Jeanette Scholten, 34, pictured here in this undated photo, was found strangled to death inside a motel room in The Chatt Inn on E. 23rd Street on Thursday.Chattanooga police officers arrived at a hotel on East 23rd Street shortly after noon Thursday to find a 34-year-old woman there dead.
Jeanette Scholten was found at The Chatt Inn in the 2000 block of East 23rd Street shortly after a call came in about a deceased female, according to a news release.
According to the release, investigators with the police department’s Violent Crimes Bureau were advised at 3:45 p.m. Thursday that the Hamilton County medical examiner’s office had done a preliminary evaluation of the body and determined the death was the result of manual strangulation.
The death has been determined a homicide.
All leads are being investigated by the Chattanooga Police Department’s Violent Crimes Bureau, and anyone with information is asked to call 423-698-2525.