1 00:00:02,435 --> 00:00:04,270 TONIGHT ON DATELINE: 2 00:00:04,537 --> 00:00:07,374 HE WAS LARGER THAN LIFE. HE WAS A HOMETOWN HERO.// 3 00:00:07,707 --> 00:00:09,409 VERY HUMBLE BEGINNINGS// TO THE 4 00:00:10,310 --> 00:00:10,610 NBA. 5 00:00:10,610 --> 00:00:11,678 NBA. AND THEN HE'S MURDERED. 6 00:00:13,413 --> 00:00:16,516 WRIGHT// IT WAS AS IF AN EXPLOSION WENT OFF! 7 00:00:17,884 --> 00:00:18,251 HELLO?! 8 00:00:21,154 --> 00:00:22,222 OH G-- DAMN! SOMEONE IS RUNNING FOR THEIR 9 00:00:22,222 --> 00:00:24,290 LIFE AND THERE'S MULTIPLE GUNSHOTS 10 00:00:24,657 --> 00:00:25,959 IT MADE THE HAIR ON THE BACK OF YOUR NECK STAND UP. 11 00:00:28,928 --> 00:00:30,530 YOU AND LORENZEN WERE SO CLOSE 12 00:00:33,033 --> 00:00:36,970 THEY KILLED MY FIRSTBORN (CRIES) WHO WOULD DO THIS TO HIM? 13 00:00:36,970 --> 00:00:39,706 YOU LOOK AT EVERYBODY// EVERY FRIEND, EVERY FAMILY MEMBER 14 00:00:40,073 --> 00:00:42,709 THE DIVORCED SPOUSE... SHE WAS THE LAST KNOWN PERSON TO 15 00:00:42,709 --> 00:00:44,444 HAVE SEEN HIM? WE HAD TO DIG INTO THAT// 16 00:00:44,711 --> 00:00:47,747 THERE ARE THESE MYSTERIOUS GUNMEN SHOWING UP LOOKNG FOR 17 00:00:47,747 --> 00:00:48,081 GUNMEN SHOWING UP LOOKNG FOR LORENZEN 18 00:00:49,616 --> 00:00:49,916 WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE THAT CAME BY THE HOUSE? 19 00:00:51,985 --> 00:00:52,619 GOSH DO YOU THINK// THEY'LL EVER 20 00:00:52,619 --> 00:00:56,289 FIGURE THIS OUT? FAME, FORTUNE AND A FATAL PLOT: 21 00:00:56,656 --> 00:00:58,758 WHO KILLED THE BASKETBALL STAR? 22 00:01:01,695 --> 00:01:02,062 NOW, A CHILLING NEW ENDING! 23 00:01:02,062 --> 00:01:05,098 HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?// IT JUST BLEW ME AWAY 24 00:01:05,465 --> 00:01:07,600 HE WAS UNDER EVERYBODY'S NOSES THE WHOLE TIME? 25 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,537 YEAH. HOW'S THAT FOR A KICKER? // 26 00:01:10,537 --> 00:01:11,638 // JUST THE ULTIMATE EVIL 27 00:01:14,774 --> 00:01:15,308 I'M LESTER HOLT AND THIS IS DATELINE. 28 00:01:25,885 --> 00:01:28,722 HERE'S ANDREA CANNING WITH... "THE MURDER OF LORENZEN WRIGHT" 29 00:01:35,595 --> 00:01:35,862 IT WAS JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT IN MEMPHIS... 30 00:01:39,532 --> 00:01:41,468 AS SUNDAY TURNED INTO MONDAY. 31 00:01:41,468 --> 00:01:43,937 ON BEALE STREET THE BLUES CLUBS WERE BLARING. 32 00:01:43,937 --> 00:01:47,774 WERE BLARING. BBQ JOINTS STILL SIZZLING... 33 00:01:50,977 --> 00:01:52,445 EVEN THE LIGHTS OF NEARBY GRACELAND WERE AGLOW... 34 00:01:57,017 --> 00:01:59,486 THIS TREE LINED FIELD IT WAS QUIET. 35 00:02:00,553 --> 00:02:00,954 PEACEFUL. 36 00:02:02,922 --> 00:02:04,824 NOT A SOUL IN SIGHT. 37 00:02:04,824 --> 00:02:08,762 THEN SUDDENLY, AN UNMISTAKABLE SOUND ECHOED THROUGH THE TREES. 38 00:02:11,831 --> 00:02:15,135 THAT'S THE ACTUAL SOUND OF A MURDER IN PROGRESS...CAUGHT ON 39 00:02:15,135 --> 00:02:15,835 MURDER IN PROGRESS...CAUGHT ON AUDIO TAPE 40 00:02:18,104 --> 00:02:20,106 THE CRIME, CONCEIVED WEEKS EARLIER, WAS NOW... COMPLETE. 41 00:02:29,082 --> 00:02:31,818 WHEN ONE OF THE CITY'S FAVORITE SONS RETURNED TO TOWN. 42 00:02:32,752 --> 00:02:36,189 LORENZEN WRIGHT OR SIMPLY "REN", PLAYED HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE 43 00:02:36,189 --> 00:02:37,590 PLAYED HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE BASKETBALL HERE IN MEMPHIS... 44 00:02:39,092 --> 00:02:40,627 THEN LATER STARRED FOR THE HOMETOWN NBA GRIZZLIES. 45 00:02:47,100 --> 00:02:49,736 LARGER THAN LIFE, ACCORDING TO CLOSE FRIEND BILL ADKINS. 46 00:02:49,736 --> 00:02:52,138 HOW POPULAR WAS HE HERE IN MEMPHIS? 47 00:02:52,138 --> 00:02:55,542 OH, EXTREMELY, (LAUGH) EXTREMELY. EVERYBODY LOVED 48 00:02:55,542 --> 00:02:58,144 LORENZEN. HE WAS JUST POPULAR. I MEAN, YOU COULDN'T-- YOU HAD TO 49 00:02:58,144 --> 00:03:01,514 NOTICE HIM. I MEAN, 6'11", 6'10", YOU KNOW, HE WALKS IN THE 50 00:03:01,514 --> 00:03:02,716 6'10", YOU KNOW, HE WALKS IN THE DOOR, EVERYBODY KNOWS IT'S HIM, 51 00:03:04,050 --> 00:03:06,152 YEAH. CHARISMATIC, YET HUMBLE, REN WAS 52 00:03:07,554 --> 00:03:08,054 AS GENEROUS AS HE WAS OUTGOING... 53 00:03:10,256 --> 00:03:14,627 SAW A TIME WHEN HE WOULD SHUN PEOPLE AWAY OR-- OR SAY CRUDE OR 54 00:03:14,627 --> 00:03:17,063 RUDE THINGS TO PEOPLE. //THE GUY WOULD GIVE YOU THE SHIRT OFF HIS 55 00:03:17,063 --> 00:03:18,498 BACK. MOVIE STAR LOOKS? 56 00:03:19,132 --> 00:03:22,736 AW, YEAH, CHARMING. QUITE CHARMING. HANDSOME GUY. 57 00:03:22,736 --> 00:03:27,340 LORENZEN WAS AT THE END OF A SOLID NBA CAREER, NOW DIVORCED 58 00:03:27,340 --> 00:03:28,241 SOLID NBA CAREER, NOW DIVORCED AND LIVING IN ATLANTA. 59 00:03:31,111 --> 00:03:32,078 BUT HE WOULD OFTEN COME BACK TO MEMPHIS TO VISIT. 60 00:03:35,081 --> 00:03:37,917 ARRIVED AND SPENT PART OF THE DAY WITH CLOSE BUDDY PHIL DOTSON 61 00:03:37,917 --> 00:03:39,119 DAY WITH CLOSE BUDDY PHIL DOTSON AND SOME OTHER OLD FRIENDS. 62 00:03:41,721 --> 00:03:44,524 JUST, YA KNOW// THE GUYS HANGING, BONDING... 63 00:03:47,727 --> 00:03:50,263 A FEW HOURS LATER PHIL TOOK 'REN TO PICK UP HIS OLDEST SON AT A 64 00:03:50,263 --> 00:03:50,997 TO PICK UP HIS OLDEST SON AT A LOCAL GYM. 65 00:03:53,099 --> 00:03:56,202 HOME OF SHERRA WRIGHT, LORENZEN'S EX-WIFE, WHERE REN 66 00:03:56,202 --> 00:03:58,104 SOMETIMES VISITED WHEN HE WAS IN TOWN. 67 00:03:58,838 --> 00:03:59,706 HE SAID, "I'LL CALL YOU LATER." 68 00:04:03,543 --> 00:04:03,943 AND, SO THAT BEING ABOUT 10 PM-- 69 00:04:03,943 --> 00:04:07,781 I LEFT.// I GOT HOME //AND I -- I NEVER HEARD FROM HIM. 70 00:04:09,949 --> 00:04:12,218 SUNDAY NIGHT PASSED. BUT NO CALL FROM 'REN. 71 00:04:12,752 --> 00:04:14,521 AND SO I SHOT HIM A TEXT AND HE DIDN'T REPLY. 72 00:04:14,854 --> 00:04:16,690 SO I'M SURE YOU TRIED TO REACH HIM THE NEXT DAY. 73 00:04:16,690 --> 00:04:17,657 THE NEXT DAY. AND? 74 00:04:17,924 --> 00:04:18,625 AND NOTHING. 75 00:04:21,261 --> 00:04:23,263 HE'S JUST BUSY WITH THE FAMILY? WELL, I JUST THOUGHT // HE WAS 76 00:04:23,263 --> 00:04:25,665 STILL BUSY WITH THE FAMILY// IT WASN'T A-- BIG DEAL. 77 00:04:27,734 --> 00:04:29,903 'REN WAS KNOWN TO GO OFF THE GRID OCCASIONALLY. 78 00:04:30,236 --> 00:04:33,173 PLUS HE HAD SCHEDULED A TRIP TO LAS VEGAS LATER THAT WEEK... 79 00:04:34,407 --> 00:04:35,842 MAYBE HE JUST LEFT EARLY. 80 00:04:37,077 --> 00:04:40,213 CASINO, YOU DON'T GET A SIGNAL. // I THOUGHT IT WAS, KIND OF 81 00:04:40,213 --> 00:04:43,983 WEIRD THAT HE //DIDN'T TEXT ME BACK. BUT I DIDN'T THINK 82 00:04:43,983 --> 00:04:44,718 BACK. BUT I DIDN'T THINK ANYTHING ABOUT IT. 83 00:04:47,654 --> 00:04:48,755 BUT 'REN'S MOTHER DEBORAH MARION WAS ALREADY WORRYING. 84 00:04:50,623 --> 00:04:51,091 SHE'D BEEN TRYING TO REACH HIM ALL WEEK. 85 00:04:53,893 --> 00:04:55,128 HE'D NEVER NOT CALLED ME BACK. // 86 00:04:55,128 --> 00:04:57,797 // DID YOU JUST THINK, "MAYBE HE'S IN VEGAS HAVIN' A REALLY 87 00:04:57,797 --> 00:04:59,833 GOOD TIME?" NOPE. NOT MY CHILD. AND HE 88 00:04:59,833 --> 00:05:00,734 NOPE. NOT MY CHILD. AND HE DIDN'T CALL ME? UNH-UH 89 00:05:03,837 --> 00:05:06,306 LORENZEN'S MOTHER FILED A MISSING PERSON'S REPORT WITH 90 00:05:06,306 --> 00:05:09,109 POLICE WHILE PHIL SOUNDED HIS OWN PERSONAL ALARM. 91 00:05:10,043 --> 00:05:13,246 I'M SENDING HIM, //OUR SOS CODE THAT WE HAD FOR EACH OTHER 92 00:05:13,246 --> 00:05:14,647 //WHEN WE REALLY NEEDED ONE ANOTHER.// 93 00:05:14,647 --> 00:05:16,149 AND I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING FROM HIM. 94 00:05:16,149 --> 00:05:19,419 WAS THIS WHERE THINGS TURNED FOR YOU WHEN HE DIDN'T RESPOND TO 95 00:05:19,419 --> 00:05:20,954 THAT? YES. I STARTED GETTING WORRIED. 96 00:05:20,954 --> 00:05:22,422 //I WAS LIKE, "MAN, WHERE IS HE?" 97 00:05:22,422 --> 00:05:23,923 HE JUST BASICALLY HAS, LIKE, VANISHED-- 98 00:05:23,923 --> 00:05:26,593 FALLEN OFF -- VANISHED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH. YES. 99 00:05:27,327 --> 00:05:29,062 YES//19:42:56 //IT WAS STARTING TO GET SCARY. 100 00:05:29,696 --> 00:05:31,464 SOMEBODY CALLED ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND SAID, "HEY, DID 101 00:05:31,464 --> 00:05:32,298 OF THE NIGHT AND SAID, "HEY, DID YOU KNOW LORENZEN WRIGHT IS 102 00:05:38,071 --> 00:05:40,473 "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, MISSIN'? //, HOW-- HOW C-- DOES A GUY THAT'S 103 00:05:40,473 --> 00:05:44,244 6'11--"//HOW CAN A GUY THAT'S BEEN ON TV EVERY WEEK-- FOR MOST 104 00:05:44,244 --> 00:05:45,145 BEEN ON TV EVERY WEEK-- FOR MOST OF HIS ADULT LIFE GO MISSIN'? 105 00:05:48,114 --> 00:05:49,215 THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE." // AT SIX FOOT ELEVEN AND 255 106 00:05:52,352 --> 00:05:55,255 TO MISS. BUT HE HAS BEEN MISSING FOR A WEEK. 107 00:05:55,255 --> 00:05:56,990 // POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR FORMER MEMPHIS BASKETBALL 108 00:05:56,990 --> 00:05:59,726 PLAYER, LORENZEN WRIGHT BY NOW THE LOCAL MEDIA WAS ALL 109 00:05:59,726 --> 00:06:00,593 BY NOW THE LOCAL MEDIA WAS ALL OVER THE STORY 110 00:06:02,696 --> 00:06:04,497 THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LORENZEN WRIGHT ... 111 00:06:04,497 --> 00:06:07,300 INVESTIGATORS SAY THAT THERE'S NOTHING TO SUGGEST THAT WRIGHT 112 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:11,404 IS NOT ALIVE. HOWEVER, AS TIME PASSES, THE SITUATION GROWS MORE 113 00:06:11,404 --> 00:06:12,038 PASSES, THE SITUATION GROWS MORE WORRISOME. 114 00:06:13,707 --> 00:06:14,074 IT WAS SHOCKING.//IT WAS JUST... 115 00:06:14,074 --> 00:06:16,042 WHAT DO YOU MEAN LORENZEN WRIGHT IS MISSING? 116 00:06:16,476 --> 00:06:21,047 KONTJI ANTHONY COVERED THE STORY FOR NBC AFFILIATE WMC-TV IN 117 00:06:21,047 --> 00:06:23,183 MEMPHIS. //THE WHOLE TOWN WAS ABUZZ.// 118 00:06:24,784 --> 00:06:27,854 LORENZEN'S FORMER WIFE SHERRA, TOLD REPORTERS HE WAS FINE THE 119 00:06:27,854 --> 00:06:30,924 LAST NIGHT SHE SAW HIM... I'M NOT GON' BELIEVE ANYTHING 120 00:06:30,924 --> 00:06:34,427 OTHER THAN THAT HE'S FINE NOW. I JUST NEED SOMEBODY TO CALL IF 121 00:06:34,427 --> 00:06:36,229 THEY'VE SEEN HIM OR HEARD ANYTHING FROM HIM. 122 00:06:39,099 --> 00:06:41,701 BUT 'REN'S MOTHER WAS ALREADY EXPECTING THE WORST. 123 00:06:42,268 --> 00:06:45,338 I TOLD THE POLICE WHEN I FIRST REPORTED HIM MISSIN' //12:47:15 124 00:06:45,338 --> 00:06:48,308 Y'ALL, MY SON IS NOT GONNA BE GOOD WHEN Y'ALL FIND HIM." 125 00:06:48,308 --> 00:06:49,209 YOUR INTUITION-- YEAH. 126 00:06:49,209 --> 00:06:50,977 --WAS TELLING YOU. --YEAH, I WASN'T FEELIN' HIM 127 00:06:50,977 --> 00:06:54,447 NOWHERE. HE WASN'T NO WHERE. YOU MUST-- NORMALLY FEEL KIND 128 00:06:54,447 --> 00:06:55,849 OF-- //A SPIRITUAL CONNECTION-- YES. 129 00:06:55,849 --> 00:06:58,318 --TO YOUR SON? OR... YES. // I TOLD THE POLICE, "I 130 00:06:58,318 --> 00:07:00,086 DON'T KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN IT TO Y'ALL,//12:48:01;18 "BUT HE'S 131 00:07:00,086 --> 00:07:00,720 Y'ALL,//12:48:01;18 "BUT HE'S DEAD." 132 00:07:03,289 --> 00:07:04,391 MEMPHIS POLICE NEEDED MORE THAN A MOTHER'S INTUITION. 133 00:07:07,394 --> 00:07:08,094 THEN THEY FOUND THAT TERRIFYING RECORDING; 134 00:07:12,732 --> 00:07:37,223 //HE WAS LITERALLY RUNNIN' FOR 135 00:07:37,223 --> 00:07:38,892 >>> TONIGHT, POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR FORMER MEMPHIS 136 00:07:38,892 --> 00:07:41,528 BASKETBALL PLAYER, LORENZEN WRIGHT. 137 00:07:41,528 --> 00:07:44,731 >> Reporter: SEVEN LONG DAYS, AND STILL NO SIGN OF 138 00:07:44,731 --> 00:07:48,068 LORENZEN WRIGHT. ONE OF THE LAST TO SEE HIM ALIVE 139 00:07:48,068 --> 00:07:51,071 WAS HIS EX-WIFE SHERRA >> THERE ARE NO NEW LEADS OR 140 00:07:51,071 --> 00:07:54,808 ANYTHING IT'S MIND-BOGGLING 141 00:07:54,808 --> 00:07:57,444 WE'RE HOPEFUL. TODAY IS ONE OF THE WORST DAYS 142 00:07:57,444 --> 00:08:00,613 FOR ME 'CAUSE IT'S AN ENTIRE WEEK 143 00:08:00,613 --> 00:08:02,782 >> Reporter: WITH EACH PASSING DAY REN'S MOTHER BECAME MORE 144 00:08:02,782 --> 00:08:05,919 FEARFUL. YOU MUST BE FRANTIC. 145 00:08:05,919 --> 00:08:10,056 >> YES I DONE CALL EVERYBODY EVERYWHERE 146 00:08:10,056 --> 00:08:13,326 THAT HE WOULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH, NOBODY KNOWS NOTHIN' 147 00:08:13,326 --> 00:08:16,496 >> Reporter: BUT POLICE DID FIND CLUE, A BIG ONE -- 148 00:08:16,496 --> 00:08:24,437 BURIED IN REN'S PHONE RECORDS. THE LAST CALL LORENZEN WRIGHT 149 00:08:24,437 --> 00:08:26,039 EVER MADE WAS TO 911 >> GERMANTOWN 911, WHAT IS YOUR 150 00:08:26,039 --> 00:08:29,042 EMERGENCY? >> Reporter: DETECTIVES TRACED 151 00:08:29,042 --> 00:08:30,810 THAT CALL TO A GERMANTOWN, A MEMPHIS SUBURB 152 00:08:30,810 --> 00:08:36,616 POLICE THERE WERE NOT ABLE TO GEO-LOCATE THE CALL AND NEVER 153 00:08:36,616 --> 00:08:38,218 FOLLOWED UP. >> OH, DAMN. 154 00:08:38,218 --> 00:08:43,289 >> Reporter: THAT'S THE VOICE OF LORENZEN WRIGHT AS HE FACED HIS 155 00:08:43,289 --> 00:08:44,557 KILLER. >> HELLO 156 00:08:44,557 --> 00:08:45,725 >> Reporter: IT WOULD TAKE EIGHT DAYS FROM THE TIME HE WENT 157 00:08:45,725 --> 00:08:47,227 MISSING FOR MEMPHIS POLICE TO FIND THAT RECORDING. 158 00:08:47,227 --> 00:08:48,328 >> IT MADE THE HAIR ON THE BACK OF YOUR NECK STAND UP. 159 00:08:48,328 --> 00:08:50,397 THAT WAS PROBABLY HIS LAST SPOKEN WORDS 160 00:08:50,397 --> 00:08:53,099 AND LISTENIN' TO THAT TAPE, IT JUST KINDA BROUGHT IT ALL HOME 161 00:08:53,099 --> 00:08:55,201 THAT YOU KNEW THAT AT THAT -- HE WAS BEYOND DISTRESS. 162 00:08:55,201 --> 00:08:57,303 >> Reporter: THAT'S NO JOKE WHEN SOMEONE IS RUNNING FOR THEIR 163 00:08:57,303 --> 00:09:00,306 LIFE AND THERE'S MULTIPLE GUNSHOTS BEING FIRED 164 00:09:00,306 --> 00:09:05,278 >> I HAD NEVER HEARD A 911 CALL LIKE THAT ONE BEFORE 165 00:09:05,278 --> 00:09:06,379 >> LIVE PICTURES HERE FROM CHOPPER FIVE, POLICE ARE NOT 166 00:09:06,379 --> 00:09:10,016 SAYING ANYTHING OFFICIAL AT THIS POINT. 167 00:09:10,016 --> 00:09:13,720 >> Reporter: POLICE WERE ABLE TO TRACE THE 911 CALL FROM NEARBY 168 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:18,024 CELL PHONE TOWERS AND SOON SWARMED A FIELD ON THE OUTSKIRTS 169 00:09:18,024 --> 00:09:22,028 OF TOWN LOOKING FOR LORENZEN >> THE INFORMATION LED A SHELBY 170 00:09:22,028 --> 00:09:24,297 COUNTY SHERIFF'S SEARCH CREW TO A WOODED AREA NEAR HACKS CROSS 171 00:09:24,297 --> 00:09:27,033 AND WINCHESTER ROAD. >> Reporter: AND IT DIDN'T TAKE 172 00:09:27,033 --> 00:09:33,940 LONG - AS SEARCH TEAMS SUDDENLY NOTICED 173 00:09:33,940 --> 00:09:36,042 SOMETHING VERY DISTURBING. >> BREAKING NEWS, MEMPHIS POLICE 174 00:09:36,042 --> 00:09:40,714 ARE IN SOUTHEAST MEMPHIS WHERE A BODY HAS BEEN FOUND. 175 00:09:40,714 --> 00:09:45,051 >> AND THE WORD WENT AROUND TOWN LIKE WILDFIRE. 176 00:09:45,051 --> 00:09:49,222 ANYONE WHO KNEW LORENZEN LITERALLY HOPPED INTO THEIR CAR 177 00:09:49,222 --> 00:09:51,624 AND DROVE TO THAT SCENE. >> NEWS OF THE DISCOVERY SPREAD 178 00:09:51,624 --> 00:09:56,629 QUICKLY AND CROWDS OF WRIGHT'S FRIENDS ON AN OFF THE COURT 179 00:09:56,629 --> 00:10:01,401 STEADILY GREW. >> Reporter: IT WAS STILL A FULL 180 00:10:01,401 --> 00:10:05,672 ON CRIME SCENE WHEN LORENZEN'S MOTHER ARRIVED, THEN CROSSED THE 181 00:10:05,672 --> 00:10:08,808 POLICE LINE, TO WHERE THE BODY WAS BEING RECOVERED. 182 00:10:08,808 --> 00:10:10,977 >> I WANTED TO WALK IN HIS LAST WALK SO I COULD GET THAT 183 00:10:10,977 --> 00:10:13,146 FEELIN', LIKE, WHAT HAPPENED JUST LET ME WALK THE LAST PATH 184 00:10:13,146 --> 00:10:14,180 HE WALKED. >> Reporter: WHY DID YOU WANNA 185 00:10:14,180 --> 00:10:16,249 DO THAT? >> BECAUSE I WANTED TO FEEL WHAT 186 00:10:16,249 --> 00:10:26,826 HE LEFT FOR ME 'CAUSE I KNEW. 187 00:10:26,826 --> 00:10:34,234 >> Reporter: OF COURSE SHE KNEW. IT WAS HER FIRST-BORN SON, 188 00:10:34,234 --> 00:10:39,005 LORENZEN >> POLICE HAVE NOTIFIED 189 00:10:39,005 --> 00:10:41,641 IMMEDIATE FAMILY THAT LORENZEN WRIGHT WAS FOUND DEAD 190 00:10:41,641 --> 00:10:45,512 HERE >> Reporter: BY NOW A LARGE 191 00:10:45,512 --> 00:10:48,014 CROWD WAS HOLDING AN IMPROMPTU MEMORIAL AT THE GRIM SITE. 192 00:10:48,014 --> 00:10:50,650 AMONG THEM WAS REN'S FRIEND AND NBA STAR PENNY HARDAWAY. 193 00:10:50,650 --> 00:10:52,786 >> YEAH, IT'S A, IT'S JUST A GREAT LOSS FOR THE CITY OF 194 00:10:52,786 --> 00:10:56,489 MEMPHIS, FOR HIS FAMILY. SUCH AN EARLY AGE. 195 00:10:56,489 --> 00:11:00,193 I MEAN, IT'S JUST SENSELESS. >> Reporter: THEN, LORENZEN'S 196 00:11:00,193 --> 00:11:03,396 BODY, WHICH HAD BEEN LEFT IN THE SEARING MEMPHIS SUN FOR TEN LONG 197 00:11:03,396 --> 00:11:06,599 DAYS, WAS TAKEN IN FOR AN AUTOPSY. 198 00:11:06,599 --> 00:11:10,570 >> I'VE SEEN DECOMPOSED BODIES BEFORE 199 00:11:10,570 --> 00:11:13,506 BUT I WASN'T READY FOR THAT. I WASN'T READY FOR LORENZEN'S 200 00:11:13,506 --> 00:11:16,643 REMAINS. I WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN THAT THAT 201 00:11:16,643 --> 00:11:18,945 WAS HIM. >> Reporter: LORENZEN WRIGHT WAS 202 00:11:18,945 --> 00:11:23,083 JUST 34. THE FATHER OF SIX YOUNG 203 00:11:23,083 --> 00:11:26,720 CHILDREN NOW POLICE CONFIRMED THE 204 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:30,156 HORRIBLE NEWS WITH THE REST OF HIS FAMILY AND CLOSE FRIENDS 205 00:11:30,156 --> 00:11:32,092 >> I LITERALLY REMEMBERED FREEZING 206 00:11:32,092 --> 00:11:36,830 I DROPPED THE PHONE AND MY MIND WENT BLANK 207 00:11:36,830 --> 00:11:41,568 AND I'M LIKE, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S DEAD? 208 00:11:41,568 --> 00:11:46,373 AND THEN HE TOLD ME, HE'S BEEN IN THE FIELD FOR SOME DAYS AND 209 00:11:46,373 --> 00:11:50,110 IT WAS BAD IT WAS BAD 210 00:11:50,110 --> 00:11:51,678 AND I HUNG THE PHONE UP AND I CRIED. 211 00:11:51,678 --> 00:11:53,380 LIKE SOMEONE HAD PULLED MY HEART OUT OF MY CHEST AND JUST STOMPED 212 00:11:53,380 --> 00:11:55,582 ON IT. >> Reporter: SO YOUR BEST 213 00:11:55,582 --> 00:11:59,652 FRIEND >> YEAH. 214 00:11:59,652 --> 00:12:02,689 YEAH >> Reporter: WORD ALSO SPREAD 215 00:12:02,689 --> 00:12:05,492 SOUTH TO ATLANTA WHERE REN'S OLD FRIEND AND ROOMMATE MIKE GIPSON 216 00:12:05,492 --> 00:12:09,229 WAS ANXIOUSLY AWAITING ANY NEWS. >> WHEN I FOUND OUT ABOUT IT, I 217 00:12:09,229 --> 00:12:12,932 WOULD JUST DROP TO MY KNEES. I COULDN'T -- COULDN'T WALK. 218 00:12:12,932 --> 00:12:16,102 I WAS LIKE PARALYZED I'M LIKE, "THIS CAN'T BE TRUE. 219 00:12:16,102 --> 00:12:24,077 >> Reporter: AT FIRST NOBODY KNEW WHAT EXACTLY HAD HAPPENED 220 00:12:24,077 --> 00:12:26,179 TO REN WAS THERE -- WAS THERE ANY 221 00:12:26,179 --> 00:12:27,247 THOUGHT THAT PERHAPS LORENZEN HAD BEEN ROBBED? 222 00:12:27,247 --> 00:12:29,082 HE'S A REALLY RICH GUY >> HE IS A RICH GUY. 223 00:12:29,082 --> 00:12:30,283 BUT AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH, THERE WAS -- THERE WAS JEWELRY 224 00:12:30,283 --> 00:12:34,621 RECOVERED, OTHER PERSONAL BELONGINGS 225 00:12:34,621 --> 00:12:37,824 >> Reporter: THEN THERE WAS WHAT THE AUTOPSY REVEALED 226 00:12:37,824 --> 00:12:40,994 HE HAD BEEN SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES WITH WOUNDS TO THE CHEST AND 227 00:12:40,994 --> 00:12:46,299 EVEN HIS FACE. >> IT WAS AN ASSASSINATION 228 00:12:46,299 --> 00:12:51,638 HE WAS MURDERED. >> THE NUMBER OF TIMES THAT HE 229 00:12:51,638 --> 00:12:54,808 WAS SHOT AND THEN TO KNOW THAT THOSE SHOTS WERE TO HIS FACE 230 00:12:54,808 --> 00:12:59,579 >> Reporter: THAT'S PERSONAL >> THAT'S PERSONAL 231 00:12:59,579 --> 00:13:10,724 THAT'S A DEEP-ROOTED HATE. >> Reporter: SO HATEFUL AND SO 232 00:13:10,724 --> 00:13:12,492 PERSONAL, WHICH SUGGESTED THE KILLER MIGHT HAVE ACTUALLY KNOWN 233 00:13:12,492 --> 00:13:13,360 LORENZEN >> I JUST COULD NOT IMAGINE 234 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,428 ANYBODY WANTING TO HARM HIM. >> Reporter: DID YOU THINK HE 235 00:13:15,428 --> 00:13:17,063 WAS TARGETED >> I THOUGHT MAYBE SOMEBODY 236 00:13:17,063 --> 00:13:19,699 WANTED TO ROB HIM, BUT WHO WOULD DO THIS TO HIM 237 00:13:19,699 --> 00:13:24,771 >> Reporter: AND WHY A FEW TINY CLUES LEFT BEHIND AT 238 00:13:24,771 --> 00:13:27,107 THE CRIME SCENE WOULD PROVIDE A HUGE LEAD. 239 00:13:27,107 --> 00:13:30,243 BECAUSE IT APPEARED NOT ONLY DID SOMEONE WANT LORENZEN DEAD, 240 00:13:43,089 --> 00:13:44,657 MEMPHIS WAS IN MOURNING.... 241 00:13:47,694 --> 00:13:51,097 OF 2010 WHEN THE CITY PAID ITS LAST RESPECTS TO LORENZEN 242 00:13:51,097 --> 00:13:51,564 LAST RESPECTS TO LORENZEN WRIGHT. 243 00:13:53,867 --> 00:13:56,336 IT WAS TELEVISED BY SEVERAL LOCAL STATIONS. 244 00:13:57,003 --> 00:13:59,739 HIS FUNERAL. OH, BOY. (SIGH) AH, 245 00:14:02,709 --> 00:14:04,377 WELL,IT WAS PRETTY MUCH THE WHO'S WHO OF MEMPHIS. 246 00:14:08,114 --> 00:14:09,049 LORENZEN'S MOTHER COULD BARELY KEEP IT TOGETHER 247 00:14:11,051 --> 00:14:12,619 NEVER IMAGINING SHE'D HAVE TO BURY HER OLDEST CHILD. 248 00:14:15,622 --> 00:14:19,893 I JUST DIDN'T WANNA LIVE. 249 00:14:19,893 --> 00:14:21,394 I JUST DIDN'T WANNA LIVE. YOU AND LORENZEN WERE SO CLOSE. 250 00:14:24,097 --> 00:14:26,599 LIVIN' AFTER THEY KILLED MY FIRSTBORN. HE JUST... 251 00:14:27,734 --> 00:14:29,402 YOU TWO HAD BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH TOGETHER. 252 00:14:30,236 --> 00:14:33,840 UH-HUH (AFFIRM). YES, INDEED // YOU SEE, I WAS YOUNG WHEN I HAD 253 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:35,342 HIM. SO WE KINDA, LIKE, GREW UP TOGETHER. 254 00:14:37,110 --> 00:14:39,412 'REN'S EX-WIFE SHERRA AND THEIR CHILDREN ALL CAME TO SAY 255 00:14:39,412 --> 00:14:40,213 CHILDREN ALL CAME TO SAY FAREWELL TOO. 256 00:14:43,083 --> 00:14:44,684 SIX YOUNG CHILDREN... NOW SUDDENLY LEFT WITHOUT A FATHER. 257 00:14:48,688 --> 00:14:49,089 THE LOSS OF SUCH A GREAT PERSON 258 00:14:49,089 --> 00:14:53,193 IN THE FABRIC OF MEMPHIS SOCIETY WAS JUST SO TRAGIC AND PAINFUL. 259 00:14:54,094 --> 00:14:57,430 TO HELP THE CITY HEAL, THE MEMPHIS MAYOR MADE A PROMISE... 260 00:14:58,231 --> 00:15:03,169 JUSTICE WILL BE DONE. THAT'S OUR PLEDGE. 261 00:15:05,538 --> 00:15:08,875 JUSTICE OF COURSE DEPENDED ON A THOROUGH POLICE INVESTIGATION. 262 00:15:09,309 --> 00:15:12,345 DETECTIVES WERE NOW PLAYING CATCH-UP GIVEN HOW LONG IT HAD 263 00:15:12,345 --> 00:15:14,881 TAKEN TO FIND 'REN'S BODY AFTER HE WAS MURDERED. 264 00:15:15,448 --> 00:15:18,451 BUT AT THE CRIME SCENE, CLUES WERE ALREADY EMERGING. 265 00:15:18,451 --> 00:15:20,053 POLICE FOUND DIFFERENT TYPES OF SHELL CASINGS AT THE SCENE... 266 00:15:20,053 --> 00:15:25,258 ...DIFFERENT CASINGS...WHICH MEANT MORE THAN ONE GUN WAS USED 267 00:15:25,258 --> 00:15:25,692 MEANT MORE THAN ONE GUN WAS USED TO MURDER 'REN. 268 00:15:29,863 --> 00:15:33,066 POSSIBLY BEEN TWO-- SUSPECTS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS SHOOTING. 269 00:15:35,301 --> 00:15:38,304 TONEY ARMSTRONG WAS ALREADY FEELING THE HEAT TO CRACK ONE OF 270 00:15:38,304 --> 00:15:40,073 FEELING THE HEAT TO CRACK ONE OF THE BIGGEST CASES OF HIS CAREER. 271 00:15:41,941 --> 00:15:44,878 IT WAS. // THE MAYOR OF THE CITY AT THAT TIME HAD VOWED TO THE 272 00:15:44,878 --> 00:15:46,479 PUBLIC THAT WE WERE GONNA SOLVE IT // 273 00:15:46,479 --> 00:15:49,683 I WANTED TO BE ABLE //TO TELL HIS MOM THAT //WE GOT THE PERSON 274 00:15:50,183 --> 00:15:51,117 THAT'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS. 275 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:54,487 BUT WHO WOULD DO SUCH A THING? 276 00:15:54,487 --> 00:15:55,288 BUT WHO WOULD DO SUCH A THING? AND WHY? 277 00:15:59,926 --> 00:16:02,362 IN MISSISSIPPI, WHERE HE WAS BORN AND FIRST STARTED PLAYING 278 00:16:02,362 --> 00:16:03,029 BORN AND FIRST STARTED PLAYING BASKETBALL. 279 00:16:05,031 --> 00:16:07,200 HE BECAME A STAR, DURING HIS HIGH SCHOOL DAYS. 280 00:16:09,402 --> 00:16:12,172 THAT'S WHEN HE MET HIS FUTURE WIFE SHERRA, WHOSE FATHER WAS 281 00:16:12,172 --> 00:16:13,340 WIFE SHERRA, WHOSE FATHER WAS HIS COACH AT THE TIME. 282 00:16:15,442 --> 00:16:17,844 MARC PERRUSQUIA. A LOT OF PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW 283 00:16:17,844 --> 00:16:22,048 ABOUT HIM UNTIL-- HE PLAYED AAU BALL FOR SHERRA WRIGHT'S DAD. 284 00:16:22,048 --> 00:16:25,352 AND-- SHERRA'S DAD BROUGHT HIM UP TO MEMPHIS. AND //HE PLAYED 285 00:16:25,352 --> 00:16:27,187 HIS LAST SEASON OF HIGH SCHOOL BALL HERE IN 286 00:16:27,187 --> 00:16:29,055 MEMPHIS//17:48:48;21 AND WAS A HIGH SCHOOL ALL-AMERICAN... 287 00:16:30,590 --> 00:16:33,626 THE COACHES WERE LIKE, "I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS BOY DOIN' BUT HE 288 00:16:33,626 --> 00:16:34,894 KNOW WHAT THIS BOY DOIN' BUT HE CAN MAKE SOME MONEY ONE DAY." 289 00:16:38,365 --> 00:16:40,133 SHERRA ALSO LIKED WHAT SHE SAW... AND THE TWO BEGAN DATING, 290 00:16:42,268 --> 00:16:46,072 YEARS OLDER, AS 'REN'S FRIEND BILL ADKINS IMMEDIATELY NOTICED. 291 00:16:46,473 --> 00:16:50,643 SHE WAS DIFFERENT. UH, YOU COULD TELL SHE WAS QUITE MATURE, QUITE 292 00:16:50,643 --> 00:16:53,279 SAVVY. SEXY. CAN I USE THAT WORD? SEXY? 293 00:16:53,279 --> 00:16:56,249 UH, ABSOLUTELY. SHE WAS A KIND OF GIRL THAT GUYS 294 00:16:56,249 --> 00:16:56,816 SHE WAS A KIND OF GIRL THAT GUYS LOOKED AT. 295 00:16:59,185 --> 00:17:01,855 SMITTEN WITH THE MORE SOPHISTICATED CITY GAL. 296 00:17:02,288 --> 00:17:04,024 WHAT WAS IT ABOUT SHERRA THAT 297 00:17:06,026 --> 00:17:06,326 HE// FELL SO FAST FOR HER? 298 00:17:06,326 --> 00:17:07,794 LET ME SEE, HOW CAN I PUT THIS NICELY. 299 00:17:08,595 --> 00:17:09,062 --SEX? 300 00:17:11,231 --> 00:17:12,932 SHE WAS 22. SO, SHE// LURED HIM IN? 301 00:17:12,932 --> 00:17:15,669 HE HAD LITTLE GIRLFRIENDS, BUT THEY WASN'T DOIN' ALL THAT STUFF 302 00:17:15,669 --> 00:17:20,073 SHERRA WAS DOIN'. UNH-UH // SHE WAS A LADY AND HE WAS A KID. 303 00:17:21,074 --> 00:17:23,043 THE ROMANCE WITH 'REN FLOURISHED. 304 00:17:24,678 --> 00:17:26,346 AND SO DID HIS BASKETBALL CAREER. 305 00:17:27,681 --> 00:17:31,084 IN COLLEGE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, HIS STAR CONTINUED TO 306 00:17:31,084 --> 00:17:31,418 MEMPHIS, HIS STAR CONTINUED TO RISE. 307 00:17:33,453 --> 00:17:37,157 HE HAD A MEETING' WITH ME AND HIS DAD TALKING' ABOUT HE'S 308 00:17:37,157 --> 00:17:39,926 GONNA GET READY TO GO TO THE NBA. I SAID, "NO YOU NOT. YOU 309 00:17:39,926 --> 00:17:40,894 NBA. I SAID, "NO YOU NOT. YOU GOT TWO MORE YEARS." HE'S LIKE, 310 00:17:42,395 --> 00:17:46,599 GRADUATE AND GET A DEGREE. WHO'S GONNA PAY ME $1 MILLION FOR MY 311 00:17:46,599 --> 00:17:47,500 GONNA PAY ME $1 MILLION FOR MY FIRST JOB?" 312 00:17:49,602 --> 00:17:51,204 MINUTES AND I SAY, "WHEN YOU SAY YOU LEAVING'?" 313 00:17:52,505 --> 00:17:56,576 THEN IN 1996, AFTER HIS SOPHOMORE SEASON, LORENZEN HIT 314 00:17:56,576 --> 00:18:00,280 THE NBA JACKPOT, WHEN HE WAS DRAFTED IN THE FIRST ROUND BY 315 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:01,881 DRAFTED IN THE FIRST ROUND BY THE LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS. 316 00:18:05,318 --> 00:18:06,619 AT THE TENDER AGE OF 20, REN WAS AN INSTANT MILLIONAIRE. 317 00:18:09,723 --> 00:18:12,058 BY NOW SHERRA HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO THEIR FIRST BABY, LORENZEN JR. 318 00:18:15,462 --> 00:18:18,365 IMMEDIATELY BEGAN LIVING THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HIGH LIFE. 319 00:18:21,634 --> 00:18:24,771 AFTER HIS SECOND SEASON, 'REN AND SHERRA GOT MARRIED... 320 00:18:24,771 --> 00:18:30,076 I WAS ONE OF THE GROOMSMEN. AND IT WAS-- AN AWESOME AFFAIR. THE 321 00:18:30,076 --> 00:18:32,045 WEDDING WAS BEAUTIFUL.// IT LOOKED LIKE A-- LOOKED LIKE A 322 00:18:32,045 --> 00:18:32,245 LOOKED LIKE A-- LOOKED LIKE A FAIRYTALE. 323 00:18:34,381 --> 00:18:37,317 LORENZEN AND SHERRA FOR OVER A YEAR WHEN REN PLAYED WITH THE 324 00:18:37,317 --> 00:18:37,917 YEAR WHEN REN PLAYED WITH THE CLIPPERS. 325 00:18:39,753 --> 00:18:40,520 AND SHERRA DIDN'T MIND//YOU BEING THE HOUSEGUEST? 326 00:18:43,056 --> 00:18:45,358 NO. NO. SHE-- SHE DIDN'T. THEY WERE ALWAYS KNOWN-- FOR HAVING, 327 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:51,331 'REN PLAYED THREE SEASONS WITH THE CLIPPERS THEN MOVED ONTO 328 00:18:51,331 --> 00:18:54,367 ATLANTA AND SIGNED ANOTHER MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT 329 00:18:54,701 --> 00:18:57,470 BEFORE BEING TRADED TO HIS HOMETOWN TEAM THE MEMPHIS 330 00:18:57,470 --> 00:18:58,471 HOMETOWN TEAM THE MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES IN 2001. 331 00:19:05,045 --> 00:19:06,212 BACK HOME 'REN RE-IMMERSED HIMSELF IN THE COMMUNITY. 332 00:19:07,447 --> 00:19:07,714 HE OPENED A RESTAURANT... 333 00:19:07,714 --> 00:19:10,150 WHILE COMMITTING TO LOCAL CHARITIES AND CHILDREN. 334 00:19:10,550 --> 00:19:12,018 HE WOULD //DO A SUMMER CAMP 335 00:19:13,687 --> 00:19:14,187 HERE. AND IT WAS ALWAYS HUGE. 336 00:19:14,187 --> 00:19:17,190 //THOUSANDS OF KIDS WOULD ATTEND // GIVING BACK TO HIS COMMUNITY 337 00:19:17,190 --> 00:19:19,459 WAS ONE OF THE// THINGS THAT-- THAT// REALLY MADE HIM HAPPY. 338 00:19:20,794 --> 00:19:25,198 OVER HIS CAREER LORENZEN EARNED SOME $55 MILLION DOLLARS, WHICH 339 00:19:25,198 --> 00:19:27,434 HE LAVISHED ON HIS FRIENDS AND GROWING FAMILY, 340 00:19:28,201 --> 00:19:32,439 OH MY GOD, TRIPS. BUYIN' ANYTHING HE WANTS, HOUSES, CARS. 341 00:19:34,174 --> 00:19:38,144 TOOK CARE OF HIS FRIENDS. TOOK CARE OF HIS FAMILY. ANYBODY WHO 342 00:19:38,144 --> 00:19:41,081 PUT A HAND OUT, HE VIRTUALLY GAVE TO 'EM. //HE NEVER COULD 343 00:19:41,081 --> 00:19:41,648 GAVE TO 'EM. //HE NEVER COULD SAY NO TO PEOPLE. 344 00:19:44,718 --> 00:19:48,822 BEYOND THE SUBURBS. IT WAS THIS HUGE, //13,000 SQUARE FOOT HOME 345 00:19:48,822 --> 00:19:51,057 HUGE, //13,000 SQUARE FOOT HOME // COST SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS 346 00:19:53,727 --> 00:19:54,227 AND INSIDE THEIR GIANT GARAGE... 347 00:19:54,227 --> 00:19:57,364 HE HAD A COUPLE FERRARIS //AND HE LOVED CARS 348 00:19:57,364 --> 00:19:59,332 HE HAD BOUGHT TWO BENTLEYS IN ONE MONTH. 349 00:19:59,599 --> 00:20:00,166 AND SHERRA? 350 00:20:01,501 --> 00:20:01,835 SHE LOVED JEWELRY. 351 00:20:01,835 --> 00:20:05,672 ARE WE TALKING DIAMONDS AND-- WATCHES, RINGS, EARRINGS, 352 00:20:06,773 --> 00:20:10,643 BRACELETS.//SHE LOVED TO-- DECORATE HER HOME. // CUSTOM 353 00:20:10,643 --> 00:20:14,447 DRAPES AND-- CUSTOM UPHOLSTERY ON COUCHES AND THEN, YOU KNOW, A 354 00:20:14,447 --> 00:20:15,949 ON COUCHES AND THEN, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE MONTHS GO BY AND THEN-- 355 00:20:17,484 --> 00:20:17,951 SHE'D CHANGE EVERYTHING UP AGAIN. 356 00:20:20,086 --> 00:20:20,520 IT WAS AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES. 357 00:20:23,123 --> 00:20:26,493 MEMPHIS MANSION, THERE WAS TROUBLE IN PARADISE. 358 00:20:26,860 --> 00:20:31,731 HE WAS A ROCK STAR AND // WITH BEING A ROCK STAR COMES CERTAIN 359 00:20:31,731 --> 00:20:33,466 TEMPTATIONS THAT-- THAT COME AT YOU. 360 00:20:33,700 --> 00:20:36,436 SHE WAS HAVING AFFAIRS AS WELL? WE WERE HEARING THINGS LIKE 361 00:20:58,491 --> 00:21:01,127 >>> DECEMBER 25th, 2007. EVERYBODY IS ABOUT TO COME 362 00:21:01,127 --> 00:21:08,068 DOWNSTAIRS I HEAR THEM MAKIN' NOISE 363 00:21:08,068 --> 00:21:10,437 >> Reporter: THREE YEARS BEFORE LORENZEN WRIGHT'S DEATH, HIS 364 00:21:10,437 --> 00:21:13,306 FAMILY CAN BE SEEN IN THIS RARE HOME VIDEO CELEBRATING WHAT 365 00:21:13,306 --> 00:21:16,476 WOULD BE ONE OF THEIR LAST CHRISTMASES ALL TOGETHER 366 00:21:16,476 --> 00:21:22,315 THE HOUSE WAS DECORATED, AND THERE WERE PLENTY OF PRESENTS 367 00:21:22,315 --> 00:21:28,154 UNDER THE TREE REN WAS PLAYING SANTA FOR THE 368 00:21:28,154 --> 00:21:30,256 KIDS >> NOW YOU GOT ONE OF THESE. 369 00:21:30,256 --> 00:21:31,858 >> Reporter: AND IN THE GARAGE, SHERRA HAD A SURPRISE WAITING 370 00:21:31,858 --> 00:21:35,562 FOR HIM. >> DO YOU LOVE IT, DADDY 371 00:21:35,562 --> 00:21:38,732 >> I LOVE IT IT'S GORGEOUS. 372 00:21:38,732 --> 00:21:41,368 >> Reporter: IT WAS RIGHT OUT OF A CHRISTMAS MOVIE. 373 00:21:41,368 --> 00:21:44,371 BUT BEHIND THE SCENES, REPORTER MARC PERRUSQUIA SAYS REN AND 374 00:21:44,371 --> 00:21:48,775 SHERRA'S LIFE WASN'T ALWAYS SO PICTURE PERFECT. 375 00:21:48,775 --> 00:21:50,910 >> MERRY CHRISTMAS >> PEOPLE WHO KNEW THEM WELL, 376 00:21:50,910 --> 00:21:53,880 BEYOND THE PUBLIC ARENA, KNEW THEY HAD TROUBLES. 377 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:57,250 >> Reporter: A VOLATILE MIX OF INFIDELITY AND JEALOUSY, SAYS 378 00:21:57,250 --> 00:22:00,420 PERRUSQUIA >> THERE WAS THIS DARKER -- 379 00:22:00,420 --> 00:22:06,659 DARKER SIDE. >> Reporter: FOR LORENZEN, LIFE 380 00:22:06,659 --> 00:22:11,064 IN THE NBA WAS INTOXICATING, UNDER THE BRIGHT LIGHTS, IN THE 381 00:22:11,064 --> 00:22:19,506 BIGGEST CITIES WITH PLENTY OF CASH, CLUBBING AND WOMEN 382 00:22:19,506 --> 00:22:25,311 >> HE WAS A ROCK STAR. AND WITH BEING A ROCK STAR COMES 383 00:22:25,311 --> 00:22:29,082 CERTAIN TEMPTATIONS THAT -- THAT COME AT YOU. 384 00:22:29,082 --> 00:22:32,786 >> Reporter: AND THOSE TEMPTATIONS UNFORTUNATELY DID 385 00:22:32,786 --> 00:22:33,753 WIN OVER AT TIMES. >> YEAH. 386 00:22:33,753 --> 00:22:34,821 YEAH YES. 387 00:22:34,821 --> 00:22:35,889 AND, YOU KNOW, THE TEMPTATION -- TEMPTATIONS ARE REAL 388 00:22:35,889 --> 00:22:37,157 >> BY SHERRA'S ACCOUNT, FROM THE TIME THAT HE GOT IN THE NBA, IT 389 00:22:37,157 --> 00:22:40,160 WAS, LIKE, A CONSTANT PARADE OF WOMEN. 390 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,296 HE WAS YOUNG HE WAS A GOOD LOOKIN' GUY. 391 00:22:43,296 --> 00:22:47,000 I MEAN, HE HAD ALL THIS OPPORTUNITY. 392 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,170 I THINK HE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF IT. >> Reporter: SHERRA, ACCORDING 393 00:22:50,170 --> 00:22:53,340 TO LORENZEN'S MOTHER, WAS CHEATING TOO 394 00:22:53,340 --> 00:22:54,607 AND NOT VERY DISCREETLY. >> SHERRA WAS BEIN' SEEN -- NOT 395 00:22:54,607 --> 00:22:55,642 HEARD, SEEN -- DOIN' THINGS SHE SHOULDN'T BE DOIN' 396 00:22:55,642 --> 00:22:57,410 >> Reporter: INFIDELITY? >> UH-HUH. 397 00:22:57,410 --> 00:22:58,378 IF YOU GONNA DO THAT, GO TO THE NEXT TOWN OVER 398 00:22:58,378 --> 00:23:01,815 >> Reporter: SHE WAS FLAUNTING OTHER MEN IN HER HOMETOWN. 399 00:23:01,815 --> 00:23:04,451 >> YES SHE WANTED TO DO WHAT HER SINGLE 400 00:23:04,451 --> 00:23:06,886 FRIENDS DID. >> Reporter: SO SHE WANTED TO 401 00:23:06,886 --> 00:23:10,457 ACT LIKE A SINGLE WOMAN EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS MARRIED 402 00:23:10,457 --> 00:23:15,061 >> UH-HUH, UH-HUH, UH-HUH. SHE DIDN'T JUST WANT TO. 403 00:23:15,061 --> 00:23:17,630 SHE DID IT >> Reporter: REN WAS UPSET ABOUT 404 00:23:17,630 --> 00:23:19,232 SHERRA'S ALLEGED AFFAIRS, ACCORDING TO CLOSE FRIEND 405 00:23:19,232 --> 00:23:21,434 BILL ADKINS. >> HE WAS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT 406 00:23:21,434 --> 00:23:27,674 WHAT HE PERCEIVED AS HER INFIDELITY AND THINGS. 407 00:23:27,674 --> 00:23:29,809 "I CAN'T LEAVE HOME, TRUST HER I'M HEARIN' STORIES AND RUMORS 408 00:23:29,809 --> 00:23:30,910 ABOUT ALL THESE GUYS." AT THE SAME TIME, HE KNEW HE 409 00:23:30,910 --> 00:23:33,446 WASN'T TOTALLY A SAINT AS WELL IN THAT AREA 410 00:23:33,446 --> 00:23:34,547 HE WAS LOOKING FOR SOLUTIONS TO -- SOLVING SOME OF THE 411 00:23:34,547 --> 00:23:36,483 MARITAL ISSUES THAT HE WAS HAVING AT THE TIME 412 00:23:36,483 --> 00:23:37,317 >> Reporter: HE WANTED TO MAKE IT WORK? 413 00:23:37,317 --> 00:23:42,088 >> HE ABSOLUTELY WANTED TO MAKE IT WORK. 414 00:23:42,088 --> 00:23:45,158 YEAH >> Reporter: IN 2003, AMIDST ALL 415 00:23:45,158 --> 00:23:47,827 THE TURBULENCE, AN UNEXPECTED TRAGEDY ROCKED THEIR WORLD 416 00:23:47,827 --> 00:23:50,997 IT INVOLVED THE COUPLE'S 11-MONTH-OLD DAUGHTER, SIERRA. 417 00:23:50,997 --> 00:23:53,099 >> WRIGHT'S WIFE FOUND THE BABY NOT BREATHING IN HER CRIB 418 00:23:53,099 --> 00:23:55,769 SATURDAY SHE RUSHED HER TO A NEARBY 419 00:23:55,769 --> 00:23:58,938 MEDICAL CENTER WHERE SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD. 420 00:23:58,938 --> 00:24:01,608 >> THE DOCTOR'S REPORT SAID THAT SHE DIED FROM S.I.D.S. 421 00:24:01,608 --> 00:24:05,245 SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME THAT WAS THE HARDEST THING I 422 00:24:05,245 --> 00:24:06,846 KNOW THAT HE EVER WENT THROUGH IN HIS LIFE. 423 00:24:06,846 --> 00:24:11,117 >> SHE'S IN HEAVEN WITH GOD, AND I KNOW THAT. 424 00:24:11,117 --> 00:24:15,321 SO, YOU KNOW, NOW I'M JUST GOING TO WORK HARD ON TRYING TO GET 425 00:24:15,321 --> 00:24:17,424 MYSELF THERE >> Reporter: DID IT CAUSE A 426 00:24:17,424 --> 00:24:19,559 STRAIN IN HIS MARRIAGE >> I THINK IT DID. 427 00:24:19,559 --> 00:24:21,661 HE WAS ON THE ROAD WHEN IT HAPPENED 428 00:24:21,661 --> 00:24:24,297 AND NOT BEING ABLE TO GET THERE AND PROTECT HIS DAUGHTER - 429 00:24:24,297 --> 00:24:27,067 >> Reporter: AWFUL >> I THINK HE ALWAYS REGRETTED 430 00:24:27,067 --> 00:24:30,103 THAT >> Reporter: REN'S FRIENDS SAID 431 00:24:30,103 --> 00:24:38,078 THAT TWO YEARS LATER, THE COUPLE'S PROBLEMS ESCALATED TO A 432 00:24:38,078 --> 00:24:43,817 WHOLE NEW, AND NOW DANGEROUS, LEVEL. 433 00:24:43,817 --> 00:24:46,586 >> THERE WAS A SITUATION THAT HAPPENED AND -- LORENZEN WENT TO 434 00:24:46,586 --> 00:24:49,122 THE HOUSE WHERE SUPPOSEDLY SHE WAS THERE WITH ANOTHER GUY 435 00:24:49,122 --> 00:24:51,758 HE KNEW THE GENTLEMAN. >> AND HE WENT BALLISTIC 436 00:24:51,758 --> 00:24:52,926 AND I THINK HE HAD A GUN >> Reporter: THE STORY MADE THE 437 00:24:52,926 --> 00:24:54,928 LOCAL NEWSPAPERS, WHICH REPORTED THAT REN THREATENED THE MAN AND 438 00:24:54,928 --> 00:25:00,100 ALSO ATTACKED SHERRA >> SHE HAD SOME MARKS ON HER 439 00:25:00,100 --> 00:25:04,437 FACE HE HIT HER 440 00:25:04,437 --> 00:25:06,673 AND THE POLICE WERE GONNA ARREST HIM. 441 00:25:06,673 --> 00:25:07,607 BUT SHE WOULD NOT TESTIFY AGAINST HIM. 442 00:25:07,607 --> 00:25:08,675 LORENZEN HAD A PUBLIC IMAGE TO UPHOLD 443 00:25:08,675 --> 00:25:10,777 SHE DIDN'T WANT TO EXPOSE THAT PART OF HIM. 444 00:25:10,777 --> 00:25:12,879 >> Reporter: NO CHARGES WERE FILED. 445 00:25:12,879 --> 00:25:17,650 IN A NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT, REN DENIED HARMING HIS WIFE OR 446 00:25:17,650 --> 00:25:20,820 HAVING A GUN BUT WE SPOKE TO A WOMAN WHO WAS 447 00:25:20,820 --> 00:25:22,555 THERE WHO TOLD US SHE FEARED FOR SHERRA'S LIFE. 448 00:25:22,555 --> 00:25:25,058 WITH THE HELP OF COUNSELING, THEIR TUMULTUOUS MARRIAGE 449 00:25:25,058 --> 00:25:32,665 SOMEHOW STAYED INTACT. AND IN 2007, THEY EVEN RENEWED 450 00:25:32,665 --> 00:25:38,238 THEIR VOWS >> EVERYBODY THOUGHT THAT, 451 00:25:38,238 --> 00:25:39,939 "OKAY, NOW THEY'RE GOOD AGAIN. FEW MONTHS PASS BY AND THE SAME 452 00:25:39,939 --> 00:25:40,940 THING'S HAPPENING AGAIN. >> Reporter: BACK TO THE 453 00:25:40,940 --> 00:25:41,941 FIGHTING >> BACK TO THE FIGHTING. 454 00:25:41,941 --> 00:25:44,344 >> Reporter: AND OFTEN IT WAS ABOUT MONEY, SAYS CLOSE FRIEND 455 00:25:44,344 --> 00:25:46,680 PHIL DOTSON, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT CAME TO SHERRA'S SPENDING. 456 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,883 >> THERE WERE TIMES WHEN, UH, SHE WOULD SPEND MONEY AND NOT 457 00:25:49,883 --> 00:25:55,155 TELL HIM THAT SHE WOULD SPEND MONEY, MAYBE TO GET BACK AT HIM 458 00:25:55,155 --> 00:25:57,791 FOR INDISCRETIONS. >> THERE WOULD BE, UH, LARGE 459 00:25:57,791 --> 00:26:00,527 SUMS OF MONEY THAT WOULD -- HE WOULD THINK IS IN THE CHECKING 460 00:26:00,527 --> 00:26:03,096 ACCOUNT, AND IT'S NOT THERE. AND IT'D BE BECAUSE OF HER 461 00:26:03,096 --> 00:26:04,698 SPENDING >> Reporter: THIS WAS CAUSING 462 00:26:04,698 --> 00:26:10,036 STRESS IN THE MARRIAGE >> ABSOLUTELY. 463 00:26:10,036 --> 00:26:14,240 >> Reporter: BY 2009, LORENZEN'S NBA CAREER WAS WINDING DOWN. 464 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,343 AND SO WERE THOSE MULTIMILLION DOLLAR PAYCHECKS, WHICH DIDN'T 465 00:26:16,343 --> 00:26:19,512 HELP HIS ROCKY RELATIONSHIP WITH SHERRA 466 00:26:19,512 --> 00:26:23,750 >> YOU COULD SEE VERY QUICKLY THAT THE MARRIAGE WAS HEADED TO 467 00:26:23,750 --> 00:26:26,820 A DEMISE >> Reporter: LORENZEN AND SHERRA 468 00:26:26,820 --> 00:26:33,793 SPLIT UP THAT YEAR AND WENT THEIR SEPARATE WAYS, SAYS REN'S 469 00:26:33,793 --> 00:26:36,429 CLOSE FRIEND MIKE GIPSON >> HE SAID, "SHE DOIN' HER 470 00:26:36,429 --> 00:26:37,497 THING. I'M DOIN' MY THING 471 00:26:37,497 --> 00:26:39,065 HELL, SHE EVEN SLEEPIN' WITH THE LAWN MAN." 472 00:26:39,065 --> 00:26:40,166 >> Reporter: THE LAWN MAN. YOU MAY WANT TO REMEMBER HIM 473 00:26:40,166 --> 00:26:42,268 SHERRA FILED FOR DIVORCE, AND THEIR MARRIAGE WAS OFFICIALLY 474 00:26:42,268 --> 00:26:44,938 OVER IN 2010 REN'S MOM SAYS HE WAS RELIEVED 475 00:26:44,938 --> 00:26:48,108 >> HE JUST COULDN'T TAKE IT NO MORE 476 00:26:48,108 --> 00:26:54,981 SHE HAD START MAKIN' HIM SICK JUST TO SEE HER FACE 477 00:26:54,981 --> 00:26:57,083 >> Reporter: BUT WAS IT SOMEWHAT ALSO LIBERATING FOR LORENZEN TO 478 00:26:57,083 --> 00:26:58,184 FINALLY BE - >> "I'M FREE 479 00:26:58,184 --> 00:26:59,219 FREE." >> Reporter: -- OUT OF THE 480 00:26:59,219 --> 00:27:06,626 MARRIAGE >> FREE, AND THAT'S ALL HE 481 00:27:06,626 --> 00:27:10,864 WANTED TO BE FREE AND HAVE HIS KIDS 482 00:27:10,864 --> 00:27:12,499 >> Reporter: AS PART OF THEIR DIVORCE SETTLEMENT, LORENZEN 483 00:27:12,499 --> 00:27:13,700 TOOK OUT A MILLION DOLLAR LIFE INSURANCE POLICY THAT WOULD BE 484 00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:14,567 PAID TO THE SIX CHILDREN UPON HIS DEATH. 485 00:27:14,567 --> 00:27:15,702 IT WOULD BE ADMINISTERED BY SHERRA SINCE SHE WAS AWARDED 486 00:27:15,702 --> 00:27:17,237 CUSTODY. REN WAS ALSO ORDERED TO PAY 487 00:27:17,237 --> 00:27:24,644 ALIMONY AND CHILD SUPPORT TOTALING $26,000 A MONTH 488 00:27:24,644 --> 00:27:31,551 >> LORENZEN, EVEN THOUGH HE MADE $55 MILLION PLAYIN' BASKETBALL, 489 00:27:31,551 --> 00:27:35,288 HE WAS BROKE HE HAD TWO VERY EXPENSIVE HOMES 490 00:27:35,288 --> 00:27:36,923 THAT WERE FORECLOSED ON. THEY WERE BOUNCIN' CHECKS LEFT 491 00:27:36,923 --> 00:27:38,291 AND RIGHT. I MEAN, THEY BURNED THROUGH ALL 492 00:27:38,291 --> 00:27:39,092 THIS MONEY HE SEEMED TO BE IN NEED OF 493 00:27:39,092 --> 00:27:42,696 MONEY. >> Reporter: BIG MONEY 494 00:27:42,696 --> 00:27:44,364 BUT FROM WHERE THE COPS HAD A NEW LEAD ABOUT 495 00:27:44,364 --> 00:27:45,865 HOW REN WAS TRYING TO RAISE SOME QUICK CASH 496 00:27:45,865 --> 00:27:47,967 AND IT WOULD TAKE HIS MURDER INVESTIGATION IN A WHOLE NEW 497 00:27:47,967 --> 00:27:50,403 DIRECTION. YOU HAD TO TAKE THE DRUG THEORY 498 00:28:11,858 --> 00:28:14,561 >> Reporter: WHEN POLICE CATCH A HOMICIDE CASE, THE VICTIM IS 499 00:28:14,561 --> 00:28:16,663 USUALLY A STRANGER BUT MANY AT THE MEMPHIS POLICE 500 00:28:16,663 --> 00:28:21,935 DEPARTMENT KNEW LORENZEN WRIGHT. INCLUDING TONEY ARMSTRONG. 501 00:28:21,935 --> 00:28:25,138 >> THIS IS A GUY THAT I USED TO TALK TO. 502 00:28:25,138 --> 00:28:28,308 YOU KNOW, I USED TO EAT IN HIS RESTAURANT 503 00:28:28,308 --> 00:28:32,545 UH, OCCASIONALLY HE'D COME SIT DOWN WITH ME 504 00:28:32,545 --> 00:28:35,715 WE'D HAVE CONVERSATIONS WHEN HE WAS IN TOWN. 505 00:28:35,715 --> 00:28:37,350 IT WAS CHILLING. >> Reporter: CHILLING TO THINK 506 00:28:37,350 --> 00:28:38,585 HOW THIS HOMETOWN HERO WAS SO BRUTALLY MURDERED, SEEMINGLY FOR 507 00:28:38,585 --> 00:28:40,487 NO REASON. SO ARMSTRONG AND HIS TEAM OF 508 00:28:40,487 --> 00:28:43,690 DETECTIVES STARTED THEIR INVESTIGATION BY LOOKING AT THE 509 00:28:43,690 --> 00:28:51,097 VICTIM HIMSELF >> LET'S RETRACE LORENZEN'S 510 00:28:51,097 --> 00:28:55,135 STEPS. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON TO SEE 511 00:28:55,135 --> 00:28:56,603 HIM ALIVE WHO KNOWS HIM BETTER THAN ANYBODY ELSE? 512 00:28:56,603 --> 00:28:58,338 LET'S TALK TO HIS WIFE >> AND THERE ARE NO NEW LEADS OR 513 00:28:58,338 --> 00:28:59,072 ANYTHING IT'S MIND-BOGGLING 514 00:28:59,072 --> 00:29:00,607 >> Reporter: THAT WOULD BE SHERRA WRIGHT, REN'S EX-WIFE 515 00:29:00,607 --> 00:29:04,310 SHE WAS INTERVIEWED BY INVESTIGATORS WHEN HE FIRST WENT 516 00:29:04,310 --> 00:29:06,446 MISSING. >> I JUST NEED SOMEBODY TO CALL 517 00:29:06,446 --> 00:29:08,548 IF THEY'VE SEEN HIM OR HEARD ANYTHING FROM HIM. 518 00:29:08,548 --> 00:29:11,217 >> Reporter: SHERRA TOLD POLICE SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENED IN 519 00:29:11,217 --> 00:29:14,187 THE WEEKS BEFORE REN'S MURDER. >> THERE ARE THESE MYSTERIOUS 520 00:29:14,187 --> 00:29:17,057 GUNMEN SHOWIN' UP, YOU KNOW, WITH, YOU KNOW -- WITH GUNS 521 00:29:17,057 --> 00:29:27,667 TUCKED IN THEIR WAISTBANDS WHO ARE KNOCKING ON DOORS, KNOCKING 522 00:29:27,667 --> 00:29:34,040 ON HER DOOR LOOKIN' FOR LORENZEN 523 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:38,244 >> Reporter: SHERRA SAID SHE WASN'T SURE WHO THEY WERE OR 524 00:29:38,244 --> 00:29:44,117 WHAT THEY WANTED SHE ALSO TOLD POLICE ABOUT THE 525 00:29:44,117 --> 00:29:47,253 LAST TIME SHE SAW REN, ON THE NIGHT HE DISAPPEARED 526 00:29:47,253 --> 00:29:48,455 >> SHE GIVES A STATEMENT THAT BASICALLY SAYIN' LORENZEN LEFT 527 00:29:48,455 --> 00:29:50,223 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT >> Reporter: HE HAD BEEN AT HER 528 00:29:50,223 --> 00:29:51,057 HOUSE? >> HE HAD BEEN IN HER HOUSE. 529 00:29:51,057 --> 00:29:52,058 HE HAD GOTTEN THERE FROM ATLANTA. 530 00:29:52,058 --> 00:29:53,093 AND SOMETIME DURIN' THE NIGHT, HE LEAVES. 531 00:29:53,093 --> 00:29:54,694 >> Reporter: SHERRA'S TIMELINE OF LORENZEN'S LAST NIGHT HAD HIM 532 00:29:54,694 --> 00:29:57,831 ARRIVING AT HER HOME AROUND 8:00 P.M 533 00:29:57,831 --> 00:30:04,337 SHE SAID REN LATER LEFT THE HOUSE AROUND 10:30, BUT SOON 534 00:30:04,337 --> 00:30:05,839 RETURNED THEN, "SOMETIME BEFORE 535 00:30:05,839 --> 00:30:07,073 3:00 A.M.," SAID SHERRA, HE LEFT AGAIN WITH "AN UNKNOWN PERSON. 536 00:30:07,073 --> 00:30:08,441 BUT THAT WASN'T ALL. >> SHE TOLD POLICE THAT THE 537 00:30:08,441 --> 00:30:09,442 NIGHT HE WAS KILLED, HE LEFT WITH A BOX OF DRUGS. 538 00:30:09,442 --> 00:30:13,213 HE SAID HE WAS GONNA FLIP SOMETHING. 539 00:30:13,213 --> 00:30:16,182 >> SHE HEARS HIM TALKIN' ON THE PHONE ABOUT FLIPPIN' OR TURNIN' 540 00:30:16,182 --> 00:30:17,517 OVER A LARGE SUM OF MONEY. BUT SHE DOESN'T SAY WHO HE'S 541 00:30:17,517 --> 00:30:19,119 TALKIN' TO >> Reporter: SO DETECTIVES DUG 542 00:30:19,119 --> 00:30:20,887 DEEPER INTO LORENZEN'S LIFE. THEY CONFIRMED HE WAS NEARLY 543 00:30:20,887 --> 00:30:25,458 BROKE. AND THEY FOUND SOMETHING ELSE, A 544 00:30:25,458 --> 00:30:27,560 CONNECTION OF SORTS, TO A SHADY CHARACTER NAMED CRAIG PETTIES. 545 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:31,798 >> HE'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE LARGEST DRUG DEALERS THAT WE'VE 546 00:30:31,798 --> 00:30:34,467 EVER SEEN. >> Reporter: IN 2009, LORENZEN'S 547 00:30:34,467 --> 00:30:49,716 NAME SURFACED IN A FEDERAL DRUG INVESTIGATION INVOLVING A 548 00:30:49,716 --> 00:30:50,550 LIEUTENANT OF PETTY'S NAMED BOBBY COLE 549 00:30:50,550 --> 00:30:51,451 COLE TURNED OVER TWO LUXURY CARS TO POLICE. 550 00:30:51,451 --> 00:30:52,686 WHEN THEY RAN THE VIN NUMBERS, IT TURNED OUT THE VEHICLES WERE 551 00:30:52,686 --> 00:30:55,922 REGISTERED IN REN'S NAME >> LORENZ 552 00:30:55,922 --> 00:30:58,858 INTO MONEY ILLICITLY AND THEY'VE GOT TO LAUNDER IT. 553 00:30:58,858 --> 00:31:02,062 >> Reporter: DEBORAH INSISTS IT WASN'T HER SON WHO SOLD THE 554 00:31:02,062 --> 00:31:06,266 CARS, BUT A GUY WHO WORKED FOR HIM. 555 00:31:06,266 --> 00:31:14,774 IN FACT, REN WAS NEVER CHARGED WITH ANYTHING. 556 00:31:14,774 --> 00:31:21,114 BUT NOW THAT HE WAS DEAD, THE CITY BUZZED WITH RUMORS THAT REN 557 00:31:21,114 --> 00:31:24,851 MAY HAVE BEEN THE VICTIM OF A DRUG HIT 558 00:31:24,851 --> 00:31:26,086 ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE WAY HE WAS FOUND IN THAT FIELD, EXECUTED. 559 00:31:26,086 --> 00:31:26,986 YOU HAD TO TAKE THE DRUG THEORY SERIOUSLY. 560 00:31:26,986 --> 00:31:28,621 IT WAS SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY WAS TALKING ABOUT? 561 00:31:28,621 --> 00:31:29,823 >> ABSOLUTELY. IN MY EXPERIENCE AS A LAW 562 00:31:29,823 --> 00:31:31,257 ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, DO FAMOUS PEOPLE GET KILLED IN THE DRUG 563 00:31:31,257 --> 00:31:31,725 WORLD? ABSOLUTELY 564 00:31:31,725 --> 00:31:33,326 DO ATHLETES GET KILLED IN THE DRUG WORLD 565 00:31:33,326 --> 00:31:35,428 ABSOLUTELY SO WE HAD TO MAKE SURE THAT WE 566 00:31:35,428 --> 00:31:37,530 LOOKED AT ALL OF THAT. >> Reporter: WITH HIS NBA CAREER 567 00:31:37,530 --> 00:31:40,734 DONE, THE BIG PAYCHECKS HAD DRIED UP 568 00:31:40,734 --> 00:31:44,971 PLUS THOSE HUGE ALIMONY AND CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS WERE DUE. 569 00:31:44,971 --> 00:31:49,242 POLICE WONDERED IF REN WAS DESPERATE FOR MONEY. 570 00:31:49,242 --> 00:31:52,412 COULD HE HAVE BEEN DEALING DRUGS TO MAKE SOME QUICK CASH? 571 00:31:52,412 --> 00:31:55,115 SO DETECTIVES STARTED INTERVIEWING A WHOLE NEW CAST OF 572 00:31:55,115 --> 00:31:57,183 CHARACTERS TO ANSWER THAT VERY QUESTION 573 00:31:57,183 --> 00:32:03,556 >> WE TALKED TO INFORMANTS THAT WE HAD ON THE STREETS. 574 00:32:03,556 --> 00:32:05,658 AND EVERY DRUG DEALER, EVERY INFORMANT THAT WE TALKED TO 575 00:32:05,658 --> 00:32:07,794 BASICALLY SAID THAT THAT JUST WASN'T THE CASE. 576 00:32:07,794 --> 00:32:10,196 >> Reporter: REN'S FAMILY AND FRIENDS WERE OUTRAGED AT SHERRA 577 00:32:10,196 --> 00:32:14,167 FOR EVEN SUGGESTING HE MIGHT BE DEALING. 578 00:32:14,167 --> 00:32:17,871 >> WHEN SHE CAME OUT AND SAID THAT HE LEFT WITH A BOX OF DRUGS 579 00:32:17,871 --> 00:32:20,073 AND SOME PEOPLE CAME TO THE HOUSE, WELL, YOU TAKE ALL HIS 580 00:32:20,073 --> 00:32:23,176 CREDIBILITY AWAY NONE OF IT MADE SENSE. 581 00:32:23,176 --> 00:32:26,913 >> Reporter: WAS LORENZEN KNOWINGLY INVOLVED IN ANY 582 00:32:26,913 --> 00:32:30,617 CRIMINAL ACTIVITY? >> NOT THAT I KNOW OF AT ALL 583 00:32:30,617 --> 00:32:35,388 I NEVER SAW ANYTHING THAT WOULD BE OUT OF THE ORDINARY 584 00:32:35,388 --> 00:32:39,626 >> Reporter: SO THE DRUG THEORY, WHICH SEEMED TO SIDETRACK THE 585 00:32:39,626 --> 00:32:43,863 INVESTIGATION, WAS NOW DEAD. REN'S MOTHER HAD NEVER BELIEVED 586 00:32:43,863 --> 00:32:48,335 IT ANYWAY. SHE WAS CERTAIN THE KEY TO 587 00:32:48,335 --> 00:32:50,770 SOLVING HER SON'S MURDER WAS MUCH CLOSER TO HOME. 588 00:32:50,770 --> 00:32:52,872 >> I TOLD THE POLICE, "Y'ALL NEED TO GO TALK TO HIS EX-WIFE." 589 00:32:52,872 --> 00:32:55,508 >> Reporter: LORENZEN'S MOTHER HAD NEVER BEEN SHERRA'S BIGGEST 590 00:32:55,508 --> 00:32:56,609 FAN. SHE WAS CONVINCED HER FORMER 591 00:32:56,609 --> 00:32:58,745 DAUGHTER-IN-LAW KNEW A LOT MORE ABOUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO 592 00:32:58,745 --> 00:33:00,146 REN. WHAT DID THE POLICE THINK ABOUT 593 00:33:00,146 --> 00:33:02,415 YOU? >> UH, THAT I WAS A CRAZY LADY 594 00:33:02,415 --> 00:33:04,551 BUT I TOLD 'EM, "I'M GONNA KEEP ON DOIN' THIS WHILE THERE'S 595 00:33:04,551 --> 00:33:06,453 BLOOD RUNNIN' WARM IN MY BODY. >> Reporter: YOU WOULD'VE NEEDED 596 00:33:06,453 --> 00:33:07,220 A SIGN FROM GOD -- >> RIGHT 597 00:33:07,220 --> 00:33:09,322 >> Reporter: -- TO BACK OFF SHERRA WRIGHT. 598 00:33:09,322 --> 00:33:13,059 >> EXACTLY EXACTLY. 599 00:33:13,059 --> 00:33:15,128 >> Reporter: DETECTIVES DID NOTICE ONE THING 600 00:33:15,128 --> 00:33:18,832 WHILE DEBORAH WAS RELENTLESS, SHERRA WAS RECLUSIVE 601 00:33:18,832 --> 00:33:22,068 POLICE DIDN'T HEAR A PEEP FROM HER. 602 00:33:22,068 --> 00:33:25,205 >> THE LEVEL OF GRIEF FROM BOTH OF THOSE WOMEN -- THEY WERE 603 00:33:25,205 --> 00:33:26,840 POLAR OPPOSITES OF EACH OTHER. >> Reporter: NOW, IN FAIRNESS, 604 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,375 ONE'S THE MOM. ONE'S DIVORCED 605 00:33:28,375 --> 00:33:30,510 >> BUT YOU STILL HAVE SIX KIDS BY THIS MAN, AND HE'S BEEN 606 00:33:30,510 --> 00:33:33,146 MURDERED >> Reporter: SHERRA ISN'T ACTING 607 00:33:33,146 --> 00:33:34,748 UPSET ENOUGH 'CAUSE THAT DOESN'T MAKE 608 00:33:34,748 --> 00:33:36,883 SOMEBODY A KILLER. >> IT DOESN'T MAKE YOU A KILLER. 609 00:33:36,883 --> 00:33:41,121 IT MAKES YOU A HIGH LEVEL PERSON OF INTEREST THOUGH 610 00:33:41,121 --> 00:33:43,757 >> Reporter: SHERRA HARDLY SEEMED LIKE A KILLER 611 00:33:43,757 --> 00:33:46,960 SHE WAS DATING A SHERIFF'S DEPUTY, WAS DEEPLY RELIGIOUS, 612 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,629 AND SPENT A LOT OF TIME AT CHURCH WHERE SHE WAS ON TRACK TO 613 00:33:49,629 --> 00:33:53,333 BECOME AN ORDAINED MINISTER. SHE WAS ALSO EXTREMELY DEVOTED 614 00:33:53,333 --> 00:33:56,269 TO HER SIX KIDS. HOW WAS SHERRA AS A MOTHER 615 00:33:56,269 --> 00:34:00,206 >> SHE LOVED HER KIDS. I SAW LOVE 616 00:34:00,206 --> 00:34:09,816 I SAW NURTURING. THERE'S NO WAY SHE COULD HAVE 617 00:34:09,816 --> 00:34:11,351 HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH TAKING THEIR FATHER AWAY. 618 00:34:11,351 --> 00:34:12,819 >> Reporter: IN FACT, POLICE COULDN'T FIND ANY EVIDENCE 619 00:34:12,819 --> 00:34:14,554 LINKING SHERRA TO THE MURDER AS MONTHS TICKED BY WITH NO NEW 620 00:34:14,554 --> 00:34:17,223 LEADS, THE CASE BEGAN TO GO COLD 621 00:34:17,223 --> 00:34:18,792 >> IT HAS BEEN 365 DAYS. >> Reporter: ON THE FIRST 622 00:34:18,792 --> 00:34:21,428 ANNIVERSARY OF REN'S DEATH, HIS MOTHER HELD A VIGIL. 623 00:34:21,428 --> 00:34:23,563 >> FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND FANS OF LORENZEN WRIGHT GATHERED IN 624 00:34:23,563 --> 00:34:26,733 FRONT OF THE FEDEX FORUM >> I'M NOT GIVING UP 625 00:34:26,733 --> 00:34:29,936 I'M NOT TIRED YET. SOMEBODY'S GONNA TELL ON A 626 00:34:29,936 --> 00:34:32,072 FRIEND THAT'S HOW THIS GON' END 627 00:34:32,072 --> 00:34:37,977 >> Reporter: BUT THE END DIDN'T COME 628 00:34:37,977 --> 00:34:39,479 THE CASE GATHERED DUST MORE MONTHS PASSED 629 00:34:39,479 --> 00:34:42,115 THEN YEARS SHERRA LAID LOW AND MOVED ON 630 00:34:42,115 --> 00:34:46,319 WITH HER LIFE. UNTIL SOMEBODY DECIDED TO FOLLOW 631 00:35:08,575 --> 00:35:09,376 >>> THIS ONE IS MY DAUGHTER, MY DOGS 632 00:35:09,376 --> 00:35:11,244 I BREED ROTTWEILERS. >> Reporter: TO HIS FANS, 633 00:35:11,244 --> 00:35:18,651 LORENZEN WRIGHT SEEMED LIKE A GENTLE GIANT 634 00:35:18,651 --> 00:35:24,090 THE LAST PERSON ANYONE WOULD WANT TO KILL 635 00:35:24,090 --> 00:35:26,092 BUT SOMEONE MOST CERTAINLY DID PROBLEM WAS, POLICE COULDN'T 636 00:35:26,092 --> 00:35:28,194 FIGURE OUT WHO BY NOW FOUR LONG YEARS HAD 637 00:35:28,194 --> 00:35:30,830 PASSED SINCE HIS MURDER, AND THE CASE THAT ONCE CONSUMED THE CITY 638 00:35:30,830 --> 00:35:34,534 OF MEMPHIS WAS NOW ICE COLD, ACCORDING TO FORMER WMC-TV 639 00:35:34,534 --> 00:35:38,238 ANCHOR KONTJI ANTHONY. >> NOTHING 640 00:35:38,238 --> 00:35:43,076 CRICKETS CRICKETS 641 00:35:43,076 --> 00:35:46,746 IT WAS JUST CRICKETS FOR YEARS AND EVERY NOW AND THEN SOMEBODY 642 00:35:46,746 --> 00:35:49,883 WOULD JUST SAY, "GOSH, DO YOU THINK THEY'LL EVER FIGURE OUT 643 00:35:49,883 --> 00:35:54,120 WHO KILLED LORENZEN WRIGHT?" >> Reporter: MEMPHIS DETECTIVES 644 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,222 HAD CLEARED ALMOST EVERY POSSIBLE SUSPECT 645 00:35:56,222 --> 00:35:57,824 BUT ONE IN PARTICULAR REMAINED IN THE FOREFRONT -- 646 00:35:57,824 --> 00:35:58,892 LORENZEN WRIGHT'S EX-WIFE, SHERRA 647 00:35:58,892 --> 00:36:02,028 >> SHE'S ALWAYS BEEN A PERSON OF INTEREST 648 00:36:02,028 --> 00:36:06,833 AND NO MATTER WHO WE TALK TO, NO MATTER WHAT DOOR WE KNOCKED ON, 649 00:36:06,833 --> 00:36:12,138 NO MATTER WHAT CRIME STOPPERS TIP WE GOT, IT ALWAYS LED RIGHT 650 00:36:12,138 --> 00:36:14,741 BACK TO SHERRA >> Reporter: WAS ANYONE COMING 651 00:36:14,741 --> 00:36:17,911 TO HER DEFENSE AND SAYING SHE LOVED LORENZEN AND SHE WOULD 652 00:36:17,911 --> 00:36:21,748 NEVER DO THIS? >> I'VE INVESTIGATED PEOPLE THAT 653 00:36:21,748 --> 00:36:22,949 HAVE COMMITTED MULTIPLE MURDERS AND HAD PEOPLE THAT COME TO 654 00:36:22,949 --> 00:36:24,284 THEIR DEFENSE. I HAVE NEVER GOTTEN A CALL FROM 655 00:36:24,284 --> 00:36:25,352 ANYBODY THAT HAS DEFENDED SHERRA 656 00:36:25,352 --> 00:36:27,487 EVER >> Reporter: MAYBE THAT'S WHY 657 00:36:27,487 --> 00:36:34,861 SHERRA HAD LAWYERED UP AND STOPPED TALKING TO THE POLICE. 658 00:36:34,861 --> 00:36:39,132 OUT OF THE PUBLIC EYE, SHE SOMETIMES SURFACED AT THE MT. 659 00:36:39,132 --> 00:36:42,302 OLIVE BAPTIST CHURCH, WHERE SHE WAS NOW AN ORDAINED MINISTER, 660 00:36:42,302 --> 00:36:47,607 AND RAN A NON-PROFIT CALLED BORN 2 PROSPER MINISTRIES, WHICH 661 00:36:47,607 --> 00:36:51,311 HELPED LOCAL KIDS. >> Reporter: AS FOR SUPPORTING 662 00:36:51,311 --> 00:36:54,481 HER OWN CHILDREN, SHERRA'S PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME STILL 663 00:36:54,481 --> 00:36:59,386 CAME FROM REN. >> SHE IS GETTING HIS INSURANCE 664 00:36:59,386 --> 00:37:04,024 MONEY AND THE PENSION FROM THE GRIZZLIES AND ALL THE OTHER NBA 665 00:37:04,024 --> 00:37:06,659 TEAMS. SO THE MONEY'S GOING TO SHERRA 666 00:37:06,659 --> 00:37:09,295 BECAUSE SHE IS THE CUSTODIAN OF HER OWN CHILDREN WITH LORENZEN 667 00:37:09,295 --> 00:37:11,398 >> Reporter: THERE WAS THAT LIFE INSURANCE POLICY LORENZEN PUT IN 668 00:37:11,398 --> 00:37:15,669 PLACE FOR HIS SIX CHILDREN WHEN HE AND SHERRA DIVORCED 669 00:37:15,669 --> 00:37:21,041 WHEN HIS FATHER HERB WRIGHT FOUND OUT SHERRA WASN'T USING 670 00:37:21,041 --> 00:37:22,809 THE MONEY IN THE CHILDREN'S BEST INTEREST, HE SUED. 671 00:37:22,809 --> 00:37:25,211 >> SHE COLLECTED THE ONE MILLION DOLLARS AND HAD SPENT SOMEWHERE 672 00:37:25,211 --> 00:37:28,248 LIKE $930,000 OF IT. >> Reporter: HERB WRIGHT VERSUS 673 00:37:28,248 --> 00:37:30,483 SHERRA WRIGHT. SHE RECEIVED MORE THAN A MILLION 674 00:37:30,483 --> 00:37:36,856 DOLLARS BETWEEN AUGUST 1st, 2007 675 00:37:36,856 --> 00:37:41,094 >> SO WE END UP GOING TO COURT THE ENTIRE INSURANCE FUND IS 676 00:37:41,094 --> 00:37:45,865 ALMOST ALL GONE AND HIS FATHER WANTED TO PUT A STOP TO THAT 677 00:37:45,865 --> 00:37:51,671 >> Reporter: HERB WRIGHT IS ASKING THE COURT FOR 678 00:37:51,671 --> 00:37:55,909 SHERRA WRIGHT TO BE REMOVED AS TRUSTEE OF A MILLION DOLLAR LIFE 679 00:37:55,909 --> 00:38:00,146 INSURANCE PROCEEDS TRUST THE LORENZEN WRIGHT CASE WAS 680 00:38:00,146 --> 00:38:03,183 BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT AS SHERRA WAS NOW IN COURT AND ON CAMERA 681 00:38:03,183 --> 00:38:04,150 >> MY WHOLE LIFE HAS BEEN ON HOLD, PRETTY MUCH. 682 00:38:04,150 --> 00:38:05,485 GOING THROUGH QUITE A BIT. IT'S DIFFICULT FOR THE KIDS. AND 683 00:38:05,485 --> 00:38:06,753 IT'S BEEN DIFFICULT FOR ME, BUT I BELIEVE THAT WE DESERVE TO BE 684 00:38:06,753 --> 00:38:08,121 HAPPY. >> Reporter: THE COURT 685 00:38:08,121 --> 00:38:10,757 PROCEEDINGS WERE CONTENTIOUS AND EXPOSED ALL THE SPECIFICS OF 686 00:38:10,757 --> 00:38:15,028 SHERRA'S SPENDING. MORE THAN $55,000 FOR FURNITURE. 687 00:38:15,028 --> 00:38:19,232 MORE THAN $180,000 SPENT ON EXPENSES AT FOUR DIFFERENT 688 00:38:19,232 --> 00:38:27,173 PROPERTIES >> AND THE JUDGE DECIDED TO GET 689 00:38:27,173 --> 00:38:32,912 A RECEIVER TO TAKE OVER THE FUNDS AND TO INVESTIGATE WHAT 690 00:38:32,912 --> 00:38:36,249 WAS GOING ON WITH THE MONEY. >> Reporter: WHICH MEANT WHAT 691 00:38:36,249 --> 00:38:37,751 WAS LEFT OF LORENZEN'S INSURANCE MONEY WAS NOW OUT OF SHERRA'S 692 00:38:37,751 --> 00:38:38,918 CONTROL. BUT LOSING IN COURT DIDN'T STOP 693 00:38:38,918 --> 00:38:40,053 SHERRA FROM LAUNCHING A NEW CAREER - 694 00:38:40,053 --> 00:38:41,287 AS AN AUTHOR SHE WROTE AND SELF PUBLISHED A 695 00:38:41,287 --> 00:38:43,923 BOOK CALLED "MR. TELL ME ANYTHING." 696 00:38:43,923 --> 00:38:46,793 YOU CAN PROBABLY GUESS WHO THE TITLE CHARACTER WAS SUPPOSED TO 697 00:38:46,793 --> 00:38:51,564 BE >> I THINK A LOT OF IT MIGHT'VE 698 00:38:51,564 --> 00:38:55,268 BEEN TRUE, BUT I THINK A LOT OF IT'S STILL MADE UP 699 00:38:55,268 --> 00:39:01,641 I THINK A LOT OF IT WAS STILL HER PERSPECTIVE AND SHE WANTED 700 00:39:01,641 --> 00:39:08,014 TO MAKE HIM SEEM LIKE A REALLY BAD GUY. 701 00:39:08,014 --> 00:39:10,183 >> Reporter: THE BOOK SEEMED TO BE A FICTIONALIZED ACCOUNT OF 702 00:39:10,183 --> 00:39:12,752 SHERRA'S TUMULTUOUS LIFE WITH LORENZEN 703 00:39:12,752 --> 00:39:14,421 IT WAS HARDLY A BEST SELLER, BUT KONTJI ANTHONY FOUND IT QUITE 704 00:39:14,421 --> 00:39:17,490 THE READ >> THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN 705 00:39:17,490 --> 00:39:20,794 SHERRA, LORENZEN, AND THE TWO MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE BOOK ARE 706 00:39:20,794 --> 00:39:21,861 UNCANNY. AND AS YOU'RE GOING THROUGH THE 707 00:39:21,861 --> 00:39:24,030 BOOK YOU'RE HEARING CLAIMS OF INFIDELITY TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. 708 00:39:24,030 --> 00:39:24,931 >> SO I ASKED HER, DID THIS REALLY HAPPEN? 709 00:39:24,931 --> 00:39:26,032 SHE GOES, OH YEAH, ABSOLUTELY THIS HAPPENED. 710 00:39:26,032 --> 00:39:28,101 99.9% OF THAT BOOK IS OUR REAL LIFE 711 00:39:28,101 --> 00:39:31,037 I JUST CHANGED THE NAMES AROUND. >> Reporter: THE BOOK ENDS WITH 712 00:39:31,037 --> 00:39:37,844 THE SHERRA AND LORENZEN CHARACTERS SETTLING IN FOR A 713 00:39:37,844 --> 00:39:41,147 NIGHT OF ROMANCE BUT IN REAL LIFE, REN'S CLOSE 714 00:39:41,147 --> 00:39:44,050 FRIENDS WERE BEGINNING TO SHARE THE SAME SUSPICION HIS MOM AND 715 00:39:44,050 --> 00:39:47,187 POLICE ALREADY HAD THAT ON THE LAST NIGHT OF HIS 716 00:39:47,187 --> 00:39:51,558 LIFE, SHERRA WASN'T REN'S LOVER. SHE JUST MIGHT HAVE BEEN 717 00:39:51,558 --> 00:39:55,128 INVOLVED IN HIS MURDER >> I FELT VERY CONFIDENT THAT 718 00:39:55,128 --> 00:39:58,832 SHE PLAYED SOME KIND OF ROLE IN IT 719 00:39:58,832 --> 00:40:00,967 BUT TO WHAT DEGREE, I DID NOT KNOW 720 00:40:00,967 --> 00:40:04,671 >> Reporter: SO MAYBE EVEN INDIRECTLY - 721 00:40:04,671 --> 00:40:06,072 >> INDIRECTLY -- >> Reporter: SHE GOT HIM KILLED. 722 00:40:06,072 --> 00:40:08,375 >> DIRECTLY, YEAH. BEFORE THE FACT, AFTER THE FACT, 723 00:40:08,375 --> 00:40:14,180 SHE HAD SOMETHIN' TO DO WITH IT. >> Reporter: MAYBE, BUT NO ONE 724 00:40:14,180 --> 00:40:17,884 WAS ABLE TO PROVE IT AS THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF 725 00:40:17,884 --> 00:40:20,553 REN'S MURDER CAME AND WENT, SHERRA WOULD EMBARK ON A WHOLE 726 00:40:20,553 --> 00:40:24,991 NEW CHAPTER OF HER LIFE. WITH A NEW MAN, IN A NEW CITY. 727 00:40:24,991 --> 00:40:28,495 BUT COULD SHE SHAKE HER PAST AND FINALLY CLEAR HER NAME 728 00:40:28,495 --> 00:40:49,182 >> YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T >> Reporter: THEY MET FOR COFFEE 729 00:40:49,182 --> 00:40:52,352 IN MEMPHIS JUST AFTER NEW YEAR'S, 2015 730 00:40:52,352 --> 00:40:54,487 HE WAS A JOURNALIST IN SEARCH OF A STORY. 731 00:40:54,487 --> 00:41:03,697 SHE WAS THE EX-WIFE OF LORENZEN WRIGHT AND SEEMED EAGER 732 00:41:03,697 --> 00:41:05,598 TO CHAT. >> IT WAS JUST MY REGULAR COFFEE 733 00:41:05,598 --> 00:41:07,334 SHOP EXCLUSIVE, YOU KNOW JUST ON THE BEAT DOIN' MY THING. 734 00:41:07,334 --> 00:41:09,369 AND THAT USUALLY LASTS ABOUT 30 MINUTES 735 00:41:09,369 --> 00:41:10,470 WE ACTUALLY SAT THERE AND TALKED FOR ANOTHER SIX HOURS. 736 00:41:10,470 --> 00:41:16,176 >> Reporter: KELVIN COWANS WANTED TO GET INSIDE THE MIND OF 737 00:41:16,176 --> 00:41:21,481 SHERRA WRIGHT. IT HAD BEEN ALMOST FIVE YEARS 738 00:41:21,481 --> 00:41:29,422 SINCE LORENZEN'S MURDER, AND SHE WAS STILL UNDER SUSPICION. 739 00:41:29,422 --> 00:41:31,825 >> SHE COULDN'T BELIEVE HOW PEOPLE WERE SO UPSET WITH HER. 740 00:41:31,825 --> 00:41:32,859 AND I ASKED HER, "YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT?" 741 00:41:32,859 --> 00:41:34,094 SHE SAID, "NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT. I'M WAITIN' ON THE DAY THAT THEY 742 00:41:34,094 --> 00:41:35,695 FIND, YOU KNOW, THE PERSON OR THE PEOPLE THAT KILLED HIM." 743 00:41:35,695 --> 00:41:37,831 >> Reporter: AT THE END OF THAT MARATHON INTERVIEW, KELVIN HAD 744 00:41:37,831 --> 00:41:38,498 HIS STORY. AND SOMETHING ELSE 745 00:41:38,498 --> 00:41:41,101 >> WE KNEW THAT THERE WAS CHEMISTRY THERE FROM THE 746 00:41:41,101 --> 00:41:42,669 BEGINNING. THAT'S HOW IT STARTED. 747 00:41:42,669 --> 00:41:44,804 WE ALMOST FELL IN LOVE IMMEDIATELY. 748 00:41:44,804 --> 00:41:47,540 >> Reporter: SHERRA HAD BEEN KEEPING A LOW PROFILE EVER SINCE 749 00:41:47,540 --> 00:41:49,542 HER LEGAL BATTLE OVER LORENZEN'S ESTATE 750 00:41:49,542 --> 00:41:54,314 BUT SOON SHE AND KELVIN WERE OUT AND ABOUT AS THEIR ROMANCE TOOK 751 00:41:54,314 --> 00:41:58,585 OFF. THEN, A FEW MONTHS AFTER THEY 752 00:41:58,585 --> 00:42:03,356 MET, KELVIN WANTED TO MOVE TO HOUSTON, WHERE HE HAD SOME WORK. 753 00:42:03,356 --> 00:42:11,297 SO SHERRA AND HER KIDS DECIDED TO GO WITH HIM 754 00:42:11,297 --> 00:42:14,934 >> SHE TOLD ME THAT SHE WAS MOVING TO HOUSTON. 755 00:42:14,934 --> 00:42:16,603 SHE'D HAD ENOUGH OF MEMPHIS, AND SHE WAS GONNA GO DOWN THERE AND 756 00:42:16,603 --> 00:42:18,705 JOIN THE STAFF OF THIS VERY FAMOUS PASTOR DOWN THERE 757 00:42:18,705 --> 00:42:20,273 >> GOD CREATED YOU TO RISE HIGHER 758 00:42:20,273 --> 00:42:22,409 >> Reporter: JOEL OSTEEN, THE WORLD-FAMOUS MINISTER WHOSE 759 00:42:22,409 --> 00:42:25,078 SERVICES ARE ON TV AND YOUTUBE >> SHE JUST HAD, YOU KNOW, ALL 760 00:42:25,078 --> 00:42:27,147 THESE BIG PLANS. YOU KNOW 761 00:42:27,147 --> 00:42:30,350 IT WASN'T JUST THAT SHE WAS GONNA GO PASTOR A CHURCH 762 00:42:30,350 --> 00:42:32,986 SHE WAS GONNA BE A PASTOR OF A MEGACHURCH 763 00:42:32,986 --> 00:42:36,389 YOU KNOW SHE THINKS IN TERMS OF BIG 764 00:42:36,389 --> 00:42:39,859 EVERYTHING'S BIG AND GRANDIOSE >> Reporter: THEY SETTLED IN THE 765 00:42:39,859 --> 00:42:42,495 SUBURB OF SUGARLAND, AND LIFE WAS SWEET. 766 00:42:42,495 --> 00:42:44,798 AT LEAST IN THE BEGINNING. KELVIN GOT A NICE HOUSE ON A 767 00:42:44,798 --> 00:42:48,101 LAKE, IN A NICE NEIGHBORHOOD, WITH GOOD SCHOOLS FOR THE KIDS 768 00:42:48,101 --> 00:42:51,471 AND A CHURCH NEARBY. SHERRA NEVER DID PREACH WITH 769 00:42:51,471 --> 00:42:55,742 JOEL OSTEEN, BUT SHE DID PRAY A LOT. 770 00:42:55,742 --> 00:43:00,046 >> SHERRA WOULD SOMETIMES GO AND GET IN OUR MASTER CLOSET WITH A 771 00:43:00,046 --> 00:43:02,115 PILLOW AND COVER AND PRAY FOR HOURS. 772 00:43:02,115 --> 00:43:05,285 YOU COULD HEAR SHE'S CALLIN' OUT HER FAMILY AND 773 00:43:05,285 --> 00:43:07,954 FRIENDS. SOMETIMES I HAD TO GET UP 2:00, 774 00:43:07,954 --> 00:43:10,590 2:30 IN THE MORNIN', AND I GO IN THE CLOSET AND HAVE TO GET HER 775 00:43:10,590 --> 00:43:12,726 UP I SAY, "HEY, COME ON, GET BACK 776 00:43:12,726 --> 00:43:14,928 INTO BED." >> Reporter: EVEN SO, KELVIN WAS 777 00:43:14,928 --> 00:43:17,497 CONVINCED HE'D MET THE WOMAN OF HIS DREAMS 778 00:43:17,497 --> 00:43:20,133 HER FAMILY FELT LIKE HIS THEY SHARED EVERYTHING, EVEN 779 00:43:20,133 --> 00:43:23,837 THEIR DEEPEST SECRETS. NOTHING WAS OFF LIMITS, 780 00:43:23,837 --> 00:43:27,073 INCLUDING LORENZEN'S MURDER. >> WE'D TALK ABOUT THE NIGHT HE 781 00:43:27,073 --> 00:43:28,608 DISAPPEARED. "WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED? 782 00:43:28,608 --> 00:43:35,515 THE ANSWER WAS ALWAYS, "I HAVE NO IDEA. 783 00:43:35,515 --> 00:43:41,087 I FELT LIKE SHERRA STILL HAD FEELINGS FOR LORENZEN. 784 00:43:41,087 --> 00:43:45,091 SHE WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, "HAD HE NOT PASSED, I'D BE STILL WITH 785 00:43:45,091 --> 00:43:46,726 HIM. AND I WAS THINKIN' TO MYSELF, 786 00:43:46,726 --> 00:43:48,762 "THERE'S NO WAY SHE KILLED HIM THERE'S NO WAY SHE HAD ANYTHING 787 00:43:48,762 --> 00:43:50,864 TO DO WITH IT. I MEAN, WHO WRITES A BOOK ABOUT 788 00:43:50,864 --> 00:43:53,299 SOMEONE THEY HELPED KILL >> Reporter: IN FACT, SHERRA 789 00:43:53,299 --> 00:43:55,969 APPEARED ON A SEGMENT FOR "SPORTS ILLUSTRATED" AND 790 00:43:55,969 --> 00:43:59,873 FOX SPORTS 1 IN 2015 THEY ASKED HER POINT BLANK IF 791 00:43:59,873 --> 00:44:04,411 SHE HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH LORENZEN'S MURDER. 792 00:44:04,411 --> 00:44:07,781 >> I MEAN, AT FIRST I'M A WIFE THEN I'M A MOTHER. 793 00:44:07,781 --> 00:44:12,185 AND THEN, THIRDLY, I AM AN AUTHOR 794 00:44:12,185 --> 00:44:15,789 THE LAW ENFORCEMENT SHOULD DO WHAT'S BEST TO FIND OUT WHO'S 795 00:44:15,789 --> 00:44:18,958 THE KILLER >> Reporter: BACK IN MEMPHIS, 796 00:44:18,958 --> 00:44:23,229 LORENZEN'S BEST FRIEND PHIL DOTSON SAW THE SHOW 797 00:44:23,229 --> 00:44:26,366 >> AND I COULD JUST THINK, "OH, COME ON, SHERRA. 798 00:44:26,366 --> 00:44:29,069 WHAT TYPE OF ANSWER IS THAT? YOU KNOW, "DID YOU DO IT?" 799 00:44:29,069 --> 00:44:33,807 >> Reporter: DID YOU FIND THAT ODD WHAT SHE SAID? 800 00:44:33,807 --> 00:44:35,942 >> I DID I DID. 801 00:44:35,942 --> 00:44:37,077 I FOUND SEVERAL THINGS ODD >> Reporter: BUT YOU STILL 802 00:44:37,077 --> 00:44:39,646 DIDN'T THINK - >> I COULDN'T. 803 00:44:39,646 --> 00:44:41,348 I COULDN'T >> Reporter: -- IT WAS HER 804 00:44:41,348 --> 00:44:43,450 >> I COULDN'T -- I COULDN'T. EARLY ON IN THE MARRIAGE, LIKE, 805 00:44:43,450 --> 00:44:46,386 THERE WAS LOVE TO GO FROM THAT TO YOU MURDERED 806 00:44:46,386 --> 00:44:49,723 HIM? I -- I COULDN'T BUY IT 807 00:44:49,723 --> 00:44:53,426 I -- I DIDN'T BUY IT >> Reporter: NEITHER SHERRA'S TV 808 00:44:53,426 --> 00:44:57,797 INTERVIEW NOR HER SALACIOUS BOOK PROVIDED POLICE WITH ANY 809 00:44:57,797 --> 00:45:00,300 EVIDENCE CONNECTING HER TO THE CRIME. 810 00:45:00,300 --> 00:45:02,435 >> IT'S ALMOST AS IF SHE'S POKIN' FUN OR SHE'S TAUNTING LAW 811 00:45:02,435 --> 00:45:04,537 ENFORCEMENT WITH THIS BOOK FOR SOMEBODY THAT SUPPOSEDLY 812 00:45:04,537 --> 00:45:05,872 WOULD BE GRIEVING TO WRITE A BOOK LIKE THAT WAS JUST REALLY 813 00:45:05,872 --> 00:45:07,207 BIZARRE. >> Reporter: BUT NO REAL CLUES 814 00:45:07,207 --> 00:45:08,274 IN IT? >> I DON'T THINK ANYTHING IN 815 00:45:08,274 --> 00:45:09,909 THERE WAS OF VALUE AS IT RELATES TO BEIN' A CLUE. 816 00:45:09,909 --> 00:45:12,512 >> Reporter: SHERRA EVEN CONSIDERED WRITING A SEQUEL, BUT 817 00:45:12,512 --> 00:45:14,614 INSTEAD FOCUSED MORE ON HER FAMILY AND CONTINUED HER FREE 818 00:45:14,614 --> 00:45:17,283 SPENDING WAYS, SAID KELVIN >> SHE HAD VERY EXPENSIVE 819 00:45:17,283 --> 00:45:21,521 TASTES I TOLD HER THIS. 820 00:45:21,521 --> 00:45:24,691 "SHERRA, YOUR APPETITE FOR NICE THINGS IS NOT HEALTHY. 821 00:45:24,691 --> 00:45:26,292 AND SHE WAS LIKE, "THAT'S THE WAY GOD MADE ME. 822 00:45:26,292 --> 00:45:29,462 AND SO I'M LIKE, "WE'RE NOT GONNA MAKE IT WITH THE WAY YOU 823 00:45:29,462 --> 00:45:32,699 THINK. YOUR FINANCIAL LITERACY IS JUST 824 00:45:32,699 --> 00:45:35,835 OFF. >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO 825 00:45:35,835 --> 00:45:41,841 KELVIN, SHERRA WAS ALSO SPENDING A LOT OF TIME ON THE PHONE, 826 00:45:41,841 --> 00:45:44,277 APPARENTLY HAVING SECRET CONVERSATIONS WITH SOMEONE HE 827 00:45:44,277 --> 00:45:50,083 DIDN'T KNOW. >> I FELT LIKE THAT SHERRA MAY 828 00:45:50,083 --> 00:45:52,786 HAVE BEEN CHEATIN' ON ME I SPECULATED A HIDDEN LOVER. 829 00:45:52,786 --> 00:45:54,087 >> Reporter: SHERRA DENIED SHE WAS SEEING SOMEONE, BUT 830 00:45:54,087 --> 00:45:55,388 GRADUALLY THEIR ONCE HOT ROMANCE COOLED 831 00:45:55,388 --> 00:45:56,523 THEY GREW APART. AND AFTER TWO YEARS TOGETHER, 832 00:45:56,523 --> 00:45:58,558 KELVIN SAYS HE DECIDED IT WAS OVER 833 00:45:58,558 --> 00:46:01,928 >> THE DAY AFTER HER BIRTHDAY, THAT WAS WHEN WE CALLED IT 834 00:46:01,928 --> 00:46:05,465 QUITS. SHE WAS VERY UPSET 835 00:46:05,465 --> 00:46:10,203 UH, SHE DIDN'T WANT ME TO GO >> Reporter: KELVIN RETURNED TO 836 00:46:10,203 --> 00:46:13,373 TENNESSEE TO RESTART HIS LIFE. SHERRA HEADED TO CALIFORNIA 837 00:46:13,373 --> 00:46:17,077 WHERE SHE AND THE KIDS MOVED IN WITH HER BROTHER 838 00:46:17,077 --> 00:46:20,513 BACK IN MEMPHIS, DETECTIVES WERE QUIETLY MAKING PROGRESS. 839 00:46:20,513 --> 00:46:21,881 A MAN WITH INFORMATION HAD COME FORWARD. 840 00:46:21,881 --> 00:46:23,483 AND HE HAD QUITE A STORY TO TELL 841 00:46:23,483 --> 00:46:48,074 >> SHE WAS ASKIN' ME ABOUT MY CASE, LIKE, "COULD YOU KILL 842 00:46:48,074 --> 00:46:51,811 >> Reporter: IT'S CALLED THE INLAND EMPIRE, RIVERSIDE COUNTY, 843 00:46:51,811 --> 00:46:54,981 A SPRAWLING STRETCH OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SUBURBIA EAST OF L.A. 844 00:46:54,981 --> 00:46:58,685 IT WAS HERE IN THE LITTLE TOWN OF MURIETTA WHERE SHERRA WRIGHT 845 00:46:58,685 --> 00:47:01,821 AND HER KIDS SETTLED IN THE SPRING OF 2017 846 00:47:01,821 --> 00:47:06,059 >> YOU GOT THE FEELING THAT SHE WAS STARTING A NEW LIFE OUTSIDE 847 00:47:06,059 --> 00:47:09,763 OF THE SHADOW OF LORENZEN WRIGHT'S MURDER IN MEMPHIS, ALL 848 00:47:09,763 --> 00:47:13,466 THE WAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY >> Reporter: ALMOST 1,600 MILES 849 00:47:13,466 --> 00:47:16,636 AND 7 YEARS REMOVED FROM REN'S MURDER IN MEMPHIS, TO SOME, 850 00:47:16,636 --> 00:47:21,374 SHERRA ALSO SEEMED TO HAVE MOVED ON IN TERMS OF WHAT WAS 851 00:47:21,374 --> 00:47:24,044 HAPPENING BACK HOME. EVEN ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS 852 00:47:24,044 --> 00:47:30,116 DEATH. YEARS AGO TO THE DAY, THESE 853 00:47:30,116 --> 00:47:33,053 FAMILY MEMBERS REPORTED LORENZEN WRIGHT MISSING. 854 00:47:33,053 --> 00:47:35,689 ONCE AGAIN, LORENZEN'S FAMILY AND FRIENDS GATHERED TO PAY 855 00:47:35,689 --> 00:47:39,192 THEIR RESPECTS ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER VIGIL TO 856 00:47:39,192 --> 00:47:42,529 KEEP HOPE ALIVE THAT HIS MURDER MIGHT SOMEHOW BE SOLVED. 857 00:47:42,529 --> 00:47:48,368 >> WE GON' KEEP THIS THING GOING, YEAR AFTER YEAR, BECAUSE 858 00:47:48,368 --> 00:47:54,307 I KNOW THAT'S WHAT HE WOULD WANT US TO DO 859 00:47:54,307 --> 00:48:00,513 >> WE LOVE YOU, LORENZEN >> IT'S GETTING COLDER BY THE 860 00:48:00,513 --> 00:48:01,548 DAY, AND WE'RE NO CLOSER TO FINDING OUT WHO DID IT 861 00:48:01,548 --> 00:48:03,149 THERE'S NOT A DAY THAT GOES BY THAT I DON'T THINK ABOUT HIM AND 862 00:48:03,149 --> 00:48:04,284 WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM I ALWAYS KEPT THE DETECTIVES' 863 00:48:04,284 --> 00:48:05,885 PHONE NUMBERS JUST IN CASE THEY ALWAYS SAID, "LET US KNOW IF YOU 864 00:48:05,885 --> 00:48:07,921 COME UP WITH ANYTHING. >> Reporter: BY NOW MANY IN 865 00:48:07,921 --> 00:48:11,624 MEMPHIS WERE LOSING PATIENCE WITH THOSE DETECTIVES. 866 00:48:11,624 --> 00:48:16,896 SEVEN LONG YEARS STILL NO ARREST. 867 00:48:16,896 --> 00:48:22,035 NO JUSTICE LORENZEN'S MOM HAD BEEN HOUNDING 868 00:48:22,035 --> 00:48:26,906 POLICE THE WHOLE TIME. CALLING, SHOWING UP AT THE 869 00:48:26,906 --> 00:48:28,541 STATION. HER SOLE MISSION IN LIFE WAS 870 00:48:28,541 --> 00:48:30,610 SOLVING HER SON'S MURDER DID YOU FEEL LIKE THERE'S NEVER 871 00:48:30,610 --> 00:48:33,780 GONNA BE AN ARREST IN THIS CASE? >> NOPE. 872 00:48:33,780 --> 00:48:38,051 NOPE 'CAUSE I GOTTA STAY ALIVE. 873 00:48:38,051 --> 00:48:41,121 BEFORE I DIE, THEY WERE GONNA FIND SOMEBODY. 874 00:48:41,121 --> 00:48:42,255 THEY'RE GONNA GET HER. >> Reporter: HER 875 00:48:42,255 --> 00:48:43,289 SPECIFICALLY SHERRA? >> HER 876 00:48:43,289 --> 00:48:44,891 RIGHT. AND I TOLD 'EM THAT OVER AND 877 00:48:44,891 --> 00:48:47,060 OVER AND OVER AGAIN. >> Reporter: TONEY ARMSTRONG 878 00:48:47,060 --> 00:48:51,765 TOOK SOME OF HER CALLS >> SHE WAS JUST RELENTLESS 879 00:48:51,765 --> 00:48:53,400 SHE JUST WOULD NOT LET IT GO >> Reporter: DON'T MESS WITH 880 00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:56,069 MAMA >> WELL, DON'T MESS WITH -- 881 00:48:56,069 --> 00:48:58,672 DON'T MESS WITH MAMA'S BABIES. >> Reporter: HE TRIED TO ASSURE 882 00:48:58,672 --> 00:49:00,540 LORENZEN'S MOTHER THAT THE CASE WAS STILL ACTIVE, THAT SHERRA 883 00:49:00,540 --> 00:49:03,009 REALLY WAS ON THEIR RADAR. >> IT'S ONE THING TO HAVE A GUT 884 00:49:03,009 --> 00:49:04,577 FEELING THAT I KNOW THIS PERSON'S IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 885 00:49:04,577 --> 00:49:05,512 THIS BUT YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO 886 00:49:05,512 --> 00:49:07,113 CONVINCE A JURY. >> Reporter: YOU JUST DIDN'T 887 00:49:07,113 --> 00:49:10,283 HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE >> YOU JUST DON'T HAVE ENOUGH 888 00:49:10,283 --> 00:49:13,453 EVIDENCE TO DO IT. >> Reporter: BUT THE POLICE DID 889 00:49:13,453 --> 00:49:17,123 HAVE SOMETHING, A POTENTIAL WITNESS. 890 00:49:17,123 --> 00:49:20,293 A MAN WITH A SHADY PAST AND AN EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATION WHICH 891 00:49:20,293 --> 00:49:23,496 POLICE HAD KEPT SECRET FOR FIVE YEARS. 892 00:49:23,496 --> 00:49:28,234 AN INFORMANT WHO ACTUALLY KNEW SHERRA AND HAD A STRONG 893 00:49:28,234 --> 00:49:32,472 MOTIVATION TO TALK >> WHAT HAPPENED WAS JIMMIE 894 00:49:32,472 --> 00:49:35,108 MARTIN, WHO IS SHERRA'S COUSIN, KILLED A LOVE INTEREST THAT HE 895 00:49:35,108 --> 00:49:38,278 HAD. HE WAS CONVICTED 896 00:49:38,278 --> 00:49:40,914 AND IT'S THAT TIME, 2012, WHEN HE'S GOIN' TO PRISON, THAT HE 897 00:49:40,914 --> 00:49:43,049 TELLS, WANTIN' TO FLIP TO DO A DEAL 898 00:49:43,049 --> 00:49:45,685 >> Reporter: JIMMIE SAID HE KNEW WHAT HAPPENED TO REN 899 00:49:45,685 --> 00:49:54,794 AND HE OFFERED TO TELL HIS STORY TO DETECTIVES. 900 00:49:54,794 --> 00:49:58,698 SO IN 2012, 2 YEARS AFTER REN WAS KILLED, A MEETING WAS HELD 901 00:49:58,698 --> 00:50:01,501 AT THIS TENNESSEE PRISON, WHERE JIMMIE CLAIMED TO REVEAL WHO WAS 902 00:50:01,501 --> 00:50:08,375 BEHIND THE MURDER. AND THAT WAS HIS VERY OWN COUSIN 903 00:50:08,375 --> 00:50:11,544 AND REN'S EX-WIFE, SHERRA. >> SHE TOLD ME SHE'D BEEN HAVIN' 904 00:50:11,544 --> 00:50:14,180 THREATS FROM LORENZEN, AND HE HAD HIRED SOMEBODY TO KILL HER 905 00:50:14,180 --> 00:50:16,816 SHE WANTED HIM DEAD BEFORE HE KILLED HER 906 00:50:16,816 --> 00:50:19,786 >> Reporter: JIMMIE SAID A MEETING TOOK PLACE AT SHERRA'S 907 00:50:19,786 --> 00:50:23,189 HOUSE SOME TWO MONTHS BEFORE REN'S MURDER 908 00:50:23,189 --> 00:50:25,859 AND TWO OTHER MEN WERE THERE >> BILLY WAS OVER THERE, AND 909 00:50:25,859 --> 00:50:29,562 ANOTHER GENTLEMAN, BUT I DON'T KNOW HIS NAME. 910 00:50:29,562 --> 00:50:33,266 >> BILLY >> YEAH, HE WAS A GARDENER 911 00:50:33,266 --> 00:50:35,368 >> Reporter: SHERRA'S GARDENER -- BILLY TURNER 912 00:50:35,368 --> 00:50:39,072 REMEMBER HOW LORENZEN SUSPECTED SHERRA MIGHT BE SLEEPING WITH 913 00:50:39,072 --> 00:50:42,242 HER LAWN MAN WAS THIS THE SAME GUY? 914 00:50:42,242 --> 00:50:44,878 MAYBE. IF SO, THIS WASN'T THE ONLY 915 00:50:44,878 --> 00:50:48,048 CONNECTION BETWEEN SHERRA AND BILLY. 916 00:50:48,048 --> 00:50:54,954 >> SO WHO DID SHERRA ASK TO KILL LORENZEN 917 00:50:54,954 --> 00:50:57,624 >> SHE ASKED, UH, BILLY. >> Reporter: BILLY HAD A RAP 918 00:50:57,624 --> 00:51:01,561 SHEET BUT IN RECENT YEARS SEEMED TO HAVE GONE STRAIGHT. 919 00:51:01,561 --> 00:51:06,066 WHEN HE WASN'T BUSY RUNNING HIS LANDSCAPING BUSINESS, HE WAS 920 00:51:06,066 --> 00:51:07,600 FULFILLING HIS DUTIES AT THE VERY SAME CHURCH WHERE SHERRA 921 00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:10,270 PREACHED >> HE WAS THE DEACON OF THIS 922 00:51:10,270 --> 00:51:13,673 CHURCH WHEN SHE WAS A PASTOR HOW DEEPLY THEY KNEW EACH 923 00:51:13,673 --> 00:51:14,541 OTHER -- AND THERE'S A LOTTA SPECULATION. 924 00:51:14,541 --> 00:51:16,076 I MEAN, IT APPEARS THAT THEY WERE INTIMATE. 925 00:51:16,076 --> 00:51:18,712 >> Reporter: BILLY AND SHERRA, ACCORDING TO JIMMIE, MET WITH 926 00:51:18,712 --> 00:51:22,916 HIM AGAIN INSIDE HER HOUSE, AND THIS TIME GOT DOWN TO SPECIFICS. 927 00:51:22,916 --> 00:51:29,823 >> AND SHE ASKED ME COULD I BE THE SHOOTER. 928 00:51:29,823 --> 00:51:31,925 AT THAT TIME I WAS LIKE, "NO, I CAN'T DO NOTHIN' LIKE THAT." 929 00:51:31,925 --> 00:51:33,493 >> AT WHAT POINT IN HERE WERE YOU OFFERED ANYTHING TO DO IT? 930 00:51:33,493 --> 00:51:35,628 >> SHE SAID SHE COULD HELP ME WITH MY COURT CASE IF THIS 931 00:51:35,628 --> 00:51:38,264 HAPPENS. "I GET THE INSURANCE MONEY 932 00:51:38,264 --> 00:51:41,167 I GOT THE NBA MONEY COMIN', AND I WILL TAKE CARE OF Y'ALL. 933 00:51:41,167 --> 00:51:44,104 SHE SAID WHOEVER DOES THE SHOOTIN' GETS $50,000. 934 00:51:44,104 --> 00:51:46,773 >> Reporter: MONEY CAN BE A GREAT MOTIVATOR. 935 00:51:46,773 --> 00:51:49,442 JIMMIE SAID THAT IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE SHERRA AND BILLY CAME TO 936 00:51:49,442 --> 00:51:54,147 HIS HOUSE IN BATESVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, A SLEEPY LITTLE 937 00:51:54,147 --> 00:51:57,350 TOWN SOUTH OF MEMPHIS. AND THIS TIME SHE REVEALED HOW 938 00:51:57,350 --> 00:52:02,055 AND WHERE SHE WANTED THEM TO DO THE JOB. 939 00:52:02,055 --> 00:52:04,824 >> SHE SAID, "WELL, I WANT YOU AND BILLY GO OUT THERE AND TAKE 940 00:52:04,824 --> 00:52:07,594 CARE OF THIS." >> WHERE DID SHE WANT YOU TO 941 00:52:07,594 --> 00:52:09,496 TAKE CARE OF HIM AT? >> I GUESS GO TO HIS HOUSE 942 00:52:09,496 --> 00:52:15,135 >> IN ATLANTA? >> SO WE WENT. 943 00:52:15,135 --> 00:52:17,971 >> Reporter: WITH DIRECTIONS FROM SHERRA, HE SAID, THEY 944 00:52:17,971 --> 00:52:20,373 HEADED TO ATLANTA AND STRAIGHT FOR REN'S CONDO COMPLEX WHERE 945 00:52:20,373 --> 00:52:22,742 THEY CRAWLED THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW 946 00:52:22,742 --> 00:52:26,946 BUT REN WASN'T THERE >> THERE WAS SOMEBODY ON THE 947 00:52:26,946 --> 00:52:29,082 COUCH WITH A BALD HEAD >> Reporter: POLICE LATER 948 00:52:29,082 --> 00:52:32,786 FIGURED OUT THE BALD HEADED MAN ASLEEP ON THE COUCH WAS REN'S 949 00:52:32,786 --> 00:52:34,387 ROOMMATE, MIKE GIPSON. >> HAD LORENZEN HADN'T BEEN 950 00:52:34,387 --> 00:52:38,458 THERE, I'D HAVE BEEN GONE TOO RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW? 951 00:52:38,458 --> 00:52:40,727 >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO JIMMIE, HE AND BILLY SPOTTED 952 00:52:40,727 --> 00:52:45,465 SECURITY GUARDS, CREPT OUT OF THE CONDO, AND HIGHTAILED IT 953 00:52:45,465 --> 00:52:47,100 BACK HOME. JIMMIE SAID AFTER THEIR FAILED 954 00:52:47,100 --> 00:52:50,270 ATTEMPT, THEY MET WITH SHERRA AGAIN. 955 00:52:50,270 --> 00:52:53,940 NOW SHE HAD A WHOLE NEW PLAN FOR REN'S MURDER 956 00:52:53,940 --> 00:52:55,575 THIS TIME, ON HER HOME TURF. >> SHE WAS LIKE, "I'M GONNA GET 957 00:52:55,575 --> 00:53:00,280 HIM TO COME TO MEMPHIS IT'LL BE EASIER THAT WAY." 958 00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:02,916 >> Reporter: AND SURE ENOUGH, AT SHERRA'S REQUEST, REN DID COME 959 00:53:02,916 --> 00:53:06,086 BACK TO MEMPHIS FOR THE LAST TIME 960 00:53:06,086 --> 00:53:09,255 TIME >> AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED? 961 00:53:33,380 --> 00:53:35,515 TOWN THAT JULY DAY IN 2010, SURVEYING THE CITY AND THE 962 00:53:35,515 --> 00:53:38,718 SUBURBS, LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT PLACE TO KILL LORENZEN WRIGHT. 963 00:53:38,718 --> 00:53:41,588 THIS ACCORDING TO JIMMIE MARTIN WHO CLAIMED HE WAS IN A CAR WITH 964 00:53:41,588 --> 00:53:50,597 SHERRA WRIGHT AND HER FELLOW MINISTER BILLY TURNER. 965 00:53:50,597 --> 00:53:51,931 >> WE WENT AND CHECKED OUT SPOTS AROUND MEMPHIS 966 00:53:51,931 --> 00:53:53,633 THEY WAS PICKIN' THE SPOTS I WAS JUST TELLIN' WHETHER IT 967 00:53:53,633 --> 00:53:54,701 WAS A GOOD SPOT OR NOT >> YOU'RE GETTIN' A CONSULTANT 968 00:53:54,701 --> 00:53:56,169 FEE. >> YEAH. 969 00:53:56,169 --> 00:54:04,611 "NO, THAT'S NOT A GOOD SPOT. DO IT SOMEWHERE ELSE." 970 00:54:04,611 --> 00:54:05,912 >> Reporter: SOON AFTER THAT SCOUTING TRIP, SHERRA SENT REN 971 00:54:05,912 --> 00:54:08,348 THE FIRST IN A FLURRY OF TEXT MESSAGES 972 00:54:08,348 --> 00:54:10,950 X-RATED MESSAGES ABOUT HOOKING UP IN MEMPHIS. 973 00:54:12,619 --> 00:54:17,257 >> Reporter: AND THESE ARE THE MILD MESSAGES, WHICH GREW MORE 974 00:54:17,257 --> 00:54:18,324 EROTIC AND EXPLICIT. POLICE HAD FOUND THE TEXTS ON 975 00:54:18,324 --> 00:54:21,061 SHERRA'S CELL PHONE WHEN REN WENT MISSING 976 00:54:22,228 --> 00:54:24,297 >> Reporter: BACK THEN, THEY WEREN'T SURE IF THOSE MESSAGES 977 00:54:24,297 --> 00:54:27,901 WEREN'T SURE IF THOSE MESSAGES MIGHT BE CONNECTED TO HIS CASE 978 00:54:29,502 --> 00:54:30,070 YEARS AFTER THE MURDER - 979 00:54:32,205 --> 00:54:33,740 >> Reporter: THE TEXTS SEEMED TO TELL A STORY 980 00:54:33,740 --> 00:54:35,375 >> SHERRA LURED HIM BACK TO MEMPHIS WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, 981 00:54:35,375 --> 00:54:37,444 SEXUALLY EXPLICIT TEXT MESSAGES. >> Reporter: SURE ENOUGH, REN 982 00:54:37,444 --> 00:54:40,647 TOOK THE BAIT AND LATER TEXTED SHERRA FROM THE ATLANTA AIRPORT 983 00:54:40,647 --> 00:54:48,088 THREE LITTLE BUT LIFE CHANGING WORDS. 984 00:54:50,256 --> 00:54:52,325 >> Reporter: AND WITH THAT, REN WAS ON HIS WAY TO MEMPHIS. 985 00:54:52,325 --> 00:54:54,461 BUT ACCORDING TO CLOSE FRIEND MIKE GIPSON, HE MAY HAVE BEEN 986 00:54:54,461 --> 00:54:56,496 SEEKING MORE THAN JUST A ONE-NIGHT STAND. 987 00:54:56,496 --> 00:54:58,698 RECENTLY REN HAD CONFIDED HE WAS READY TO SETTLE DOWN AFTER 988 00:54:58,698 --> 00:55:00,266 RUNNING IN THE FAST LANE AFTER HIS DIVORCE. 989 00:55:00,266 --> 00:55:02,802 >> HE'S LIKE, "YOU KNOW WHAT ALL THIS STUFF I'M DOIN' WITH 990 00:55:02,802 --> 00:55:04,537 THESE GIRLS, I'M JUST TIRED OF IT 991 00:55:04,537 --> 00:55:07,674 I MIGHT AS WELL JUST GET BACK WITH MY WIFE, SHERRA, AND BE 992 00:55:07,674 --> 00:55:10,877 THROUGH WITH IT. ME AND HER LIVE A HAPPY LIFE." 993 00:55:10,877 --> 00:55:16,950 THAT'S WHAT HE WANTED. >> Reporter: BUT SHERRA DIDN'T 994 00:55:16,950 --> 00:55:17,951 WANT TO REMARRY LORENZEN SHE WANTED HIM MURDERED, 995 00:55:17,951 --> 00:55:21,454 ACCORDING TO HER COUSIN JIMMIE MARTIN. 996 00:55:21,454 --> 00:55:23,123 JIMMIE SAID THAT TWO DAYS AFTER HE, SHERRA, AND BILLY CONDUCTED 997 00:55:23,123 --> 00:55:31,064 THAT MURDER SITE SURVEY, SHE CAME TO HIS HOUSE IN BATESVILLE, 998 00:55:31,064 --> 00:55:32,599 MISSISSIPPI. WHILE THERE, JIMMIE SAID SHERRA 999 00:55:32,599 --> 00:55:34,801 ASKED HIS MOM FOR AN ODD FAVOR >> SHE WAS ASKIN' MY MOM FOR A 1000 00:55:34,801 --> 00:55:35,835 METAL DETECTOR >> DOES YOUR MAMA HAVE A METAL 1001 00:55:35,835 --> 00:55:39,506 DETECTOR >> UH-HUH. 1002 00:55:39,506 --> 00:55:43,243 >> Reporter: SO WITH THE METAL DETECTOR IN TOW, THE TWO 1003 00:55:43,243 --> 00:55:45,378 RETURNED TO MEMPHIS, PICKED UP BILLY, AND DROVE TO HER HOUSE 1004 00:55:45,378 --> 00:55:47,480 WHERE, SAID JIMMIE, SHERRA MADE A STUNNING ANNOUNCEMENT. 1005 00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:49,082 >> "WE DID IT. IT HAD TO GET DONE." 1006 00:55:49,082 --> 00:55:53,319 I'M LIKE, "WHAT ARE YOU TALKIN' ABOUT? 1007 00:55:53,319 --> 00:55:58,625 SHE'S LIKE, UH, "LORENZEN'S DEAD." 1008 00:55:58,625 --> 00:56:02,896 >> Reporter: AND WHO ACTUALLY FIRED THE FATAL SHOTS? 1009 00:56:02,896 --> 00:56:07,100 >> JIMMIE SAID IT WAS BILLY TURNER, SHERRA'S ONE-TIME 1010 00:56:07,100 --> 00:56:10,837 GARDENER AND POSSIBLE LOVER, NOW ALLEGED GUNMAN, WHO AT THE 1011 00:56:10,837 --> 00:56:12,405 MEETING APPEARED TO HAVE A BAD CASE OF SHOOTER'S REMORSE. 1012 00:56:12,405 --> 00:56:15,041 >> HE WAS LIKE, "MAN, I'M STILL SHAKIN'. 1013 00:56:15,041 --> 00:56:21,047 MY STOMACH HURT, AND I CAN'T SLEEP. 1014 00:56:21,047 --> 00:56:22,082 I CAN'T DO ANYTHING. >> Reporter: BUT WHAT HAPPENED 1015 00:56:22,082 --> 00:56:26,152 DURING THE LAST MOMENTS OF LORENZEN'S LIFE BEFORE HE WAS 1016 00:56:26,152 --> 00:56:28,588 EXECUTED IN THAT DARK FIELD? THAT NIGHT, ACCORDING TO JIMMIE, 1017 00:56:28,588 --> 00:56:31,458 SHERRA TOLD REN SHE NEEDED TO MEET A MAN TO PICK UP SOME 1018 00:56:31,458 --> 00:56:38,365 MONEY. REN AGREED TO JOIN HER 1019 00:56:38,365 --> 00:56:44,170 THEY DROVE TO A WOODED AREA AT THE EDGE OF TOWN 1020 00:56:44,170 --> 00:56:53,179 SHERRA GOT OUT AND WALKED OVER TO BILLY, WHO WAS SECRETLY 1021 00:56:53,179 --> 00:56:54,314 WAITING NEARBY >> SHE SAID LORENZEN WALKED UP 1022 00:56:54,314 --> 00:56:55,849 AND BILLY STARTED SHOOTIN' >> AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED? 1023 00:56:55,849 --> 00:56:57,984 >> HE RAN. THEY SAID THEY CHASED HIM DOWN 1024 00:56:57,984 --> 00:57:01,021 IN THE WOODS >> Reporter: CHASED HIM DOWN BY 1025 00:57:01,021 --> 00:57:03,790 FOLLOWING THE GLOW OF REN'S CELL PHONE, SAID JIMMIE, AND 1026 00:57:03,790 --> 00:57:07,027 CONTINUED FIRING THAT'S WHEN REN CALLED 911 AND 1027 00:57:07,027 --> 00:57:10,697 SCREAMED THE LAST WORDS OF HIS LIFE 1028 00:57:10,697 --> 00:57:13,900 >> OH, DAMN. >> Reporter: AND ALL THOSE SHOTS 1029 00:57:13,900 --> 00:57:15,301 WERE FIRED BY BILLY, FROM TWO DIFFERENT GUNS, SAID JIMMIE. 1030 00:57:15,301 --> 00:57:21,841 >> AND HE SHOT AT HIM, SHOT AT HIM, SHOT AT HIM 1031 00:57:21,841 --> 00:57:27,147 >> DID SHERRA EVER TELL YOU THAT SHE ALSO CHASED LORENZEN WITH 1032 00:57:27,147 --> 00:57:29,816 BILLY? >> UNH-UH. 1033 00:57:29,816 --> 00:57:33,520 SHE SAID SHE RAN UP THE ROAD WHEN THE FIRST SHOT FIRED. 1034 00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:36,690 >> Reporter: AND JIMMIE? HE INSISTED HE WAS MILES AWAY AT 1035 00:57:36,690 --> 00:57:39,859 HOME IN MISSISSIPPI THAT NIGHT >> JIMMIE MARTIN NEVER PUTS 1036 00:57:39,859 --> 00:57:45,699 HIMSELF AT THE CRIME SCENE, WHICH SEEMS KINDA ODD. 1037 00:57:45,699 --> 00:57:47,300 SO IS HE LYING, YOU KNOW, TO KINDA DISTANCE HIMSELF, TO MAKE 1038 00:57:47,300 --> 00:57:50,470 HIMSELF LOOK BETTER? >> Reporter: BUT JIMMIE DID 1039 00:57:50,470 --> 00:57:53,640 ADMIT TO HELPING SHERRA AND BILLY CLEAN UP THE CRIME SCENE 1040 00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:57,344 TWO DAYS LATER, BEFORE ANYONE REALIZED LORENZEN WRIGHT HAD 1041 00:57:57,344 --> 00:58:00,513 GONE MISSING USING HIS MOM'S METAL DETECTOR, 1042 00:58:00,513 --> 00:58:03,750 JIMMIE SAID THE THREE OF THEM LOOKED FOR LEFTOVER EVIDENCE, 1043 00:58:03,750 --> 00:58:06,619 INCLUDING ONE OF THE TWO MURDER WEAPONS WHICH WENT MISSING 1044 00:58:06,619 --> 00:58:10,056 DURING THE SHOOTING. BUT THEY NEVER FOUND IT, SAID 1045 00:58:10,056 --> 00:58:14,294 JIMMIE SO HE AND BILLY TOOK THE HANDGUN 1046 00:58:14,294 --> 00:58:17,464 THEY STILL HAD TO THIS LITTLE LAKE IN MISSISSIPPI. 1047 00:58:17,464 --> 00:58:20,400 >> WE WAS OUT THERE AT THE LAKE, LITTLE POND. 1048 00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:22,235 HE CLEANED 'EM OFF HE THREW 'EM IN THE WATER. 1049 00:58:22,235 --> 00:58:24,371 >> HOW MANY? >> IT WAS JUST ONE GUN 1050 00:58:24,371 --> 00:58:27,040 >> WHAT KIND >> THE 9 MILLIMETER. 1051 00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:30,910 >> Reporter: AND THAT, INSISTED JIMMIE MARTIN, WAS THE GOD'S 1052 00:58:30,910 --> 00:58:32,846 TRUTH OF HOW MEMPHIS ICON LORENZEN WRIGHT WAS MURDERED AND 1053 00:58:32,846 --> 00:58:39,185 THE CRIME COVERED UP, ALL ORCHESTRATED BY SHERRA 1054 00:58:39,185 --> 00:58:43,423 IT WAS QUITE A STORY BUT WAS THERE ANY EVIDENCE TO 1055 00:58:43,423 --> 00:58:46,059 BACK IT UP WELL, MAYBE THE ANSWER WAS 1056 00:58:46,059 --> 00:58:48,128 WELL, MAYBE THE ANSWER WAS SITTING ON THE BOTTOM OF THAT 1057 00:59:13,386 --> 00:59:19,759 MISSISSIPPI. SOME 75 MILES SOUTHEAST OF 1058 00:59:19,759 --> 00:59:21,027 MEMPHI POPULATION, 800. 1059 00:59:21,027 --> 00:59:22,395 OUTSIDE OF TOWN IS A LITTLE LAKE, A BIG POND REALLY. 1060 00:59:22,395 --> 00:59:23,730 THE VERY SAME POND THAT JIMMIE MARTIN CLAIMED HELD THE 1061 00:59:23,730 --> 00:59:27,167 KEY EVIDENCE IN LORENZEN WRIGHT'S MURDER 1062 00:59:27,167 --> 00:59:33,807 >> AND HOW BIG IS THAT POND? >> ABOUT THE SIZE OF A HIGH 1063 00:59:33,807 --> 00:59:35,241 SCHOOL FOOTBALL FIELD. >> Reporter: SO IN MAY OF 2012, 1064 00:59:35,241 --> 00:59:36,743 DETECTIVES HEADED THERE ON A FISHING EXPEDITION - 1065 00:59:36,743 --> 00:59:39,379 FOR A GUN. JIMMIE MARTIN INSISTED THAT 1066 00:59:39,379 --> 00:59:42,048 BILLY TURNER HAD DUMPED IT THERE TWO DAYS AFTER SHOOTING REN. 1067 00:59:42,048 --> 00:59:45,885 NOW TWO YEARS LATER, WAS IT STILL THERE? 1068 00:59:45,885 --> 00:59:48,955 >> IT'S A MURKY LAKE THEY COULDN'T FIND IT. 1069 00:59:48,955 --> 00:59:51,558 AND SO THE WHOLE THING KINDA GOES INTO LIMBO AGAIN. 1070 00:59:51,558 --> 00:59:56,129 >> Reporter: AS DAMNING AND DETAILED AS JIMMIE MARTIN'S 1071 00:59:56,129 --> 00:59:57,797 STORY SEEMED, DETECTIVES DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE MAKE AN 1072 00:59:57,797 --> 01:00:00,934 ARREST BUT STILL, THE INVESTIGATION 1073 01:00:00,934 --> 01:00:03,737 PLODDED ON FOR YEARS WAS IT STILL BEING INVESTIGATED 1074 01:00:03,737 --> 01:00:08,508 ACTIVELY OR JUST KIND OF WHEN NEW LEADS WOULD COME IN? 1075 01:00:08,508 --> 01:00:11,177 >> THERE WERE PERIODS OF TIME ON THIS CASE THAT -- IF WE FELT 1076 01:00:11,177 --> 01:00:13,279 THAT ONE INVESTIGATOR HAD TAKEN THE CASE AS FAR AS HE COULD TAKE 1077 01:00:13,279 --> 01:00:15,448 IT, UH, WE'D GIVE IT TO ANOTHER INVESTIGATOR TO GET ANOTHER 1078 01:00:15,448 --> 01:00:20,153 PERSPECTIVE OR - TO PUT A FRESH SET OF EYES ON 1079 01:00:20,153 --> 01:00:23,890 IT >> Reporter: BY 2016, SOME OF 1080 01:00:23,890 --> 01:00:27,060 THOSE DETECTIVES WHO'D BEEN DIGGING THROUGH THE CASE FILE 1081 01:00:27,060 --> 01:00:37,137 AND JIMMIE MARTIN'S POLICE INTERVIEW URGED THE COMMAND AT 1082 01:00:37,137 --> 01:00:43,476 THE MEMPHIS P.D. TO TAKE A SECOND LOOK AT THE CASE. 1083 01:00:43,476 --> 01:00:44,544 THEY DUBBED IT OPERATION REBOUND. 1084 01:00:44,544 --> 01:00:45,679 VERY HUSH-HUSH AND ONE OF THE THINGS THEY DID 1085 01:00:45,679 --> 01:00:46,780 WAS GO BACK TO THAT MURKY LAKE IN MISSISSIPPI 1086 01:00:46,780 --> 01:00:47,947 >> THEY'D GOTTEN SOME MORE INFORMATION THAT MADE THEM MORE 1087 01:00:47,947 --> 01:00:49,082 CERTAIN ABOUT THIS AND THEY SEND A DIVE TEAM DOWN 1088 01:00:49,082 --> 01:00:51,985 I THINK IT WAS AN FBI DIVE TEAM. >> Reporter: AND GUESS WHAT? 1089 01:00:51,985 --> 01:01:06,266 FIVE YEARS AFTER JIMMIE MARTIN CAME FORWARD - 1090 01:01:06,266 --> 01:01:07,367 >> THEY FIND THE GUN >> Reporter: A 9 MILLIMETER 1091 01:01:07,367 --> 01:01:08,401 HANDGUN SITTING IN THE MUDDY SEDIMENT 1092 01:01:08,401 --> 01:01:10,503 BUT WAS IT REALLY THE WEAPON THAT KILLED LORENZEN WRIGHT? 1093 01:01:10,503 --> 01:01:12,339 THE GUN WAS SENT TO THE TENNESSEE BUREAU OF 1094 01:01:12,339 --> 01:01:14,741 INVESTIGATION FOR BALLISTICS TESTS TO SEE IF IT MATCHED THE 1095 01:01:14,741 --> 01:01:16,876 CASINGS COLLECTED AT THE CRIME SCENE. 1096 01:01:16,876 --> 01:01:18,511 THEN A FEW WEEKS LATER - >> THEY BALLISTICS LINK IT TO 1097 01:01:18,511 --> 01:01:26,753 THE MURDER ONE OF TWO GUNS THAT WAS USED AT 1098 01:01:26,753 --> 01:01:34,427 THE SCENE. >> Reporter: OPERATION REBOUND 1099 01:01:34,427 --> 01:01:36,529 WAS ROLLING, BUT INVESTIGATORS KEPT A TIGHT LID ON ALL THEIR 1100 01:01:36,529 --> 01:01:38,131 NEW EVIDENCE FOR MONTHS. THE DARK WHEN SHE COMMEMORATED 1101 01:01:38,131 --> 01:01:39,666 LORENZEN'S 42nd BIRTHDAY >> NOVEMBER 4th. 1102 01:01:39,666 --> 01:01:41,768 A DAY THAT SHOULD BE SPENT CELEBRATING IS A PAINFUL 1103 01:01:41,768 --> 01:01:43,870 REMINDER FOR DEBBIE MARION >> Reporter: ONCE AGAIN SHE HELD 1104 01:01:43,870 --> 01:01:46,006 A SOMBER VIGIL TO KEEP HER SON'S NAME IN THE NEWS AND THE HEAT ON 1105 01:01:46,006 --> 01:01:50,777 THE POLICE >> IT'S HEAVY ON MY HEART, ALL 1106 01:01:50,777 --> 01:01:56,182 THE TIME ESPECIALLY BIRTHDAYS, CHRISTMAS 1107 01:01:56,182 --> 01:01:57,150 AND JULY -- THAT DAY ALWAYS ON MY MIND. 1108 01:01:57,150 --> 01:01:58,852 >> Reporter: LORENZEN'S MOTHER OF COURSE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THE 1109 01:01:58,852 --> 01:02:05,959 GUN. OR JIMMIE MARTIN 1110 01:02:05,959 --> 01:02:07,761 OR BILLY TURNER. >> I REALLY NEED YOUR HELP, 1111 01:02:07,761 --> 01:02:09,329 PEOPLE COME ON, TELL US SOMETHING 1112 01:02:09,329 --> 01:02:15,769 >> Reporter: THEN A FEW DAYS LATER POLICE DID TELL DEBORAH 1113 01:02:15,769 --> 01:02:17,303 SOMETHING. SOMETHING AMAZING. 1114 01:02:17,303 --> 01:02:18,371 >> THE FBI HELPED SEARCH A REMOTE LAKE IN WALNUT 1115 01:02:18,371 --> 01:02:20,473 MISSISSIPPI, AND FOUND AN ALLEGED MURDER WEAPON. 1116 01:02:20,473 --> 01:02:21,908 >> Reporter: SOME SEVEN LONG YEARS AFTER THE MURDER, DEBORAH 1117 01:02:21,908 --> 01:02:23,143 MARION SUDDENLY FELT A STEP CLOSER TO GETTING JUSTICE FOR 1118 01:02:23,143 --> 01:02:26,312 HER SON. >> THANK YOU JESUS 1119 01:02:26,312 --> 01:02:32,652 THANK YOU, YOU DONE FOUND SOMETHING. 1120 01:02:32,652 --> 01:02:33,853 'CAUSE WE HADN'T HEARD ANYTHING. >> Reporter: AND REN'S CLOSE 1121 01:02:33,853 --> 01:02:35,822 FRIENDS WERE NOW HOPEFUL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS. 1122 01:02:35,822 --> 01:02:36,990 >> OH, MY GOD. WE GOT -- WE'RE ON TO SOMETHING. 1123 01:02:36,990 --> 01:02:38,491 >> Reporter: AND ARE YOU THINKING THAT THIS IS JUST THE 1124 01:02:38,491 --> 01:02:39,292 BEGINNING? >> IT'S JUST THE BEGINNING 1125 01:02:39,292 --> 01:02:40,193 >> Reporter: IT'S GONNA FALL LIKE DOMINOES. 1126 01:02:40,193 --> 01:02:41,127 >> WE GOT IT WE GOT 'EM 1127 01:02:41,127 --> 01:02:45,598 THE F.B.I. DIVE TEAM FOUND IT AND SO I SAID, "OKAY 1128 01:02:45,598 --> 01:02:53,840 WELL, IF THEY'RE INVOLVED, THEN I KNOW THAT THEY'RE ON TO 1129 01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:56,509 SOMEBODY." >> THERE WERE SO MANY QUESTIONS. 1130 01:02:56,509 --> 01:03:02,882 HOW'D THEY FIND THIS GUN ALL OF A SUDDEN 1131 01:03:02,882 --> 01:03:06,553 WHY NOW? WHO TOLD THEM? 1132 01:03:06,553 --> 01:03:08,688 WHOSE GUN IS IT? WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH 1133 01:03:08,688 --> 01:03:10,824 SHERRA WRIGHT? >> Reporter: WHEN SHERRA'S 1134 01:03:10,824 --> 01:03:12,926 EX-BOYFRIEND KELVIN COWANS SAW THE NEWS, HE CALLED SHERRA IN 1135 01:03:12,926 --> 01:03:14,060 CALIFORNIA >> AND SHE WAS SOUNDIN' VERY 1136 01:03:14,060 --> 01:03:15,128 SOMBER ABOUT IT. AND SHE WAS LIKE, "YEAH, I SAW 1137 01:03:15,128 --> 01:03:16,663 IT YEAH 1138 01:03:16,663 --> 01:03:17,731 I DON'T BELIEVE THEY FOUND THE GUN. 1139 01:03:17,731 --> 01:03:19,933 SHE SAID, "I THINK THEY'RE JUST MAKIN' IT UP 1140 01:03:19,933 --> 01:03:20,967 WHAT DOES IT MATTER? YOU KNOW, HE'S NOT COMIN' BACK 1141 01:03:20,967 --> 01:03:24,237 ANYWAY." >> Reporter: SHERRA SEEMED 1142 01:03:24,237 --> 01:03:26,740 LOW-KEY ON THE PHONE WITH KELVIN 1143 01:03:26,740 --> 01:03:29,909 BUT DETECTIVES WERE BETTING THAT SHE WOULDN'T STAY THAT WAY FOR 1144 01:03:29,909 --> 01:03:32,212 LONG >> Reporter: IN FACT JUST DAYS 1145 01:03:32,212 --> 01:03:34,180 AFTER THE NEWS BROKE ABOUT THE GUN BEING FOUND, SHERRA SUDDENLY 1146 01:03:34,180 --> 01:03:36,282 FLEW TO MEMPHIS AND MET WITH BILLY. 1147 01:03:36,282 --> 01:03:38,918 DETECTIVES WERE ON THEIR TAIL AND SNAPPED THESE SURVEILLANCE 1148 01:03:38,918 --> 01:03:43,156 SHOTS. THAT'S SHERRA IN THE BLACK SWEAT 1149 01:03:43,156 --> 01:03:49,095 SUIT POLICE WATCHED AND WAITED, AND 1150 01:03:49,095 --> 01:03:50,096 LET SHERRA AND BILLY STEW. >> THE POLICE WERE PLAYIN' 1151 01:03:50,096 --> 01:03:51,898 EVERYBODY. IT WAS BRILLIANT STRATEGY THAT 1152 01:03:51,898 --> 01:03:54,300 THEY WANTED TO GET THAT INFORMATION OUT TO GET MORE 1153 01:03:54,300 --> 01:03:59,572 INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE FROM SHERRA AND BILLY RAY TURNER. 1154 01:03:59,572 --> 01:04:02,242 THEY THREW THEM INTO A PANIC AND GOT THEM TALKING ABOUT IT. 1155 01:04:02,242 --> 01:04:06,513 [ PHONE RINGING >> Reporter: TALKING 1156 01:04:06,513 --> 01:04:07,681 WHICH POLICE STARTED TAPING, BY TAPPING SHERRA AND BILLY'S 1157 01:04:07,681 --> 01:04:12,852 PHONES >> HELLO 1158 01:04:12,852 --> 01:04:16,056 >> HEY, WHAT'S UP, STRANGER? >> NOTHIN', WHAT IT DO 1159 01:04:16,056 --> 01:04:18,124 >> Reporter: AT FIRST THE CONVERSATION DIDN'T SEEM TO MAKE 1160 01:04:18,124 --> 01:04:22,062 SENSE. >> WHEN ARE YOU ALL GOING TO GET 1161 01:04:22,062 --> 01:04:23,430 MARRIED? >> OH, I DON'T KNOW. 1162 01:04:23,430 --> 01:04:26,566 I DON'T KNOW WHEN YOU GET THAT RING 1163 01:04:26,566 --> 01:04:28,268 WHEN YOU GET THAT RING >> Reporter: POLICE EVENTUALLY 1164 01:04:28,268 --> 01:04:38,812 CAME TO BELIEVE THAT ALL THE SMALL TALK WAS ACTUALLY RELATED 1165 01:04:38,812 --> 01:04:39,846 TO THE CASE. >> I WANTED TO SHOW YOU 1166 01:04:39,846 --> 01:04:42,082 SOMETHING. >> OH, OKAY, I HOPE YOU GOT THAT 1167 01:04:42,082 --> 01:04:43,083 RING THEN. >> Reporter: BY LATE 2017, 1168 01:04:43,083 --> 01:04:44,617 MEMPHIS POLICE HAD HEARD ENOUGH AND MADE THEIR MOVE. 1169 01:04:44,617 --> 01:04:46,186 >> DECEMBER 5th, BILLY TURNER WAS ARRESTED INSIDE A 1170 01:04:46,186 --> 01:04:51,491 CONVENIENCE STORE IN COLLIERVILLE 1171 01:04:51,491 --> 01:05:01,034 >> AND THEN WE FIND OUT THAT HE WAS HER LAWN MAN WHEN LORENZEN 1172 01:05:01,034 --> 01:05:02,402 WAS LIVING WITH SHERRA SO THIS IS A PERSON WHO KNEW 1173 01:05:02,402 --> 01:05:03,336 BOTH OF THEM AND THEN WE FIND OUT THAT HE'S A 1174 01:05:03,336 --> 01:05:05,805 DEACON AT A CHURCH IN COLLIERVILLE 1175 01:05:05,805 --> 01:05:07,907 >> Reporter: THE VERY SAME CHURCH WHERE SHERRA HAD BEEN A 1176 01:05:07,907 --> 01:05:11,611 MINISTER WHEN SHE LIVED IN MEMPHIS. 1177 01:05:11,611 --> 01:05:13,213 >> Reporter: HE WAS UNDER EVERYBODY'S NOSES THE WHOLE 1178 01:05:13,213 --> 01:05:15,215 TIME >> YEAH. 1179 01:05:15,215 --> 01:05:16,449 HOW'S THAT FOR A KICKER? >> Reporter: THAT IS A KICKER. 1180 01:05:16,449 --> 01:05:19,052 THAT'S AN EVIL KICKER. >> IT IS 1181 01:05:19,052 --> 01:05:22,756 IF THIS PLANS OUT BEING THAT SHE WAS THE ONE WHO PUT EVERYTHING 1182 01:05:22,756 --> 01:05:27,060 IN MOTION AND THEN TO BE THE ONE TO ACTUALLY TAKE HIS LIFE, YEAH. 1183 01:05:27,060 --> 01:05:33,867 YEAH JUST THE ULTIMATE EVIL 1184 01:05:33,867 --> 01:05:37,070 >> AFTER YEARS OF NOTHING, IT HITS US ALL AT ONE TIME. 1185 01:05:37,070 --> 01:05:41,841 AND WE STARTED THINKING, "DID SHE? 1186 01:05:41,841 --> 01:05:44,477 DID SHE ACTUALLY?" >> Reporter: KELVIN COWANS ALSO 1187 01:05:44,477 --> 01:05:48,715 HAD PLENTY OF QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS FORMER LOVER 1188 01:05:48,715 --> 01:05:51,918 SO HE AND SHERRA SPOKE AGAIN, THIS TIME POLICE WERE LISTENING 1189 01:05:51,918 --> 01:05:55,088 TOO. >> HOW WELL YOU KNOW BILLY 1190 01:05:55,088 --> 01:06:00,393 >> BILLY GOT NOTHIN' TO DO WITH NOBODY OR NOTHIN'. 1191 01:06:00,393 --> 01:06:01,928 >> SHE WAS LIKE, "THAT'S MY CHURCH MATE. 1192 01:06:01,928 --> 01:06:03,163 HE'S A CHURCH DEACON, THAT'S MY FRIEND 1193 01:06:03,163 --> 01:06:07,267 HE DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS. 1194 01:06:07,267 --> 01:06:10,837 >> WELL, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO TELL THE WHOLE WORLD, BECAUSE 1195 01:06:10,837 --> 01:06:13,073 I'M NOT GONNA GET IN THERE I'M GONNA LET GOD STEP IN. 1196 01:06:13,073 --> 01:06:18,278 >> Reporter: BUT IT WASN'T GOD WHO STEPPED IN 1197 01:06:18,278 --> 01:06:20,513 IT WAS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY >> THE SHELBY COUNTY GRAND JURY 1198 01:06:20,513 --> 01:06:24,217 INDICTED BILLY R. TURNER FOR THE PREMEDITATED, FIRST DEGREE 1199 01:06:24,217 --> 01:06:30,056 MURDER OF LORENZEN WRIGHT. >> Reporter: BUT OUT IN 1200 01:06:30,056 --> 01:06:32,192 CALIFORNIA SHERRA REMAINED FREE. NO ARREST WARRANT. 1201 01:06:32,192 --> 01:06:34,828 NO INDICTMENT. JUST ANGER FOR THE 1202 01:06:34,828 --> 01:06:38,331 INVESTIGATORS, AND THEY HEARD IT 1203 01:06:38,331 --> 01:06:40,166 >> THIS IS A LIE FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL THEY BEEN TRYING TO PULL 1204 01:06:40,166 --> 01:06:43,203 BILLY INTO IT SO THAT THEY CAN PULL ME INTO IT. 1205 01:06:43,203 --> 01:07:06,860 >> Reporter: A DRAMATIC MOMENT >> Reporter: DECEMBER 2017, MORE 1206 01:07:06,860 --> 01:07:13,767 THAN 7 YEARS AFTER LORENZEN'S MURDER, BILLY TURNER WAS IN 1207 01:07:13,767 --> 01:07:18,772 COURT ASKING FOR BAIL. >> GOOD MORNING, SIR 1208 01:07:18,772 --> 01:07:22,242 >> Reporter: LORENZEN'S MOTHER DEBORAH WAS RIGHT THERE TO GIVE 1209 01:07:22,242 --> 01:07:25,378 BILLY TURNER A PIECE OF HER MIND 1210 01:07:25,378 --> 01:07:28,048 >> HOW COULD YOU HAVE MURDERED MY SON 1211 01:07:28,048 --> 01:07:29,215 THAT'S WHAT I NEED TO KNOW JUST HOW 1212 01:07:29,215 --> 01:07:30,483 >> MA'AM, DON'T DO THAT, PLEASE. >> Reporter: THE JUDGE SET BAIL 1213 01:07:30,483 --> 01:07:31,818 AT $15 MILLION BACK IN CALIFORNIA, SHERRA 1214 01:07:31,818 --> 01:07:32,752 SEEMED WORRIED >> THIS IS A LIE FROM THE PITS 1215 01:07:32,752 --> 01:07:34,387 OF HELL. THEY BEEN TRYING TO PULL BILLY 1216 01:07:34,387 --> 01:07:37,557 INTO IT SO THAT THEY CAN PULL ME INTO IT. 1217 01:07:37,557 --> 01:07:43,663 >> Reporter: "THEY," OF COURSE, WERE THE POLICE, WHO WERE 1218 01:07:43,663 --> 01:07:48,668 SECRETLY LISTENING IN AS SHERRA CALLED FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO 1219 01:07:48,668 --> 01:07:49,869 SEEK GUIDANCE OR JUST VENT, ESPECIALLY ABOUT BILLY'S ARREST. 1220 01:07:49,869 --> 01:07:51,304 AND SHE KEPT DENYING ANY ROLE IN REN'S MURDER 1221 01:07:51,304 --> 01:07:55,075 >> DON'T NOBODY BELIEVE THAT WE WERE STILL IN LOVE OR THAT WE 1222 01:07:55,075 --> 01:08:05,285 CARED FOR EACH OTHER DON'T NOBODY BELIEVE THAT. 1223 01:08:05,285 --> 01:08:07,087 >> Reporter: OVER AND OVER, SHERRA INSISTED SHE WAS 1224 01:08:07,087 --> 01:08:07,921 INNOCENT, THE INVESTIGATION WAS A SHAM 1225 01:08:07,921 --> 01:08:09,022 >> IT'S JUST UNBELIEVABLE. IT'S LIKE A BAD DREAM. 1226 01:08:09,022 --> 01:08:13,526 >> Reporter: THEN, JUST TEN DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS, SHERRA WAS ON 1227 01:08:13,526 --> 01:08:15,095 THE FREEWAY AND GOT A CALL FROM HER OLDEST SON 1228 01:08:15,095 --> 01:08:16,696 >> HEY, BABY >> MOMMY 1229 01:08:16,696 --> 01:08:19,899 >> HUH >> WHAT YOU DOIN'? 1230 01:08:19,899 --> 01:08:22,335 >> Reporter: SUDDENLY SHERRA NOTICED SOMETHING FLASHING IN 1231 01:08:22,335 --> 01:08:24,671 HER REARVIEW MIRROR. >> THE POLICE -- HE, LIKE, OH, 1232 01:08:24,671 --> 01:08:28,308 RIGHT BEHIND ME. >> PUT THE PHONE ON THE -- DON'T 1233 01:08:28,308 --> 01:08:30,443 YOU -- AIN'T YOU IN THE TRUCK? >> OH, I GOTTA CALL YOU BACK 1234 01:08:30,443 --> 01:08:33,079 I GOTTA CALL YOU BACK. >> Reporter: THIS WAS NO ROUTINE 1235 01:08:33,079 --> 01:08:37,183 TRAFFIC STOP IT WAS THE U.S. MARSHALS, 1236 01:08:37,183 --> 01:08:39,953 WARRANT IN HAND, ARRESTING SHERRA FOR MURDER. 1237 01:08:39,953 --> 01:08:44,691 SHE WAS RUSHED TO THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY JAIL, AND THE NEXT DAY 1238 01:08:44,691 --> 01:08:47,961 MEMPHIS POLICE TOLD THE WORLD. >> SHERRA WRIGHT-ROBINSON WAS 1239 01:08:47,961 --> 01:08:53,700 TAKEN INTO CUSTODY LAST NIGHT IN RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, BY THE 1240 01:08:53,700 --> 01:08:55,802 MEMBERS OF THE U.S. MARSHALL SERVICE. 1241 01:08:55,802 --> 01:08:57,971 >> Reporter: WAS HER ARREST THE -- A BIG MOMENT IN THIS? 1242 01:08:57,971 --> 01:09:02,776 >> OH, HONEY, I DIDN'T EVEN SLEEP WHEN THEY GOT BILLY. 1243 01:09:02,776 --> 01:09:07,380 BUT HONEY, WHEN THEY GOT SHERRA, I SLEPT. 1244 01:09:07,380 --> 01:09:12,752 I PROBABLY SLEPT TILL, LIKE, 12:00. 1245 01:09:12,752 --> 01:09:14,320 AND I NEVER SLEEP THAT LATE, NEVER. 1246 01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:15,555 BUT THAT'S THE FIRST TIME I GOT SOME REAL SLEEP, WHEN THEY GOT 1247 01:09:15,555 --> 01:09:16,623 HER. >> OH, EVERYBODY WAS TALKIN' 1248 01:09:16,623 --> 01:09:17,490 ABOUT IT IT WAS ALL OVER THE PLACE. 1249 01:09:17,490 --> 01:09:18,892 IT WAS HUGE NEWS IN MEMPHIS. >> Reporter: SO HUGE THAT, THE 1250 01:09:18,892 --> 01:09:25,432 NEXT DAY, DEBORAH ORGANIZED A CELEBRATION IN THE CEMETERY. 1251 01:09:25,432 --> 01:09:27,100 >> LORENZEN LOVED FIREWORKS. SO I HAD TO HAVE FIREWORKS AT 1252 01:09:27,100 --> 01:09:28,301 THE CEMETERY >> Reporter: NEVER HEARD OF 1253 01:09:28,301 --> 01:09:31,237 ANYTHING LIKE THAT BEFORE. >> LORENZEN HAD TO HEAR THAT 1254 01:09:31,237 --> 01:09:33,873 POW, POW, POW. WE HAD TO CELEBRATE. 1255 01:09:33,873 --> 01:09:40,747 A BIG CELEBRATION. WE HAD A BALL. 1256 01:09:40,747 --> 01:09:44,451 SURE DID >> Reporter: AFTER YEARS OF 1257 01:09:44,451 --> 01:09:45,652 TRYING TO GET SHERRA ARRESTED, DEBORAH HAD JUST ONE QUESTION 1258 01:09:45,652 --> 01:09:47,053 FOR HER. >> AND WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY 1259 01:09:47,053 --> 01:09:51,324 TO SHERRA -- WHY WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY? 1260 01:09:51,324 --> 01:09:58,231 >> Reporter: LORENZEN'S FRIENDS, WHO KNEW THAT SHERRA HAD LONG 1261 01:09:58,231 --> 01:09:59,466 BEEN UNDER SUSPICION, STILL HAD TROUBLE ACCEPTING THE NEWS OF 1262 01:09:59,466 --> 01:10:10,610 HER ARREST >> AND I'M LIKE, "WHAT DO YOU 1263 01:10:10,610 --> 01:10:11,544 MEAN SHE GOT ARRESTED FOR KILLING LORENZEN?" 1264 01:10:11,544 --> 01:10:12,645 AND I GOT REALLY ANGRY >> Reporter: I CAN JUST IMAGINE 1265 01:10:12,645 --> 01:10:13,613 ALL THE EMOTIONS YOU'RE FEELING. BETRAYAL AND - 1266 01:10:13,613 --> 01:10:14,781 >> BETRAYAL, SHOCK >> Reporter: AND ALSO SECOND 1267 01:10:14,781 --> 01:10:15,815 GUESSING YOURSELF AND -- >> SECOND GUESSING MYSELF. 1268 01:10:15,815 --> 01:10:16,750 YES. >> Reporter: AND YOU KNEW HER 1269 01:10:16,750 --> 01:10:17,751 BETTER THAN MOST >> YEAH. 1270 01:10:17,751 --> 01:10:19,853 BUT SOMETIMES WHAT PEOPLE DO IN THE DARK WILL COME TO LIGHT. 1271 01:10:19,853 --> 01:10:20,954 >> Reporter: SHERRA WAIVED EXTRADITION AND DAYS LATER 1272 01:10:20,954 --> 01:10:22,655 APPEARED IN A MEMPHIS COURT. >> THE BOND IN THIS CASE SHALL 1273 01:10:22,655 --> 01:10:32,065 BE SET TO COVER THIS INDICTMENT AT $20 MILLION 1274 01:10:32,065 --> 01:10:35,235 >> Reporter: SO YOU SEE SHERRA IN COURT, AND SHE -- 1275 01:10:35,235 --> 01:10:37,203 >> RIGHT >> Reporter: -- SAYS SOMETHING 1276 01:10:37,203 --> 01:10:38,571 TO YOU >> YES 1277 01:10:38,571 --> 01:10:46,346 SHE TURNS AROUND, LOOKED ME DEAD IN MY FACE, JUST LIKE I'M 1278 01:10:46,346 --> 01:10:47,380 LOOKIN' AT YOU, AND SAID, "I DIDN'T DO IT." 1279 01:10:47,380 --> 01:10:48,515 I SAID, "YOU WITCH." >> Reporter: YOU CALLED HER A 1280 01:10:48,515 --> 01:10:49,716 WITCH IN COURT >> WITHOUT THE "W. 1281 01:10:49,716 --> 01:10:51,084 YOU CAN'T KILL MY SON AND KEEP TEASING ME 1282 01:10:51,084 --> 01:10:51,618 "I DIDN'T DO IT. NO 1283 01:10:51,618 --> 01:10:53,720 >> ATTORNEYS FOR BOTH CO-DEFENDANTS CHARGED WITH 1284 01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:54,988 FIRST-DEGREE MURDER IN THE DEATH OF LORENZEN WRIGHT FILED MOTIONS 1285 01:10:54,988 --> 01:10:55,922 THURSDAY >> Reporter: BOTH BILLY TURNER 1286 01:10:55,922 --> 01:10:57,957 AND SHERRA PLEADED NOT GUILTY. THE PLAN WAS TO TRY THEM 1287 01:10:57,957 --> 01:10:59,025 TOGETHER BUT SHERRA'S ATTORNEYS, 1288 01:10:59,025 --> 01:11:04,297 LAURIE HALL AND JUNI GANGULI, HAD A PROBLEM. 1289 01:11:04,297 --> 01:11:09,069 >> WE STRONGLY BELIEVED THAT BILLY WAS GOING TO TESTIFY 1290 01:11:09,069 --> 01:11:11,071 AGAINST SHERRA IF THE DEFENSE WAS THAT, "I HAD 1291 01:11:11,071 --> 01:11:14,908 NOTHING TO DO WITH IT," IS PARTICULARLY PROBLEMATIC WHEN 1292 01:11:14,908 --> 01:11:28,655 THERE'S A CODEFENDANT WHO'S GOING TO TESTIFY 1293 01:11:28,655 --> 01:11:29,823 >> Reporter: SO A STRATEGY HER ATTORNEYS SAID YES, SHE DID 1294 01:11:29,823 --> 01:11:30,790 CONSPIRE TO HAVE HER EX-HUSBAND MURDERED 1295 01:11:30,790 --> 01:11:31,825 BUT THAT IN NO WAY MADE HER GUILTY 1296 01:11:31,825 --> 01:11:32,992 >> SHERRA DID IT SHERRA RECRUITED BILLY, BUT SHE 1297 01:11:32,992 --> 01:11:34,728 DID IT TO GET AWAY FROM THIS ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP 1298 01:11:34,728 --> 01:11:37,464 >> Reporter: THAT WAS THE DEFENSE'S VERSION. 1299 01:11:37,464 --> 01:11:39,799 SHERRA WAS AN ABUSED WOMAN DESPERATELY LOOKING FOR A WAY 1300 01:11:39,799 --> 01:11:41,901 OUT. >> ABSOLUTELY TWO SIDES TO 1301 01:11:41,901 --> 01:11:48,742 LORENZEN WRIGHT. THERE'S THE PUBLIC PERSONA, VERY 1302 01:11:48,742 --> 01:11:51,911 POSITIVE, COMMUNITY-ORIENTED PRIVATELY, HE HAD A VERY 1303 01:11:51,911 --> 01:12:01,554 TUMULTUOUS MARRIAGE, MANY AFFAIRS, AND GET ANGRY AND BEAT 1304 01:12:01,554 --> 01:12:07,193 SHERRA WRIGHT. >> Reporter: IN FACT, SHERRA 1305 01:12:07,193 --> 01:12:09,329 MENTIONED ABUSE DURING A CALL TO HER SON, WHICH POLICE SECRETLY 1306 01:12:09,329 --> 01:12:11,664 RECORDED >> YOU BEEN THERE A LOT OF TIME 1307 01:12:11,664 --> 01:12:12,732 WHEN YOUR DADDY DONE BEAT THE LIVING HELL OUT OF ME. 1308 01:12:12,732 --> 01:12:14,601 >> Reporter: AND THERE WAS THAT INCIDENT WHEN REN ALLEGEDLY GOT 1309 01:12:14,601 --> 01:12:18,505 VIOLENT WITH SHERRA AFTER FINDING HER WITH ANOTHER MAN, A 1310 01:12:18,505 --> 01:12:20,407 STORY HE DENIED. REN WAS NEVER CHARGED THEN OR 1311 01:12:20,407 --> 01:12:22,542 ANY TIME FOR ABUSING SHERRA. >> IT'S FAIRLY COMMON THAT 1312 01:12:22,542 --> 01:12:25,178 VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DON'T REPORT THEIR ABUSERS TO 1313 01:12:25,178 --> 01:12:28,348 THE POLICE >> Reporter: BY THE TIME OF THE 1314 01:12:28,348 --> 01:12:31,484 MURDER, REN AND SHERRA HAD BEEN DIVORCED FOR FIVE MONTHS AND 1315 01:12:31,484 --> 01:12:35,722 LIVING NEARLY 400 MILES APART. HER ATTORNEY SAID DESPITE ALL 1316 01:12:35,722 --> 01:12:41,861 THAT, SHE WAS STILL SCARED >> HE WAS TELLING THE CHILDREN 1317 01:12:41,861 --> 01:12:44,731 IN THE SUMMER OF 2010 WORDS TO THE EFFECT OF, "YOUR MOTHER AND 1318 01:12:44,731 --> 01:12:50,003 I ARE GOING TO GET BACK TOGETHER." 1319 01:12:50,003 --> 01:12:53,173 AND SHERRA DID NOT WANT TO GO BACK TO THAT LIFE. 1320 01:12:53,173 --> 01:12:55,809 >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO HER ATTORNEYS, SHERRA BELIEVED HER 1321 01:12:55,809 --> 01:12:58,978 ONLY ESCAPE WAS TO LURE REN BACK TO MEMPHIS TO HAVE HIM KILLED. 1322 01:12:58,978 --> 01:13:02,682 LORENZEN'S MOTHER DEBORAH INSISTS THE STORIES OF ABUSE 1323 01:13:02,682 --> 01:13:05,885 WERE ALL LIES. >> SHE MURDERED HIM AND 1324 01:13:05,885 --> 01:13:07,454 ASSASSINATED HIS CHARACTER SHE KILLED HIM TWICE 1325 01:13:07,454 --> 01:13:10,090 I WANT HER TO SUFFER EVERY DAY EVERY DAY SHE WAKE UP, I WANT 1326 01:13:10,090 --> 01:13:12,258 HER TO MISS HER KIDS LIKE I MISS MINE 1327 01:13:12,258 --> 01:13:13,259 >> COURT, COME TO ORDER. REMAIN SEATED. 1328 01:13:13,259 --> 01:13:16,963 >> Reporter: A BATTERED WIFE OR A KILLER 1329 01:13:16,963 --> 01:13:21,735 IT LOOKED LIKE A MEMPHIS JURY WOULD HAVE TO DECIDE 1330 01:13:21,735 --> 01:13:23,303 OR WOULD THEY? >> I GOT HERE THINKING IT WAS TO 1331 01:13:23,303 --> 01:13:24,871 >> I GOT HERE THINKING IT WAS TO HAVE A TRIAL, BUT THEN THEY 1332 01:13:49,229 --> 01:13:50,797 >> GOOD MORNING. >> LORENZEN'S MOTHER WHO WORKED 1333 01:13:50,797 --> 01:13:52,932 SO HARD TO PUSH THE CASE FORWARD COULDN'T WAIT TO SEE HER FORMER 1334 01:13:52,932 --> 01:13:55,568 DAUGHTER-IN-LAW GO ON TRIAL. HOW DO YOU FEEL? 1335 01:13:55,568 --> 01:13:56,603 ARE YOU CONFIDENT? >> YES, I AM 1336 01:13:56,603 --> 01:13:57,837 I FEEL ELATED, AND IT'S GONNA TURN OUT JUST LIKE IT'S SUPPOSED 1337 01:13:57,837 --> 01:14:00,040 TO ALL ACES GONNA BE IN THEIR 1338 01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:03,510 PLACES THAT MEAN EVERYBODY GONNA BE 1339 01:14:03,510 --> 01:14:06,112 WHERE THEY NEED TO BE. >> Reporter: JULY 25th, 2019, 1340 01:14:06,112 --> 01:14:10,383 ALMOST 9 YEARS TO THE DAY OF REN'S MURDER, HIS MOTHER WAS IN 1341 01:14:10,383 --> 01:14:14,087 COURT WHEN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM DEALT HER A HAND SHE HADN'T 1342 01:14:14,087 --> 01:14:17,791 ANTICIPATED. >> I GOT HERE THINKING IT WAS TO 1343 01:14:17,791 --> 01:14:19,893 HAVE A TRIAL BUT THEN THEY CALLED US IN A 1344 01:14:19,893 --> 01:14:23,596 ROOM BACK THERE AND SAID, "WAIT A MINUTE 1345 01:14:23,596 --> 01:14:26,232 WE MADE A DEAL." IT JUST BLEW ME AWAY 1346 01:14:26,232 --> 01:14:28,902 >> UPON YOUR PLEA OF GUILTY TO INDICTMENT - 1347 01:14:28,902 --> 01:14:32,605 >> Reporter: SHERRA PLEADED GUILTY, NOT TO FIRST-DEGREE 1348 01:14:32,605 --> 01:14:36,309 MURDER, BUT TO TWO LESSER CHARGES -- FACILITATION TO 1349 01:14:36,309 --> 01:14:39,512 COMMIT MURDER AND ATTEMPTED MURDER FOR THE FIRST TRY AT 1350 01:14:39,512 --> 01:14:43,650 LORENZEN'S CONDO IN ATLANTA. LORENZEN'S MOM WAS ANGRY 1351 01:14:43,650 --> 01:14:45,852 >> HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? I'M THINKING I'M GOING TO COME 1352 01:14:45,852 --> 01:14:51,124 AND HEAR EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED STEP BY STEP. 1353 01:14:51,124 --> 01:14:52,225 BUT NO >> Reporter: FOR THAT, REN'S 1354 01:14:52,225 --> 01:14:55,895 MOTHER WOULD HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL SHERRA'S ALLEGED CO-CONSPIRATOR 1355 01:14:55,895 --> 01:15:06,039 HAD HIS TRIAL. BETWEEN COVID AND COURT DELAYS, 1356 01:15:06,039 --> 01:15:11,244 IT TOOK NEARLY THREE YEARS FINALLY IN MARCH OF 2022, BILLY 1357 01:15:11,244 --> 01:15:13,913 TURNER'S TRIAL BEGAN >> WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO KILL A 1358 01:15:13,913 --> 01:15:15,749 MAN? >> Reporter: THOUGH SHERRA 1359 01:15:15,749 --> 01:15:16,950 WASN'T THE DEFENDANT, SHELBY COUNTY PROSECUTOR PAUL HAGERMAN 1360 01:15:16,950 --> 01:15:22,922 PUT HER FRONT AND CENTER >> SHERRA WRIGHT'S NOT A 1361 01:15:22,922 --> 01:15:27,160 PROFESSIONAL KILLER. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING SHE DOES 1362 01:15:27,160 --> 01:15:33,500 SHE DOESN'T HAVE A PHONE DIRECTORY OF HITMEN. 1363 01:15:33,500 --> 01:15:36,670 NO SHE HAD TO REACH OUT TO PEOPLE 1364 01:15:36,670 --> 01:15:40,373 THAT SHE TRUSTED >> DO YOU SOLEMNLY SWEAR - 1365 01:15:40,373 --> 01:15:43,576 >> Reporter: LORENZEN'S MOTHER WAS THE FIRST WITNESS. 1366 01:15:43,576 --> 01:15:46,212 SHE TOLD THE JURY THAT WHEN LORENZEN WENT MISSING, SHERRA 1367 01:15:46,212 --> 01:15:48,848 DIDN'T SEEM CONCERNED AT ALL >> DID YOU TALK TO SHERRA? 1368 01:15:48,848 --> 01:15:51,484 >> OH, YEAH. >> DID SHE TELL YOU THAT HE WAS 1369 01:15:51,484 --> 01:15:54,154 MISSING? >> NOPE. 1370 01:15:54,154 --> 01:15:56,589 >> AND WAS IT YOUR UNDERSTANDING THAT SHERRA WRIGHT NEVER WENT TO 1371 01:15:56,589 --> 01:15:58,958 THE POLICE >> NOPE. 1372 01:15:58,958 --> 01:16:02,662 SHE NEVER DID. >> YOU HAD TO. 1373 01:16:02,662 --> 01:16:04,798 >> NO, I HAD TO. >> SWEARING IN 1374 01:16:04,798 --> 01:16:07,467 >> Reporter: BUT THE STAR WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION WAS 1375 01:16:07,467 --> 01:16:10,103 SHERRA'S COUSIN JIMMIE MARTIN, WHO TOLD THE JURY WHAT HE HAD 1376 01:16:10,103 --> 01:16:20,213 SAID TO THE POLICE YEARS EARLIER, THAT SHERRA WANTED 1377 01:16:20,213 --> 01:16:24,417 LORENZEN DEAD. AND SHE HAD TURNED TO HIM AND 1378 01:16:24,417 --> 01:16:25,952 BILLY TURNER FOR HELP. >> WHEN SHERRA'S TALKING ABOUT 1379 01:16:25,952 --> 01:16:29,189 THIS BUSINESS THAT SHE SHOULDN'T BE IN, KILLING LORENZEN, IS 1380 01:16:29,189 --> 01:16:32,525 BILLY TURNER THERE >> YES, SIR. 1381 01:16:32,525 --> 01:16:36,596 >> OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE THERE. AND YOU DESCRIBED IT AS WHAT, 1382 01:16:36,596 --> 01:16:38,198 BRAINSTORMING? >> LIKE BRAINSTORMING. 1383 01:16:38,198 --> 01:16:39,432 THEY WERE COMING UP WITH WAYS OF HOW TO BEST, YOU KNOW, PERFORM 1384 01:16:39,432 --> 01:16:40,300 THE ACT. >> OKAY. 1385 01:16:40,300 --> 01:16:41,901 AND WHAT ACT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? 1386 01:16:41,901 --> 01:16:44,070 >> THE MURDER OF LORENZEN. >> ALL RIGHT 1387 01:16:44,070 --> 01:16:46,673 >> AND YOU SAY THEY WERE COMING UP WITH WAYS - 1388 01:16:46,673 --> 01:16:49,309 >> WE WERE - >> YOU WERE TOO, WEREN'T YOU 1389 01:16:49,309 --> 01:16:51,945 >> YEAH. >> Reporter: THOUGH HE TOOK PART 1390 01:16:51,945 --> 01:17:00,153 IN THE PLANNING, EVEN HELPED FIND THE LOCATION, JIMMIE SAID 1391 01:17:00,153 --> 01:17:01,121 HE WASN'T THERE WHEN THE MURDER OCCURRED 1392 01:17:01,121 --> 01:17:04,157 HE SAID SHERRA TOLD HIM ABOUT IT AFTERWARDS 1393 01:17:04,157 --> 01:17:08,395 >> OKAY, SO SHE MET -- HER AND LORENZEN MET UP WITH BILLY ON 1394 01:17:08,395 --> 01:17:11,064 THIS ROAD. THAT'S WHEN I GUESS THEY 1395 01:17:11,064 --> 01:17:12,632 AMBUSHED HIM >> YOU SAID, "I GUESSED. 1396 01:17:12,632 --> 01:17:15,335 WHY DID YOU SAY, "I GUESSED" >> 'CAUSE I WASN'T THERE 1397 01:17:15,335 --> 01:17:25,145 >> Reporter: THEN JIMMIE TOLD THE JURY ABOUT LORENZEN'S FINAL 1398 01:17:25,145 --> 01:17:26,212 AWFUL MOMENTS, DETAILS HE SAID AGAIN CAME FROM SHERRA 1399 01:17:26,212 --> 01:17:27,547 >> LORENZEN HAD HIS BACK TO THEM, AND THEY STARTED CHASING 1400 01:17:27,547 --> 01:17:29,582 THEY STARTED FIRING AT HIM, CHASING. 1401 01:17:29,582 --> 01:17:31,184 HE JUMPED THROUGH THE FENCE. HE WAS JUMPING LIKE A DEER 1402 01:17:31,184 --> 01:17:33,820 THEY CAUGHT HIM WHEN HE FELL >> Reporter: DEFENSE ATTORNEY 1403 01:17:33,820 --> 01:17:36,456 JOHN PERRY TOLD THE JURY THAT THE STATE'S STAR WITNESS, A 1404 01:17:36,456 --> 01:17:39,659 CONVICTED KILLER WHO WAS GIVEN IMMUNITY IN THIS CASE, SHOULDN'T 1405 01:17:39,659 --> 01:17:44,931 BE TRUSTED >> IT TAKES THAT TYPE OF A PUNK 1406 01:17:44,931 --> 01:17:47,600 TO SIT UP AND COME UP WITH A STORY, AS YOU'RE TALKING WITH 1407 01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:51,504 THE DETECTIVES, TO SAY, "THEY TOLD ME THIS." 1408 01:17:51,504 --> 01:17:53,973 AS FAR AS THE DEFENSE WAS CONCERNED, IT WAS MORE LIKELY 1409 01:17:53,973 --> 01:17:57,677 THAT JIMMIE MARTIN SHOT LORENZEN WRIGHT. 1410 01:17:57,677 --> 01:18:01,381 >> ON THE NIGHT IN QUESTION, NOBODY CAN VALIDATE YOUR 1411 01:18:01,381 --> 01:18:06,152 WHEREABOUTS, RIGHT NOBODY -- NOBODY VERIFIED YOUR 1412 01:18:06,152 --> 01:18:08,788 WHEREABOUTS, CORRECT IN ALL THIS TIME, NOBODY 1413 01:18:08,788 --> 01:18:10,924 VERIFIED IT. NOBODY 1414 01:18:10,924 --> 01:18:12,525 >> I DON'T KNOW IF THEY HAVE NOT OR NOT 1415 01:18:12,525 --> 01:18:15,695 >> Reporter: THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY POINTED OUT THAT 1416 01:18:15,695 --> 01:18:18,898 JIMMIE MARTIN DIDN'T HAVE AN ALIBI, BUT HIS CLIENT BILLY 1417 01:18:18,898 --> 01:18:20,033 TURNER DID >> HE WENT TO A PARTY AND WENT 1418 01:18:20,033 --> 01:18:24,204 HOME THAT WAS IT. 1419 01:18:24,204 --> 01:18:26,840 >> THE EVIDENCE IS GOING TO SHOW, CLEAR AS CAN BE, BILLY HAD 1420 01:18:26,840 --> 01:18:31,111 A WELL ESTABLISHED LIFE. BILLY WAS A MAN. 1421 01:18:31,111 --> 01:18:35,348 HE DATED WOMEN HE TOOK CARE OF HIS 1422 01:18:35,348 --> 01:18:39,052 RESPONSIBILITIES, AND HE HAD FUN. 1423 01:18:39,052 --> 01:18:41,154 BUT HE WENT TO CHURCH. >> I REALLY, IN MY HEART OF 1424 01:18:41,154 --> 01:18:44,357 HEARTS, DON'T BELIEVE THAT HE KNEW WHAT ALL THEY MIGHT HAVE 1425 01:18:44,357 --> 01:18:48,061 BEEN CONTEMPLATING DOING >> Reporter: BUT PROSECUTORS SAY 1426 01:18:48,061 --> 01:18:52,832 BILLY TURNER'S CELL PHONE PUT HIM AT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME. 1427 01:18:52,832 --> 01:18:55,468 THERE WAS THAT TERRIFYING 911 CALL LORENZEN MADE AS HE WAS 1428 01:18:55,468 --> 01:18:59,205 BEING SHOT A MEMPHIS POLICE PHONE EXPERT 1429 01:18:59,205 --> 01:19:01,307 TESTIFIED BOTH BILLY TURNER'S AND LORENZEN'S PHONES PINGED ON 1430 01:19:01,307 --> 01:19:05,045 CELL TOWERS NEAR THE SCENE AROUND THE SAME TIME 1431 01:19:05,045 --> 01:19:09,783 >> HIS TOWER LOCATION IS OVERLAYING WITH THAT EXACT TOWER 1432 01:19:09,783 --> 01:19:13,486 MR. LORENZEN HAD >> Reporter: THE WOMAN IN THE 1433 01:19:13,486 --> 01:19:16,122 MIDDLE OF IT ALL, SHERRA WRIGHT, WAS NEVER CALLED TO TESTIFY. 1434 01:19:16,122 --> 01:19:19,325 FIVE AND HALF DAYS AFTER THE TRIAL BEGAN, THE JURY GOT THE 1435 01:19:19,325 --> 01:19:22,028 CASE >> DEPUTY SMITH, PLEASE BRING IN 1436 01:19:22,028 --> 01:19:27,267 THE JURY, SIR. >> Reporter: LESS THAN THREE 1437 01:19:27,267 --> 01:19:30,804 HOURS LATER, THEY HAD A VERDICT. >> WE, THE JURY, FIND THE 1438 01:19:30,804 --> 01:19:33,106 DEFENDANT GUILTY OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AS CHARGED IN COUNT ONE 1439 01:19:33,106 --> 01:19:36,810 OF THE INDICTMENT. >> Reporter: BILLY TURNER GOT 1440 01:19:36,810 --> 01:19:40,513 LIFE PLUS 41 YEARS AS FOR SHERRA -- 1441 01:19:40,513 --> 01:19:44,250 >> THIS COURT SETS YOUR PUNISHMENT AT 30 YEARS 1442 01:19:44,250 --> 01:19:49,055 CONFINEMENT IN THE TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS. 1443 01:19:49,055 --> 01:19:52,726 >> Reporter: 30 YEARS ON PAPER >> IN THE END, WE WANTED THE 1444 01:19:52,726 --> 01:19:54,828 EARLIEST POSSIBLE RELEASE FOR SHERRA 1445 01:19:54,828 --> 01:19:58,531 >> Reporter: HER DEFENSE SAID BECAUSE SHERRA HAD NO CRIMINAL 1446 01:19:58,531 --> 01:20:03,336 RECORD, SHE MOST LIKELY WOULD SERVE ONLY HALF THAT TIME, MAYBE 1447 01:20:03,336 --> 01:20:07,007 EVEN LESS. >> SHERRA WILL ONLY BE, AT 1448 01:20:07,007 --> 01:20:11,244 WORST, IN HER EARLY 60s. AND SO SHE CAN STILL BE A 1449 01:20:11,244 --> 01:20:17,617 GRANDMOTHER TO HER GRANDCHILDREN AND STILL LIVE AN ACTIVE LIFE. 1450 01:20:17,617 --> 01:20:20,253 >> THAT'S NOT FAIR THAT IS NOT FAIR 1451 01:20:20,253 --> 01:20:23,957 WHAT DID THEY -- I DON'T UNDERSTAND 1452 01:20:23,957 --> 01:20:25,592 YOU KNOW, I WANT HER TO DO A PLEA DEAL WHEN LORENZEN COME 1453 01:20:25,592 --> 01:20:27,660 BACK THEN SHE CAN GET OUT 1454 01:20:27,660 --> 01:20:28,762 >> Reporter: SHE'S ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE PRETTY QUICKLY. 1455 01:20:28,762 --> 01:20:31,364 >> PRETTY QUICKLY. >> Reporter: DID SHERRA GET WHAT 1456 01:20:31,364 --> 01:20:34,567 SHE DESERVED >> I DON'T THINK THAT SHE DID. 1457 01:20:34,567 --> 01:20:36,670 IF SHE'S THE RINGLEADER THAT'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS, AT SOME 1458 01:20:36,670 --> 01:20:38,471 POINT SHERRA'S GONNA GET OUT OF PRISON 1459 01:20:38,471 --> 01:20:40,373 AND SHE'S GONNA GET A CHANCE TO GO ON WITH HER LIFE. 1460 01:20:40,373 --> 01:20:46,746 LORENZEN'S NEVER GONNA HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY. 1461 01:20:46,746 --> 01:20:48,415 >> Reporter: IN FACT, WITH ALL THE TRIAL DELAYS, SHERRA WAS UP 1462 01:20:48,415 --> 01:20:50,984 FOR A PAROLE HEARING JUST TWO MONTHS AFTER BILLY TURNER WAS 1463 01:20:50,984 --> 01:20:53,620 CONVICTED. >> I'M SORRY FOR WHAT HAPPENED 1464 01:20:53,620 --> 01:20:57,323 TO HIM I'M SORRY BECAUSE HE'S NOT HERE, 1465 01:20:57,323 --> 01:21:01,061 AND I DIDN'T WANT TO EVER, EVER IN MY LIFE BE WITHOUT HIM 1466 01:21:01,061 --> 01:21:03,697 BECAUSE HE WAS THE LOVE OF MY LIFE 1467 01:21:03,697 --> 01:21:08,501 I'M ASKING TODAY FOR YOUR MERCY. >> Reporter: WATCHING CLOSELY 1468 01:21:08,501 --> 01:21:11,104 WAS LORENZEN'S MOTHER WITH NO MERCY TO SPARE 1469 01:21:11,104 --> 01:21:13,940 >> THIS IS WHY I'M REALLY MAD. BECAUSE SHE'S STILL ACTING LIKE 1470 01:21:13,940 --> 01:21:18,078 SHE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. >> Reporter: SHERRA DIDN'T GET 1471 01:21:18,078 --> 01:21:27,721 PAROLED THAT DAY SHE'LL TRY AGAIN IN 2027 1472 01:21:27,721 --> 01:21:30,724 DEBORAH PLANS TO BE THERE. THIS PAST FEBRUARY, LORENZEN'S 1473 01:21:30,724 --> 01:21:37,097 OLD TEAM AT UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS RETIRED HIS NUMBER IN 1474 01:21:37,097 --> 01:21:40,767 HIS HONOR. >> Y'ALL, LET ME TELL YOU WHAT 1475 01:21:40,767 --> 01:21:42,102 MADE ME SO HAPPY I STILL THINK ABOUT ALL THAT BAD 1476 01:21:42,102 --> 01:21:44,337 STUFF THAT SHERRA WAS SAYING ABOUT HIM. 1477 01:21:44,337 --> 01:21:48,208 BUT WHEN THEY RETIRED HIS JERSEY, YOU SAW MEMPHIS CAME 1478 01:21:48,208 --> 01:21:49,342 OUT. >> Reporter: THIS IS A MAN WHO 1479 01:21:49,342 --> 01:21:50,310 HAD HELPED HIS CITY. >> UH-HUH. 1480 01:21:50,310 --> 01:21:51,978 THIS IS A MAN THAT TOOK CARE OF MORE FAMILIES THAN YOU'D EVER 1481 01:21:51,978 --> 01:21:54,114 IMAGINE. HE KEPT 'EM IN HOMES, HOUSES 1482 01:21:54,114 --> 01:21:59,319 HE PAID BILLS. HE KEPT THEIR LIGHTS ON. 1483 01:21:59,319 --> 01:22:04,090 >> THIS BOY WAS JUST LOVING. HE JUST LOVED BY SIGHT 1484 01:22:04,090 --> 01:22:06,192 HE JUST SAW PERSONALITY. IF YOU WAS GOOD TO HIM, HE WAS 1485 01:22:06,192 --> 01:22:14,701 GREAT TO YOU THAT'S FOR SURE. 1486 01:22:14,701 --> 01:22:17,337 >>> THAT'S ALL FOR THIS EDITION OF "DATELINE." 1487 01:22:17,337 --> 01:22:19,973 WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN SUNDAY AT 7:00, 6:00 CENTRAL 1488 01:22:19,973 --> 01:22:22,108 AND, OF COURSE, I'LL SEE YOU EACH WEEKNIGHT FOR "NBC NIGHTLY 1489 01:22:22,108 --> 01:22:25,812 NEWS." I'M LESTER HOLT.