A Chicago woman was arrested and charged with murder after police found her landlord’s body in a freezer.

Other tenants of the boarding house on Chicago’s Far North Side called police last Tuesday evening and said that their landlord seemed to be missing. They were used to seeing her garden every day. Some tenants said they heard a scream in the middle of the night.

The landlord, 69-year-old Frances Walker, lived on the first floor and rented out rooms in her house to other women. 

When police responded to the 911 call from the tenants, they searched Walker’s home and found her dismembered remains in the freezer. One of the tenants immediately became a suspect.

Police attempted to question Sandra Kolalou, 36, who lived with Walker on the first floor, but she refused to cooperate. According to the police, the other tenants said that they were afraid of Kolalou and had called the police on her in the past for being aggressive. Police records also showed that the cops had responded to 911 calls from the Walker residence five times in October.

The tenants told the police that Walker and Kolalou were not getting along and that Walker had served her with an eviction notice the previous Saturday.

Kolalou left the house in a tow truck she had rented with her landlord’s credit card.

The other tenants, suspicious of Kolalou, were afraid for the tow truck driver’s life, and tried to warn him before the two left. The driver later told the tenants that Kolalou had dumped a large plastic bag in a can at a beach near the residence and told them the location, information that the tenants subsequently gave police.

The police went to the scene, retrieved the garbage can, and found rugs full of blood. The tow truck driver told the police Kolalou had pulled a knife on him and threatened him.

Chicago Police Chief, Brendan Deenihan, said that because of the communication between the tenants and the tow truck driver, police got to the scene quickly and were able to apprehend Kolalou for threatening the driver with a knife.

After a thorough search of the Walker house, police charged Kolalou with her landlord’s murder.

Blood was found inside Walker’s bedroom, as well as bloody knives. Investigators conclude that Kolalou killed and dismembered Walker’s body with the bloody knives found in the house.

According to Police Chief Deenihan, the eviction notice that Walker served to Kolalou on Saturday might have contributed to the murder.”That very well could possibly be what escalated this into the defendant becoming extremely angry and committing this horrific act,” Deenihan said.

Kolalou is facing several charges, including capital murder, concealing a murder, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Chief Deenihan said that she had continued to refuse to cooperate with the investigation.

Earlier in the year, Kolalou had another encounter with police and was charged with battery.

Kolalou is being held without bail.