CHICAGO -- A popular employee at Prentiss Women's Hospital was found strangled in her Hyde Park apartment Tuesday.
At first, Chicago police thought it was a suicide, but now it's being investigated as a murder.
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Police arrived at the scene and all of Janet Ordidge's windows were open and the heat had been turned off for days. But they didn't notice any trauma to her body.
Late Tuesday afternoon, the Cook County medical examiner ruled her death a homicide, saying she was strangled.
Ordidge never missed a day of work. She was never even late. So when she didn't show up as a surgical scheduler at PWH, friends and family thought the worst.
Ordidge lived alone at the Twin Towers apartment complex in Hyde Park.
The medical examiner said Ordidge's body was badly beaten she was left for dead in her bathtub.
When the janitor conducted a well-being check, he found all the windows open in her 13th floor apartment and the heat was turned off.
Records show the last cell phone call made was at 12:18 Saturday afternoon.
That night, she was supposed to go out with her new boyfriend -- a Chicago police officer. Friends said they had been dating for the past month.
According to sources, her new boyfriend spoke with police Monday by phone.
There were no signs of forced entry and the only item police said is missing is her wallet.
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