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Anatomy of Murder
INTRODUCING: CounterClock Season 8
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In February 2008, six women were held hostage in a women’s clothing store in Tinley Park, Illinois.. Rhoda McFarland, Carrie Hudek Chiuso, Connie Woolfolk, Sarah Szafranski, and Jennifer Bishop were executed and the killer escaped leaving only one survivor. In Season 8 of CounterClock, host and investigative journalist Delia D’Ambra covers the Lane Bryant Murders and goes further into the case than any journalist has before. Through firsthand accounts and thousands of documents, Delia reconstructs what happened inside the store, why it may have happened, and who may have been responsible. For nearly twenty years, their families have lived without answers. This season, the search continues.
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Hi, listeners. I'm Delia d'. Ambra. I'm an investigative journalist and the host of Counterclock, a seasonal podcast where I take a deep dive into one cold case. Each season, I focus on stories that haven't been fully resolved. You know, the ones where even years later, there are still questions that don't quite sit right. That's what led me here this season. When Ashley Flowers, host of Crime Junkie, first brought this case to me. It was supposed to be a single episode, just one story. But as more tips started coming in, it became clear pretty quickly that it was bigger than that. More leads, more questions, more details that didn't quite add up. So I kept digging. And what I found and even what I didn't raised more questions than answers. This season on Counterclock, I'm investigating the Lane Bryant murders. In 2008, five women were killed inside a store in the middle of the morning. Investigators had potential DNA evidence, a detailed composite sketch, even the suspect's voice captured during a 911 call. And yet, nearly two two decades later, no one has been identified. So you start to wonder, how does a case with that much information go unsolved? Over the last year, I've gone back through the evidence, the timelines, and the witness accounts with a fine toothed comb. I've spoken with people directly connected to the case and others who have never shared their perspective publicly before. Because at a certain point, it stops feeling like an unsolved case and starts to feel like there's something important we're not seeing. If you want to dive into this investigation, you can start by listening. Listening to the Counterclock Season 8 trailer. Now,
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it started out as just another day in a popular clothing store, but it ended in a bloody massacre.
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A deadly shooting rampage at upscale Lane Bryant ladies clothing store. Six women gunned down execution style. The February 2008 Lane Bryant homicides in Tinley Park, Illinois, are a notorious case that for nearly two decades have looked like one one type of crime, but might just be something much, much bigger.
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It was like a big jigsaw puzzle, and most of the pieces were upside down.
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For the last year, I've been heads down trying to turn every puzzle piece in this complicated case right side up.
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The search continues for the gunman. We in those early days did not know somebody had survived. We were worried about her safety. What if this guy has her information
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and has all of our information? This season on Counterclock, we're going inside a law enforcement investigation that has been locked behind closed doors for years.
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None of it made sense. The timing, the target, the victims, the length of time that he stayed in the store. What were you doing in there for 40 minutes?
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The further and further I dug into this crime, the stranger things. God. My reporting led me to some unexpected places. A church in crisis, a dilapidated mental health center, a notorious street gang, and another violent shooting.
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Are you familiar with quid pro quo? When you shoot somebody execution style, You've done it before. A lot of things go down because of money. Maybe it was an inside job. People use church to do they devilish ways.
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Buckle up, because this story is anything but straightforward.
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All of a sudden, I see the police come, like, filling the neighborhood and coming up my driveway, hey, we got a cop being shot out in front of my house. Major shootout. Come in here, man. There's the going on.
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Stand up.
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Holy cow. Most crimes I see, it's 10,000. This was 100,000. Who does not say anything for 100,000 thousand? When we first met and you provided me with this information, I mean, my jaw dropped. I was like, oh, my goodness. Thank God you're investigative journalism.
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Binge counterclock, season eight right now, wherever you get your podcasts,