Murder at Lululemon | Part 3

Summary

Infamous Podcast Summary: "Murder at Lululemon | Part 3"

Release Date: March 6, 2025
Hosts: Vanessa Grigoriadis, Gabriel Sherman, and Natalie Robehmed
Production: Campside Media & Sony Music Entertainment

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Introduction

In the gripping third installment of the "Murder at Lululemon" series, Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment delve deeper into the chilling case that has captivated audiences for weeks. Hosts Vanessa Grigoriadis and Natalie Robomed guide listeners through the intricate web of deceit, theft, and murder surrounding the Lululemon store in Bethesda. This episode uncovers new suspects, intensifies the investigation, and brings the case closer to its dramatic courtroom conclusion.

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New Suspect Emerges

The episode opens with new developments in the investigation, highlighting Britney as a prime suspect in the murder of Jaina. Vanessa sets the stage:

Vanessa Grigoriadis [00:05]: "Hey, everyone, this is our series on the murder at Lululemon, and we are on episode three... find Murder at Lululemon Part 1, and start there."

Natalie Robomed explains the police's latest theories:

Natalie Robomed [00:29]: "Police have a new suspect, Britney. Maybe they think Jaina had caught her shoplifting, and Britney lured Jaina back to the store and killed her."

The discovery of Jaina's car parked suspiciously hours after the murder raises further questions:

Natalie Robomed [00:29]: "Remember how they found Jaina's car a few blocks away from the store? Had that person been Britney?"

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Britney's Interrogation

A pivotal moment in the episode features an intense interrogation scene where Britney divulges alarming information:

Britney [01:39]: "Prior to him sexually assaulting me and zip tying me, they made me move her car."

Detectives probe deeper, but Britney's story remains inconsistent and dubious:

Britney [02:15]: "They asked... where are her keys? And made me look through her coat and her bag for them."

Detective skepticism grows as Britney's account fails to align with known facts:

Detective [15:42]: "I've been a cop for over 30 years... and sometimes people get into situations way over their heads."

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Britney's Troubled Past

The hosts provide a comprehensive look into Britney's history, painting a picture of a troubled individual with a recurring pattern of theft:

Vanessa Grigoriadis [04:20]: "Detectives started digging into Britney's past. They soon found out the cropped pants incident wasn't the first time Britney had allegedly been caught stealing."

From childhood accusations of petty theft to more serious allegations in high school and beyond, Britney's history is fraught with dishonesty and criminal behavior. Her academic and athletic endeavors were consistently undermined by her inability to resist stealing, leading to significant personal and professional setbacks.

Chris [08:27]: "She wanted, once Britney got to Lululemon, her stealing issues continued and that really upset the other women who were working there."

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The Crime and Its Aftermath

The narrative progresses to the night of the murder, detailing the events that led to Jaina's death. Forensic evidence such as blood, size 14 shoes, DNA, and a hat provided a strong case against Britney. State's Attorney John McCarthy elaborates on the prosecution's stance:

State's Attorney John McCarthy [24:05]: "If she had been convicted of second-degree murder at the time, the maximum penalty would have been 30 years in prison... but they tried to gain some credibility with the jury."

Britney's defense contended that the altercation was unplanned and mutual, arguing that it was a "fight gone wrong" rather than a premeditated act.

State's Attorney John McCarthy [25:21]: "She murdered Jaina, defiled the body... it was diabolical and horrific."

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The Trial

The trial segment underscores the high stakes involved, with Britney facing life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Despite her persistent claims of innocence, the overwhelming forensic evidence and prosecution arguments led to her conviction.

Chris [25:21]: "During the trial, McCarthy broke down what the prosecutors believed really happened that night."

The prosecution painted Britney's actions as a desperate attempt to protect her reputation and livelihood, driven by the impending loss of her job and future career prospects.

State's Attorney John McCarthy [28:19]: "It was because she was not only protecting being fired, she actually had gotten another job offer from a gym around the corner."

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Sentencing and Closure

In the sentencing phase, Britney maintained her innocence, resulting in a life sentence without parole. The community grappled with the aftermath, with Lululemon closing the store temporarily and later honoring Jaina with a stained glass window, symbolizing love and remembrance.

State's Attorney John McCarthy [29:27]: "This was a house of cards on a lot of levels... It was going to cost her everything else that she valued in her life."

Jaina's brother received the stained glass window as a memento of his sister, ensuring her memory would endure beyond the tragedy.

Jaina's Brother [30:41]: "It obviously means a lot to us as it represents Gina... we definitely wanted to preserve it and have it in our home."

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Concluding Remarks

As "Murder at Lululemon | Part 3" wraps up, the hosts emphasize the complex interplay of personal flaws, forensic evidence, and legal strategies that culminated in Britney's conviction. The episode underscores the relentless pursuit of justice by journalists aiming to shed light on the darkest corners of human behavior and corporate environments.

Vanessa Grigoriadis [30:50]: "It was not changing the world."

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Notable Quotes

• Britney [02:15]: "They asked... where are her keys? And made me look through her coat and her bag for them."
• State's Attorney John McCarthy [24:05]: "If she had been convicted of second-degree murder at the time, the maximum penalty would have been 30 years in prison."
• Chris [25:21]: "During the trial, McCarthy broke down what the prosecutors believed really happened that night."
• Jaina's Brother [30:41]: "It obviously means a lot to us as it represents Gina... we definitely wanted to preserve it and have it in our home."

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Conclusion

"Murder at Lululemon | Part 3" delivers a compelling continuation of a case marked by betrayal, evidence, and legal maneuvering. Through meticulous storytelling and in-depth analysis, the Infamous podcast ensures listeners are thoroughly engaged, providing a comprehensive understanding of the events that led to the tragic demise of Jaina and the ultimate conviction of Britney.

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Transcript

[Natalie Robomed]

Campsite Media.

[Vanessa Grigoriadis]

Hey, everyone, this is our series on the murder at Lululemon, and we are on episode three. So if this is the first time you're hearing about this story, you don't want to enter in the middle. Please scroll back in your feed, find Murder at Lululemon Part 1, and start there. Okay, thank. Thanks so much for listening.

[Natalie Robomed]

So police have a new suspect. Britney. Maybe they think Jaina had caught her shoplifting, and Britney lured Jayna back to the store and killed her. But it was just so unbelievable, and it didn't answer a lot of questions. Like, for example, remember how they found Jaina's car A few blocks away from the store? A patrolman had seen someone sitting behind the wheel after midnight after the murder had taken place. Had that person been Brittany? And if so, why would she get into Jayna's car? Before detectives can even figure out their next move, they get a call from Chris, Britney's brother. He says that apparently Britney has something important to tell them. Something she'd forgotten to say earlier. So Britney, her sister Marissa and her brother Chris all head to the station. Chris and Marissa wait outside, and Britney sits down in the interrogation room with two detectives. What you're about to hear is tape from that conversation.

[Britney]

I don't know what they told you guys, but prior to him sexually assaulting me and zip tying me, they made me move her car.

[Detective]

Okay?

[Britney]

I know where her car is.

[Natalie Robomed]

They made her move Jaina's car. Why is Britney offering up this information? I mean, if she really can explain this, maybe all the other puzzle pieces will fall into place. Maybe she's innocent after all.

[Britney]

They seem to know where it was, where she was parked.

[Detective]

Okay?

[Britney]

They asked. They said, where are her keys? And made me look through her coat and her bag for them. When I finally found them, they said if I was to pass anyone and open my mouth, I can consider myself dead. And that one of them would be watching the entire time. And I honestly don't remember the exact lot, but they said to, like. I don't know, like, cross. It's almost like on the other side of Wisconsin or something.

[Detective]

Okay?

[Britney]

From that street. And if I wasn't back within 10 minutes, like, that was it. And I remember seeing a cop, and I was just too scared to even flag him down, do anything.

[Natalie Robomed]

Okay, maybe not. Because Britney's saying she saw a cop. Probably that patrol officer who'd seen someone behind the wheel the night of the murder, and she didn't flag him down. The cops have heard enough. They're ready to Confront Britney. From Sony Music Entertainment and Campside Media. This is infamous. I'm Natalie Robomed.

[Vanessa Grigoriadis]

And I'm Vanessa Grigoriadis. Last episode, police tracked down several leads. They were trying to figure out just what had happened to the ladies in the Lululemon store. They soon discovered that Brittany had been accused of shoplifting and that at a previous Lululemon store she'd worked at at a different location, she'd done what's called discount abuse. That's why she'd been transferred to the Bethesda location.

[Natalie Robomed]

This episode, detectives zero in on their prime suspect. This is Murder at Lululemon Part 3. So in the span of a week, Britney has gone from victim to prime suspect. Maybe she'd been caught stealing, and in her panic, she killed Jaina and then tried to cover her tracks.

[State's Attorney John McCarthy]

But it'd be hard to convince somebody that somebody would commit this kind of a brutal murder over a pair of $120 jogging shorts.

[Natalie Robomed]

State's Attorney John McCarthy, again the chief prosecutor for the county.

[State's Attorney John McCarthy]

We better make sure we get this right, because this is a terrible allegation to make against a young woman if it's not true. Murder is a terrible allegation.

[Natalie Robomed]

Detectives started digging into Britney's past. They soon found out the cropped pants incident wasn't the first time that Britney had allegedly been caught stealing. Not by a long shot. According to Dan Morse's book, the Yoga Store Murder, back when Brittany was young, she seemed to have a habit of sticky fingers. For example, when her sister babysat for a neighbor, that neighbor said that whenever Britney would accompany her, stuff would go missing from the house. Just little things. Coins from the change jar or pieces of cheap costume jewelry. Later, when Britney started playing varsity soccer in high school, she made friends with her teammates. And one of Britney's friend's wallets kept going missing. The teammates suspected Britney. When they confronted her, they said she broke down and admitted it. Britney's really fun to hang with, they would say, but be careful. She steals and she lies. Then when she got into college on a soccer scholarship, there were allegedly more instances of thieving. Enough of her teammates raised concerns to the coach, and she was off the team, which was devastating, not just because she loved soccer, but because she also lost her scholarship. By the fall of 2004, Britney dropped out, just a handful of credits shy of graduating. She moves to D.C. after school, and troubles continue. In 2006, she gets into a relationship with a dentist and ends up getting a job in his practice as an office manager. But they break Up. She leaves the job and a while later, he alleges that she breaks into his house and steals stuff from his new girlfriend. A Lacoste polo shirt, a pair of diamond earrings, a bottle of Vera Wang perfume. The ex files a restraining order against Britney. Britney agrees not to go near him for a year. After that, Britney's roommate accuses her of stealing too, and her sister does. It just doesn't seem to stop. Britney bounces between jobs and relationships, and apparently she was also looking for creative ways to make ends meet. At one point, she browsed Craigslist for potential sugar daddies. She texted one of the advertisements and began a correspondence with the prospective benefactor. The two made plans to meet up and Brittany wrote, I don't have any hidden agendas. I'm just a younger woman with goals, dreams, and could use financial assistance. But she also seemed to be trying to get her life together. She was going to exercise classes all the time and working towards a new career in fitness.

[State's Attorney John McCarthy]

The Lululemon store primarily employed all young, youngly mobile, particularly well educated young women who had ideas of maybe necessarily not working in Lululemon for the rest of their lives, but becoming entrepreneurs.

[Natalie Robomed]

Brittany felt like she really fit in.

[State's Attorney John McCarthy]

That was sort of the whole model. The young women that were attracted to the store, you know, were healthy, vibrant, athletic, upwardly mobile women. That was the whole corporate model. As a young woman, the model was not towards building long term careers with Lululemon. It was more about helping develop mindsets and the kind of that would allow you to move on entrepreneurial and other endeavors.

[Vanessa Grigoriadis]

But despite her big dreams of getting a job at Equinox, becoming a trainer, which is the goal she really decided.

[Chris]

She wanted, once Brittany got to Lululemon, her stealing issues continued and that really upset the other women who were working there.

[Britney]

I knew that some people have been missing stuff from the back, like out of their bags and everything, but that was all I knew about it was that a couple, like couple personal items have been missing. I know maybe a bottle of perfume was gone.

[Detective]

Had you been told that like Britney was suspected of stealing stuff?

[Lululemon Employee]

Okay, I'm part of the leadership team. So like all of us know so. But we didn't have concrete proof. I told you the story about the perfume and then like one of our other co workers was missing $60. And the only reason why she was like the common denominator and all these things because I didn't know before Brittany came, I didn't know that she what her business was at Georgetown. We just knew that she was Transferred here, and that was it. But then after the $60 was stolen that night, I. The night that the $60 was stolen, I was the clothing manager, Ashley worked, Amelie worked, and Brittany was the mid person, so. But Ashley thought it was only could be between me and Amelie. But you knew I didn't do it, and Amelie didn't do it. So the only person who could let us was Brittany.

[Natalie Robomed]

Actually, two days before the murder, the store's management team had brought up the missing things at a regular meeting. They'd noticed that Britney had worked all the shifts where things disappeared. $10 here, a bottle of perfume there. And the reason why Britney left the Bethesda store came up as well. Jaina was at that meeting and heard everything. The night of the murder, after she talked to Britney about the crops, she called the same co worker and said something along the lines of, I caught her.

[State's Attorney John McCarthy]

This is infamous from Campside Media.

[Vanessa Grigoriadis]

Now we're back in the interrogation room where Britney is telling detectives an unbelievable story. She's saying that in the middle of the attack, the two men had made Britney find Jana's car keys, get in her car, and move it. Detectives aren't buying it, but they let her keep talking and talking. I'm gonna let some of that police station audio play out now.

[Detective]

Why don't you then step by. Step by step. Walk me through it. Okay, you go back to the store. Okay. And were they standing by the front door waiting for you or in the back or what?

[Vanessa Grigoriadis]

One.

[Britney]

One was in the back, and the other one's, like, near the fitting room.

[Detective]

Okay. And what was said? What was done?

[Britney]

Did you talk to anyone? I said, no.

[Detective]

You're walking from the store to the car, and you see a cop car going by, and you said that, like, you passed a couple of people on my way back. Okay.

[Britney]

We were passing a couple.

[Detective]

Okay. And you got in the car and you drove off. Okay. People would probably ask, well, why didn't you just keep on going and not go back? You know?

[Britney]

Because I just. For my life.

[Detective]

Okay, well, if you were in the car and you were driving away.

[Britney]

Because I knew they knew where I lived.

[Detective]

Okay, but then couldn't you, like, go get a cop or something like that and tell them that these guys are in the store?

[Britney]

Yes, I could have. I was scared.

[Detective]

Okay. Because, you know, people would probably ask stuff like that. What else have you been holding back that you're. You've been afraid to, like. Yeah, tell us.

[Vanessa Grigoriadis]

Okay, so that's the way the conversation has been going. But now the detective Starts to push a little harder.

[Detective]

Did they say why they wanted you to move the car? Because, I mean, it doesn't make sense.

[Britney]

I didn't say why. I don't know. I want it to feel better after coming in.

[Detective]

Well, hopefully you will. Okay.

[Britney]

I don't.

[Detective]

Okay, well, let's try to get through it.

[Britney]

After I left it, I walked back to the store.

[Detective]

Still covered in blood.

[Britney]

My hand, I'm sweating.

[Detective]

What's your offense?

[Britney]

My clothes were bloody.

[Detective]

What about your forehead? Had that started bleeding yet? Or did that happen after you got back to the store?

[Britney]

I did. I had blood on my face.

[Detective]

Okay. And how many people do you think that you passed?

[Britney]

Two.

[State's Attorney John McCarthy]

Okay.

[Detective]

When you were walking to the car or after you had parked? They carved walking back. Okay. Did they kind of look at you funny or anything like that, you know. Whoa, what's she doing all bloody? What did they say?

[Britney]

Nothing.

[Detective]

They look at you funny, like again, you know, like it is Bethesda. Black girl with blood all over.

[Britney]

I don't know if they saw. Like, I would have been more in front of them, so I don't even know if they saw.

[Detective]

Okay. Now where's Jaina?

[Britney]

She's in the other room.

[Detective]

Okay. Can you hear her?

[Britney]

Faintly, not hardly as much.

[H]

Okay.

[Britney]

The other one's yelling to shut up.

[H]

Shut up.

[Britney]

I don't know.

[Detective]

The other guy is yelling shut up.

[Britney]

Yes.

[Detective]

Okay.

[Vanessa Grigoriadis]

By now remember, the detectives also know this is a lie. They have witnesses from the Apple store who heard two women yelling. There weren't any male voices. So eventually one of the detectives decides it's time to really talk to Britney again. I'm just gonna let this tape play out a bit.

[Detective]

Brittany. Comes a point sometimes when we have to break down and get everything off of our chests. Okay, I know this has really been rough for you as far as, like, I'm sure that you have been going absolutely nuts for these past couple of days. As far as what the cops have found out, what the cops have figured out, what the cops know.

[Britney]

No one will tell me anything. I can't even watch the news.

[Detective]

I can only imagine, you know, you have got to be going absolutely nuts with worry, with fear. You gotta be. Gotta be. And you gotta tell us what really happened.

[Britney]

I'm telling you, okay?

[Detective]

Cause I know what really happened.

[Britney]

I told you what really happened.

[Detective]

Now would you do is you've concocted an incredible story that doesn't make any doggone sense. No, listen to me, okay? I've been doing this. I've been a cop for over 30 years. I've been working homicide for damn near 25 years. And I've seen a lot of stuff and I've heard a lot of tales and I've seen a lot of people, good and bad. And sometimes people get into situations way over their heads and it's like, what the hell am I going to do now? You know, how do I explain this? What the hell am I going to do now? I guess we can start off with the injuries that you have. They're self inflicted. Yeah, they're self inflicted. You did this to yourself.

[Britney]

No, I didn't.

[Detective]

And I'll tell you why. I know this.

[Britney]

I never do that.

[Detective]

Yes, you did. Yeah, I was self inflicted. They're perfectly parallel. They're superficial scratches. Your pants were pulled down when this happened. The cuts don't match up with the cuts in your pants. It's obvious. It's a classic case of self inflicted wounds. I know about the thefts. I know that Jaina found clothing in your bag.

[Britney]

No, she didn't.

[Detective]

And that you had been suspected of stealing and that they were having bag checks.

[Britney]

No, Jaina did not think I stole anything.

[Detective]

So why did you kill her then?

[Britney]

I didn't.

[Detective]

She did.

[Britney]

No, I didn't. I never do that. Jayna was my friend.

[Detective]

Okay, then who did kill her? Because there would have two guys in there.

[Britney]

They did. I did not kill her. I did not possibly kill her.

[Detective]

Was there someone else with you that forced you back into the store for whatever reason? Is that what happened?

[Britney]

No.

[Detective]

That you were walking down to the Metro and somebody accosted you and forced you into the store and forced you to call Jana to get her back to rob him?

[Britney]

No.

[Detective]

Okay, then who killed her?

[Britney]

I don't know if those guys killed her.

[Detective]

No, there were not two guys in there. No, there weren't. No, there were not.

[Vanessa Grigoriadis]

Yes, there were.

[Detective]

The size 14s that were underneath the counter in here. Because you put those shoes on to track. Yes, she did. Yes, you did. To track in there. To make it look like there was somebody else that was involved.

[Britney]

I would never do that.

[Detective]

And then you put the shoes back in there. I think that, like, you need help.

[Chris]

No.

[Detective]

Okay?

[Britney]

No.

[Detective]

And I'm very, very concerned for you. I think you need help. These guys give you the keys, tell you to go move her car. Okay. A cop goes by and you don't flag him down.

[Britney]

No.

[Detective]

You get in the car and you drive off and park it and then come back so that they can kill you. Come on. Come on.

[Britney]

The way they were gonna Kill me?

[Detective]

How were they gonna kill you?

[Britney]

I knew where I lived.

[Detective]

So call the cops. They're still inside the store. Flag down somebody. You want me to believe that you walk down the street covered in blood, people are walking past you, no one's looking at you.

[H]

It's a.

[Detective]

It's 10:00 Friday night in Bethesda. No, you didn't.

[Britney]

Yes, I did.

[Detective]

No. Nobody in the world is going to believe this story. No one. He doesn't believe it. My boss doesn't believe it. When I tell your brother and your sister, they ain't gonna believe it. And your mother and your father, they're gonna say, bullshit, this did not happen. I'll tell you something else. Chris already doesn't believe it, okay?

[Vanessa Grigoriadis]

He's talking about Chris, who's Brittany's brother. Chris is waiting outside with their sister Marisa, and he has no idea what's going on inside this room.

[Detective]

Remember when we were over the house on Monday and he said, I'm gonna talk to you, and we went outside? You know what he told us? What? He asked us. Why is this girl dead and my sister is still alive? What kind of sense does that make? I don't know, okay? He knows that something's shaky. When I talk to Chris and with Marissa and we start getting into your background, we're going to probably find out that there are some psychological or emotional problems.

[Britney]

I don't have any problems.

[Detective]

Well, you do now.

[Vanessa Grigoriadis]

Britney doesn't bite on this. She doesn't confess. But at a certain point, detectives walk out into the hall and they talk to Chris, the brother. They tell him what they believe happened. And then he comes into the interrogation room with them.

[Detective]

Talk to her for a minute. Alone? Sure. Thanks.

[Vanessa Grigoriadis]

Detectives leave Chris and Britney alone and right away he starts asking her what happened.

[Britney]

I just want to go.

[H]

Hold on. Listen.

[Detective]

Listen.

[H]

I don't know if they're going to let you go. You need to tell me right now.

[Britney]

Did you join Chrissy? I want to go home.

[H]

Brittany, I'm not gonna fucking let you out. But you need to tell me so I know how to talk to these guys. Because if you did, we have to get you a lawyer to defend you. And it's gonna be a fucking media shitstorm. No one's disappointed in you for any way your family. No matter what, we're gonna be here for you. This is gonna get a hell of a lot fucking worse. Sorry.

[Detective]

Don't.

[H]

Don't apologize. Don't.

[Britney]

I'm going to ruin our whole family.

[H]

You're not Going to ruin our family.

[Britney]

Aren't they allowed to record this?

[H]

There's no recording devices in here. I was looking around the room the.

[Vanessa Grigoriadis]

Entire time, but of course there are recording devices picking up everything they're saying. And the conversation starts taking some telling and totally bizarre turns. I know it's a little hard to hear them because they're whispering.

[H]

Did she accuse you of shoplifting? Is that what it's all about?

[Detective]

Yes.

[H]

We're gonna have to get you a defense attorney.

[Britney]

I know.

[H]

Okay, hold on. We have. We're gonna have two opts. One option is gonna be there. Could do some temporary insanity or something like that. The problem with that is, is that you've talked to too many people. You've talked to counselors and people don't. That you're not insane.

[Detective]

Okay, so that's probably so he keeps.

[Vanessa Grigoriadis]

On trying to get her to calm down, and then he seems to start explaining to her what her tells are, what makes it seem like she's not telling the truth.

[H]

Just try to keep it together and listen. Look at me. I'm going to tell you something. You've done it three times. When they ask you a question, you're looking down, you're looking to your left. That means that you're lying. Okay? If you're gonna lie when you talk to them, find something in the room. See that red button? Look at that red button every time. Do not look at anything else because I watched you and you said, I don't know. And every time your head drops down to your lap, that immediately tells you everyone that you're lying. Okay?

[Vanessa Grigoriadis]

But however good Britney is at covering up her tells, no amount of poker face is going to save her. Now.

[State's Attorney John McCarthy]

This is infamous from Campside media.

[Chris]

So during her interrogations with police, Brittany never admitted to killing Jaina. But there was so much forensic evidence, Janus blood all over her, the size 14 shoes, DNA, a hat that had some clues on it that the prosecution had a pretty convincing case. It went to trial in the fall of 2011, about seven months after the initial attack. State's Attorney John McCarthy, who you've been hearing from throughout this series, prosecuted the case.

[State's Attorney John McCarthy]

If she had been convicted of second degree murder at the time, the maximum penalty would have been 30 years in prison. It's a huge difference between 30 years where you probably get paroled out in 12 to 15 years versus life without the possibility of parole. So the stakes were very high. And so what they were attempting to do is, and again, not unheard of as a strategy, try to gain Some credibility with the jury because at some point in time, once the forensics were all in, it became very hard to say she didn't have anything to do with it. So just say they've overcharged and tried to reduce her exposure to 30 years versus life without the possibility of parole.

[Chris]

During the trial, McCarthy broke down what the prosecutors believed really happened that night. Brittany was caught stealing by Jana during bag check. And after they left, Brittany called Jana back to the store under the pretense of getting her forgotten wallet.

[State's Attorney John McCarthy]

From my perspective, when Brittany lured Jana back to the store, I think it was to try to look. It was to one either convince her not to report her, and I'm going to quit. I'm going to take another job and I'll leave to try to talk her out of reporting her to the supervisor. I will tell you, my co counsel felt that she was lured her back from the very beginning to kill her.

[Chris]

Once inside the store, McCarthy believes Brittany got Jana to come into the stock room where. Where she would be out of the view of passerby. Then he thinks Britney attacked Jaina using items such as merch pegs and steel bars that were kept for garment displays. It appears that Jayna tried to escape through the rear exit, but she couldn't get away. Britney used even more weapons. A hammer from the red toolbox, that toolbox that was kept in the back of the store and used for small repairs or installing items, and a box cutter, which was used for opening merchandise deliveries. Then Brittany made it look like someone else had been there. She walked around in the size 14 shoes, cleaned them up, all of that. And the defense argued there was simply no way this could have been premeditated. In their telling. That night, there'd been an impromptu argument between Britney and Jana, the one that the Apple employees heard. But it had been what they called a mutual affray, A legal term used to convey two people both squaring off against each other. Most importantly, they said it had been unplanned. And during this unplanned confrontation, Brittany just lost it.

[State's Attorney John McCarthy]

She murdered Jana, defiled the body in such a way that it left the impression that she had been sexually assaulted and then created the same kinds of angels injuries to herself. It was diabolical and horrific.

[Vanessa Grigoriadis]

And in the end, the defense couldn't convince the jury that she'd been overcharged, that this was just a fight gone wrong. Particularly because they never heard about Britney shoplifting the crop pants. The judge decided that the shoplifting was hearsay, since the only evidence they had was that phone call from one of the Lulu employees who said that she talked to Jana before the murder. To the jury not hearing about this, it might have seemed like Brittany didn't have a motive, that she just did this out of evil intent. So Britney was convicted of first degree murder. But why had she really done was.

[State's Attorney John McCarthy]

More than a pair of jogging pants? It was because she was not only protecting being fired, she actually had gotten another job offer from a gym around the corner. She was going to go. It was going to cost her a career. It was going to reconfirm that the where she had grieved herself back after being fired at the Georgetown store. It was going to bring that thing up again. This was a woman who was going to be unmasked for having committed a relatively minor theft. But it was also going to cost her everything else that she valued in her life at that point in time. And I think quite candidly, getting caught stealing from Lululemon was not only going to necessarily cost her her immediate job. If the future employer with whom she had been interviewing learned about it, she wasn't going to get that job either. So this, it was a house of cards on a lot of levels. And there seemed to be some inklings for a number of years that we were sort of headed in this direction with some activities that we've talked about that she was involved in before this.

[Chris]

When it came time for her sentencing, Britney still did not admit she was guilty. Instead, she only talked about what happened that night as the crime I have been convicted of. But she was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. After the murder, Lululemon closed the store for a while. And when they reopened, they installed a stained glass window in Gina's honor. The love window, as it was referred to, had a pretty mosaic with the word love written across several feet. It was well known to all in Bethesda while shopping. Now, Lululemon eventually closed that store, but as merchandise and displays moved out, they must have thought about what to do with a stained glass window and decided to give it to Jaina's brother, as he told the local news when they were covering this. Debell. It obviously means a lot to us as it represents Gina. We definitely wanted to preserve it and have it in our home. We'll be back next week to wrap up Murder at Lululemon. See you then.

[Lululemon Employee]

There was this practice there called clearing, where the thought behind that was, before.

[Detective]

You start a shift, like clear the air and set an intention for your shift.

[Britney]

It is secular spirituality, I would say I'm sorry. The job was opening boxes, folding pants, and, like, writing people's names on change room boards. It was not changing the world.