surviving victim until the evidence said otherwise. with the original story that we ve been told, the original, you know, impressions that we were going on led us to believe this might have been a random crime of opportunity and that s what we believed for the first couple of days. reporter: norwood told police she and her co-worker 30- year-old jayna murray went back to the lululemon athletic clothing store friday night after brittany claimed to have left her wallet. she then said two masked men wearing gloves confronted them, beat and sexually assaulted them, killed murray and left norwood tied up. turns out police say norwood s injuries were minor and likely self-inflicted and there was more that didn t add up. there were only two sets of footprints and one belonged to ms. norwood and the second belonged to a larger shoe. agained it was a size 4 it teen shoe and we determined it was a size 14 shoe and it belonged in the store and we found it in the store. reporte
worker. tonight we know the clues that led police to an alleged murderer. good evening. i m brian bolter. and i m shawn yancy. it s the case that s gripped the community. two masked men killed one young woman and beat and raped another. tonight police say this woman, 27-year-old brittany norwood made that whole story up. we re working this one from every angle. we start off with fox 5 s roz plater live at police headquarters in rockville. what have we learned? reporter: brian, police have been baffled by this case for days. tonight they tell us they believe they have it solved. they re dealing with a loan assailant who carried out this horrific a lone assailant who carried out this horrific crime and launched an elaborate coverup. investigators spent days going over evidence. now they believe 30-year-old jayna murray was killed by her own co-worker 27-year-old brittany erin norwood who police first believed was a surviving victim until her story started to unravel.