Crime Junkie - INTRODUCING: CounterClock Season 8

Episode Date: May 28, 2026

In February 2008, six women were held hostage in a women’s clothing store in Tinley Park, Illinois.. Rhoda McFarland, Carrie Hudek Chiuso, Connie Woolfolk, Sarah Szafranski, and Jennifer Bishop were executed and the killer escaped leaving only one survivor. In Season 8 of CounterClock, host and investigative journalist Delia D’Ambra covers the Lane Bryant Murders and goes further into the case than any journalist has before. Through firsthand accounts and thousands of documents, Delia reconstructs what happened inside the store, why it may have happened, and who may have been responsible. For nearly twenty years, their families have lived without answers. This season, the search continues. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And today, I want to tell you about a case that has stuck with me for years. In 2008, on a Saturday morning, a man walked into a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, Illinois, and held six women at gunpoint. Five of them were murdered. What's always stood out about this case is what investigators had almost immediately. A surviving witness, a detailed composite. sketch, even the suspect's voice captured on a 911 call. But nearly two decades later, no one has been identified, and all potential leads went cold. Now, I first started looking into this case for crime junkie, and I took to my socials and asked you all for any information that could help us unravel this mystery.

And so many tips and theories flooded my inbox that instead of answers, it felt like every lead I got just led to more questions. So today, I want you to hear how those questions then led to something bigger. For the newest season of Countercloc, host Delia Diambra is going to dig into the Lane Bryant murders. Dig into the evidence, the timeline, and the details that still don't add up. So I want you to go and binge every episode of Counterclock Season 8, and then when you're done, you can head back here to Crime Junkie for more cases every week. Now, here is just a taste of what you're going to get this season on counterclock.

It started out as just another day in a popular clothing store, but it ended in a bloody massacre. A deadly shooting rampage at upscale Lane Bryant ladies' clothing store. Six women gunned down execution style. The February 2008, Lane Bryant homicides in Tinley Park, Illinois, are a notorious case that for nearly two decades, have looked like one type of crime, but might just be something much, much bigger. It was like a big jigsaw puzzle, and most of the pieces were upside down. For the last year, I've been heads down trying to turn every puzzle piece in this complicated case right side up.

The search continues for the gunman. We, in those early days, did not know somebody had survived. We were worried about her safety. What if this guy has her information and has all of our... information. This season on counterclock, we're going inside a law enforcement investigation that has been locked behind closed doors for years. None of it made sense.

The timing, the target, the victims, and the length of time that he stayed in the store. What were you doing in there for 40 minutes? The further and further I dug into this crime, the stranger things got. My reporting led me to some unexpected places. a church in crisis, a dilapidated mental health center, a notorious street gang, and another violent shooting. Are you familiar with quit pro quo? When you shoot somebody execution style, you've done it before. A lot of things go down because of money.

Maybe it was an inside job. People use church to do their devilish ways. Buckle up. Because this story is anything. but straightforward. All of a sudden I see the police come, like, filling the neighborhood and coming up my driveway. Most crimes I see that's 10,000. This was 100,000.

Who does not say anything for 100,000? When we first met and you provided me with this information, and my jaw dropped, I was like, oh, my goodness. Thank God your investigative journalism. Binge Counterclock Season 8 right now. wherever you get your podcasts. You guys, that is just the beginning of this investigation. Go listen to all episodes of Countercloc Season 8 right now on the Countercloc feed wherever you get your podcasts.