Dec 15, 2007 6:43 pm US/Eastern
Police Search For Killer Of Mother And Daughter
Anyone With Information Please Call Palm Beach Crimestoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS.
Mall Victims Bound, Shot: $350,000 Reward
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If you have any information about the crime please call Palm Beach Crimestoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS.
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Joey Bochicchio-Hauser, 8, Found Dead With Her Mother In A Boca Raton Mall Lot
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Boca Raton
police are looking for a man who they said is robbed, shot, and killed a mother and daughter.
A mall security guard found the bodies of Nancy Bochicchio and Joey Bochicchio-Hauser tied up inside their running SUV parked at the mall Thursday morning. The security guard spotted the suspicious car Thursday morning and called police.
On Friday, the city of Boca Raton offered a $350,000 reward for information in the Town Center Mall killing of a mother and her 8-year-old daughter.
Police are trying to figure out who killed them, while friends and classmates were stunned.
"It's horrible, it's absolutely horrible, in this situation both the victims were found then shot," said Sergeant Jeff Kelly of Boca Raton Police Department.
Friends of the family are devastated saying the little girl was looking forward to her birthday this weekend when she would have turned 9.
"This is a mother and a daughter that we all loved," said a friend of the family, "This is someone I waved to every morning when I'm dropping my kids off at school."
At St. Jude Catholic School, where Joey was a second-grader, the annual holiday concert Thursday night began on a somber note as about 400 students and their families paused in 60 seconds of silence for Joey and her mother.
Debbie Armstrong, the principal, said "She had a beautiful light. She will be missed but not forgotten."
"I have Christmas presents and birthday presents in my house for her. She was just a wonderful little girl. I can't believe somebody would do this to her or her mother," said neighbor Hank Matthews.
Police poured through the car on the scene which was found behind Sears at the Boca Town Center, still running with mother and daughter inside.
Police said they were Christmas shopping Wednesday night. Detectives believe the motive may have been robbery. On Friday detectives had been looking at mall surveillance tapes hoping to figure out who may have killed them.
Detectives think this case might have some relationship to an armed robbery of a Broward County family who was kidnapped, carjacked and robbed at gunpoint in August.
Police are looking at any similarities between the cases.
Autopsies will be conducted to determine the causes of death.
"Whoever did this, they're going to make a mistake and they're gonna get caught," said a friend of the family.
Investigators released a composite drawing that investigators put out. If you have any information about the crime please call Palm Beach Crimestoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS.
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