Carrie Hudek Chiuso, 33, of Frankfort, Illinois, was one of five women killed during a robbery at the Lane Bryant store in Brookside Marketplace, Tinley Park, on February 2, 2008. A social worker at Homewood-Flossmoor High School, she was married to Anthony Chiuso and is remembered by family as a daughter, sister, and aunt.
According to accounts, a man posing as a delivery person entered the store, brandished a .40 caliber Glock, and forced the women into a back room where he bound them with duct tape and made them lie face down. When one victim managed to whisper the store’s location to 911, the assailant opened fire in what has been described as an execution-style shooting. A sixth woman survived after playing dead and later provided a description of the shooter: a black male, medium to dark skin, about 6 feet to 6 feet 2 inches tall, husky build with broad shoulders.
Multiple local and federal agencies investigated, but no arrests have been announced and the killer’s identity remains unknown. If anyone knew Carrie, worked at that Lane Bryant, or has information about the man who posed as a delivery person, please share what is known.