Do you know who murdered Nancy and Joey Bochicchio in 2007?
On December 12, 2007, Nancy Bochicchio, 47, and her 7-year-old daughter, Joey, were found shot to death in their vehicle in the parking lot of the Town Center Mall in Boca Raton, Florida. The pair had gone to the mall for some last-minute Christmas shopping, but they never made it back home. Hours later, their bodies were discovered in Nancy’s SUV, which was still running. Both mother and daughter were bound with zip ties and duct tape, and their eyes were covered with blackout goggles. They had been shot at point-blank range, and evidence pointed to them being forced to withdraw cash from an ATM before their murder.
This tragic incident was one of a series of similar attacks that occurred in 2007, all within the same area. Earlier that year, another shopper, Randi Gorenberg, was abducted from the same mall and later found dead. A few months after Gorenberg’s murder, there was another attempted abduction at the mall where a mother and her young child were kidnapped and forced to withdraw cash, but they were eventually let go unharmed. These incidents all showed similar patterns, leading investigators to initially suspect a connection between the cases.
Despite the similarities in these attacks and the investigation involving several leads, including a jailhouse informant’s tip pointing towards a gang member as the potential suspect, no conclusive evidence has been found to solve the case. Nancy and Joey’s murders remain unsolved, and the police continue to ask for help from the public, offering rewards for information. Investigators still believe there might be links between the series of abductions and murders, but definitive proof has eluded them. The case remains a somber reminder of the unresolved violence that shook Boca Raton during that year.
