A retired FBI agent now believes that a wave of disturbing crimes in a community in South Florida can all be connected and the perpetrator is still generally.
The incidents, all of whom took place in the Mall Boca Raton Town Center in 2007, include the murders on Randi Gorenberg, Nancy and Joey Bochicchio, and the kidnapping of a woman and her toddler.
Retired FBI agent John MacVeigh, who worked these cases for ten years, described the horrible nature of crimes for Fox News Digital and said he thinks the perpetrator is still free.
Randi Gorenberg, 52, was last seen that the shopping center left on March 23, 2007. Shortly thereafter, gunshots were reported and Gorenberg's body was found in Governor Lawton Chiles Memorial Park, which was thrown out of a moving vehicle.
MacVeigh noted that evidence suggested that she opposed her attacker.
“It seems that she resisted at some point,” MacVeigh told Fox. “She was shot and in fact thrown the car away while the suspect drove away.”
Less than five months later, on August 7, 2007, a woman who remained anonymous, and her two -year -old child was abducted in the parking lot of the same shopping center.
A series of disturbing crimes rocked a community in Zuid -Florida eighteen years ago in the Mall Boca Raton Town Center
Randi Gorenberg, 52, was killed in 2007 about half an hour after she went shopping in the Boca Town Center shopping center
Macveigh described the play-by play of the incident: 'She puts her son from the passenger side in the center seat. She walks around to the trunk. She opens the trunk. She puts the pram in it. She walks back. While she opens the door to get to the driver's seat, the suspect had already jumped on the rear passenger seat. Now, you talk seconds … so he had to be extremely close to her. '
The suspect then forced her to drive to an ATM and record $ 600.
In an unusual turn of events, the abductor brought the mother and son back to the shopping center, blindfolded and fascinated her and then fled.
Macveigh called the kidnapping 'flagrant and bizarre' and emphasized the unusual decision to bring the victims back to the scene.
Only four months later, Nancy and Joey Bochicchio were the target in the same shopping center on December 12, 2007. Researchers believe that they were abducted from the parking lot, forced to take $ 500 from an ATM and then killed.
Their bodies were discovered in their car, still running in the parking lot of the shopping center.
Macveigh believes that Nancy Bochicchio resisted and tried to free her daughter before they were both shot.
“Nancy resists. She breaks her handcuffs. We really believe that she tried to get Joey out of the car, and then he turned around and shot them both, “MacVeigh said.
Now a private researcher, MacVeigh told Fox Digital that he sees clear patterns that link these crimes.
He believes that the suspect had focused and tried to control women, pointing to the repeated use of limitations such as darkened swimming goggles.
Nancy and Joey Bochicchio were found dead in 2007 in the Boca Raton Town Center shopping center
Although a task force is formed and later dissolved, and despite extensive research with thousands of interviews and the collection of DNA evidence, the cases remain unsolved. Displayed: Nancy and Joey Bochicchio were seen on surveillance images for their murders
The bodies of Nancy and Joey Bochicchio were bound and shot in their SUV (photo) in the parking lot of the city center in Boca Raton
“It's just so hard to believe it is not the same person,” said Macveigh. 'Three of these incidents … in the same area, and very similar. Here you have a very prosperous shopping center … and you know, you focus on people you suspect you have money. '
The timing of the attacks – all in broad daylight within a similar time frame – further strengthens his conviction that the crimes are connected.
Although a task force is formed and later dissolved, and despite extensive research with thousands of interviews and the collection of DNA evidence, the cases remain unsolved.
“We sent agents to the mall because they were interested in trying to find out if it might have been someone who had worked there,” said MacVeigh.
'We have issued summons and we went from door to door. It was pretty overwhelming because you don't realize how many people work in that mall. And I think the number when we were ready was somewhere near 14,000, “he added.
A composite sketch of the suspect, based on the description of the kidnapping victim, turned out to be too generic to be of great use.
'You and I could both be that composite. I mean, it's just that you have a hat with glasses and the only thing you see is the lower part of the face, “MacVeigh explained over the details of the drawing
While two interests were identified in the Bochicchio case, no arrests were made.
Surveillance video of March 23, 2007, shows Randi Gorenberg's Mercedes-Benz SUV who enters a hardware store at about two miles from where her body was found
A composite sketch of the suspect, based on the description of the kidnapping victim, turned out to be too generic to nuts a lot
One of the kidnapping concerned glasses. Cops shared a photo of them
MacVeigh remains convinced that the same individual has committed all three crimes.
“It's not a small coincidence. There are no … one or two small things. This is an accumulation of things, “he said.
The Boca Raton police have recognized the possible link between the Bochicchio murders and the carjacking on their website.
Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Detective William Springer is the main detective at the Gorenberg case.
Last year he spoke with WPTV and said: 'Are they all connected? There is a possibility, “said Springer. “I mean, you look at the chance, what is the possibility that three people will be taken out of the shopping center in the same year?”
He says that he has kept an open mind about who is responsible, but continues to come back to the agreements in the cases.
Retired FBI agent John MacVeigh spoke with Fox News about things
Detective Springer has previously spoken about the possible links in cases
Nancy and Joey Bochicchio. Macveigh believes that Nancy resisted, tried to free her daughter before they were both shot
“One (theory) that I am still coming back to is that they are all three connected, that the one who did it had chosen the shopping center of the city center as a place where there is a great hunting area for victims,” ​​Springer said.
“If you want to look at similarities, there was no clear sexual attack or attempted sexual battery of one of the victims,” ​​he added.
“Randi could have just been a learning experience,” said Springer.
“Maybe he had everything ready to do that and then it fell on. So then he thought, “Well, if I take a woman with a small child, I can control them much easier than a single woman who will probably fight.” '
MacVeigh warns that despite increased safety in the mall, the perpetrator will probably remain free and that these matters must be resolved to entitle the families of the victims.
