You are one hell of a liar, ma’am
~ Judge Robert A. Greenberg

Brittany Norwood is a Maryland woman who murdered coworker Jayna Murray in a yoga shop in 2011. The case became known as the Lululemon murder. Norwood inflicted a very large number of injuries on her victim before pretending to police the pair were the victims of unknown assailants. She is serving life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Norwood had stolen merchandise on the day of the killing, and it is theorised this motivated the murder.[1] On March 11, 2011 Norwood and Murray together closed the Lululemon Athletica sportswear shop in Bethesda, Maryland.[2] Thereafter Norwood inflicted more than 330 injuries on Murray[3] using eight different improvised weapons[2] in a twenty-minute onslaught.[1] Norwood used a rope to strangle Murray and a metal merchandise rod to strike her head before finishing with knives.[2] Murray was alive and suffering for most of the attack, receiving 107 defensive injuries and leaving a trail of blood as she tried and failed to evade her assailant via the back door.[2] Employees at a neighbouring Apple store heard the pair arguing[1] followed by Murray begging for her life[2] but did nothing to assist or summon help.[3]

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