Charges were pending against a man after his estranged wife was strangled to death the day before Thanksgiving inside her Greater Grand Crossing home.

No charges have been announced by police as of Monday afternoon.

“She had a heart of gold,” Carolyn Jones’ older sister, Renee McDonald, told the Sun-Times. “She was kind, would give the shirt off her back… She didn’t deserve that.”

The suspect, who Carolyn Jones had recently kicked out of her home, no longer lived there and was seen on video surveillance entering and exiting her apartment building in the 6800 block of South Calumet Avenue several times in the early morning hours of Nov. 26, according to a Chicago police report and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

“At one point he is observed exiting while carrying bags, which

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