Dec 21, 2007 11:50 pm US/Eastern
Video Released In Boca Mall Murder Case
Anyone With Information Please Call Palm Beach Crimestoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS or Boca Police at 561-338-1352.
$350,000 Reward Being Offered For Information That Leads To The Killer
BOCA RATON (CBS4) ―
Police have spoken to two men believed to have information on the murders of a mother and daughter at a Boca Raton mall this month, but what they don't have is a suspect, so they have released surveillance video of the victims captured just before they died.
Police are hoping the surveillance video recorded at the parking lot of the Boca Town Center Mall will help bring in clues on the case when the public sees it.
Friday family and friends gathered for the memorial service for the murdered Boca Raton woman and her daughter, and police announced that they had found a second person of interest in the case.
Boca Raton police say 50-year old Charles Jackson, a second man wanted for questioning in the deaths of Nancy Bochicchio and her 7-year old daughter Joey, was found in Miami.
Investigators say Bochicchio and her 7-year old had been tied up and shot to death inside their SUV in the parking lot of the Town Center Mall, located at 6000 West Glades Road, last week.
During an interview with detectives, Jackson said he found Bochicchio's cell phone in the area of 1500 NE 1st Ave, Miami. Detectives plan to pass out flyers in the area, in both Spanish and English, asking for the publics help to catch the killer.
Earlier in the week, another man wanted for questioning in the murders, 40-year old David Goodman was picked up in Miami and booked into the Miami-Dade jail on an outstanding Broward County warrant for two grand theft counts. Police say Goodman and Jackson found a purse and credit cards belonging to Bochicchio, after they'd been dumped on a city street. In addition, Jackson had Bochicchio's cell phone which may hold vital information in the case.
As police were questioning Jackson, services were held Thursday morning for Bochicchio and her daughter Joey at St. Jude Catholic Church of Boca Raton.
The most distraught of mourners was Nancy's sister Joanne Bruno.
"She was my sister, my friend, my heart. I mean when I lost my mom and dad I had a whole in my heart, but this has literally taken away at least half of my heart,"
She is haunted by thoughts of what their final moments must have been like.
"She was fighting for that child and begging, begging, I could hear the screams, I could hear the screeches begging him to let her go," imagined Joanne Bruno, "She lived for that child."
Another 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.
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.
The bodies of both victims will be flown to New York for another ceremony before being laid to rest there.
Anyone who may have seen the suspect depicted in the original sketch is asked to call the Boca Raton Police Services Department at (561) 338-1352.
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