Perhaps she suffers from a mental illness, kleptomania with pathological lying. If so, the murder was an escalation of her illness, as a psychopath will become just as addicted to the murder and fooling of law enforcement and judges as she was to theft and eventual pathological lying.
I remember this murder. The girl should never ever be release from jail. All this to cover up a lie. U chose murder, rather than being confronted abt ur lies not to mentioned, stealing. This is what happens when u are trying to keep up with the Jones. This girl is not immoral nor is she amoral, she is pure evil. She should only be released from prison in a body bag.
True Crime. March 2, Author Bec Heim. March 3, March 4, October 23, Leave a Comment Cancel Reply. Related Articles. What is Mary Bell up to now? Does she feel any remorse her crimes? Does Ted Bundy have a kid? Do they lead anything like a normal life? Her skull was fractured and spinal cord severed by a wound that extended through her neck, WJLA reported. Norwood was arrested Friday and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Murray, her co-worker at the Lululemon Athletica shop.
The parents of Murray said their daughter never mentioned the woman now accused of killing her, Brittany Norwood. Police discovered the crime scene March 12 at store in Bethesda. Murray was dead and Norwood was bound with her hands tied above her head. When Murray's brother found out that his sister was dead, he was in Iraq working as an Army attorney. Police say Norwood told them that after closing up the store for the night on March 11, she and Murray, a fellow employee, returned to pick up the wallet she had forgotten at work.
Two masked men followed them in, bound them, sexually assaulted them and when Murray resisted, they beat and stabbed her to death, police say Norwood told them. Medical examiners found no evidence of sexual assault on either victim. Only two sets of footprints were found -- Norwood's, and one from a pair of shoes found at the scene, which police theorized Norwood used to plant false footprints.
Workers at an adjacent Apple store told police they had heard two women arguing. Investigators found only two sets of footprints in the store. Norwood alleged she was sexually assaulted, but an examination did not back up the claim. Police arrested Norwood six days after Murray's body was found. Norwood's lawyers conceded at the outset of the trial that Norwood had killed Murray, but said she had simply 'lost it' in a moment of irrationality and didn't have the required forethought to be convicted of first-degree murder.
A jury rejected that argument after about an hour of deliberation, finding her guilty of first-degree murder. The jury did not hear a motive for the killing, but investigators previously said the women fought after Murray found what she thought was stolen merchandise in Norwood's bag. Jayna Murray was alive when she suffered most of the cuts and blows inflicted on her head and body during a brutal attack at the Bethesda Lululemon Athletica store in March, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Opening arguments in the first-degree murder trial of Brittany Norwood, charged in the horrific killing of her co-worker, provided the most dramatic account yet of a crime that shocked the region for its viciousness and for the twists and turns of an investigation that ultimately revealed a morbidly staged crime scene.
They also offered the first indications of how attorneys for the year-old woman accused in the killing plan to defend her. The defensive wounds, caused when Murray tried to fend off the attack, were the most the medical examiner had ever seen on one person, Mr. McCarthy said. McCarthy said, describing how eight separate items found in the upscale yoga-inspired apparel store were used as weapons.
This was not slow. This was not painless. This woman struggled to survive. While attorneys for Miss Norwood hinted in the months before the trial that they might pursue an insanity defense, attorney Douglas Wood acknowledged in his opening statement that his client had attacked Murray — but that she had not planned to kill her. Wood said. She lost control. The distinction aims to undercut the argument of prosecutors, who must prove that the attack was premeditated to win a first-degree murder conviction instead of a lesser second-degree murder conviction.
Prosecutors have said they will seek life without parole if Miss Norwood is convicted of first-degree murder. McCarthy said that on March 11, the night of the killing, the women closed the store together but that Miss Norwood lured Murray back and the deadly attack ensued inside the store. The next morning, when an employee opened the store, Miss Norwood was found bound and bloodied in a bathroom, and Murray dead, lying in a pool of blood in a back room.
Miss Norwood initially told police that she and Murray were attacked by two men who entered the store after closing. In his opening statement, Mr. McCarthy dissected the story that Miss Norwood has admitted contriving in order to cover her tracks. She initially said the attackers sexually assaulted her by using a wooden clothes hanger. McCarthy said to the jurors.
Miss Norwood was arrested a week after the crime, after investigators uncovered inconsistencies in her story. The families of both women were present in the Rockville courtroom, sitting in rows across the aisle from each other.
Brittany Norwood, the Maryland woman accused of murdering her co-worker in a yoga shop and then staging a fake crime, was in possession of stolen merchandise at the time of the killing, state prosecutors said.
Appearing in a Montgomery County courtroom via video conference, Norwood was ordered to be held without bond. During the court hearing, new details emerged about the alleged attack.
The blows to Murray's head were too numerous to count. Her skull was fractured and spinal cord severed by a wound that extended through her neck, WJLA reported. Norwood was arrested Friday and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Murray, her co-worker at the Lululemon Athletica shop. The parents of Murray said their daughter never mentioned the woman now accused of killing her, Brittany Norwood.
Police discovered the crime scene March 12 at store in Bethesda. Murray was dead and Norwood was bound with her hands tied above her head. When Murray's brother found out that his sister was dead, he was in Iraq working as an Army attorney. Fear spread through the D. Police say Norwood told them that after closing up the store for the night on March 11, she and Murray, a fellow employee, returned to pick up the wallet she had forgotten at work. Two masked men followed them in, bound them, sexually assaulted them and when Murray resisted, they beat and stabbed her to death, police say Norwood told them.
Medical examiners found no evidence of sexual assault on either victim. Only two sets of footprints were found -- Norwood's, and one from a pair of shoes found at the scene, which police theorized Norwood used to plant false footprints.
Norwood another belonging to a size 14 shoe that was recovered in the store," Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger said. When Norwood was found by a store employee opening up the next morning, police say the position she was tied in, with her hands bound above her head, was suspicious to police, suggesting she might have fastened the bonds herself. Murray's car had also been moved, and was spattered with the blood of Norwood, who police say told them her assailants ordered her to re-park the car, which had been outside the store, and return in 10 minutes or be killed.
Norwood had told us," Manger said. Then workers at the Apple Computer store next door told police that on the night of the killing, they heard two women arguing. The family of Jayna Murray is healing through launching a foundation to remember the adventure-seeking young woman who loved to go bungee jumping.
I really admired her for everything she did and everything she represented," David Murray said. Whether she knew you for two seconds or years, those were her greetings. She wanted people tot feel comfortable and happy," Phyllis Murray said. Lululemon Bethesda slaying arrest announced; Brittany Norwood being charged with murder.
The woman portrayed as the brave survivor of a brutal attack at a Bethesda yoga store has now been charged with killing her co-worker.
The victim-turned-suspect was found inside the Lululemon Athletica store bound and bruised, and she convinced detectives that two men in ski masks and gloves raped and beat her and her fellow employee. Murray, 30, who was beaten and stabbed. Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said that there is no evidence there were any sexual assaults at all and that Norwood very likely inflicted her own injuries and tied herself up. Norwood had told us. Stores moved to install security cameras.
Private security guards escorted workers to their cars. Assistant Chief Drew Tracy said there were some inconsistencies from the beginning, but detectives chalked them up in part to a stressed victim. He declined to specify what was found in the car.
Manger also said detectives found only two sets of bloody shoe prints in the Lululemon store.
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