CounterClock

Host Sean Kipe investigates the 2020 disappearance of 27-year-old Georgia mother Natalie Jones, who vanished after a July 4th lake party. Her car and remains were found 93 days later in a rural field, sparking questions of accident, suicide, or murder—especially since Natalie had begun publicly sharing allegations of past abuse. Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts.

In the season finale of CounterClock Season 8 Delia explores the journey investigators’ case has taken in more recent years. Family members express the ongoing doubts and frustrations with the case and enduring suspicions about the killer resurface.

Delia investigates a massive former mental health facility in Tinley Park 10 minutes down the road from Brookside Marketplace that a longtime former employee and official records describe as deplorable. Even more intriguing, it had an underground tunnel system that allowed people on site to come and go freely. A new lead in victim Connie Woolfolk’s life is explored and Delia uncovers a major flaw in the Illinois convicted offender database which might explain why the killer has never been caught.

Delia investigates the lives of the five victims and the survivor. The phrase ‘everyone is a suspect until no one is’ takes on a whole new meaning.

The names of the five Lane Bryant homicide victims are released and their families share with Delia the impact of their losses. Law enforcement’s investigation ramps up thanks to cooperation from the sole survivor and a distinct composite sketch of the murderer emerges.

On the morning of February 2, 2008, six women went to work at a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, Illinois. By 10 AM, five of them were dead. What happened inside that store in the span of forty minutes remains one of the most disturbing and least understood mass murders in modern American history. The gunman posed as a delivery driver, held the women captive, and executed them leaving behind the cash register, most valuables, and almost no usable evidence. A police officer was three hundred yards away when the 911 call came in. The killer was still gone by the time anyone arrived. Eighteen years later, no one has ever been arrested. In Season 8 of CounterClock, investigative journalist Delia D’Ambra goes further into the Lane Bryant case than any journalist has before. Through firsthand accounts and thousands of documents, Delia reconstructs not just what happened inside that store, but why it may have happened, and who may have been responsibleThe five women killed that morning, Rhoda McFarland, Carrie Hudek Chiuso, Connie Woolfolk, Sarah Szafranski, and Jennifer Bishop, deserve answers that their families have been waiting for nearly two decades. And this season, so are we.

A North Carolina Superior Court judge in Forsyth County, NC, ruled on August 8th, 2025, to vacate the convictions of the Winston Salem 5 for the 2002 murder of Nathaniel Jones and dismiss all charges with prejudice after finding credibility to their claims of innocence. But brothers Rayshawn Banner and Nathaniel Cauthen remain behind bars. In this special update episode, Delia returns to her home state to interview people from the investigation and post-conviction process to explain the current litigation still ongoing in the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

The defendants in the CounterClock Season 7 case were back in court for a highly-anticipated evidentiary hearing January 6th - January 24th, 2025, in Winston-Salem, NC. Delia attended in-person several days to bring you all the updates, plus the brand new interviews from people connected to the defendants, case and victim.

Delia interviews a friend of the defendants who was never interviewed by police, and his story is one she can’t easily forget.

The North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission process enters its final phase. Delia interviews the expert in developmental psychology who testified twice in the case to understand more about false confessions, and the victim’s family offers their final thoughts to the court. A retired footwear examiner deems old interpretations of shoeprint evidence as junk science and Delia explores.

Jessicah Black breaks her silence after nearly 15 years and reveals to state innocence investigators that she lied under oath as a teenager. The recantation triggers a massive shift in Rayshawn, Nathaniel, Jermal, and Christopher’s post-conviction fight. Meanwhile, a tragedy befalls the fifth member of the friend group, and Delia tracks down the attorneys who’ve taken on the cases.

Delia speaks with the people who were questioned and arrested for the murder of Mr. Jones. A clear understanding of what led authorities to six teenagers comes into view, but several nagging questions linger.

When 61-year-old widower Nathaniel Jones was found bloodied and bound with tape inside his home’s carport on November 15, 2002, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, his loved ones and the community were devastated by the senseless crime. For two decades, the question at the heart of the case has not been what happened to him, but rather who… who was responsible for such a heinous act?