A Jan. 2015 photo from Chattanooga’s Right2Know page shows Jeanette Lynn Scholten. Sholten was found strangled in a Chattanooga hotel room March 24. Her death is being investigated as a homicide.A 34-year-old woman was strangled to death inside a Chattanooga motel, the Hamilton County Medical Examiner determined Thursday.
Chattanooga police found Jeanette Scholten dead inside The Chatt Inn in the 2000 block of E. 23rd Street aroundnoon on Thursday.
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 that Scholten was strangled.
It’s unclear how long she had been dead before her body was discovered.
Scholten is the seventh person to be killed in Chattanooga so far this year. Police have not said whether they have any suspects in the Scholten’s slaying. All of this year’s homicides are so far unsolved.