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The I'm I'm Early in the morning of March 12, 2011, the Lulu Lemon store in Bethesda, Maryland was about to open.

The manager arrived at the front door, ready to open the shop for the day,

when she noticed that the door had been left unlocked. Looking through the windows, she realized

this wasn't just a situation where an employee had failed to lock up the previous night.

Clothing had been torn off the racks and thrown across the shop floor, and some of the mannequins had been

knocked over. Now believing that there had been a break-in, the manager approached a nearby man

and asked him to look inside. The man followed the trail of bloody footprints to a hallway

out the back, where he saw a woman lying face down in a pool of her own blood. It was

Jaina Murray, one of the store's employees. It was clear that she had been the victim of some

kind of violent attack, and had died several hours before. Another employee, Brittany Norwood,

was located in the bathroom, lying on the floor. Her face was covered in blood, and somebody had tied her wrists and ankles with zip ties.

When the police arrived on the scene, they were able to speak with Brittany and find out more details about what happened.

She told them that she and Jaina had been rostered on a closing shift the previous night. The two women

had closed up like they usually would, but after they left, Brittany realized that she had left

her wallet inside the store. She called Jaina, who had the keys, and asked to be let back inside.

The store's alarm system records confirm the timeline, showing that the door had been unlocked

again just after 10 p.m. Shortly after the door was unlocked, Brittany told the police that two

unidentified men wearing ski masks had followed her and Jaina back inside the store. The men quickly

overpowered the two women violently attacking and then sexually assaulting both of them.

For investigators, there were some things about Brittany's story that just didn't make sense.

Jana's injuries were consistent with the kind of vicious attack that Brittany had described.

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