5415 N. Sheridan Rd., said Assistant Cook County State's Atty. Sanjay Patel.
Wolf's body was discovered at her home at the Park Tower Condominiums on Aug. 27, Patel said. A day earlier, Wolf told someone she was ending the relationship when she learned Gunderson was dating someone else, the prosecutor said. Gunderson's son from a previous relationship, who is now about 15 months old, was living with the women, Patel said.
"She was going to end her relationship with [Gunderson] and have [her] move out because of the defendant's relationship with the man," Patel said.
After the two began to argue, Gunderson shoved Wolf, causing her to hit her head on a dresser, Patel said.
"As the victim was [lying] on the floor bleeding, the defendant took a blanket and wrapped it around the victim's head and suffocated the victim," Patel said before Circuit Court Judge Thomas Hennelly.
Gunderson then packed up her clothes and her son and tried to retrieve Wolf's car from the building garage, Patel said. But she was rebuffed by a parking attendant who had been instructed by Wolf not to let Gunderson drive her car, the prosecutor said.
Posing as Wolf over the telephone, Gunderson then called security to allow Gunderson to take the car. Videotape captured Gunderson driving off with her son, Patel said.
A few blocks away, Gunderson allegedly used Wolf's ATM card to withdraw cash, according to court records.
That evening, Gunderson was arrested in Kenosha and charged with driving under the influence. She spent 22 days in jail in Wisconsin. When she was arrested again in Kenosha in September on an undisclosed charge, police found Wolf's ATM card in her possession, Patel said. Patel said the medical examiner's office determined that Wolf was strangled and suffocated 24 to 36 hours before her body was found on Aug. 27.
"Bruising on her back, body and face is consistent with an individual kneeling on the victim's back while pressing the victim's face down into the blanket," Patel said.
After Gunderson was arrested Wednesday, she told investigators that she and Wolf got into a "shoving match" and that Wolf hit her head on the dresser, the prosecutor said. Patel said Gunderson told authorities she put a blanket on Wolf after she fell to the floor because the victim "claimed to be cold."
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Barbara was sadly MURDERED in 2006. What a tragedy.
Here's an article about it.
June 01, 2007 By Carlos Sadovi, Tribune staff reporter
·
The live-in girlfriend of a woman who was found killed in her North Side apartment last August was ordered held in lieu of $350,000 bail Thursday after being charged with the woman's murder.
Lisa Gunderson, 25, allegedly killed her roommate, Barbara Wolf, 50, after their yearlong relationship soured when Gunderson dated a man in their building at 5415 N. Sheridan Rd., said Assistant Cook County State's Atty. Sanjay Patel.
Wolf's body was discovered at her home at the Park Tower Condominiums on Aug. 27, Patel said. A day earlier, Wolf told someone she was ending the relationship when she learned Gunderson was dating someone else, the prosecutor said. Gunderson's son from a previous relationship, who is now about 15 months old, was living with the women, Patel said.
"She was going to end her relationship with [Gunderson] and have [her] move out because of the defendant's relationship with the man," Patel said.
After the two began to argue, Gunderson shoved Wolf, causing her to hit her head on a dresser, Patel said.
"As the victim was [lying] on the floor bleeding, the defendant took a blanket and wrapped it around the victim's head and suffocated the victim," Patel said before Circuit Court Judge Thomas Hennelly.
Gunderson then packed up her clothes and her son and tried to retrieve Wolf's car from the building garage, Patel said. But she was rebuffed by a parking attendant who had been instructed by Wolf not to let Gunderson drive her car, the prosecutor said.
Posing as Wolf over the telephone, Gunderson then called security to allow Gunderson to take the car. Videotape captured Gunderson driving off with her son, Patel said.
A few blocks away, Gunderson allegedly used Wolf's ATM card to withdraw cash, according to court records.
That evening, Gunderson was arrested in Kenosha and charged with driving under the influence. She spent 22 days in jail in Wisconsin. When she was arrested again in Kenosha in September on an undisclosed charge, police found Wolf's ATM card in her possession, Patel said. Patel said the medical examiner's office determined that Wolf was strangled and suffocated 24 to 36 hours before her body was found on Aug. 27.
"Bruising on her back, body and face is consistent with an individual kneeling on the victim's back while pressing the victim's face down into the blanket," Patel said.
After Gunderson was arrested Wednesday, she told investigators that she and Wolf got into a "shoving match" and that Wolf hit her head on the dresser, the prosecutor said. Patel said Gunderson told authorities she put a blanket on Wolf after she fell to the floor because the victim "claimed to be cold."