Lane Bryant massacre: Criminal profiler says arrest could come in 2008 murder of 5 in women's clothing store

It was arsenic cold-blooded arsenic acold cases come. 

On Feb. 2, 2008, a antheral posing arsenic a transportation operator walked into a Lane Bryant covering store successful Tinley Park, a suburb of Chicago, with a .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun. He forced six women helium recovered wrong into a backmost room, duct taped their hands down their backs and fondled 1 of them, constabulary said. 

Eventually, helium changeable them all. 

While the attacker whitethorn person believed helium killed each of them, 1 survived, according to investigators. She was a part-time worker whose statement of the fishy constabulary hoped would pb to an arrest. Despite thousands of leads implicit the past 16 years, the slayer remains astatine large.

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The victims, from left: Jennifer Bishop, 34, of South Bend, Ind.; Carrie Chiuso, 33, of Frankfort; Rhoda McFarland, 42, of Joliet; Sarah Szafranski, 22, of Oak Forest; Connie Woolfolk, 37, of Flossmoor. Background: Tinley Park Police Cmdr. Pat McCain makes a telephone telephone successful an bureau dedicated to the investigation. (Insets: FOX 32 Chicago, Background: Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

The slayer is believed to beryllium conscionable implicit 6 feet tall, with a "husky" physique and wide shoulders. He was described arsenic a Black antheral betwixt 25 and 35 years aged astatine the clip of the attack, with a mean acheronian tegument code and corn-rowed hair. He had 1 braid hanging down his close cheek, adorned with greenish beads. He was wearing achromatic jeans with a rhinestone "G" embroidered implicit the backmost pockets, a acheronian grey headdress and a acheronian jacket.

Grainy surveillance video taken from crossed the thoroughfare shows a acheronian SUV and a acheronian sedan successful the parking batch astir the clip of the murders, The Associated Press reported astatine the time. However, it was unclear whether either of the vehicles were utilized by the attacker. 

Authorities besides person the killer's voice recorded successful a garbled 911 call, and the Tinley Park Police Department is offering a $100,000 reward for accusation starring to an arrest.

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LISTEN: Police merchandise 911 audio that contains dependable of antheral who killed 5 successful women's covering store

"You're lucky," the gunman tin beryllium heard saying. "I'm losing it."

The woman's dependable begging constabulary to "hurry" belonged to the store manager, Rhoda McFarland, 42.

The lone survivor's individuality has not been publicized. Police identified the execution victims arsenic McFarland, of Joliet; Jennifer Bishop, 34, of South Bend, Indiana; Sarah Szafranski, 22, of Oak Forest; Connie Woolfolk, 37, of Flossmoor; and Carrie Chiuso, 33, of Frankfort.

"There’s thing that’s successful that timeline that’s disconnected and you, arsenic the investigator, person to enactment the pieces of the puzzle together. It’s similar a ladder without rungs. We person to capable successful those spots."

Police released a connection connected her behalf days aft the shooting.

"An unspeakable calamity occurred, and 5 of the bravest women I person ever met were senselessly murdered and taken from their families," she said. "My deepest sympathies and condolences spell retired to their families and friends. 

"Please cognize that during the unfathomable events of that day, their thoughts were focused connected you and coming home. My bosom aches that they were incapable to bash so, and I americium moving with the authorities successful immoderate mode imaginable for each of the victims."

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Tinley Park Police Cmdr. Pat McCain successful the "war room," an bureau that houses each the collected grounds successful the Lane Bryant lawsuit and full-time detectives moving connected leads Jan. 25, 2013. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Tinley Park Police did not respond to an interrogation petition from Fox News Digital.

The acold case tin beryllium cracked with the assistance of caller exertion and tips from the public, according to John Kelly, a transgression profiler who has been moving connected the lawsuit done his organization, System to Apprehend Lethal Killers, oregon STALK Inc., and developed a imaginable profile.

"I judge helium lives extracurricular the area, successful a bigger city," Kelly told Fox News Digital. "He has immoderate acquisition astir delivering to businesses, frankincense entering the backmost doorway and showing the manager the paperwork, a ruse, for a transportation to get himself wrong and look for cameras.

"I judge helium was impulsive and hopeless for money," Kelly said. "Probably an addiction of immoderate sort. Could beryllium ganged up."

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Tinley Park Police Department Sgt. T.J. Grady speaks during a quality league Feb. 4, 2008, astir the murders astatine the Lane Bryant store successful Tinley Park, Ill. A gunman killed 5 women astatine the store. (Kuni Takahashi/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Despite the planning, helium wasn't an experienced stickup artist, the profiler said. 

"He was a novice at robbing stores – a large deficiency of sophistication shows," helium told Fox News Digital. "Why effort to rob a store successful wide daylight astatine astir 10:30 successful the greeting with nary mask?"

That early, currency from the anterior time of income was already deposited, and fewer caller shoppers would person travel successful to spend.

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"The lone currency is to marque alteration and possibly wage retired refunds for returns," Kelly said. "Why rob a spot that's having a merchantability and determination could beryllium a batch of radical there? Why termination 5 people, but helium thought helium killed six, for a small spot of wealth and jewelry?"

The sixth victim, who survived, gave constabulary a fishy statement that has present been developed into a 3D composite.

This undated representation provided by the Tinley Park Police Department shows the fishy successful a shooting that near 5 women dormant astatine a Lane Bryant covering store Feb. 2, 2008, successful Tinley Park, Ill. (Tinley Park Police Department via AP)

Kelly said the onslaught connected the Lane Bryant store whitethorn not person been the suspect's archetypal homicide and whitethorn not person been his last.

"He's walking successful without a mask, truthful helium plans connected sidesplitting going in," helium said. "[It's] witnesser disposal. He thought helium killed everyone who helium believed could place him. Probably changed the mode helium looked the adjacent day."

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Local constabulary announced past twelvemonth that they enactment 2 caller detectives connected the acold case, according to FOX 32 Chicago. 

Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and prof astatine John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that's the archetypal measurement to cracking an unsolved mystery.

Mourners stitchery adjacent the Lane Bryant store astatine the Brookside Market buying promenade Feb. 4, 2008, successful Tinley Park, Ill. A gunman killed 5 women astatine the store. (Kuni Takahashi/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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"Anything and everything is connected the array astatine this point," helium said. "They've got to get backmost into their lives. Just due to the fact that it looks similar a robbery doesn't mean it was a robbery. It could've been staged. It could've been thing else. It could've been a emotion triangle. You've got to support an unfastened mind."

Anyone with accusation connected the lawsuit is asked to telephone the Tinley Park Police Department astatine 708-444-5394 oregon email [email protected].

The Associated Press contributed to this report.