Dec 19, 2007 8:24 pm US/Eastern
Loved Ones Begin Their Good-Byes For Boca Victims
Anyone With Information Please Call Palm Beach Crimestoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS or Boca Police at 561-338-1352.
Mall Victims Bound, Shot: $350,000 Reward
Funeral Arrangements Listed At Bottom Of This Page
BOCA RATON (CBS4) ―
As Boca Raton police continue to try to piece together the brutal murders of a mother and daughter at the Boca Town Center, mourners of the two victims readied themselves Wednesday for their final good-bye.
Loved ones of the victims as well as Joey Bochicchio-Hauser's second grade teacher, young classmates and complete strangers came to pay their final respects Wednesday.
One mourner, Judy Olsen was so moved that she wrote the family a letter.
"I just cannot understand how any monster could do this to a woman and a child and I'm thinking of the terror they must have felt being tied up and what they were going through. My heart just breaks," she said.
David Goodman, 40, was picked up in Miami Tuesday night and booked into the Miami-Dade jail on an outstanding Broward County warrant for two grand theft counts.
According to Boca Raton police, Goodman agreed to talk to investigators but it's not known if he provided any additional information about the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Nancy Bochicchio and her 7-year old daughter Joey Bochicchio-Hauser. Both victims had been tied up and shot to death inside their SUV. A security guard found their bodies in the parking lot of the Town Center Mall, located at 6000 West Glades Road, last week.
Another man, possibly known as "Charles" is still wanted for questioning only. Charles may be living at large and is known to frequent the Miami area.
Police say Goodman and "Charles" may have found a purse and credit cards belonging to Nancy Bochicchio, after they'd been dumped on a city street. In addition," Charles" is believed to have had access to the victim's cellular telephone and may have vital information in the case.
"The sketch of the subject Charles we do know for fact that he did have the victim's phone in his possession after the bodies were discovered," said Boca Raton Police Officer Jeff Kelly.
Anyone coming into contact with him, or having knowledge of his whereabouts, is asked to avoid interacting with him and call the Boca Raton Police Services Department at (561) 338-1352.
On Monday, a specialized unit of the FBI was brought in to help track down the killer.
Clues and information gathered from the crime scene have been sent to the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia to assist agents in building a profile of the killer.
"It's extraordinarily rare, even in the most heinous crime, for a child to be murdered," said Dr. Harley Stock, a forensic psychologist interviewed by CBS4's Ted Scouten.
The Behavioral Science Unit has helped in a number of high profile cases in the past including the BTK killer of Wichita, Kansas and the Unabomber. In addition to building a profile of the killer, specialists with the unit will also help detectives with interview techniques and developing new leads.
The city of Boca Raton has offered a $350,000 reward for information leading to the capture and conviction of the person responsible for this heinous crime.
"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 8.
"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 last 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 said Bochicchio and her daughter were Christmas shopping and may have been the victims of a violent robbery.
Detectives have been reviewing mall surveillance tapes in hopes of catching the killer. They 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.
"Whoever did this, they're going to make a mistake and they're gonna get caught," said a friend of the family.
Funeral Arrangements:
A funeral will be held for Nancy Bochicchio and her daughter, Joey Bochicchio-Hauser at 10 a.m. on Thursday at St. Jude Catholic Church of Boca Raton, 21689 Toledo Rd., in suburban Boca Raton.
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