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(Dr Richard Shepherd) When a murder is committed,

it's always a race against time to find the truth,

to separate fact from fiction, to catch the killer,

and to make sure that justice is served.

But what happens when the truth vanishes with the victim?

I'm Dr Richard Shepherd, and I've spent my entire career

as a forensic pathologist, performing nearly 23,000 autopsies.

I've learned that the dead don't hide the truth

and they never lie.

Through me, you'll be hearing directly from the victim.

With the aid of a state-of-the-art laboratory

using ground-breaking technology,

I'll be investigating a series of intriguing crimes,

where, from the victims' bodies, I'll reveal to you

the truth behind these murders.

In March 2011, the manager of the Lululemon clothing store

in an upmarket shopping centre in a suburb of Washington, DC,

arrived to open up for the day.

But once inside, she found herself faced with a terrible scene.

(beeping)

(John McCarthy) The manager of the store, Rachel,

came over to open the store.

When she got there

and she began to push the door open, it went open.

It had not been secured. It had not been locked.

She glanced inside of the store

and saw some racks that had had clothes on them

had been knocked to the side.

There appeared to be maybe slightly a moan or something

coming from the back room, and the lights were on in the store.

(outgoing call ringing)

She was afraid to enter the store by herself.

So she walked outside, and there was a young man

waiting for the Apple Store to open.

She walked over to him, this young man who she didn't know,

and said, "look, can you do me a favour?

Will you walk in my store for me? Something's not right."

So the young man walked in. She waited at the door.

He walked in, and he found

a young woman laying on the ground in the women's bathroom.

And she was bound both by her feet and her hands.

Her face was bloody.

Her clothes had been ripped and torn in multiple areas.

And she appeared to be unconscious.

(Richard) That woman was Brittany Norwood,

a 29-year-old employee at Lululemon.

She was still alive, but appeared badly injured.

Brittany Norwood had cuts to several parts of her body.

She had a laceration on her forehead.

She had a small laceration on her right hand parallel to her thumb.

And she had multiple superficial abrasions on her abdomen.

It looked like she'd been sexually assaulted

because her trousers were torn

and her hands were bound together by zip-ties.

But there were no injuries to the neck, to the back,

or to the extremities.

At first sight, it had all of the hallmarks of an assault,

but there was worse to come.

(siren wailing)

With the police on their way, the man who'd found Brittany

continued to search the premises.

He pushed through a side door that led to the back of the store,

and he found a second person.

And he couldn't even open the door cos when he walked...

he pushed the door open, it hit against

the body of a person who was laying on the floor.

He glanced inside, saw the body on the floor,

quickly ran out, and the police came and...

and basically made the same discoveries he had made.

It was very clear that the body that was behind the door,

that individual was deceased.

(Richard) Brittany was rushed to hospital

with signs of life for treatment.

The deceased victim was quickly identified

as the store's duty manager, 30-year-old Jayna Murray,

who had been working the previous night.

Police found her in a pool of blood

with a rope around her neck and her clothing torn.

This was a brutal killing.

The number of injuries that were documented

at the time of autopsy in this case

were the largest number of injuries

that the medical examiner's office in this state

had ever found on a single body.

(Richard) It was now up to the postmortem

to determine exactly what had happened to Jayna.

When faced with a body like Jayna Murray's with so many injuries,

the first question is, where do you start?

And the answer is, there are no shortcuts.

As a pathologist, I examine the whole body methodically,

starting at the head and working my way

right the way down to the toes.

Sometimes, when there's an injury

that looks very likely to be the cause of death,

it can be all too easy to ignore everything else.

But if you only focus on the obvious, you can miss the truth.

In Jayna's case, she was found with a rope around her neck.

And there were some injuries to the chin and a ligature mark.

So the most obvious conclusion was that she'd been strangled.

But if she had been strangled,

you'd expect to see far more evidence in the muscles here

and bruising and damage to the blood vessels

and the other structures in the neck.

In Jayna's case, there simply wasn't enough damage

to her neck to explain her death.

So the next step is to examine all of the other injuries,

more than 300 of them, to determine which was the fatal blow.

With fatal strangulation ruled out, an investigation was launched.

A violent killer was potentially on the loose

in the small suburb of Bethesda.

First of all, you are trying to maintain

the integrity of the crime scene.

They put some crime scene tape up up front.

They called out the tech services unit

of scientists that do forensics and take photographs and video.

You know, now the processing of the crime scene,

you know, they did some initial work.

They take DNA samples.

In this case, we also took evidence of footprints.

There were a lot of bloody footprints

all over this crime scene.

So at some point in time, you're processing the...

what they call track and trail evidence

to determine whether or not you could get an idea

from the impressions of the shoe, what were the sizes of the shoes

that were walking around in this blood.

It may ultimately help you try to identify

who the assailant was that caused the injuries

to these two young women.

(Richard) At the hospital, Brittany was receiving

urgent medical treatment while the scene was processed.

(Angela Gallop) It's a really complicated,

confused, and very bloody scene.

Jayna would have been left there while the pathologist attended

and had a look at her in situ, took some samples,

took her temperature, for example,

took a sample of the fluid from her eye

because that's particularly useful

in order to try and determine time of death,

look at the extent of rigour.

So they would have been doing all of that

to try and work out when this happened

and also give an initial assessment of injuries

and so everybody could understand generally

what they were dealing with.

(John) As they were processing the crime scene,

they sent a female officer to interview Brittany

at the hospital.

She was conscious, they were told.

And they were trying to get leads

on who was responsible for this attack on these two young women.

(Richard) In the interview,

Brittany told detectives that she'd been working in the store

with Jayna on Friday night.

But after locking up and heading home,

she realised she'd left her train pass behind.

Brittany, very early on within the first hour or two,

is saying, I forgot my card to get on the metro.

I called Jayna. She had the keys to the store.

Can you get me back in there

so I can get my card to take the metro home?

As we walk back in, we were followed in by two men,

all dressed in black, one taller, one shorter.

(Richard) Brittany's account was terrifying,

but for the police, it provided vital leads.

Was it possible the two men had been captured on CCTV?

As it turned out, within the first few hours of the investigation,

we found out that the Apple Store next door

did have an exterior camera

to the rear parking lot of the establishment.

And we found a photograph of two men,

one taller, one shorter, all dressed in black,

at about 11:07 PM in the evening.

So we had a picture of two men very early on

in this investigation that fit the description

that was being given by the surviving young woman,

who was then being treated at a local hospital.

(Richard) The hunt was now on for the two men captured on CCTV.

On the outskirts of Washington, DC,

shop assistant Brittany Norwood told police that

she and her colleague, Jayna Murray, had been the victims

of a robbery at the clothing store where they worked.

She said the robbery had turned violent

and resulted in Jayna's murder.

(John) Jayna Murray was an extraordinary young woman.

She, at the time of her death, had earned three master's degrees,

worked in four or five different foreign countries.

She came from an affluent family.

She was a brilliant young woman

on the eve of, about to get married to a young man,

but this happened before... she was probably six weeks away.

Brittany Norwood is a great athlete. She was a great soccer player.

She was the captain of the team.

And she went to a school up on Long Island,

full scholarship, soccer athlete, Division 1 school.

(Richard) Violent crime was a rarity in Bethesda.

That it should happen to two young women

working in an upmarket clothing store shocked the community.

Bethesda, Maryland, is an upwardly mobile,

very high-end, expensive neighbourhood to live in.

Very safe, peaceful area

that you would not have thought twice about

letting your adolescent kids to go down there to go to the movies

or for you to go out there for a late night stroll

without a care in the world.

(Richard) By Saturday night,

police had a CCTV image of two suspects

captured at the back of the store on the night of the murder.

The race was on to track them down.

(John) We sent people out door to door

to knock on doors and say, hey, did you see anything?

I mean, this was a bizarre, vicious crime

against two innocent women.

Has anybody noticed anybody in the neighbourhood?

Are there any weird guys hanging around in the neighbourhood?

Like, can you give us a lead?

And there were a couple of names mentioned.

And the police began to run down those names of those individuals.

(Richard) One name that kept coming up

was that of a local homeless man.

He'd been seen outside the Lululemon store

on the day of the murder with two men dressed in black.

When they found him, he had some cuts and things on his body.

He had actually been in the hospital on Saturday

here in the county for treatment for injuries.

He claimed that he'd gotten a fight with another homeless man

and got injuries that required medical treatment.

Now, if you're a detective, they're saying,

go look at John. You go in and you find John.

And John has physical injuries on him.

This attack are brutal, physical attacks,

and he's a little bit out there.

His story seemed pretty suspect because he was

the guy in the neighbourhood that was kind of strange

that everybody was like, hey, who's that guy?

(Richard) While detectives quizzed the homeless man,

back at the crime scene, the police stepped up their search for clues.

And they quickly discovered many objects

that might have been used in Jayna's murder.

Knives...

rope...

hammers...

box cutters.

I think there were probably close to 10 different instrumentalities

that were used.

(Richard) These weapons appeared to have come from

a red toolbox belonging to the store,

found on top of Jayna's body.

But the postmortem would reveal the truth

about which one had killed her.

Jayna's body was found with more than 330 injuries

all over her body.

There were cuts, bruises, abrasions, lacerations,

all of which could have been caused by the hammer, wrench, and knife

that were found at the scene.

We know that Jayna fought back

because more than 100 of the injuries were defensive,

revealing that she was using her arms and her legs

in a vain attempt to protect herself.

But she would have been very quickly immobilised

by this sustained and savage attack

that left her covered in blood and bruises.

Bruising and bleeding occur when the heart is still beating,

so these hundreds of injuries must have been inflicted

when Jayna was still alive.

So the question remains, what was it that finally killed her?

The ferocity and number of injuries certainly supported

the working theory that one or two men

had overpowered and attacked her.

To help build up a picture of what had actually happened,

the police began photographing the bloodstains

found at the crime scene for experts to interpret.

Dr Angela Gallop is one of the world's leading forensic scientists

and has studied the details of this case.

(Angela) Blood pattern analysis

is one of the most powerful forms of evidence we have

in trying to work out what happened at a crime scene.

When blood is shed from the body,

it can form so many different kinds of patterns.

And each different kind of pattern

tells you something about how it arose.

(Richard) Of most interest to investigators were

the bloodstains in the storeroom where Jayna's body was found.

(Angela) You can see really large blood stains,

which are too large to contain the amount of blood that's in them.

So you see these elliptical stains with these vertical runs,

and that tells you that they have come from

a breached artery, so presumably,

from some of the knife wounds that Jayna suffered.

And so they've been pumped out of the body,

so they're under that kind of internal force.

Jayna was still alive at this point, obviously.

And so you get these big heavy droplets coming out on the wall.

And because they're so, so heavy with blood,

the blood can't just stick on the wall,

so it runs down in vertical drips. So they're really characteristic.

And then there are a lot of stains of varying sizes,

but a lot of them are very small,

which are what we call impact spatter.

So they've been created by blood being split up

by some external force.

And here, we know that there were sort of blunt instruments used.

So as the implement struck Jayna's head probably,

it forced blood out into these droplets

and forced them away onto the walls.

Look, if you look at where Jayna was found

and you look where the blood is

at about the six foot level, there's almost none.

She was standing when the attack occurred,

probably facing her attacker.

Went to her knees because it was quite a bit of blood

at about the 3 and 1/2 foot level.

She was probably on her knees for a while.

Then she went down to the ground, probably protecting her head.

And the vast majority of the injuries,

she is down, probably not even facing her attacker.

But the blood spatter tells you all of this.

(Richard) The blood pattern analysis

supported the pathologist's findings.

Jayna had suffered a prolonged and vicious attack,

and it matched the description Brittany had given

from her hospital bed.

(Richard) The horror of Jayna's ordeal was slowly being revealed.

So what else did the blood patterns show?

(Angela) You also have got large amounts of pooled blood,

which is what happens when a body lies there

and is just draining out.

The blood's draining out of it through the injuries.

And connected with that, you get, in this case,

very clear shoe marks,

so the marks of whoever was around at the time

walking in some of this pooled blood

and then walking to different parts of the premises.

So you also get that.

So lots of, lots of interesting and connected patterns.

(Richard) And it was from those connected patterns

that the police would uncover their next piece of evidence.

(John) There's blood everywhere, but there, within the blood,

there are clearly two different, distinct shoe impressions.

One of those shoe impressions is a man's size 14 shoe.

(Richard) Could those prints have been from

the shoes worn by the tall attacker?

It seemed possible, until one of the detectives moved a table

to reveal a shelf and two pairs of trainers.

(John) A Montgomery County detective found these shoes,

looked at them, and he looked at the bottom of the shoe,

looked at the impression on the bottom of the shoe,

goes, that impression exactly matches

that blood impression over here on the floor.

So now you have what appears to be the shoes

that caused the impressions,

but they're cleaned and they're put away on a shelf.

Now so you're beginning to say,

would a person do this vicious murder, assault these women,

walk all over this crime scene

with shoes they found in the store,

wash them off, and put them into this shelf?

No.

(Richard) Something just didn't add up about this crime scene.

And as time ticked on,

the pressure was mounting to find Jayna's killer.

(Angela) There are so many little loose ends

all over the place in this case.

And forensic scientists and investigators

absolutely abhor loose ends.

Back in 2011, police were chasing all possible leads

into the killing of a young shop assistant

in an upmarket clothing store on the outskirts of Washington, DC.

This case became known as the Lululemon murder.

At the crime scene, whilst police continued

to search for clues in their hunt for the killer of Jayna Murray,

her co-worker, Brittany Norwood, was in the hospital,

revealing to detectives the horror of the attack.

(Richard) Brittany's torn clothing seemed to support her story.

And in the storeroom nearby,

Jayna Murray had also been found with her trousers cut open.

So did she suffer a similar fate?

Brittany is telling us, besides the fact that

she was not in a position to help Jayna

because the man was attacking her sexually,

but she can hear, effectively and essentially,

the same thing happened to Jayna with the other man.

They sort of divided them up, one with her and one with Jayna.

(Richard) So were Brittany's claims backed up by the medical evidence?

(John) There was a sexual assault nurse expert

who did, in fact, examine Brittany Norwood.

This is the hanger that she said

she was being sexually assaulted with.

It was a scary-looking instrumentality.

If what had happened to her had happened,

there would have been massive internal injuries.

And despite her description of what happened to her,

she had no vaginal injuries whatsoever.

She could present a certain presentation,

but the expert testimony did not support the version of her story

about what had happened to her.

(Richard) The police were becoming suspicious of Brittany Norwood.

So did the pathology confirm her claims about Jayna Murray?

Norwood told police that two men had raided the store,

and that they'd sexually assaulted both her and Jayna.

And when Jayna's body was found,

a hole had been cut in her leggings,

but an internal examination showed

there was no evidence of a sexual assault.

So Jayna's body revealed that Norwood was lying.

What else had she lied about?

With suspicions mounting about Brittany Norwood,

the police reviewed their evidence,

beginning with the first photos taken of her

on the morning of the attack.

And to the experienced eye, something didn't add up.

Her story is...

the initial story was,

she was attacked, assaulted, tied up, and then left there,

and she slipped into unconsciousness on the floor.

Well, but when you looked at her that day,

there was no blood in her hair.

If you lay like this,

gravity will make some blood seep down into your hair.

No blood in her hair.

And the blood went straight down her face.

Now the only way you get blood this way

is if I'm bleeding and I stand up,

the blood goes down this way.

But if I'm this way, the way she claims she was,

the way she was in the picture, the blood would be in her hair,

and the blood would have flowed back into her hair this way.

It would not be this way because

that's why we jokingly say that even in Bethesda, gravity works.

(Richard) Meanwhile, further examination

of the shoe patterns found at the crime scene

had revealed more confusing results.

There were only two present -

Brittany's shoe print and the size 14 trainer.

And neither followed a believable pattern.

Well, I think there is the thing about the footprints and purpose,

you know, where the footprints went at the scene and whether

that reflected what was supposed to have happened there,

according to Norwood.

Oh, yes, they went there. This is what happened there.

And then, with blood on their soles,

they went there and did that, they went there and did that.

And then they escaped there, and they had to do this

to get out of that, you know.

Here, I'm not quite so sure that it's as coherent as that.

(Richard) Investigators discovered that the size 14 trainer prints

mysteriously ended at the sink in the bathroom

where Brittany was found.

But why?

They'd have to use a specialist chemical enhancement technique

to find out.

There are a wide range of different sorts of

enhancement techniques, and some of them are used for fingerprints,

just bringing up fingerprints that you can't see,

because of the sweat that they contain.

You can get that to react with certain sorts of chemicals.

And it can give you a colour change

and make it much more visible to the naked eye.

And the same is true of blood. You get it to...

you know, different chemicals to react in a different way.

(Richard) In this case, a purple chemical stain

showed instant results.

The sink had been covered with blood.

Could this have been where the size 14 trainers were cleaned

before being put back on the shelf?

It was yet another puzzle for the police to solve.

So I think as, you know, you think about this,

who would have known about that?

Who would have known about the toolbox

and all the weapons that were available?

You know, all of these things make you wonder

whether or not it wasn't just an inside job.

(Richard) With evidence mounting,

the police continued their door to door inquiries,

keeping an open mind about who might have been responsible

for this shocking crime.

We now interview the manager and the assistant manager

of the Apple Store directly next door.

And they give us a piece of information we didn't have before.

The woman who was the assistant manager

heard an argument, a verbal argument

between two women.

She heard things like,

"Tell me what's going on. Tell me what's going on.

Don't do this. Oh, my God, somebody help me."

She heard this, but the voices were of two women.

(Richard) The argument seemed to be coming from Lululemon next door.

What happened next was captured on the Apple Store's internal CCTV

at 10:14 Friday evening.

(John) And she went and summons the manager of the Apple Store

and said, "look, should we call somebody?"

At some point in time, for whatever reason,

those two individuals heard that conversation, discussed it,

and ultimately, the decision was made

it was just an argument between two employees.

We're staying out of it. And they did nothing.

(Richard) This revelation stunned police.

Was this an argument between Brittany and Jayna?

And if so, had the men caught on CCTV been a red herring all along?

(John) We found those men.

They were two gentlemen who had just gotten off of work.

They worked at a Tex-Mex restaurant that was on the corner.

They were dishwashers.

And they were on their way to their cars

to go home at the end of their shift.

They had nothing to do with the crime.

(Richard) Not only that, but the police also released

the homeless man they'd been questioning

after they tracked down the man he said he'd fought with

and confirmed his story.

But there was another twist to come,

this time involving a phone call on the night of the murder

from Jayna Murray to Rachel, the manager of the Lululemon store.

Jayna Murray, who is our victim who died this terrible death here,

when she left the store, she immediately called Rachel

and said to Rachel,

"I caught Brittany stealing tonight from the store."

And she claims that she - I'm making this name up -

that Mary sold her these shorts.

She had just stuck them in her bag and she was stealing them.

And so, I think that

there was a failed attempt by Brittany

to convince Jayna that everything was fine,

that she had paid for the items that she had.

Jayna could not confirm that,

but brought it immediately to the attention of the store manager

when she got to her car that night to drive home.

(Richard) Despite being found apparently unconscious,

covered in blood, and then claiming to have been attacked

and sexually assaulted,

it seemed Brittany Norwood was fast becoming the prime suspect

in this brutal murder.

I'd say, Saturday, Sunday, Monday,

I think this entire community embraced Brittany Norwood

and felt awful for this young woman

who had suffered what appeared to be an unspeakable terror

at the hands of a stranger, who...

when she was simply going back to get a train card.

But the story began to unravel

when you heard about it was a fight between women...

When you see that the shoes that are involved are there...

That she was accused of theft...

Bit by bit by bit, the story began to crumble.

(Richard) Meanwhile, the police had found Jayna's car

half a mile from the store.

And there were traces of blood in it they suspected were Brittany's.

To test their theory,

the lead detective invited Brittany to the station

for what he said was routine fingerprinting.

But they'd set a trap.

And he asks a very simple question:

"do you know what Jayna's car looks like?"

And her exact response is, "well, I think I saw it once,

but I'm really not sure."

She leaves. Police let her leave.

The next day, she calls and says,

"look, I need to tell you something,

something I've not been truthful with you about."

And I said, "well, come on down."

She comes down. Her brother drives her there.

And she now says, something I've left out.

In Maryland, police investigating the Lululemon murder

were closing in on Jayna Murray's killer

as her body finally began to give up the truth

about what and who had killed her.

Thanks for coming back in.

(Richard) Six days after Jayna's murder,

her co-worker, Brittany Norwood, was at the police station

to explain what she knew about Jayna's car.

It had been found with traces of blood inside

half a mile away from the crime scene.

The police suspected it had been moved

from outside the store by the killer.

Brittany still claimed that was one of the two men

who had attacked them.

OK. (exhales)

(Richard) With Brittany sticking to what police knew was a false story,

they brought her brother and sister into the interview room

and spelled out what they believed had happened.

(John) She was never overly emotional.

She was quiet, probably the most that she ever left her guard down.

And this is a police tactic:

"I'm going to leave you alone with your brother."

And when she talked to her brother, which is beautiful,

the brother says, "don't worry about it.

"They're not allowed to listen in.

I looked around. There's no cameras here."

We were filming the entire thing.

He did a brilliant job of interrogating his own sister,

as we watched.

(Richard) But the motive was clear.

Brittany had been exposed and reported by Jayna as a shoplifter.

Without any question, Brittany asked Jayna to come back.

She said she had forgotten this bus token to get onto the train.

I think that was a complete lie.

I thought she called her back to basically say to her,

"look, I'll put the pants back. Please don't report me."

Jayna comes back in.

And she said, "it's too late. I've already called."

And Brittany goes nuts on her.

That was when the decision was made that she had to be arrested.

(Richard) The police charged Brittany Norwood

with first-degree murder.

At the trial, it was up to the prosecutors

to show that Jayna's murder was premeditated.

Now, as a lawyer, the fact that she changed instrumentalities,

the fact that she struck her as many times,

made it easier to make a premeditated argument.

And there were many, many facts that made that argument very easy

and very logical for me to make

and for a jury to understand.

The killing had to take at least 20 minutes

because Jayna wouldn't die.

Now, the primary murder weapon was a merch peg.

It was about 8 pounds.

It was about 15 to 16 inches long,

weighed about 8 pounds, and it was metal.

It was very sturdy because it would go into a bracket in a wall,

and then it would hang like this. And then you could take a hanger

and hold... hang clothes on it.

And the merch peg, which was used like you might use a hammer,

but that was what caused the most massive injuries

to the back of her head, which included six skull fractures.

And these injuries were vicious.

You could literally see the imprint of this merch peg

into her skull.

(Richard) It had been a brutal and sustained attack.

But what did Jayna's body reveal about the weapon

that finally killed her?

Of the 331 injuries, 37 were to the head,

with no less than 26 to the right side of the face alone.

This repeated blunt force trauma to the head

has resulted in severe bruising to the brain.

It's the type of injury you might see

in someone from a car accident.

The skull is effectively a closed box.

So if there's bleeding inside, it creates a huge amount of pressure

because the blood has nowhere to go to.

And the effect of pressure on the brain can be devastating.

And although it can be lethal,

it doesn't necessarily kill you quickly.

The postmortem concluded that it wasn't

the blunt force trauma to Jayna's head

that had caused her death.

When Jayna's body was found, she had lost a lot of blood

from her numerous injuries,

but only one was clearly the cause of death.

At the back of the neck, there was a stab wound

consistent with a large kitchen knife.

The knife had been used with such force

that it had penetrated the neck, chipping a vertebra,

severing the spinal cord, piercing the skull,

and finally terminating deep within her brain.

Severing the spinal cord this high up in the neck

will cut the nerves responsible for the most basic functions of life,

like keeping the heart and the lungs working.

It's simply not a survivable injury.

And Jayna would have been dead within a minute.

Jayna's battered body proved

that this had been an assault with deadly intent

and added to the evidence of Jayna's murder being premeditated.

The last knife that killed her?

It was on the other side of the store in a kitchen area,

and they used it to cut bagels.

But she had to leave Jayna and go and get the knife,

come back, kneel on top of her,

and deliver the final blow.

She basically had to finish what she was doing.

(Richard) With Jayna dead,

Brittany had begun staging the crime scene,

opening tills, making the bloody footprints,

and giving herself superficial knife wounds.

But she made one final mistake.

(John) She's laying in blood on the floor, supposedly, right?

If you're laying in blood, it should be encrusted

and dried on the back of the clothes you have on.

Reality: there was no blood on the back of the clothes

she was laying on the floor in.

No blood.

Which means she created that scene.

She went over to where Jayna was,

probably with some kind of a towel,

soaked it in Jayna's blood,

brought it over, put it underneath where she was.

Now she's going to lay in that blood,

but she's not going to lay in that blood for 10 hours.

By the time she lays in it, it's dry

because nothing transfers to her clothing.

She never laid down in that spot where she's found

until 10 seconds before the person walked into the store.

(Richard) It took the jury just 18 minutes

to find Brittany Norwood guilty of first-degree murder.

She was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.

It's one of the cases that I'm most proud of.

Jayna Murray was an extraordinary young woman.

She was not the person who was found on the floor in a Lululemon.

She was much more than that.

She was a very, very special, brilliant young woman.

Jayna Murray suffered appalling injuries at the hands of Norwood.

She sustained over 300 wounds to her body,

including blunt force trauma to her skull.

Norwood used weapons like a hammer, wrench, and knife

to inflict these injuries,

finally killing Jayna by severing her spinal cord.

Norwood will spend her life in prison for what she did.

Despite using all her guile to stage the murder

and make it look like a robbery, Jayna's body didn't lie.

It revealed the terrible truth about her murder,

ensuring that, in the end, justice was served.

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