Name: Nancy and Daughter Joey Bochicchio
Mother, Daughter both found dead in their SUV at Town Center Mall

6000 Glades Road
Boca Raton FL on December 12th, 2007

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Cause of Death:  Gun Shot

 

                    
 
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Two violent attacks, involving a woman and child, at the same mall parking garage. In both cases, police say the victims were attacked in their black SUVs, held at gunpoint and bound.

It's hard to fathom what happened to a mother and her young daughter as they wrapped up a holiday shopping spree at the Boca Raton Town Center Mall in Florida. Police are trying to unravel the mystery of their deaths just hours after a fun-filled girls' day out. Joey Bochicchio was just four days away from her eighth birthday.

The Boca Raton Police investigation began minutes after mall security found the bodies of Nancy Bochicchio, 47, and her daughter after midnight on Dec. 13, 2007. They were bound and shot to death at point-blank range in Nancy's black Chrysler Aspen SUV.

Police believe Nancy and Joey were killed sometime in the afternoon of Dec. 12.

Investigators have learned a great deal about the murders since then. Mall surveillance video showed Nancy and Joey entering the mall hand-in-hand at 2:19 p.m. Less than an hour later, the pair left the mall at 3:11 p.m. carrying shopping bags.

Police believe Nancy and Joey were carjacked in the parking lot minutes after getting into their SUV.  Based on bank surveillance, detectives said Nancy was forced to drive to a nearby ATM and withdraw $500. During this time she tried to call 911 but was disconnected before she could say anything.

At some point, Nancy and her daughter were bound with clear plastic zip ties and handcuffs. Now police say a pair of goggles was also found on one of the victims -- possibly to inhibit her vision.

Photos of the goggles were released Jan. 25, 2010, and cops need to know where the goggles came from and who makes them.

According to police, Nancy broke out of her handcuffs in an attempt to flee, but that bold action cost Nancy and her daughter their lives. 

The goggles could be the clue that leads police straight to the killer. They have a yellow plastic frame, a hinged bridge across the nose and black removable lenses.

The lenses are lined with black foam, except in two areas where there are vents, and the elastic headband is black.

If you've seen goggles like these, or know where someone might have purchased them, call our Hotline at 202-403-2999. Your information could be crucial to the case.

The murders eerily echo the case of Randi Gorenberg, a well-known and affluent Boca Raton mother who was killed by an unidentified attacker at the Town Center mall March 23, 2007. She drove a black Mercedes SUV and was captured on mall cameras leaving in broad daylight. Half an hour later, Gorenberg was shot and killed while trying to escape her captors. Her case remains unsolved.

A third case has grabbed the attention of the police -- an Aug. 7, 2007, carjacking and kidnapping at the same mall. According to police, a gunman attacked and held hostage a 30-year-old woman and her 2-year-old son in the same parking garage at the southwest end of the mall where the Bochicchios were murdered.

In the Aug. 7 attack, police said the gunman wasn't ashamed to point the gun at the toddler's head while he made the woman withdraw a large sum of money from a nearby bank. The gunman then forced his hostage to drive back to the parking garage where he bound both victims in the car.

Two violent attacks, both involving a woman and child, at the same mall parking garage. In both cases, the victims were bound and attacked in their black SUVs.

The Boca Raton Police have released a composite sketch of the man in the Aug. 7 attack. They think the attack may be related to the Bochicchio murders, but they haven't ruled out other possibilities.

The man in the composite is said to be a white man with a good tan between the ages of 18 and 25. Police say he is between 5 feet 10 inches and 6 feet tall with a medium build. They also think he could have a ponytail.

The Aug. 7 victim, a woman we'll call "Cheryl,” provided details of her attacker that helped John McMahon, forensic artists for the Broward County Sheriff's Office, create a sketch of the suspect.

Police followed hundreds of leads after the Bochicchio double homicide. Several leads pointed them to two men who found Nancy Bochicchio's belongings -- including a cell phone and her credit card. But after hours of interviewing both men, detectives believe they simply found something that wasn't theirs. Later, the police gathered that the killer ditched Nancy's belongings at random as he traveled south of Boca Raton.

But it was "Cheryl's" case that’s provided detectives with some real insight into the suspect. "Cheryl" provided police with new information about her abduction. She was forced to drive to an ATM to withdraw $600. Afterward, she drove to a church parking lot and was forced into the back of the car with her frightened 2-year-old son. She was bound with handcuffs and plastic zip ties and forced to wear round, tortoise-framed Gucci knockoff sunglasses that were blacked out with tape. Later, the attacker switched out the glasses for white swimming goggles that were also blacked out.

"Cheryl" complied with her attacker's orders in hopes of saving both her life and her son’s. She told police the man drove her SUV back to the mall parking lot and left them in the vehicle running. Once he was gone, she was able to break out of her handcuffs and flee.

Task Force Connects the Dots

With three similar cases, detectives knew the best thing to do was pool their resources, compare notes and investigate together. In February 2008, the Boca Raton Police Department, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and other agencies created a task force to address these cases.

Detectives are not calling the cases the work of a serial killer, but they do admit the crimes have many similarities.

 

Theory One
All of the women left the Boca Raton Town Center mall in broad daylight. They were all abducted in their black SUVs, and two of the three were forced to withdraw money from nearby ATMs. Some of the victims were held at gunpoint and bound with handcuffs and plastic zip ties.

Theory Two
The killer has left the area. It's possible the killer was a student and has since left the area to attend college / or may be in prison for unrelated crimes.

Theory Three
The killer may have committed similar crimes in other locations but limitations in communications between law enforcement agencies has kept the authorities from making a connection.

One thing is very clear - numerous people know exactly what happened.  They have two choices:

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Police Sketch- Wanted for Questioning
Police believe the person in this color sketch is believed to be the killer in the Boca Raton mall murders.

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