00:00:00
when it comes to Quality sleep Ashley has you covered with top mattress brands at winning prices and with special
00:00:06
financing options available you can snooze now and pay later plus your mattress purchase helps give the gift of
00:00:13
better sleep to children in need and US Special Operations forces visit your local Ashley store or shop online today
00:00:22
and make every snooze count financing is subject to credit approval C store or ashley.com for d details dreaming of
00:00:31
overseas Adventures or connecting more deeply with family from afar Rosetta Stone Bridges the language Gap I've
00:00:38
tried others but Rosetta Stone's immersive lessons and voice feedback technology are gamechangers dive into 25
00:00:45
Languages by learning intuitively just like when you were a kid and here's the holiday Sparkle grab a lifetime
00:00:52
membership now and save 50% gift yourself the world head to rosettastone.com now and save 50%
00:01:07
[Music] [Applause] % [Music] welcome to True Crime garage wherever you are whatever you are doing thanks
00:01:45
for listening I'm your host Nick and with me as always is a music man with more hits than Rod Karu he is the
00:01:52
captain thank you thank you thank you it's good to be seen and it's good to see you thanks for listening and thanks
00:01:57
for telling a friend [Music] today we are drinking the truth by Flying Dog Brewery in Frederick Maryland
00:02:09
garage grade let's do it Captain five out of five bottle caps poy [ __ ] the truth is a non nonsense IPA it's strong
00:02:17
because of its 8.7 ABV but not overly boozy because of its bright Citrus and fruit flavors the truth is a perfect I
00:02:27
want it to be spring already beer and the truth was brought To Us by first up we have Morgan in patasca Ohio and a big
00:02:34
shout out to Melanie in New Jersey and a tip of the cap to some of our good garage friends David and Cassidy in
00:02:40
moral Canada now big we like your jib to Gregory and schnellville Georgia hey Snellville what
00:02:50
Snellville well I can't help it it's a sounds like a made up place they're they're all they're all made up at some
00:02:57
point I guess next up we have AB in zconia North Carolina that's not real and last but certainly not least we have
00:03:05
curry in Belair Maryland yeah so thanks for the support thanks for telling a friend thanks for the festar reviews on
00:03:12
iTunes and if you'd like to get a hoodie they're on sale now is a pre-sale for 10
00:03:17
days go to the website true Crim garage.com that's 10 days only so let the True Crime garage hoodie countdown
00:03:25
begin right Captain yeah that's enough of the business everybody gather around grab it chair grab a beer let's talk
00:03:32
some true [Music] crime [Music] the following is an account of a horrific and violent
00:04:09
robbery many news outlets covered this story what you about to hear is comprised of articles that ran in the
00:04:16
Washington Post on March 13th and 14th of 2011 one article LED with the headline
00:04:25
both victims in Bethesda yoga store attack were beaten and raped two men wearing mask and gloves entered
00:04:33
an upscale yoga clothing store in downtown Bethesda after closing hours this weekend they killed a worker and
00:04:41
sexually assaulted another officials said detectives think the attack began as a robbery about 10: p.m. Friday the
00:04:49
assault victim who is expected to survive was found Bound in the back of the store Saturday morning she was
00:04:56
hospitalized and has been talking with Detectives police declined to say how the homicide
00:05:03
victim identified as 30-year-old Jana Murray was killed but law enforcement sources confirmed a horrific bloody
00:05:10
scene inside Lululemon athletica part of a chain of stores that began popping up
00:05:16
a few years ago across the country violent crime is exceedingly rare in bethesda's central business
00:05:23
district law enforcement and government officials could not recall a recent homicide where we're all stunned no one
00:05:31
can remember another murder in the last 20 years said Ken Hartman a local government official the Bethesda store
00:05:38
sits between a stationer store and an Apple retail store that has been buzzing with its hot new product the iPad 2 it
00:05:47
was unclear how long the asants were in the store the two victims had closed the
00:05:53
store at 9:00 p.m. Friday and left a short time later police said one of them realized that she had left something
00:06:00
behind and didn't have the means to get back inside she called her coworker who met her at the store and let her inside
00:06:08
leaving the door unlocked detectives think that the men dressed all in black with faces and hands covered entered a
00:06:15
short time later because The Intruders were covered police have come up with only limited descriptions with one being
00:06:23
6t tall and the other a little over 5'3 according to police the following morning a female worker arrived to open
00:06:32
the store she heard a faint noise in the back of the store she retreated and called a man who was outside to come
00:06:40
into the store the man went in and he saw what he thought were two bodies in the back of the store police were called
00:06:48
detectives believe this started out to be a robbery said Captain Paul Starks of the Montgomery County Police he said the
00:06:56
noise was likely from the surviving victim who is 2 7 years old a bystander told the Washington Post that the
00:07:04
Survivor appeared to be badly bruised a Lulu Lemon regional manager was at the scene and described the two victims as
00:07:12
great people detectives were still searching for Witnesses who may have been working at nearby
00:07:18
stores the day after the homicide the police blocked off the sidewalk in front of the Lulu Lemon Store with yellow tape
00:07:26
directing pedestrians across the street the store's large front windows were covered with sheets of paper a young
00:07:33
woman who works at a nearby salad shop said Lululemon employee stop by there for lunch they're all great pey happy
00:07:41
people and nice to talk to as for previous homicides in the area in 1989 about six blocks from the yoga store a
00:07:49
gunman described as a disgruntled employee of Chevy Chase Federal Savings Bank open fire with a 38 caliber
00:07:57
revolver in a bank office killing three co-workers and shooting a fourth in the face before killing himself a year later
00:08:05
a jeweler at a store along Wisconsin Avenue shot two men to death after a holdup the Jeweler ultimately was
00:08:12
cleared of all charges the Lulu Limon attack was the first homicide in this area in 20 years and this is true crime
00:08:28
garage [Music] the Lululemon company was founded by chip Wilson in Vancouver Canada back in
00:08:40
1998 now in 2001 the company began selling yoga wear the retail store became quite popular and today they have
00:08:48
a few hundred locations today Lululemon describes its brand as yoga inspired technical Athletic Apparel company that
00:08:57
makes clothing for women and men the brand has of course received criticism over the years partly for the quality
00:09:05
and marketing of its products but also for comments made publicly by the company's founder chip Wilson chip would
00:09:14
eventually resign as the uh CEO this took place in 2013 what were these comments oh um do
00:09:24
you do we want to do that sure okay let's do it I I've never heard that he made bad comments well so and I you have
00:09:33
to forgive me I do not know much about the Lulu Lemon brand or or its you know its products um I so I did a little
00:09:41
research on the internet and that was a lot of the stuff that came up first was you know people like to read salacious
00:09:47
things and when people say bad things people have fun reading that so it popped up a lot it was a kind of uh body
00:09:54
shaming comments you know making comments like um you so bigger people they they don't make so many clothes for
00:10:02
for larger people right and and when when asked about that specifically his response was something like well our
00:10:11
clothes just don't work on those people oh yeah yeah it's the person's fault that they didn't CU that's how clothes
00:10:18
work you know clothes only work for certain sizes all right well so this guy's a real piece of [ __ ] well you know
00:10:26
what's funny is his name chip Wilson doesn't that sound like a a madeup character that would be in some kind of
00:10:31
uh like he's the bad guy in some comedy movie yeah it sounds like a real dick nose all right so anyway our story is
00:10:38
going to be centered around the Lululemon store located in Bethesda Maryland now Bethesda is a wealthy and
00:10:45
well educated area according to the 2000 census Bethesda was the best educated city in the United States of America
00:10:53
with a population of 50,000 or more a lot of people study computer there lots of them now speaking of population in
00:11:01
2011 bethesda's population was about 61,000 wonderfully High educated people MH anyway so Lululemon staffs its stores
00:11:13
with outgoing athletic and am ambitious people who write their life goals and display them inside their stores their
00:11:22
personalities are key to the store's success employees get discounted apparel with which they are expected to wear to
00:11:31
nearby health clubs and yoga studios right they become walking advertisements for lululemons $100 yoga pants and $60
00:11:40
running shirts that are only made for small people yes now we have well with that guy gone who knows what they're
00:11:48
doing now we shouldn't I mean he's no longer their guy right well hopefully they're making good products for
00:11:53
everybody there we go now we have two victims in this story and in this robbery uh that turned into a vicious
00:12:01
attack that left one woman murdered and the other brutalized and Afraid Jana Murray was 30 years of age when her life
00:12:11
was stolen from her she was formerly of Houston Texas she was born in November 22nd of 1980 in witch Kansas to David
00:12:21
and Phyllis Murray David Jana's father was a Houston oil operations manager so that led to her traveling the world
00:12:31
quite a bit as a youngster she tried the Girl Scouts when she was a kid um but she only did this for a little bit
00:12:39
because she found it too boring yeah she sold so many cookies she was the number
00:12:43
one sales cookie the girl of the the world well I guess she got so bored with it I guess she began tagging along On
00:12:52
Boy Scout outings with her two brothers and her father mhm uh the father was a scoutm he's also a former Army officer
00:13:03
yeah now later in life Jana studied Marketing in graduate school at John's Hopkins University and while there she
00:13:11
noticed a friend's bag decked out in sayings from a store with a funny name and no capital letters this being Lulu
00:13:21
Lemon athletica she learned more about its Grassroots marketing strategies and wrote a paper about Lululemon which led
00:13:29
to a job at the company's Bethesda store Jana was a wonderful family she comes from a wonderful family a great
00:13:37
upbringing right she was active socially and physically and it appears she was a
00:13:43
big fan of bungee jumping so a a brave woman with maybe a little Daredevil side to her Jana's family launched a
00:13:52
foundation to remember the adventure seeking young woman her father had the following to say about his daughter
00:13:58
after she was killed saying she was one of the most Fearless people he has ever known
00:14:03
in his life and adding that that's as objective as a father can get he really admired Jana for everything she did and
00:14:13
everything she represented David Murray said that uh you know people always commented to him that that it was her
00:14:21
smile and it was also her hugs that was the way that she would often greet people whether she knew you for a short
00:14:27
period of time or knew you for years mhm she wanted to make people feel comfortable and happy Jana Murray was uh
00:14:35
who was 30 years old and she was when she was killed she was only weeks away from completing a master's degree and
00:14:42
she had a close-knit circle of friends now our other victim who police said when they arrived at the Lululemon store
00:14:50
and found her we thought she was dead yeah this is Britney Norwood she was 2 years younger than Jana Britney comes
00:14:58
from a large family her parents Earl and Larita Norwood are described as being polite to the point of formal a friendly
00:15:07
and generous couple who raised nine children to act the same way the Norwoods they own a Furniture Upholstery
00:15:15
and Fabric business now even in the Years where their business was struggling the Norwoods forked out
00:15:22
thousands of dollars a year to keep their children playing traveling soccer Britney Norwood went to High School in
00:15:29
Federal Way Washington just about 20 mi from Seattle this is at decater high school where she was a skilled soccer
00:15:38
player and was named Rookie of the Year as a sophomore and most valuable player as a senior yeah she went on to college
00:15:45
she went to college at Stony Brook University in New York where Norwood studied sociology and played soccer
00:15:53
there as well Sue on scholarship M Sue Ryan was the head coach of the women's soccer team team there at Stony Brook
00:16:00
and she said at the 2002 team I'm sorry at the 2002 team release that Norwood had the mental makeup to be the best
00:16:09
defender in the league Britney hates losing more than she likes winning Ryan said now classmates said that Norwood
00:16:17
was fun to hang out with saying she could be so sweet so funny she was an amazing soccer player Brittney Norwood
00:16:25
attended the University's College of Arts and Science from 2000 to 2004 but did not receive a degree before working
00:16:35
at Lululemon she had previously worked at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel working the front desk this is a luxury
00:16:43
hotel located on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House there Britney quickly displayed enough charm and
00:16:50
smarts to earn the assignment of managing VIP guest so when dignitaries and big shots arrived at the hotel they
00:16:58
they would often be greeted by Britney Norwood who would help get them checked in and get them settled yeah behind the
00:17:05
scenes Hotel work can be a grind uh irritable and jetlag guest demanding this and that from you but Britney
00:17:12
Norwood was described as always upbeat one manager called her a cheerleader and referred to Britney Norwood as the
00:17:20
sunshine amid the storm that's how I describe the that's how I describ the captain well you know the captain he's a
00:17:27
sun amongst the storm Mr Sunshine yeah so shall we take a more detailed look at the crime the crime scene and what
00:17:35
evidence they are going to use to round up these turd monkeys MH okay here is a more exact timeline of the slang so on
00:17:44
on Friday March 11 2011 now police would later speak with a regular customer now her name is Jana
00:17:53
Carlson Carlson was one of several customers that were in the store Short shortly before closing that night
00:18:00
Carlson said that she was in the store for a little more than an hour and at the time at sometimes she was the only
00:18:08
customer in the store she like the other C customers all said the same thing no one saw anything suspicious nothing that
00:18:16
stood out to anyone no one you know no customers saw anybody casing The Joint let's say yeah now and now this is like
00:18:24
a mall well it's it's kind of a mall we should we maybe we should paint a better
00:18:29
picture than that it's it's not a mall in the sense where you walk in and you know there's a Atrium and there's
00:18:37
hallways that lead to all these different storefronts these are these are self-standing stores that that have
00:18:44
their own storefront they're not inside of a mall you park your car you walk but
00:18:49
it's a large community of stores yes it's a it's a uh basically outside mall it's a business district you know so
00:18:56
it's this Lululemon store is going to be surrounded by other stores like we said
00:19:00
there's an Apple Store there's a stationary store they basically share a wall with these other businesses there's
00:19:07
also restaurants in the area so this could this is probably a very busy evening there on this Friday especially
00:19:15
with the Apple Store having the new iPad coming out yeah now Jana she the customer said that she actually
00:19:22
interacted with both of the victims during her Lululemon visit stating that the two seemed like like the perfect
00:19:29
sales team Carlson stayed and chatted a while before walking out with new running pants a running jacket a shirt
00:19:37
and a headband she spent quite a bit of money I'm sure $4 million there was absolutely nothing
00:19:44
wrong inside the Lululemon store according to this customer and other customers now at 900 p.m. that night
00:19:51
Jana Murray and her fellow employee Britney Norwood they closed the Bethesda Row Lululemon athletica store for the
00:20:00
night so this means at this time everyone is out of the store and Jana and Britney would have locked the doors
00:20:09
at this time before finishing up their closing duties right at 945 p.m. they were both done so they set the alarm
00:20:18
they locked the store and they left now around this time after having left the store Jana calls her manager they have a
00:20:28
very brief work rated conversation and then a short time later Britney discovered that she had left her wallet
00:20:35
or pocketbook inside the store now a lot of times and you know this Captain but maybe not everybody knows this a lot of
00:20:42
times these stores will have like a small locker room where you where the employees can keep their things during
00:20:48
their shift yeah I used to I used to actually lock my keys inside the locker with my other items so I couldn't I
00:20:57
couldn't actually leave without taking all my stuff with me W what do you mean the keys to the store or keys to your
00:21:04
car keys to my car well you could technically leave the building without all your stuff yeah I wouldn't make it
00:21:10
wouldn't make it very far I would want my car to go home anyway that was just me and and so Britney leaves this item
00:21:19
behind but Jana is the one with the keys to the store and actually as I understand it Britney was somewhat new
00:21:28
to the store she had previously worked at another Lululemon location and had transferred to the store so Britney had
00:21:35
not been at the store long enough to have the keys or to be at well she wasn't the manager either the employee
00:21:41
level of someone that would open or close the store right that's what managers do now Here Again Britney being
00:21:49
kind of new she doesn't have Jana's phone number mhm so she has to call another store employee someone she is
00:21:57
close her with from that person she gets Jana's phone number and then she called
00:22:03
Jana she told her that she had left her wallet and so the two met back at the store they entered the front door at
00:22:10
10:05 p.m. now right at this time is when the police believed that the two suspects in
00:22:18
this case followed the two women inside probably just seconds after the two victims entered the store so the door
00:22:26
was not locked when the two women went inside you know you're just you're just running in real quick to re retrieve
00:22:32
something that you left behind yeah it's believe that Britney forgot her wallet but Jana forgot a laptop so they were
00:22:39
both going to just go in unlock the door run to the back they got to turn off the
00:22:44
alarm and then grab the stuff and go mhm now according to the surviving victim when the two women were just about to
00:22:52
leave the store again two men appeared somewhat out of nowhere because the women had not not heard anyone or or or
00:23:00
seen anything there was nothing to tip them off that anybody was in the store in fact Britney would later say that she
00:23:06
believes that the two men were hiding behind a clothing rack or a display of some sort so my guess would be that the
00:23:13
the police state that they believe that the men would have followed them into the store yeah and and the reason why I
00:23:20
think that they believe that is there's likely motion detectors on that security
00:23:25
system so once they set it after it was set for the evening if anybody would have moved at certain parts inside the
00:23:32
store it would have triggered the alarm and so these guys they were gone from the store long enough that that would
00:23:39
have been activated uh so they think that these guys probably just slipped in through the unlocked door kind of hid
00:23:46
themselves until the women got near them mhm and jumped out at them so the the men wore dark clothing gloves and ski
00:23:56
mask one of them is thought to to be 6 ft tall the other about 5'3 now I do want to mention before we move forward
00:24:04
that these are not exact Heights of these guys here you know I think we can make a good assumption as to how the
00:24:11
investigators determine these Heights because as we will see this is a very up close and personal attack on both women
00:24:20
so my guess would be that Britney is supplying the detectives with Heights based on relation to her own height
00:24:27
right know something like this how tall would you say they are well I don't know
00:24:32
okay are they taller or shorter than you both taller but one you know just close
00:24:37
to my height because Britney was about 5'2 yeah you know so she gives them Heights of 5'3 maybe a little taller and
00:24:46
the other one is 6 feet tall and I believe she may have said at least 6 feet tall yeah and she believes both men
00:24:53
are Caucasian now height is going to be very very important to these officers I believe if they want to track these guys
00:25:01
down reason being they're they're disguised you know they're all in black their faces are covered so when you have
00:25:09
the heights of these gentlemen well I shouldn't say gentlemen when you have the heights of these guys right you are
00:25:15
going to have potential security cameras that are in the area that if you could see these guys you know if you see one
00:25:23
guy that's about a head taller than the other dude dressed in black right and you see them leaving the area or getting
00:25:29
into a vehicle you might be able to track these guys down maybe you can pull a plate number off of that security
00:25:36
footage now Britney is going to be able to provide them like the captain said with one more detail regarding the
00:25:42
physical description of the two offenders she says she believes they are Caucasian she believes they are white
00:25:48
dudes now remember these guys have their faces covered but she is going to base this off of how the men sounded in words
00:25:56
that were said so they sounded white yeah so just a quick warning this is a brutal attack
00:26:03
and we won't go through every single detail but some things might be difficult to hear so I just want to
00:26:10
throw that out there so almost immediately after the two women become aware that there are two Intruders in
00:26:17
the store the one man attacks Jana right away he's hitting her repeatedly Britney
00:26:23
is thrown to the ground by the second man and he tells her that he will slit her throat if she's not going to be
00:26:31
quiet so the same guy that attacked Jana he took Jana to the back of the store dragging her by her hair he was repeated
00:26:40
repeatedly hitting her along the way now Jana is screaming at this time the men in their mask according to Britney they
00:26:50
the men are laughing as this is happening now Britney would later tell the officers that there was so much
00:26:56
blood coming from Jana the two massed attackers she said sounded White and the man that assaulted
00:27:05
Britney said that he repeatedly used racial slurs she told officers how he cut her down her stomach and that the
00:27:13
man said that he'd never been with one of her before from there Britney could hear Jana being attacked Britney Norwood
00:27:22
said that she could hear Murray being hit repeatedly but eventually the sounds grew faint Britney also said that the
00:27:30
other Mass man attacked and raped her in a different part of the store and at one
00:27:36
point this man used a clothes hanger during the sexual assault and called Britney a dirty [ __ ] the man asked her
00:27:44
where the money was kept in the store and dragged Britney around the store as he walked looking for
00:27:51
valuables Britney is unsure of how long the attackers were in the store but she said that at some point the attackers
00:28:00
both of them they took her to the back of the store and they showed her Jana Murray's body and she was bloodied and
00:28:09
lifeless by this point this is when they threatened Britney see the mass man men
00:28:15
told her that she was going to be spared however they had gone through Britney's
00:28:20
belonging so they claim to know her name where she lived and some information about her family and they were going to
00:28:29
you know they're letting her know that if at any time for any reason or no reason at all if they want to they can
00:28:35
find her they can hurt her they can kill her now she was told and I'm a little unclear when this
00:28:43
this particular statement comes out because I I find this to be a strange statement one coming from the victim
00:28:51
into two and coming from the attackers but but you know I actually heard some somebody say the other day um psychos
00:29:00
are psycho so don't try to don't try to figure out if it's you think it's weird or not yeah but anyway uh at some point
00:29:07
she Britney has told the investigators that she was being spared because she was quote fun to have sex with now
00:29:16
Britney was bound at the ankles and wrist with zip ties and shortly after 800 a.m. the following morning an
00:29:23
employee showed up to open the store and saw trouble she got frightened and left
00:29:29
the [Music] store this show is sponsored by better help do you look forward to the holidays
00:29:42
maybe you struggle with seasonal Blues this time of year can be a lot and it's natural to feel some sadness or even
00:29:48
anxiety about it but adding something new and positive to your life can counteract some of those feelings
00:29:54
therapy can be a bright spot something to to look forward to to make you feel grounded and to give you the tools to
00:30:02
manage everything going on if you're thinking of starting therapy give better help a try it's entirely online designed
00:30:09
to be convenient flexible and suited to your schedule just fill out a brief questionnaire to get matched with a
00:30:15
licensed therapist and switch therapist at any time for no additional charge find your bright spot this season with
00:30:22
betterhelp visit betterhelp.com Garay to get 10% off your first month that's better help
00:30:34
hp.com dreaming of overseas Adventures or connecting more deeply with family from afar Rosetta Stone Bridges the
00:30:41
language Gap I've tried others but Rosetta Stone's immersive lessons and voice feedback technology are game
00:30:47
changers dive into 25 Languages by learning intuitively just like when you were a kid and here's the holiday
00:30:54
Sparkle grab a lifetime membership now in and save 50% gift yourself the world head to rosettastone.com now and save
00:31:04
50% the Angie's List you know and trust is now Angie and we're so much more than
00:31:10
just a list we still connect you with top local pros and show you ratings and reviews but now we also let you compare
00:31:17
upfront prices on hundreds of projects and book a service instantly we can even handle the rest of your project from
00:31:24
start to finish so remember Angie's List is now Angie and we're here to get your
00:31:29
job done right get started at angie.com that's a ngi or download the app [Music]
00:31:41
[Music] today all right we're back cheers mates cheers so as we said Captain the opening
00:31:49
manager for the Lulu Lemon Store on that Saturday March 12th 2011 arrived at the store for work
00:31:57
shortly after 8:00 a.m. now this manager sees and hears and or hears something that is going to make her turn around
00:32:06
and go back out of the store now right next door is that Apple Store that we spoke about remember we said that the
00:32:14
new iPad was coming out or was released that weekend yeah I believe it was the iPad 2 well there was a man out front of
00:32:23
the Apple store waiting for the Apple Store to open up for the day so the lady from Lululemon asked this
00:32:30
man would you go into the store with me now he goes in with her he finds what he
00:32:36
would later describe as two bodies they call the police so First Responders are showing up at the scene expecting to
00:32:44
find two dead women inside the Lulu Lemon Store responding officers saw Britney Norwood tied up on the floor in
00:32:53
a restroom but she was alive she was taken to a hospital and interviewed by a detective both women were violently
00:33:03
attacked Jana Murray received what has been quoted as catastrophic injuries yeah that rattled even longtime Law
00:33:12
Enforcement Officers Britney was hospitalized and her condition continued to improve the police had said on that
00:33:21
Saturday police had a theory and this is a good one and it it does involve the Apple retail store so they began selling
00:33:30
the new hot iPad 2 as you had said about 5 p.m. on Friday this as we all are aware would be a high ticket item right
00:33:41
so we're going to expect to have many people out at this Apple Store right on Friday uh so possibly many targets and
00:33:52
people with money so the police speculation was this that the two asants that ended up going into the Lulu Lemon
00:34:00
Store that maybe they were there because they wanted to be near the Apple Store at closing time yeah you know late after
00:34:10
dark maybe to Rob customers as they are going to their vehicles or to rob the Apple Store because they' have a lot
00:34:17
more money on hand because they were selling so many iPad 2os mhm and the police thought well maybe while these
00:34:25
two guys were there case the joint while they're they're planning this robbery whether it be of a customer or of the
00:34:32
store instead they see what might be an easier or maybe even a better score when they see two
00:34:40
women by themselves return to the closed Lulu Lemon Store enter the store and then leave the door unlocked I mean
00:34:48
these guys could have just been loitering out front for all we know yeah now within days police had collected
00:34:55
forensic evidence from from the Lululemon store finding bloody shoe prints throughout the store one set of
00:35:02
prints was from a men's tennis shoe size 14 police do point out and this Captain
00:35:08
I found to be very surprising this was surprising to me and I I think you will feel the same way but police pointed out
00:35:16
to the public that they had what they called a lack of video surveillance in this case which I mean we we talked
00:35:25
about this these are higher end St yeah you'd think that there'd be videos inside the store and probably facing the
00:35:33
storefront yes and Lulu Lemon did not have any video cameras inside its actual store right now so according to local
00:35:42
news reports within days of the murder police had not formed a solid theory about why the attack happened but they
00:35:49
think the attack was random and have found no evidence that either victim knew the attackers the the County police
00:35:57
chief said we have no indication at this point that this was anything but a random crime of opportunity due to the
00:36:05
nature of the attack detectives were hopeful that forensic evidence from the crime scene will lead to DNA profiles of
00:36:14
the offenders right so we have shoe prints of you know size 14 M shoe and then we also have 8 to 10 items that
00:36:23
were used in the attack but please also believe that those items were all items that were came from the store and when
00:36:31
we say that they're hoping to find DNA profiles of the two attackers well we we did mention sexual assaults right on on
00:36:38
both females and as well we have talked about this on our show plenty of times that when you have these violent attacks
00:36:46
and to say violent attack on on Jana is is a huge understatement yeah I think she had
00:36:55
105 or more more um self-defense wounds meaning that she was you know she was getting struck by these different items
00:37:04
and she's holding her hands up and on her forearms and her hands there's over aund and some uh attack marks so if you
00:37:12
can't recover DNA from the two sexual assaults you as an investigator you're hoping that the in this struggle that
00:37:21
one of the offenders was injured themselves or cut themselves on something and that you find blood from
00:37:28
one or both of the suspects still at the crime scene well and this whole crime scene is covered in blood it's it was an
00:37:35
extremely bloody crime scene now yeah Lulu Lululemon athletica and its founder our buddy chip Wilson yeah it sounds
00:37:44
like ship dicknose Wilson it sounds like a uh a mail a a weatherman for a uh a town nobody wants to go
00:37:53
to welcome to the town of Lululemon and this is medor allergist chip Wilson well
00:37:59
the the the company donated $125,000 to a reward fund for information Federal well they would have
00:38:06
donated more but their sales were down because they were only selling clothes to small people well and a local I think
00:38:13
this might be a local company I'm not certain don't quote me on that but a I believe it's called Federal
00:38:20
reality they offered up $10,000 and Crime Stoppers crime solvers did $11,000 so very quickly after this attack the
00:38:31
reward money for information was already $136,000 and investigators provided the
00:38:38
public with a free long-distance phone number and encouraged anyone with information to submit a tip we had
00:38:46
talked about this captain we're talking about a shopping what what is called a business district that is full of stores
00:38:53
and restaurants this is a Friday evening when this crime takes place they're hoping that somebody walking by somebody
00:39:01
driving their vehicle somebody saw something somebody heard something call in with a tip we need some help on this
00:39:08
case so this is gets a little confusing to me because we don't have surveillance
00:39:13
quote unquote but we do have surveillance I guess of the area mhm like sometimes when it's reported it
00:39:18
makes it seem like that we have surveillance of the storefront of Lululemon but that's not very clear so I
00:39:25
think some where they have footage of possibly these two men one being over 6 tall one being around 5354 mhm yeah so
00:39:37
the way that this goes down and this is pretty early in the investigation we're talking about with that weekend or by
00:39:43
Monday right and I wouldn't call it a break in the case but police see on surveillance footage two men as the
00:39:52
captain said matching the very vague description of the attack stackers so what does that mean it that the height
00:39:59
is correct and they're white yeah we have a tall guy we have a shorter guy they're dressed all in black they're not
00:40:05
wearing mask but they're they're white dudes dressed in black and the height is correct well and one has a book bag and
00:40:12
I believe that um Britney said that one of the attackers had a book bag and one didn't you know there's probably a few
00:40:19
people out there listening going what what do you mean there is surveillance or there is no surveillance well we got
00:40:26
full disclosure here the way that the way that some of these reports sound it it's worded and sounds like they may
00:40:36
have surveillance footage what we cannot find clear-cut evidence of is a definitive statement of somebody saying
00:40:46
we pulled the footage from from right in front of the Lululemon store right or where they pulled the footage from and
00:40:52
and saw these guys this may become this may become more clear later as we discuss the area
00:41:00
a little more but I think what we can deduce from these different reports about this crime and as the information
00:41:10
and evidence started coming out is that there was some type of surveillance footage now what that means though guys
00:41:18
is this that we have multiple storefronts I would be willing to to wager pretty good on this that we're
00:41:26
we're pretty accurate on this statement some of these storefronts have surveillance cameras others do not so
00:41:33
what the police are going to use they're going to go around and they're going to
00:41:37
pull footage from as many places that actually have it they're going to view it and they're going to try to piece
00:41:43
together what they see going on to camera and off to camera and they're going to base those movements of those
00:41:49
individuals and try to determine where they're going once they're off camera based on the direction that they're
00:41:55
heading what Stef fronts they might be walking toward so when we say that we have surveillance footage of two men
00:42:01
matching the vague description keep in mind this is not this is not them saying we see these two
00:42:07
guys going into the Lululemon store they're saying in the area around that approximate time we have two guys
00:42:15
matching that description now that could be one of two things it's either a huge
00:42:20
coincidence or you've captured the two offenders on security camera right okay so there's something to work with the
00:42:29
other thing here is the two women's Vehicles so they find Britney's vehicle parked where she said it would be you
00:42:38
know where she left it after returning to the Lululemon store to retrieve the wallet or pocketbook okay so I'm
00:42:45
guessing that they were both parked where employees would park and so they had to walk a little bit further away
00:42:51
from the store and then when Britney calls to say hey I left my wallet back in the store that both employees took
00:42:59
their cars and drove them closer to the store yeah so it it sounds like both of them had
00:43:07
actually I shouldn't say both of them but it it sounds to me like that Jana probably had left actually left the
00:43:16
parking lot okay before receiving the call to turn around and come back yeah cuz it's about 15 minutes yeah there was
00:43:23
enough time to to be actually driving for for portion of that right and you're right Captain usually they have people
00:43:29
Park a considerable distance away so the customers can park closer and yeah so when you're returning you're just
00:43:37
supposed to be doing a quick In-N-Out you probably parked right the closest spot to the store yeah would be my guess
00:43:45
so Britney's car the police now mind you she's in the hospital so she's got to give them tell
00:43:51
them what you know what she knows from a hospital bed and and she has been attacked it seems like it's uh mainly
00:44:00
with a knife mhm uh it looks like there's cuts on her thighs and there's cuts on her breast and I think she's
00:44:08
beat up a little bit but there are some signs of sexual assault mhm and so Britney her vehicle is where they would
00:44:17
expect to find it where she says she left the vehicle yeah the issue is Jana's car Jana's vehicle is parked like
00:44:25
it's like three blocks away from the store so even further away yeah so indicating that sometime after the I'm
00:44:33
guessing after the attack these the attackers one or both of them maybe used her car to flee the scene and and or or
00:44:44
is it possible that's where she originally parked and when she got the phone call she just walked back yeah
00:44:51
possible yeah I mean these are uh you know this whole this whole store and its whole ideas built around uh Fitness you
00:44:59
park a little further get a couple more steps in for the day you know using a victim's card to fully a scen is not
00:45:07
that uncommon though you know it is something that we see we talked about earlier you know if if these guys were
00:45:12
spotted on camera and they get into one of their own vehicles or a vehicle that could be traced to them right you don't
00:45:19
necessarily have to be able to pull the entire plate off of that vehicle to track them down you can pull a couple of
00:45:24
numbers match with the description of the vehicle and probably locate these dudes so that you might want to if
00:45:32
you're going to you know you got to keep in mind too if this attack went down the
00:45:38
way that police initially thought this was not it wasn't a planned murder it wasn't like these guys were hanging out
00:45:46
waiting to jump into the Lulu Lemon Store and kill somebody right they they just kind of stumbled upon this let's
00:45:54
say opportunity for a of a better word and if they were seen fleeing the area maybe their intention was to flee on
00:46:01
foot but after this this horrific attack after committing murder maybe they changed their plans and decided you know
00:46:08
what we got to we got to get out of here and we don't want this traced back to us
00:46:12
we got to get out of here quick well law enforcement thought that these attacks probably took place within you know 45
00:46:18
minutes to like an hour and a half so this was a long attack mhm the investigators they examined surveillance
00:46:25
cameras from the area searching for signs of the mysterious attackers tips were coming in early in this
00:46:33
investigation they were receiving help from the public the officers even followed a man that they thought might
00:46:40
be a person of interest in this case now nothing ends up coming out of this person of interest person that they were
00:46:48
following around right now we talked a little bit about the area and about the uh shopping the stores this attack and
00:46:56
rightfully so this attack and murder this terrified the public this is a nice area business in this area in the
00:47:04
following days was down significantly less than half of what it would typically be people did not want to be
00:47:12
in this area no one wanted to be the victim of the next random attack yeah stores moved to install security cameras
00:47:21
and private security guards escorted workers to their cars there were even citizens that were going into some of
00:47:28
the clothing stores in the area and asking if they had sold if the store had sold ski mask to anyone that they
00:47:35
thought was suspicious foot traffic along the road was extremely light during the following days and many
00:47:43
businesses they were actually closing early because they had to do this each day because the employees that worked at
00:47:51
the store were so nervous that they were closing early so that people could leave
00:47:56
many officers worked this case in fact they received and responded to over 300 tips that were submitted from the
00:48:03
general public everyone wanted these monsters to be caught but we will introduce you to two of the main
00:48:11
detectives in this case the first that we will talk about is a young man or a young detective this is Officer Dimitri
00:48:18
ruven after a few days into the investigation he had some issues with the original Theory guarding two men
00:48:26
just hanging out in front of the Apple store waiting to attack an Apple customer or go into the store and Rob
00:48:33
the Apple Store okay he was beginning to believe that maybe this random attack was not so Random after all his
00:48:42
suspicions well they lie with the victims so we have we have Jana she's killed during the brutal attack and then
00:48:51
we have Britney who is spared okay okay okay so the the reason why he has an issue with this original Theory and an
00:49:02
issue with the victims well an issue with Britney's story well he's what at this point in the investigation he's
00:49:10
actually talking to the other detectives into officers and saying you know that theory we were kind of working with with
00:49:16
the Apple store right I I'm not into that theory so much anymore and the reason being is what he refers to as an
00:49:24
imbalance in wounds and an imbalance in injuries between the two victims here he
00:49:31
thinks that this imbalance of injuries might suggest that maybe Britney was spared because she actually knew the
00:49:40
attackers okay so you you referenced uh Jana's injuries earlier now we would learn that there's over 300 wounds to
00:49:50
Jana these are overlapping wounds she had 107 def defensive wounds her spinal cord was severed her skull was
00:50:01
crushed and then we have Brittany it's a whole different story she yes she she has she's bloodied she
00:50:08
has cuts to her head hand breast stomach and legs but what we see with Jana is a
00:50:16
completely different scenario we're seeing an individual that was attacked with multiple weapons and these are
00:50:24
overlapping wounds to the point where the investigators aren't really sure you know when you're when you're
00:50:31
looking at something if if if somebody's beat with a club someone's stabbed someone's and and and these injuries are
00:50:38
to similar parts of the body it gets tough to to to disseminate what uh item was used to create those wounds and in
00:50:47
her case how many items were used to create these wounds yeah they I mean they found blood on I I think it was I
00:50:55
heard one of the detectives say he believes there was 8 to 10 items that's a lot of items yeah um they would
00:51:04
ultimately end up taking um I think it yeah it might have been 10 or to a dozen items from the store that they thought
00:51:11
could have possibly been used in the attack and they ended up submitting those for evidence I've seen some crime
00:51:18
scene footage or or photos from this Lululemon store and you know you had said earlier there was blood everywhere
00:51:26
and that is a very good description my friend there was blood on the walls on the floor the area of the store where
00:51:32
it's very obvious with that they were attacked it it's just it's just a bloody mess is what it is so the detective
00:51:40
Dimitri he's coming out with this Theory saying okay there's some stuff that's not lining up here and we have two
00:51:51
attackers right one that's 6' tall one that's 53 that seems pretty small for a male but we think that they're both
00:52:01
Caucasian we have tons of wounds and one dead employee mhm and we have another one that doesn't have as many
00:52:11
wounds and she's still alive we have this discrepancy as far as one car is being way farther away than
00:52:19
the other car would be mhm and and possibly there's a robbery of some kind yeah you know we have one set
00:52:30
of footprints not two that's a little strange but so he starts comeing up with this idea that maybe they knew Britney
00:52:40
so they spared her life or maybe possibly she's in on it right you know and any investigator would tell you this
00:52:49
when when you're talking about a robbery of a store or a restaurant or a business
00:52:54
of any kind the first angle they usually look at is was this some form of inside
00:53:00
job and there's many different inside jobs that can go down it could be a former employee you know that has
00:53:06
knowledge of the general operations of that business that would know when doors would be unlocked or when people would
00:53:13
be vulnerable to be taken hostage where money's located what days they have the most money in the in the business things
00:53:20
of that nature and then you have current employees okay okay well it could be a current employee coming in when they're
00:53:28
not scheduled to work and robbing the place or you get some Goombas that you know and you have them come in and guess
00:53:37
what why don't you Goomba one and two why don't you come in and Rob the store when I'm there and here's what I'll do I
00:53:44
won't put up a you know I'm not going to put up a big fight we just got to you got to maybe rough me up a little bit to
00:53:49
make it look real right I'll lead you to where all the valuables are we'll make it EAS easy for you to get into the
00:53:56
store and get out of the store now the issue here is we have another worker so where I think Dimitri's
00:54:06
suspicions lie is look they they returned to the store because of Britney right who survived Britney Britney right
00:54:15
it's starting to look like these two victims quote unquote victims were only at the store because
00:54:23
Britney put them at the store right and then we also don't know what went down once they got to the store who was the
00:54:29
last one in the door was it who should have been responsible for locking that door if anyone I mean the the intention
00:54:36
was to grab something and leave but you know did Britney walking behind Jana and
00:54:44
conveniently not lock the door because she knows that she's got glomba one and two showing up within the next 5 minutes
00:54:51
right and then all of a sudden these guys show up and all hell break Breaks Loose it turns into this horrific
00:54:57
horrific murder and we have some evidence of sexual assault on both victims so you know Demetri is kind of
00:55:05
going out a limb on this idea yeah I I mean you got to be sensitive about this you have you do
00:55:11
have at this point in the investigation you have two victims and you have two victims that we have some evidence of
00:55:19
sexual assault yeah well and you cannot you look if your suspicion is that Britney was in on this
00:55:26
somehow I mean how are you going to investigate this but still treat her she still needs to be treated like a victim
00:55:33
you you can't you can't I if you can't show all your cards here if that's your suspicion you can't bring her in and say
00:55:41
look we know you did this and then and then you're wrong and then you're wrong and you find out she was sexually
00:55:47
assaulted that she was brutalized by these two guys she didn't know who they were at all right then that just makes
00:55:55
use a piece of [ __ ] so I guess if you start to go down that road Captain it gets easy to start venturing off and
00:56:03
going down some other roads as to possible questionable things with inside the story or what you're finding at the
00:56:11
crime scene yeah I mean this detective Demitri I mean certain things are just not lining up to him and and I think
00:56:20
when you start reading about these attacks I mean you have two white males they attack believe to be white we
00:56:30
should throw that out there Caucasian and we have a white female worker and we have a black female worker the white
00:56:39
female worker is beaten to death 300 and some attacks on her mhm I'm I mean just
00:56:51
ridiculous and then you have a black female victim both supposedly sexually assaulted but she has significantly less
00:57:01
wounds on her and she was saying that they were saying all this racial stuff and it to
00:57:07
me it just seems like that part of the story doesn't line up too much you'd think if there was some if this was some
00:57:14
kind of hate crime or roal uh racially motivated then they're killing the white girl and not the black girl it just
00:57:22
doesn't make a lot of sense to me I see what you're saying and I get that I don't know
00:57:28
that it the way that Britney describes this attack was that when she says racial slurs she's referring to the man
00:57:36
that attacked her right okay and and according to her story she's being attacked by one man after Jana was
00:57:46
dragged off into the back of the store by the other man who attacked her to the point where she could hear Jana being
00:57:55
hit and then eventually the the noises go faint and she doesn't hear anything right so then you have to so you have
00:58:02
two different victims and two attackers so then the marks would make a little more sense or the attacks being
00:58:10
different make a little more sense when one is being attacked by one attacker and one is being attacked by the other
00:58:16
attacker yeah and I see what you're questioning and I and I I certainly thought about that as well but what I
00:58:21
the conclusion I came to was that two separate attackers two separate victims almost like it's happening like they're
00:58:29
different events almost and do we have a situation here where one offender is just so much more violent and brutal
00:58:37
than the other and possible and we don't know if one of them's using racial slurs
00:58:43
we don't necessarily know that the other one would be a racist as well right the
00:58:48
thing here though that gets me and I think you're on the right track because it seems to me like why would you leave
00:58:55
any potential Witnesses for this thing I mean if you you brutally murdered one of
00:59:00
the people in the store regardless if she's white black or green or purple or whatever maybe they didn't know she was
00:59:07
dead and and then you leave somebody alive well I I think they do because I you know when they show Britney the body
00:59:17
of of Jana that that's when they threaten her and it's almost like I don't know the exact words we don't have
00:59:25
the exact words for what they said to Britney in that instance but I can I almost picture this in my mind of the
00:59:31
two asants holding this this woman hostage mhm and holding her captive and they're all three looking down on the on
00:59:40
this murdered victim and they're going look it's almost kind of like look what we did we can do this to you too yeah
00:59:48
but why wouldn't you just do it to her then and you wouldn't wait again there's so many things
00:59:55
that don't line up in this story and we're going to get to those and make sense of those
01:00:04
[Music] tomorrow we will see everybody back here in the garage tomorrow until then
01:00:17
everybody please be good be kind and don't litter [Music] [Applause] [Music] you can live out your Master Chef
01:00:53
dreams we you find a professional on Angie to tackle your dream kitchen remodel connect with skilled
01:01:04
professionals to get all your home projects done well inside to outside repairs to
01:01:10
Renovations get started on the Angie app or visit angie.com today you can do this when you Angie
01:01:19
that