Trial date set for woman accused of dismembering landlord on Northwest Side, just months after charges filed

Crime scene tape hangs on Oct. 11 from the porch of a home at 5919 N. Washtenaw Ave. in the Arcadia Terrace neighborhood where 69-year-old Frances Walker’s head in a kitchen freezer. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

A summer trial has been scheduled for a woman charged with killing and dismembering her landlord last fall in the Acadia Terrace neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

On Thursday, Cook County Judge Urusla Walowski tentatively scheduled Sandra Kolalou’s jury trial for July 17 — just eight months after Kolalou, 36, was charged with the murder of 69-year-old Frances Walker.