The Yoga Store Murder (40 page)
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Authors: Dan Morse
Possible weapons collected from the store.
(Dan Morse)
This merchandise peg, part of store displays, was likely used to crush Jayna Murray’s skull.
(Dan Morse)
Crime-scene investigator David McGill provided key analysis of bloody shoe prints inside the store.
(Dan Morse)
The rear hallway, after Jayna Murray’s body was removed, shows bloody shoe prints. In the foreground, at evidence marker 37, is her BlackBerry.
(Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office)
McGill tracked bloody shoe prints into the rear stockroom.
(Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office)
Defense attorney Doug Wood, who’d won a series of acquittals in murder cases prior to the yoga store trial, speaking to reporters.
(Nikki Kahn, The Washington Post)
Brittany Norwood’s father, Earl, came to the trial from Washington State, hoping for answers.
(Bill O’Leary, The Washington Post)
Prosecutors John McCarthy and Marybeth Ayres walking to the first hearing in the case.
(Ricky Carioti, The Washington Post)
The case left two families devastated. Behind prosecutor John McCarthy, from left to right, are Jayna Murray’s oldest brother, U.S. Army captain Hugh Murray, and her parents, retired U.S. Army captain David Murray and Phyllis Murray.
(Mark Gail, The Washington Post)
*
Denotes pseudonym.
Table of Contents
Praise for The Yoga Store Murder
1. It Couldn’t Happen Here
2. “Is She Going to Make It?”
3. Evil Unleashed
4. Auntie B and Tia T
5. Successful People
6. Starting to Talk
7. Tension Mounts
8. Working the Scene
9. Hoping Against Hope
10. Caught on Video
11. Hundreds of Wounds
12. Locked In
13. A Bit of Magic
14. Storming the Walls
SECTION II: BRITTANY AND JAYNA
15. The Soccer Star
16. Mediocre Lives Are Lousy Lives
17. A Narrow Gray Zone
18. Coming Together
19. Monday Night: Piling On
20. Tuesday: “Let Me Throw This at You”
21. Wednesday: Setting a Trap
22. Thursday: Tracking and Trailing