Cable Repairman Convicted of Murder in Hyde Park Case From 2006

CHICAGO, IL - A former cable repairman who worked for a Comcast subcontractor was convicted of raping and killing a second woman this week.

Anthony Triplett, now 35, was found guilty after a bench trial in the 2006 death of Hyde Park resident Janice Ordidge, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Triplett sexually assaulted and killed Ordidge in October 2006, leaving her body in the bathtub. Several times he was questioned by police as a suspect in the crime that occurred in the Twin Towers apartment complex at 1649 E. 50th Street, but was allowed to continue work for Premier Cable Communications, a Comcast affiliate.

Seven weeks later, he raped and killed another woman, 23-year-old Urszula Sakowska, on the city’s Southwest Side and was convicted of that crime in 2013. Sakowska’s body was also found in a bathtub.

In the Ordidge case, the Tribune reports DNA from Triplett was found under the victim’s fingernails and a judge took only 40 minutes to find Triplett guilty.

"It's been a long time coming," Loretta Shamley, Ordidge’s sister, told the Tribune following the guilty verdict read on Wednesday.

Triplett had already been sentenced to life in prison for the Sakowska death.

Triplett testified in the Ordidge trial and claimed innocence, blaming the death on an “unidentified man with dreadlocks and a goatee who he claimed she was arguing with in her apartment,” according to the Tribune.

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