Friday, February 2, 2024

The Lane Bryant Murders




On February 2, 2008 Store Manager Rhoda McFarland and an unnamed employee were at their work at a Lane Bryant clothing outlet in the Brookside Marketplace in the Tinley Park Suburb of Chicago, Illinois. Inside the store were 37-year-old Connie Woolfolk, 22-year-old Sarah Szafranski, 33-year-old Carrie Hudek, and 34-year-old Jennifer Bishop were in the store.

A man would come into the store and announce that he was robbing the place. All six women were taken to the back of the store and bound them with duct tape. Rhoda would be able to break free from her bindings was able to make a call to the police on her phone. The killer would find her and shoot them all.  

It was said that police would show up in just a few minutes, but the killer had fled. Five of them had died and the unnamed employee was the only survivor. 

It was found that the store did not have any security cameras so there is no footage of the man. 

The killer was described as a black man. He had thick cornrowed hair with a braid lying over the right side of the face and a receding hairline. The braid was at cheek level and was decorated with four light green beads at the end. It's not known what the actual motive was for the murders. It's possible it was for a robbery gone wrong, but it's unknown. 

SOURCES:
Wikipedia
Southtown Star May 19, 2008
CBS News  Feb 2, 2023
ABC 7 News Feb. 2, 2023
ABC 7 News Feb. 3, 2023

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