The Tinley Park Five: Lane Bryant Massacre UNSOLVED Nearly Two Decades Later

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

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🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On February 2, 2008, inside a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, Illinois, six women were bound with duct tape and forced to the floor. Within minutes, five were executed, one miraculously survived, and the gunman vanished without a trace. Seventeen years later, the case known as the Tinley Park Five remains one of the largest unsolved mass shootings in U.S. history.

In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield exposes the horrifying details of the Lane Bryant murders, from the frantic 911 call to the police response that came just two minutes too late, and asks why the unmasked killer is still free. She is joined by filmmaker Charlie Minn, whose upcoming documentary Who Killed These Women? The Tinley Park Five digs deep into evidence, theories, and the silence of investigators.

Could the surviving witness still hold the key? Was this a botched robbery, a targeted attack, or something even darker? The Lane Bryant killer is still out there, and this case demands answers.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. I'm Ashley Banfield. This is Drop Dead Serious. I have a case that I want to talk to you
0:13.5	about today. And, you know, I kind of feel like after 38 years in this business, I know all of the
0:20.5	massive crimes out there, but every so often
0:23.0	something comes across my radar that sort of throws me for a loop. And this case today
0:29.9	threw me for a hell of a hula hoop because I had not heard of it. Many of you may have,
0:36.2	and I am glad if you have, and I feel embarrassed that I
0:39.3	haven't, but when I sort of looked into the headlines on it, I was absolutely gobsmacked
0:45.7	that 17 and a half years after this quintuple murder, which was supposed to be six murders, one went wrong.
0:57.0	It's not solved.
0:58.7	And there's no suspect.
1:00.6	But it's not because this was a clever, secret, strategized murder.
1:05.9	You know, this was messy and crazy without a mask.
1:11.6	All the things that lent to loads of clues, right?
1:15.6	This was no Brian Coburger, right?
1:17.6	This was just somebody who did something so horrendous and was very careless.
1:23.6	And yet, there is no suspect.
1:25.6	So let me take you back to the beginning to explain a little bit about this case and how it started, how it evolved, what happened at the murder scene, and then what happened with the investigation.
1:38.7	And then I'm going to talk to somebody who's like a dog with a bone on this one.
1:43.2	He is not letting this
1:45.1	crime go. Not because he's a survivor's a victim's family member or a survivor's family member.
1:52.2	It's because he is a true crime fan just like you. And he believes that this does not deserve to be
2:00.1	unsolved, that there's just too much out there.
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