By Jim Sterne
News Editor
During the autopsy of Dana Wolf-Pulido, 38, of the 2300 block of W. Melrose St., skin was found under her fingernails. The samples were taken to the State of Illinois Forensic Science building on the West Side where tests showed that the samples belonged to her estranged husband, Andrew Pulido, 42, of the 8100 block of W. Addison St. Pulido was charged with the murder of his wife and a $3 million bond was set in court by Judge Colleen Hyland on Oct. 1.
Mark Hitt, Cook County assistant state's attorney, argued in court that the Pulidos had a tempestuous marriage and were separated with divorce proceedings underway and they had filed charges against each other in the past.
Dana Wolf-Pulido, a mother of two children by a previous marriage, was pronounced dead by strangulation by Chicago's medical examiner on Sept. 10, 2002 at 11:35 p.m.
Earlier that day, Wolf-Pulido's estranged husband was contacted by the school that the children attended. His wife did not pick them up at 2:30 p.m., which was "very unusual" according to the husband. He took the children to a Cubs game and called his estranged wife a number of times but there was no answer.
The police were called to investigate. No one answered the door. The responding officers looked through the window and saw a woman lying on the couch. She did not move even after repeated banging on the door.
The door was unlocked and there were no signs of forcible entry. The victim was found dead on the sofa.
Pulido had served six years in prison for a burglary in 1993. Other charges were a weapons violation, falsifying a police report, and contempt of court for insulting a judge in a case involving child support payments.
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