late this afternoon the veteran cop that oversaw the entire investigation spoke with our andrea mccaren. we've got more on that and something else that happened earlier today, andrea? >> reporter: yes, very interesting, lesli. outside the apple store in bethesda where employees heard jay that murray's -- jana murray's call for help and rejected to call 911. someone laid out flowers depicting the number of injuries that murray endured at the hands of brittany norwood. >> somebody was extremely agitated and that this was a personal attack. >> reporter: the montgomery county police captain came up with one of the most horrendous crimes he has ever investigated in the 22 years with the department. and the suspected motive, no excuse for the savage attack. >> i believe that she really felt like she did not want to be accused of or looked at as someone that had potentially stolen from the store. >> reporter: the web of lies unraveled within days of the crime. >> at the point where she let us know that she had come in to the police headquarters and had denied ever being inside her vehicle. >>

andrea mccaren, 9news now. >>> and with only four of the 12 incumbent seeking reelias abuelazam election, the new board could bring in a new agenda. peggy fox tells us what it means. >> that is for the child. >> reporter: seven candidates are running for the three at- large school board seats. only one of them is an incumbent. over the past few years, a number of issues are turning them against the school board. >> there were a series of missed steps. they decided to run for the board after the closed clifton elementary school. it was the son's suicide after harsh treatments from the discipline policy. >> it's about changing this from being the punitive system to redevelop that student. >> reporter: class sizes and the staffing formula, sending more teachers out there is another hot button topic. all the newcomers say they wanted independent auditors to find more cost savings in this school system's $2.2 billion budget. >> that's the first thing we need to do is to look at how the over $300 million a year that we're spending on central administrative headquarters and their departments is