IL - Chicago Body Parts Identified

Body parts found on Southwest Side identified as those of woman, 41
By Jeremy Gorner and Emma Graves Fitzsimmons | Tribune reporters
7:46 PM CST, January 30, 2008

A woman whose frozen remains were found in a Southwest Side field last week had been reported missing by her family in October, authorities said.

Family members Wednesday identified the victim as Carolyn Schranz, 41, of the 8500 block of Hill Top Court in southwest suburban Justice, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Schranz died of multiple stab wounds in a homicide, according to an autopsy conducted Saturday.

A Wentworth Area detective confirmed that police are investigating the woman's death and said Schranz's family had appealed to the media for help in finding the woman at the time she went missing.

There were no suspects in custody, and it was not known how long the woman may have been dead, a Chicago police spokeswoman said.

Court records show Schranz served time for a 2004 felony conviction of aggravated battery of a person older than 60. At that time, her address was listed in the nearby town of Burbank.

A Lyons land surveyor found the badly decomposed remains Friday afternoon about 100 feet from a set of train tracks in the 3400 block of South Kedzie Avenue, just south of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Shortly after the discovery, there was speculation that the remains could be those of Stacy Peterson or Lisa Stebic, two Chicago-area women who have been missing for months.

Peterson of Bolingbrook has been missing since October; Stebic of Plainfield has been missing since April.

But Chicago police said there was no connection to either case.

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