Former Comcast Worker Guilty of Killing Second Customer

A former Comcast worker already serving a life sentence for raping and killing a customer was found guilty Wednesday of murdering another woman who had called for cable services, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.

Anthony Triplett, now 35, sexually assaulted and strangled Janet Ordidge in her Hyde Park high rise just weeks before he attacked Urszula Sakowska in her Southwest Side home in December 2006, Cook County prosecutors said.

Triplett was convicted of Sakowska’s murder in 2013 and was sentenced to life behind bars by Judge Kevin Michael Sheehan.

A jury weighing in on Triplett’s second trial found him guilty of Ordidge’s murder on Wednesday after just 40 minutes of deliberation, according to court personnel.

Ordidge, 39, body was found in her bathtub hours after she called Comcast for cable TV service.

Seven weeks later, Triplett strangled, sexually assaulted, robbed and killed 23-year-old Sakowska.

At the time Triplett killed Sakowska, he was already being looked at by detectives for the Ordidge murder.

Police say they informed Comcast at that time that Triplett had been interviewed as a “witness.”

Detectives were waiting for DNA results before making an arrest.

While they waited, Triplett continued making house calls for Comcast, and that’s when he murdered Sakowska.

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