On March 12, 2011, a manager in the store where Murray worked arrived in the morning to find the door unlocked, merchandise strewn across the floor, and mannequins in disarray.
[7] Then, according to Norwood, two men wearing dark clothing and ski masks entered the store, attacked them, and sexually assaulted them.
[10] A forensic expert at the trial testified that the blood on her face, from a cut on her forehead, had dripped straight down, suggesting that she had been upright most of the night, not lying on the bathroom floor where she was found.
[13] Additionally, investigators did not find evidence that either woman had been sexually assaulted, although Norwood had cut a hole in Murray's pants to make it appear that she had been.
[3] During the investigation, it came to light that an employee and a manager at the Apple Store next door had heard an altercation through the wall the previous evening; surveillance footage from inside the Apple Store shows them standing next to the shared wall, then walking away, while a security guard sits nearby listening to music on an iPod.
[7] Statements by police officials and testimony during the trial indicated that on the evening of the murder, Murray and Norwood checked each others' bags for unpaid merchandise, a routine security procedure at Lululemon and other retail stores.
Norwood put on a pair of men's shoes to track blood across the floor; tossing mops, broom, and chairs around the store; and finally cut herself, binding her own wrists and ankles with zipties.
[20] In 2013, The Washington Post police reporter Dan Morse published the book, The Yoga Store Murder: The Shocking True Account of the Lululemon Athletica Killing.