COOK COUNTY CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE — A cable repairman already serving life in prison for murdering a customer in 2006 was sentenced this week to an additional life sentence for killing a second woman.
Both of Anthony Triplett's victims were viciously raped, strangled and murdered inside their South Side homes after the women called for cable assistance in late 2006. Triplett was a Comcast contractor at the time, prosecutors said.
He was convicted in 2013 of murdering 23-year-old Urszula Sakowska in December 2006 and later sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Last month, a Cook County jury found Triplett, now 35, guilty of murdering 39-year-old Janice Ordidge in October 2006.
The woman's body was found dumped in a bathtub two days after Triplett visited her Hyde Park apartment to fix slow internet service. She'd been badly beaten, prosecutors said, and her wallet, laptop and iPad were missing. DNA evidence would later link Triplett to the crime.
According to courthouse sources, the jury only deliberated for 40 minutes before finding Triplett guilty on May 4.
On Wednesday, Cook County Judge Kevin Michael Sheehan sentenced Triplett to life in prison for Ordidge's murder, according to the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.
The same judge dubbed Triplett "diabolical" during a 2013 hearing for Sakowska's murder.
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