Anthony Triplett used his job as a Comcast subcontractor to hunt for unsuspecting female victims while installing cable service — customers he would later return to rape and strangle.
On Friday, a Cook County judge sentenced the murderer to life in prison.
Judge Kevin Sheehan agreed with prosecutors who called Triplett both a sociopath and a psychopath, treating his victims with all the reverence of a used facial tissue.
Sheehan said Triplett’s defense was ludicrous, calling it a “wicked web of lies.”
“You were dancing like an ant on a sugar cube,” Sheehan said.
Triplett was found guilty of raping and strangling 23-year old Polish immigrant Urszula Sakowska, whose lifeless body was found in a bathtub inside her Chicago-area home back in 2006.
Triplett is also facing charges in the death of 39-year old Janice Ordidge, a Comcast customer in Hyde Park.
Victims’ families say Comcast has a lot to answer for after subcontracting cable work out to Premier Cable Communications, a third-party company accused of maintaining shoddy hiring practices. Comcast is under scrutiny for doing nothing to stop Triplett after being informed he was being questioned by police in the death of Ordidge.
Both Comcast and Premier are being sued for allowing Triplett to continue working, which lead to his encounter with Sakowska.
Assistant State’s Attorney Brian Sexton said Triplett “obviously could not help himself” from committing the sexual assaults and killings.
“This is the most dangerous individual you will ever see in this courtroom — and that’s saying a lot for 26th Street,” Sexton told the judge, calling Triplett “every woman’s nightmare.”
“This is who you killed!” he shouted at Triplett while holding a photo of Sakowska.
Sakowska’s fiancé, Grzegorz Magiera, said he will never recover from her loss, which would have never happened had she not called Comcast.
“I can still see her in our house, smell her and feel her warm embrace,” Magiera said in a victim impact statement read by prosecutors. “My life will never be the same as it was before. No one will ever be able to replace my Urszula. She was my one and only. She was my angel.”
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WLS reports Comcast-contracted cable repairman Anthony Triplett was found guilty of rape and murder and is yet to face murder charges in a second case. Triplett used his “house calls for Comcast” as a hunting ground for female victims. (2 minutes)