Luxury Florida mall's string of murders and kidnapping have one thing in common: retired FBI agent

It’s been 18 years since a South Florida assemblage was rocked by a bid of murders and a kidnapping astatine a section mall, and a retired FBI cause who worked connected the cases for implicit a decennary believes the crimes are connected and that the slayer whitethorn inactive beryllium "out there."

After buying astatine the Boca Raton Town Center Mall, parent of 2 Randi Gorenberg and Nancy Bochicchio and her 7-year-old girl Joey were murdered, and different parent known arsenic Jane Doe was kidnapped with her 2-year-old son, all wrong a nine-month timeframe successful 2007.

"I heard astir them conscionable similar everybody other connected the news, and it was conscionable horrible," retired FBI Agent John MacVeigh, who investigated the 3 cases for 10 years, told Fox News Digital. "We contacted Boca Police Department, knowing that it was thing that, you know, we could perchance assist." 

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Nancy and Joey Bochicchio were recovered dormant astatine the Boca Raton Town Center Mall successful 2007, and their murders stay unsolved. (Facebook/Boca Raton Police Department)

Gorenberg, 52, was past seen connected surveillance video walking retired of the Town Center Mall successful the aboriginal day of March 23, 2007. About 45 minutes later, idiosyncratic called 911 from a parkland astir 5 miles away, claiming to perceive gunshots and seeing idiosyncratic being pushed retired of a vehicle. Authorities soon recovered Gorenberg's assemblage astatine Governor Lawton Chiles Memorial Park. 

"It does look that she resisted astatine immoderate point," MacVeigh said of Gorenberg. "She was changeable and fundamentally thrown retired the car portion the fishy drove away."

Less than 5 months later, Jane Doe and her young lad were kidnapped from the parking lot astatine the aforesaid mall. MacVeigh described the harrowing incidental arsenic Jane Doe got into her SUV Aug. 7, 2007. 

"She puts her lad from the rider broadside into the halfway car seat. She walks astir to the trunk," MacVeigh said. "She opens the trunk. She puts the stroller in. She walks backmost around. As she opens the doorway to get successful the driver's seat, the fishy had already jumped successful the backmost rider seat. Now, you're talking seconds … truthful helium had to beryllium highly adjacent to her."

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Randi Gorenberg, a 52-year-old woman and parent of two, was killed successful 2007 astir fractional an hr aft she went buying astatine the Boca Town Center Mall. Her execution remains unsolved. (Facebook/Justice for Randi Gorenberg)

The fishy forced Jane Doe to thrust to an ATM and instrumentality retired $600. 

"Just terrified. I mean, she's successful the car with her 2-year-old, and this antheral has got a weapon connected her and threatening her," MacVeigh said. 

Unusually, the perpetrator seemed to beryllium "a small spot sympathetic" toward the parent and son, the retired FBI cause added. The gunman decided to thrust them backmost to the mall, wherever helium enactment blacked-out aquatics goggles implicit her eyes and handcuffed her wrists earlier fleeing. 

MacVeigh said, to escape, Jane Doe "took the handcuffs and went up nether her feet astir to get retired from down her back" and past drove to the valet and reported the attack. 

"It was conscionable truthful blatant and bizarre due to the fact that you conscionable wouldn't deliberation that idiosyncratic would beryllium accosted successful the mediate of the time — handcuffed, blindfolded — forced to spell to an ATM and past brought backmost to the aforesaid determination and dropped off," helium said. "It wasn't the norm." 

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Nancy and Joey Bochicchio were recovered dormant astatine the Boca Raton Town Center Mall successful 2007, and their murders stay unsolved. (Facebook/Boca Raton Police Department)

Four months later, 47-year-old Bochicchio and her young girl Joey went buying astatine the Boca Raton Town Center Dec. 12, 2007. And, conscionable similar successful the lawsuit of the abduction, authorities judge they were attacked arsenic they were trying to permission the mall's parking lot.  

Investigators judge they were abducted and taken to an ATM, wherever they were forced to retreat $500 and that the fishy utilized duct tape, integrative ties, handcuffs and goggles to hindrance and power Bochicchio and her daughter, according to the Boca Raton Police Department's website. 

"Nancy resists. She breaks her handcuffs. We bash judge that she tried to get Joey retired of the car, and past helium turned astir and changeable some of them," MacVeigh said. 

Officers recovered the parent and girl dormant soon earlier midnight successful their conveyance successful the mall's parking batch with the car's motor inactive running, constabulary say. 

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Joey Bochicchio and her mother, Nancy, were abducted and aboriginal recovered changeable and killed wrong their SUV, which was inactive moving successful the Boca Raton Town Center promenade parking batch successful 2007. (Facebook/Boca Raton Police Department)

Now a backstage investigator, MacVeigh observed an akin taxable successful each 3 attacks tied to the section mall. 

"The fishy was trying to power women," helium explained. In some the Jane Doe and Bochicchio cases, the fishy utilized a brace of blacked-out aquatics goggles, arsenic good arsenic different material, to hindrance and power the victims.  

MacVeigh said different repeated item was the clip of day. All 3 crimes took spot successful "broad daylight" and "right astir the aforesaid time." 

"It's not a tiny small coincidence. There's not … 1 oregon 2 tiny things. This is an accumulation of things," helium added, referring to the related details among the cases.  

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Police said the suspect(s) utilized duct tape, integrative ties, handcuffs and goggles to hindrance and power Joey and Nancy. The Jane Doe kidnapping conscionable months anterior besides progressive a brace of goggles. (Facebook/Boca Raton Police Department)

Detectives with the Boca Raton Police Department and Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office created a task unit successful January 2007 to enactment unneurotic connected solving the Gorenberg and Bochicchio murders, according to the Boca Raton Police Department website. However, the task unit aboriginal disbanded, and some departments continued moving connected the idiosyncratic cases with the FBI's assistance, MacVeigh said. 

Investigators collected respective 100 pieces of grounds from the Bochicchio crime, including DNA samples, and "a monolithic probe involving resources from astir the country" unfolded, the Boca Raton constabulary website added. Detectives went done hours of surveillance video, searched assorted locations and followed up connected leads. 

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"We sent agents to the promenade due to the fact that they were funny successful trying to find retired if possibly it was idiosyncratic that had worked there," MacVeigh said. "We issued subpoenas, and we went doorway to door. It was beauteous overwhelming due to the fact that you don't recognize however galore radical enactment astatine that mall. And I deliberation the fig erstwhile we were done was determination successful the vicinity of 14,000." 

After her abduction, authorities spoke with Jane Doe astir the idiosyncratic who attacked her and created a composite sketch to effort to find his identity.

"You and I could some beryllium that composite. I mean, it's conscionable you person a chapeau connected with glasses and each you're seeing is the bottommost portion of the face," MacVeigh explained astir the drawing's details. 

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Nancy and Joey Bochicchio were recovered dormant astatine the Boca Raton Town Center Mall successful 2007, and their murders stay unsolved. (Boca Raton Police Department)

Randi Gorenberg, a 52-year-old woman and parent of two, was killed successful 2007, astir fractional an hr aft she went buying astatine the Boca Raton Town Center Mall. Her execution remains unsolved. (Facebook/Justice for Randi Gorenberg)

Despite 2 radical of involvement being initially identified successful the Bochicchio case, according to police, each 3 cases stay unsolved, and MacVeigh believes the crimes are each connected. 

"It's conscionable truthful hard to judge that it's not the aforesaid person," MacVeigh said. "Three of these incidences … successful the aforesaid area, and precise similar. Here you person a precise affluent promenade … and, you know, you are targeting radical that you fishy person money.

"While determination is presently nary carnal oregon forensic grounds straight linking this lawsuit to immoderate different investigations, determination are capable similarities to pb Boca Raton investigators to judge this lawsuit is related to the August 7, 2007 Town Center Mall carjacking incident," the Boca Raton Police Department states connected its website, referring to the Bochicchio murders being related to the Jane Doe abduction. 

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Boca Raton Town Center Mall (MediaPunch Inc/Alamy Stock Photo)

MacVeigh said helium continues to get calls from investigators who are inactive tracking down caller leads and moving connected the lawsuit today. 

"As exertion changes and evolves regarding DNA testing, this lawsuit is continuously being reevaluated. We stay optimistic that technological advances volition pb our investigators to a breakthrough successful the investigation," Jessica Desir, a spokesperson for the Boca Raton Police Department, told WPTV past period regarding the Bochicchio murders. 

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MacVeigh explained that though the Boca Raton Town Center Mall mightiness person much information measures successful spot today, a slayer is inactive "out determination astir apt committing different crimes." 

"You privation to consciousness harmless going to the mall," MacVeigh added, stressing the value of yet solving the cases and getting justness for the Gorenberg and Bochicchio families.

The Boca Raton Police Department, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and Boca Raton Town Center Mall did not instantly respond for comment.