Surrounded by family members and supporters, the father of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez nearly collapsed this morning as he walked into the Cook County medical examiner's office to identify his daughter's body.https://t.co/eqv5sZ3KJc pic.twitter.com/q3tPTKPigO
— Ashlee Rezin (@Ashlee_Rezin) May 16, 2019
So horrible.
Police suspect a Southwest Side woman lured a young expectant mother to her home before the pregnant woman was slain and the child was cut out of her body.
Authorities said a body found in a garbage can early Wednesday in the woman’s backyard in the 4100 block of West 77th Place is that of the pregnant woman — Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, who was reported missing three weeks ago. They said the woman was strangled to death and ruled the death a homicide.
Sources said charges are expected to be filed against a 46-year-old woman, whom family friends say Ochoa-Lopez met on a Facebook group.
The suspect got the 19-year-old woman to come to her home in the Scottsdale neighborhood by offering extra baby clothes for her unborn son, her family says.
Hours after Ochoa-Lopez was last seen April 23, the older woman called 911 for help, saying she had given birth to the boy inside the home on 77th Place.
The suspect told emergency workers she was suffering from “post-delivery issues,” a police source told the Chicago Sun-Times. But DNA tests have shown the child belonged to Ochoa-Lopez and her husband, the source said.
The baby is in the hospital in “grave condition,” the source said.