Police Probe Murder

By Angela Caputo, Staff Writer
Pioneer Press

Police have launched a homicide investigation into the death of a 56-year-old woman who was found murdered in her West Rogers Park apartment last week.
On a tip from a neighbor who noticed that the glass was broken out of the victim's third-floor apartment door, which was also left open, officers made a grizzly discovery around 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 8. They found Janet Biebel of the 6200 block of North Mozart lying in her bed with a pool of blood around her head, according to a police report.
Biebel's belongings appeared to have been rummaged through, according to a police report. Neighbors told police that they hadn't seen or heard anything unusual around the building.
The Cook County Medical Examiner determined that the 56-year-old succumbed to a gunshot would to the head, according to Officer Marcel Bright.
Initially police initiated a death investigation, then reclassified it as a homicide following autopsy results.
"At this time there's no person of interest or suspect," Bright said.
Anyone with a lead can call the Area 3 Violent Crimes unit at (312) 744-8261.