Hillside Crimes:
WATERBURY,
CT --- Tuesday,
October 08, 2002
HILLSIDE HISTORIC
DISTRICT — A woman was found bludgeoned to death Monday in the downtown office
building where she'd been living.
Detectives had a suspect, but had not made an arrest late Monday in the death of
Elizabeth Grzywacz, 34, of 69 Linden St.
The owner of the building, Allan Lane alias Allan Magarachi, found
Grzywacz when he arrived for work about 9 a.m. The building houses home to
Lane Financial Services LLC. Monday. Detectives aren't sure how long she'd been
dead.
Grzywacz, who had been charged with prostitution a number of times and known to
area residents for prostitution activities, was apparently allowed to live in
the building in exchange for doing janitorial work, said Lt. Mark Deal, head of
the detective bureau. An office had been converted into her bedroom.
Neighbors said they didn't have any contact with her or know anything about her,
though they did see her coming and going.
Linden Street, just off the Green, is a mix of law offices, financial firms, and
a few multi-family houses.
The large building at 69 Linden St. has been home to the state Department of
Social Services and a 24-hour day care over the years. The one-story annex in
which Grzywacz had been living is attached to a larger two-story section that is
boarded up and appears to be vacant.
Investigators from the Waterbury police forensics team worked all day and into
the night combing the building for clues, while detectives knocked on doors and
interviewed neighbors. Police did not say what was used as the murder weapon.
The homicide was the third in the city this year.
There were seven homicides last year and 12 the year before.
The city is on track to have the lowest murder rate since 1999, when three
people were killed.