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Cook County medical examiner’s office marked her cause and manner of death as pending further investigation. The body ‘was found tied up from her legs, arms and wrists,’ Bartoli wrote in an email. The woman was bound across her thighs with a tied cloth rope and her wrists were bound with clothing, according a preliminary police report. Pictured, Melissa Grilli Chicago woman found dead in alley. Image via social media. Case treated as a death investigation More clothing and rope were tied...

Sun-Times file photo A Berwyn woman found tied up and dead in a West Side alley last weekend was released from a suburban jail just days earlier. The victim was identified as 34-year-old Melissa D. Grilli by the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Autopsy results remained inconclusive Monday. Chicago police said they were conducting an investigation into her death. Her body was found in an alley about 8:30 a.m. Sunday by someone throwing out trash in the 2600 block of West Gladys Avenue, a...