Complex sentence: Later that night Tom receives a phone call at his home similar to the ones left by the Polish Hill Strangler two years earlier, and then hears a woman scream before she is shot and the phone goes dead.
Split into simpler sentences: Later that night Tom receives a phone call at his home similar to the ones left by the Polish Hill Strangler two years earlier. He hears a woman scream before she is shot and the phone goes dead.