Cops hope NASA-enhanced video will yield tips in Lane Bryant slayings
Investigators hoping to solve the shooting deaths of five women inside a Tinley Park Lane Bryant store say enhanced surveillance video may yield new clues in the case.
The grainy video came from a camera at a Target store 100 yards away. It shows a dark-colored sport-utility vehicle and a dark sedan near the Lane Bryant store around the time of the Feb. 2 shootings.
The video was enhanced by a NASA scientist at the expense of Fox TV's "America's Most Wanted." It'll be aired Saturday.
Police say they don't know whether the occupants of the vehicles were witnesses or involved in the crime.
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A gunman tried to rob the store before opening fire and shooting six women, one of whom survived.
Police late last month released 37 seconds of a 911 call made from a suburban Chicago Lane Bryant store, hoping someone will recognize the voice of the man who police say shot to death five women.
Tinley Park Police Commander Rick Bruno says the call was edited to isolate the killer's voice. Authorities released 15 seconds of the 911 call earlier this month. Store manager Rhoda McFarland called from her cell phone moments before being killed.
She whispered the name of the store, its location and told the dispatcher to hurry. The lone survivor of the February Second attack says the shooter is a black man, between 5 feet 9 and 6 feet tall and about 200 pounds with thick braided hair and a receding hairline.
Tinley Park police chief Mike O'Connell says the village has already spent more than $110,000 on the investigation, mostly for overtime. Plus, the village has added $250,000 to its police budget.
The new funding is for the fiscal year that begins May First. O'Connell says his force has 79 officers and six of them are working the Lane Bryant case.