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Fashion to die for. Shopping and combing the racks for clothes is supposed to be fun, even necessary at times, but not deadly. 

The ladies in these next two cases went shopping for all the same reasons many of us do, to buy a new outfit for a special occasion, to pick up a gift for a friend, or to just kill time. Instead, they were killed. 

Police are still looking for the man who gunned down four customers, a part-time employee and the store manager at a Lane Bryant in Chicago, Illinois, in 2008. They were all taken to the back and shot and at least one of the victims was sexually assaulted. 

The store manager managed to call 9-1-1 before she was killed. When police arrived, only one woman had survived to tell police what happened.  

A Lululemon Athletica store in a suburb of Washington, D.C. was the site of an even grislier slaying in 2011, when store clerk Brittany Norwood murdered her co-worker Jayna Murray, after the young woman caught Brittany shoplifting.

Murray was savagely attacked, sustaining at least 331 wounds from at least five different weapons, including a knife and a hammer. Norwood even injured herself and tried to make it look like she had been attacked and tied up, but police soon cut through all her lies.  

It turns out murder is never in fashion. Join us for the latest episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential podcast, “Lululemon and Lane Bryant Murders – Retail Can Kill Ya!”

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