February 2, 2008. Tinley Park, Illinois. Police are summoned to a Lane Bryant clothing store at the Brookside Marketplace Shopping Center and discover that five victims have been fatally shot in the back room: the 42-year old store manager Rhoda McFarland, and four customers, 37-year old Connie Wolfolk, 34-year old Jennifer Bishop, 33-year old Carrie Hudek Chiuso, and 22-year old Sarah Szafranski. Even though another store employee was wounded with a bullet which grazed her neck, she winds up surviving and tells police that the shooting was committed by a black male. While the crime is suspected to be a robbery gone wrong, investigators are unable to find or identify the perpetrator or make much sense of his actions. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the Lane Bryant Shooting, a baffling crime involving five murdered victims which has somehow managed to remain unsolved for 16 years.

Additional Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_Bryant_shooting

https://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/16/grace.coldcase.lane.bryant/index.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-02-07-0802070622-story.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-08-02-0808010504-story.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-lane-bryant-anniversary-st-0202-20180201-story.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-lane-bryant-suspect-sketch-st-0202-20180201-story.html

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/tinley-park-lane-bryant-murders/169697/

https://abc7chicago.com/lane-bryant-shooting-murder-murders-tinley-park/11533547/

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/lane-bryant-murders-tinley-park-15th-anniversary/

https://abc7chicago.com/tinley-park-lane-bryant-murders-unsolved-crime-il/12763590/

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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.

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