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. One set belonged to Norwood, he said, and the other came from shoes that belonged to the store and were found at the crime scene.
So that cast doubt on the story about intruders, police said. In addition, employees of an Apple store next door said they heard two women arguing the night of the killing, Manger said. They examined surveillance cameras from the area, searching for signs of the mysterious attackers. About 8 a. She retreated and asked a man outside to go in. He found a horrific, bloody crime scene, according to officials.
Norwood was tied up. She was taken to a local hospital, where detectives spoke to her. Police officials began describing the case to reporters, based largely on her statements. By Monday, officials had established a timeline of what they believed had happened:. At p. But Norwood called Murray to say she had left her wallet in the store and asked if Murray could meet her there, police said. They went inside, closely followed into the store by two masked men, who attacked them.
There are several signs that you should quit your job, as described in the article. Hating your boss or coworkers is one of the major indicators, which may have prevented the escalation at Lululemon.
When not talking and writing about pop culture especially superheroes or any show with a paranormal bent , freelance writer Bec Heim is usually tackling her mountain of books, writing scripts or stories, or listening to podcasts. A book about the murders revealed Norwood may have been working as a prostitute and lying to her friends and family; she enjoyed having a secret life. Her theft seems to have been a lifelong illness, even when she was in high school.
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. 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. Box , The Woodlands, Texas
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