Until she captured his heart.
- Amber: He expected them to be married, to have children.
- Laquisha: He loved her like no one had ever loved her.
He was her knight in shining armor.
- ♪
- narrator: But the couple's plans for a happily ever after
are stopped cold one frigid February afternoon.
- Curtis: I see him and he's laying face forward.
He was so stiff and so cold,
I realized he was dead in that moment.
- James: There's a great deal of blood
on the front of his t-shirt.
- Narrator: The ensuing investigation uncovers
a web of potential suspects.
- Curtis: The only drama that was ever really
surrounding loren was with women.
- Narrator: But it's the tangle of one woman's lies
that detectives must ultimately unravel.
- Amber: She was an extremely jealous woman.
- Suzette: She started to do one thing after another,
and it would get crazier and crazier every time.
- Grant: Her entire version of events was a lie.
- Kariba: I love you to death.
If I can't have you, no one can.
- ♪
♪♪
- narrator: February 5th, 2017.
It's super bowl Sunday in milwaukee, wisconsin,
and curtis peterson has plans to watch the big game
with his lifelong friend, 28-year-old loren high.
- Curtis: His phone is going straight to voice mail,
and that never happens.
Loren's one of the few people that if I called him,
he answered, and if he didn't answer,
he would text you.
- James: He went to check on loren.
He took it upon himself that day to go to the home.
- Curtis: It's, like, two in the afternoon.
I knock on his door.
Nothing, the lights are out, nobody answers.
I go to the back door,
I knock, I knock, and nothing.
- Nathan: He ended up going back to the front door
and somehow manipulated the screen on
the front security door and was able to reach around
and gain access into loren's house.
- Curtis: I don't wanna break into my boy house,
but this is a wellness call, basically, I'm gonna check.
So I was able to let myself in.
It's completely black and it's very cold,
and so I'm calling his name.
I go into the kitchen and I'm just looking around,
and so I see him, and he's laying face forward.
He looks as if he could just be knocked out on the floor drunk,
so it was a sigh of relief, like, "dude, alright, bed."
I walk up, I call his name twice, nothing,
and then I grabbed his ankle and tried to shake it,
and the way it felt, he was so stiff and so cold,
I realized he was dead in that moment.
- ♪
- nathan: After he realized that loren was cold to the touch,
curtis called 911 at that time.
- Curtis: He had been really depressed recently.
He was just really living in his head a lot.
So when I saw the body and I saw him, um,
I thought he killed his self.
I went outside and, like, I started panicking.
I'm like, "yo, I think my friend just killed his self."
- ♪
- curtis: I first met loren when I was about 10 years old.
We introduced ourselves,
and we were thick as thieves pretty much from that moment on.
- Narrator: Loren high was born on April 20th, 1988,
in milwaukee, and raised an only child
by his mother and grandmother.
- Curtis: His mother and grandmother, very smart,
very hard-working black women.
Self-sufficient, homeowners.
They had very high expectations of loren.
He was raised a certain way
with certain principles and morals.
- Narrator: When loren was 18, his world was turned upside down
when his mother died suddenly from a heart attack.
- Curtis: It was absolutely the most heartbreaking reaction
to something that I had ever seen,
and he was absolutely never the same after that.
- Suzette: After his mother died,
I felt like a piece of him just left.
He just didn't know how to fill that void.
So, he was just, you know, looking for love
in a lot of places that it was improper.
- ♪
- narrator: An attractive and charming young man,
loren dated plenty of women, but he didn't find love
until he met natasia bent.
- Curtis: Natasia was cool.
Very, very, very polite young lady, very respectful.
Um, she was nothing but a good influence on him.
- Narrator: By his mid-20's,
loren had two daughters with natasia.
- Kariba: He was a great father.
He read them books, he would tuck them in at night.
He prayed with them.
- Amber: The values that his mother instilled in him,
he was really putting that into his girls, too.
- Narrator: Though loren was dedicated to his kids,
he found it more difficult to maintain
a commitment to natasia.
- Curtis: Loren's young, living like a bachelor,
and I think that that was, uh, a lot of the issues
in their relationship.
- Kariba: Loren and natasia remained cordial
after they split ways.
I don't think that it affected them
too much negatively because they were able to communicate
for the children's sake.
- Narrator: Unfettered by a relationship,
loren enjoyed a bachelor lifestyle.
- Kc: Loren was a little bit of a ladies' man.
He was very charming.
Loren was very sweet, and he was very easy to like.
Very easy to love.
- Narrator: Loren finally found a reason to settle down in 2015
when he began dating porsche humphery.
- Kariba: Porsche had the gift of gab.
She was a smooth talker.
She definitely could adapt to any surrounding.
- Narrator: Porsche came across as poised and put together,
but like loren,
her childhood in milwaukee was shaped by tragedy.
- Laquisha: Her mom had killed her dad in front of her
when she was younger.
Her mom was in prison. She was put into the system.
She turned to men
to fill the gap that she felt like
she didn't get from anybody else.
- Narrator: Still in her teens, porsche began a relationship
that ultimately resulted in four children,
but it didn't last.
- ♪
- narrator: When 29-year-old porsche started dating loren,
they both fell hard and fast.
- Laquisha: He loved her like one had ever loved her.
She felt like he was her knight in shining armor,
and she felt like she was gonna be with him forever.
- Narrator: Loren felt that porsche shared the values
that had been instilled in him by his mother.
- Amber: She had a nice home.
Her kids were really well taken care of.
She did a good job being a mommy.
He genuinely loved porsche.
He expected them to be married, to have children.
- ♪
- narrator: But after almost a year and a half,
tensions began to surface in the relationship.
- Laquisha: Porsche talked about
a couple fights she had with loren.
Um, each time it was either about money,
or she--she went through his phone while he was in the tub,
or he's texting this girl. She just didn't trust him.
- Amber: She was an extremely jealous woman.
He had liked somebody's posts on facebook,
and they had a full-fledged argument about that,
so they had broken up.
He was just done with all the drama.
He was done with all the unnecessary bickering.
- ♪
- narrator: As loren and porsche moved on from the relationship,
they intended to maintain a friendship,
and both found new things to be excited about.
- Laquisha: I honestly believe porsche was on the track
getting her life together.
She had got two jobs, she had a nice apartment.
She had a new guy.
- Narrator: In 2017,
loren started a long-distance relationship
with an old friend, suzette bourgeois.
- Suzette: Loren and I, we were, like,
best friends, really close.
We didn't go a day without speaking to each other,
and if we did,
then there was something seriously wrong.
- ♪
- narrator: And on February 5th, 2017,
it becomes clear something is seriously wrong.
Responding to a report of a potential suicide,
milwaukee police detective james hutchinson
arrives on the scene.
- James: I see that there's a great deal of blood
on the front of his t-shirt.
There's also a gunshot wound found in his chest.
- Nathan: We didn't find any firearm
that may have been used.
There's things that were missing that should've
been there if loren killed himself.
- Grant: All the detectives have is a dead body and no gun.
So they've got to find any way possible
to get information.
Whether or not it's the killer or a witness,
they're looking for information.
- ♪
- narrator: Coming up,
the crime scene tells a story about loren's final moments.
- On that piece of glass there was, uh, some white powder.
We believed that to be some sort of drug use.
- Grant: It appears as though
loren may have been shot with his own weapon.
- Narrator: And details of personal entanglements
unearth a wellspring of suspects.
- James: Loren had a lot of friends and female acquaintances
that he was dating and seeing.
- ♪
- narrator: On February 5th, 2017,
milwaukee police detectives are at the home of
28-year-old loren high, who was found deceased
on his living room floor.
- All we could tell at the scene was that
he had a gunshot wound in the center of his chest.
- ♪
- nathan: As we started to look around,
we noticed there was an ambient temperature
within the house of only 47 degrees.
- James: It doesn't take very long for a human body
to start to decay, and one of the early signs
of that is the odor that's emanated from the body,
some discoloration, things of that nature.
Those weren't readily evident in this case, um,
because his residence was almost a refrigerator temperature.
- Grant: Time of death is hard to do to begin with,
um, but in a room that was close to being a freezer,
that doesn't allow a lot of decay
that might give you a better idea as to, to time of death.
- ♪
- narrator: As detectives take a look around the home,
nothing seems obviously out of place.
- James: Valuable things or things that were worth money
were still present within the residence,
so it didn't appear to be a burglary.
- Grant: When you see no signs of forced entry,
it leads you to one of two conclusions.
Either a, someone came in the same way curtis came in,
or b, the victim let his killer in.
- Narrator: In the living room,
investigators find a piece of evidence
that could be crucial to solving the case.
- James: We see a cell phone near his body.
We find that that's an item that we need to get
as much information from as we can.
We can't access it right away because
there's a password on it.
- Grant: That evidence was transported back to
the milwaukee police department headquarters
and it's processed there.
- Narrator: Detective hutchinson also spots a piece of glass
on loren's couch.
- Nathan: And on that piece of glass,
there was, uh, some white powder,
a, uh, clear ziploc bag, uh,
as well as a razor blade, so, uh, right away,
we believed that to be some sort of drug use.
- Narrator: On the glass,
detectives find a single fingerprint.
- Grant: That latent print is recovered and then sent to
the latent print division to see if they can identify
whose print it is. That'll take some time.
- Narrator: Detectives step out to speak with the man
who found loren's body, curtis peterson.
- Nathan: He was a long-time friend of loren,
obviously upset that he found his friend dead
on the living room floor.
However, curtis did shed some light onto, uh,
what was going on in loren's life.
- Curtis: The police was asking me
what kind of people did he hang around.
Um, "do you know of any, uh, anybody that would hurt loren?"
"did you know that loren does cocaine?"
"did he owe anyone money?"
and I could, like, absolutely answer no
to all of those questions.
- James: Curtis says that loren does use
a little bit of marijuana, that he's not a drug dealer,
just s small drug user.
Frankly, other than the white powder
in the residence, there was no evidence that
there was anything but marijuana usage.
- Narrator: Curtis tells detectives that loren generally
steered clear of trouble, with only one exception.
- James: Loren had a lot of friends and female acquaintances
that he was dating and seeing.
- Curtis: The only drama that was ever really
surrounding loren was with women.
- ♪
- narrator: Curtis tells them that he began to worry about
his friend when he wasn't returning his calls
earlier that day.
His worry only grew when loren's girlfriend,
suzette bourgeois, contacted him,
expressing concern for loren.
- Grant: Around one o'clock that day,
suzette and curtis are talking about how
the victim had seemed a little depressed, uh,
that he gets down around the time of his mother's death,
which was around this time. - Curtis: She's like,
"hey, could you please go and check on loren?
"I haven't heard from him.
"uh, we talk every day, like, literally,
"and his phone is never off,
and his phone has been off for three days."
- ♪
- narrator: Curtis says when he found loren dead,
it wasn't just suzette's comments
that led him to first suspect suicide.
- Nathan: Curtis did tell us that loren did in fact
have a, ah, 40-caliber glock firearm at his house.
- Curtis: I knew he owned one and he always had it out.
- Narrator: Though they've ruled out the possibility of suicide,
detectives are interested in loren's gun,
which was not located during their search of the home.
- Grant: The 40-caliber firearm that curtis told us
that loren had, it was missing.
It appears as though loren may have been shot
with his own weapon.
- ♪
- narrator: After speaking with curtis,
investigators are eager to
talk with loren's long-distance girlfriend, suzette.
They reach her by phone at her home in atlanta.
- Nathan: When we first spoke to suzette,
we wanted to verify the things curtis was telling us,
and we wanted to make sure that, uh, she was actually in georgia
during the time frame of loren's murder.
- Suzette: I told detectives loren and I spoke
every single day, whether it was sending,
you know, memes on social media, or texting or facetiming.
- Narrator: She says that four days ago,
the constant communication came to an abrupt halt.
- James: Last time she had any contact with him
was around the evening hours, 6 or 7 p.M.,
on February 1st, 2017.
- ♪
- narrator: Suzette confirms she asked curtis
to check on loren, and the next thing she knew,
curtis delivered devastating news.
- Suzette: I just fell to the ground
with my phone in my hand, listening to curtis,
and he just kept saying, "he's dead, he's dead."
- ♪
- grant: The last time she had talked to him,
loren had indicated that he was depressed
and having problems with porsche.
- Narrator: Suzette explains
that 30-year-old porsche humphery
was an ex-girlfriend loren couldn't seem to shake.
- Every single time he mentioned porsche,
it was something just either manipulative,
mean or cruel that she had done.
There was just something very disrupting about porsche.
- Narrator: Just days before the murder,
suzette witnessed their volatile relationship
first hand during a video call.
- Suzette: Porsche showed up to his house maybe a week or so
before he was murdered.
She just kept banging on the door,
and finally they opened the door,
and she was like, "I need to use the bathroom."
from what I saw and heard, she went to the bathroom
and she came out naked and lay across the couch.
She started to do one thing after another,
and it would get crazier and crazier every time.
That's when he was, like, completely done with her.
- Narrator: Based on her statement,
investigators find it unlikely that suzette had anything to do
with the murder, and her alibi is solid.
- Nathan: We did verify that she was in georgia
at the time of loren's death.
She didn't have anything to do with what had happened.
- ♪
- narrator: After speaking with suzette,
investigators fan out to talk with loren's neighbors.
- Nathan: One of the neighbors that lived near loren
did tell us he had seen loren
just a couple of days prior, uh, to February 5th in passing.
They kind of said hello to each other, and that was it.
- James: He was alive and well when he was seen
by that neighbor that day, uh, so that closed the window
from February 3rd to February 5th.
- Narrator: With loren's complicated personal life
emerging as a possible factor in his death,
investigators are eager to track down porsche.
- ♪
- narrator: But before they can, they get word that another woman
has just shown up at the crime scene.
- Shannon: A woman by the name of kc spencer
comes up to an officer who's on the perimeter
and asks about loren.
- James: She's close to the victim,
and immediately we want to get as much information
from that person as possible, and at that point, frankly,
we don't rule out anyone.
- Shannon: Especially after a crime of passion,
it's not unusual for the murderer
to return to the crime scene once police arrive.
- ♪
- narrator: Coming up,
startling new information shifts the investigators' focus.
- Kc: I was able to let the police know that
loren had started seeing another young lady.
- Narrator: And a routine interview ends
with an unexpected arrest.
- James: We believe there's a reason
she's obstructing the case and we need to find out
what that is. - Grant: She had information
that no one else in the entire world had.
- ♪
- narrator: Investigators in milwaukee, wisconsin
are looking into the shooting death of
28-year-old loren high.
When kc spencer shows up at the crime scene,
investigators immediately question whether
she might have been involved.
- Shannon: She says she heard about loren
from a friend down the block, but her appearance
on the crime scene has detectives suspicious.
- ♪
- kc: My friend said that
his family lived next door to loren,
and they saw all the police officers there.
They were able to say that there was a deceased person
in the lower unit of the duplex,
and that was the unit that loren lived in.
So I drove down to the residence,
and I was just so confused, and I was crying.
- Narrator: Kc tells police that she and loren
are just friends.
Like curtis and suzette did before her,
she paints loren's love life as a complicated web.
- Kc: I was able to tell the police
that he was involved with porsche.
I was able to let the police know that loren had started
seeing another young lady during that time.
- ♪
- narrator: Kc says the new woman in loren's life
isn't suzette or porsche, but that's all she knows.
- Kc: I never knew the young lady's name.
Loren never gave me her name.
But I was able to let them know that porsche had been in
his life recently and that there had been
some issues between loren and porsche at that time.
Loren was into marijuana, but I never knew loren
to be into anything hard.
Loren did let me know that porsche could've possibly
been into hard drugs, and there was word that
loren had experimented with it.
- ♪
- narrator: Had porsche brought the mysterious glass
and white substance into loren's apartment?
To find out, investigators track down porsche
and bring her in for an interview.
- Grant: We don't have the fingerprint evidence back yet.
We don't have the cell phone information back yet.
That's all in the process.
That was why they contacted her and asked her to come down
to speak to them, was simply an attempt
to put together a timeline of the last moments
of the victim's life.
- Narrator: Porsche acknowledges that she and loren
hadn't been successful in making a clean break
when they ended their relationship,
but insists they were on good terms.
- James: She says that they have a relationship
that's kind of an on-again, off-again,
that they had broken up, but that they were fine.
- Narrator: Investigators ask porsche to help establish
a timeline for loren's last days.
- Grant: The information that the detectives had
was that loren's body was found on February 5th.
A neighbor had indicated that the victim had possibly been
seen alive on February 3rd.
So they're just trying to figure out when
the last time she may have seen him alive.
- Narrator: But before detectives can ask porsche
about February 3rd, she presents them with
a detailed account of where she was on February 1st,
two days before loren was allegedly seen alive
by his neighbor.
- Grant: She comes in with a lot of paperwork,
and it's paperwork that she says is gonna show where she was
on the day that she believes the detectives are gonna
talk to her about, which is February 1st.
- James: It was unusual to detectives at that time
that's she's providing this very detailed accounting
of events on February 1st when we thought at that point
that loren hadn't been killed 'til February 3rd.
So that became very suspicious.
- ♪
- narrator: Investigators ask porsche if she knows
anything about the glass and white powder
found on loren's couch.
- They asked her if she'd ever touch that glass.
She stated she never touched it.
- James: Porsche said she hadn't been there in weeks.
- Narrator: Detectives ask the same question
about loren's gun.
At first, porsche says she had handled
his gun in the past, then she changes her mind.
- James: As she's communicated to
during the rest of the interview,
she then says, "no, I never touched loren's gun," uh,
and that became suspicious.
Well, why did you say that you had it,
and then later say you never touched it?
She contradicted herself in the interview.
- Narrator: Catching porsche in a lie gives investigators
legal grounds for an arrest.
- Shannon: When porsche is placed under arrest,
detectives take possession of her purse,
which she brought with her.
- James: She was arrested for obstructing,
but we believe there's a reason she's obstructing the case,
and we need to find out what that is.
That includes obtaining a search warrant
for her apartment in waukesha.
- ♪
- narrator: The next day,
investigators take a search warrant
to porsche's house and are met there by her sister,
who tells detectives she'd seen portia
on February 2nd,
three days before loren's body was found.
- James: She said that
porsche was acting very depressed that day,
was upset about something, and that she said that
she had been contacted by someone who said that
loren had been shot and he's in the hospital.
- ♪
- grant: So, on February 2nd, porsche's telling her sister
that loren had been shot.
No one knew that loren had been shot.
No one knew anything about this.
That means that porsche had information
that no one else in the entire world had.
- James: She is now a suspect in this homicide.
Nobody else knew that.
- Narrator: Porsche's sister tells police that
later that day, she noticed something odd
at porsche's apartment.
- Grant: She told police that
when she went to go take a shower,
she saw a bag of clothing, including a maroon jacket
and other items, in the tub.
- Narrator: As detectives conduct the search
of porsche's home, they find the clothes
her sister described in the bathroom.
- Grant: During the search warrant,
the police find the coat, they find the boots,
they find the scarf.
They appeared to be wet and they smelled of cleaner.
- Nathan: Those items of clothing were taken by us
and inventoried for some further analysis.
- Narrator: The rest of the search
fails to yield additional evidence.
- Grant: We did not find the weapon.
We did not find anything other than the clothes.
- Nathan: Porsche was released from custody after a short time,
and, um, the investigation continued
with her not in custody.
- Narrator: Another potential source of evidence
becomes available when investigators learn
loren's phone has been unlocked.
- Grant: There is no signs of life on his phone
after February 1st.
We are now realizing, hey, this idea that
he was seen on February 3rd, that's wrong.
That timeline is off.
The neighbor was mistaken as to the day
he saw the victim alive.
- Narrator: With his phone indicating that
loren possibly died on February 1st,
investigators try to make sense of
porsche's odd behavior during her interview.
- James: Her behavior was more like she's trying
to cover her tracks and less like
she's trying to cooperate in the investigation
like the other witnesses were.
- Narrator: Detectives also find that loren and porsche exchanged
multiple messages that day.
- Grant: There were a number of text messages between
the victim and porsche.
It was very clear that there was a decision made
that they were gonna have a kind of a conversation
to air their grievances, maybe put it all behind them.
Porsche texts the victim, asks if he's home.
The victim indicates that he is. She says, okay.
- Narrator: However, just after midnight,
porsche texts loren back.
- Nathan: It sounds like they had plans, uh,
porsche wasn't able to make it, and then was apologizing
to loren for not coming over.
- ♪
- narrator: The exchange between porsche and loren indicates
more reconciliation than strife.
- James: Porsche's messages in and of themselves
were not immediately suspicious that she's the one
that killed loren.
- Narrator: If porsche didn't go to loren's home that night,
who did?
As detectives comb through the messages,
they find that loren communicated with another woman
on February 1st.
- James: We also see that he's having some communication
with his new girlfriend, dashanell.
- Narrator: Detectives consider the possibility
that dashanell might be the mystery girlfriend
kc referred to.
- James: This is the first time we had heard this name
through the investigation. We see this in his phone.
We see this text exchange going on between her and him
and on the evening of the date that we believe that
loren was killed.
She becomes somebody that we have to talk to,
somebody very significant at that point.
- ♪
- narrator: Coming up, detectives interview dashanell.
- James: She immediately recognized that piece of glass
with the powdery substance on it.
- Narrator: And a major break reveals a killer.
- It's just pinging, boom, one after another.
Just constantly hitting at the victim's residence.
- ♪
- narrator: After combing through the phone records
of 28-year-old murder victim loren high,
milwaukee police have discovered that loren was texting
a new love interest in the hours before
police believe he was killed.
- James: When we look at loren's phone records.
Dashanell was somebody that was communicating with him,
and that became significant,
so she was somebody that we had to talk to.
- Narrator: On February 11th,
detectives interview dashanell harris.
She is troubled by the news of loren's murder.
- We're here to talk to you about a homicide.
She says, "it's not loren, is it?"
- ♪
- grant: She indicated that she had not heard
that the victim was dead, but that she hadn't heard
from him since February 1st,
when she had seen him in person in the morning.
- James: Dashanell had actually spent the night with him
on the 31st of January into the 1st of February.
She says that she left that day,
and that was the last time she had seen him.
She then relays also that she had a text exchange
with loren the evening of the 1st of February.
That exchange was a conversation where loren was saying that
he's having a much-needed conversation with an ex,
and asked dashanell to wish him luck.
- Narrator: When dashanell checked in with him
later that night to see how it went,
loren never responded.
- James: About 11:25, she sent him another text,
saying, "well, I guess that conversation's still going"
or words to that effect, and dashanell had a feature
on her phone that she showed the detectives that showed
when a text message was read and when it hadn't been read.
The first text exchange obviously with loren was read
because he texted back to her,
uh, but the second one at 11:25 p.M.
That evening on the first was not read by loren.
- Narrator: The unread texts helps detectives narrow down
their murder time frame even further.
- James: The fact that it was not read
also became very significant for the fact that
we believe that loren was killed now sometime between
the hours of 10 p.M. And 11:25 p.M. On February 1st.
- Narrator: Based on their interview with dashanell,
investigators find no indication that she was involved
in the murder.
- Shannon: Between her job and her roommates,
dashanell is able to give a pretty tight alibi
of where she's been the past week.
- Narrator: Before they leave,
investigators have one final exercise for dashanell.
- James: She's shown pictures from the scene and asked,
"is anything out of place or different from when
you were there that day?"
- nathan: Dashanell was able to point to the couch
and say that this piece of glass with the drug residue on it
was in fact not there when she left the morning
of February 1st.
- ♪
- narrator: Detectives then get word that the piece of glass
has been processed by the crime lab.
- James: The drugs were mdma, or ecstasy,
and there was a fingerprint present on this glass,
a fingerprint belonging to porsche humphery.
Porsche was saying that
she never went to loren's house that day,
and now we have her fingerprint on this piece of glass
that was in fact not there
when dashanell left the morning of February 1st.
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- narrator: To further strengthen their case,
investigators comb back through items collected from porsche
after her first interview.
- Shannon: They find a bus pass in her wallet.
Mcts bus passes can be tracked,
and buses are equipped with security cameras.
- Grant: They're able to get the bus records to let us know
what times that day on February 1st
she used the bus.
That security video, ah, shows us exactly what clothes
that she's wearing.
- James: We're able to see that porsche's in possession of a bag
and also that she's wearing a burgundy coat, a scarf,
and some type of hat or beret on her head.
- Narrator: The clothes match the ones detectives recovered
from porsche's bathtub.
- Grant: She washed the clothes.
Porsche was attempting to get rid of
whatever trace evidence or dna evidence she thought
may be on her clothes.
- Narrator: As for the bag, investigators suspect
it might have contained loren's .40 glock.
- James: She somehow got rid of that gun.
We believe that she took it from loren's apartment
and somewhere got rid of it, but didn't take it back
to her house.
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- narrator: Sensing they are closing in on porsche,
milwaukee detectives continue the push for more evidence.
- Grant: We're gonna need information
that would let us know whether or not
porsche was at the victim's residence
on February 1st.
That's the last piece of the puzzle we were looking for.
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- narrator: Finally, in March, porsche's phone records come in,
and detectives land the break they've been looking for.
- What was important was that phone showed
a series, if I'm not mistaken, of over a hundred hits
between 7:30 and 11:30
hitting at the victim's residence.
It's just pinging, boom, one after another,
sometimes within 10 feet,
sometimes a little farther than that,
constantly, regularly hitting at the victim's residence.
- James: She was in loren high's house
for about four hours that evening,
and her phone put her there the entire time.
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- narrator: Prosecutors are now ready to upgrade
the charges against porsche.
- Nathan: Porsche was initially arrested for
obstructing an officer.
However, she was released from custody after a short time.
Detectives now had reason to arrest her again.
- Grant: I'm now convinced we have enough
to charge her with homicide.
We now know that her entire version of events was a lie.
We now know that she was present,
uh, with the victim on the day he died.
That disproved her story, and in my opinion,
showed that we could prove beyond unreasonable doubt
that she killed the victim.
We charged her with first-degree reckless homicide.
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- narrator: Coming up,
detectives press porsche for her side of the story.
- Narrator: And one big question remains.
- Grant: We don't know what happened in that room.
- [gunshot]
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- narrator: By March 2017,
investigators in milwaukee, wisconsin have just charged
30-year-old porsche humphery with first-degree murder
in the death of her ex-boyfriend, loren high.
- James: Porsche gets arrested, does not provide us
any more details about what happened.
She essentially requests an attorney, and that's it.
- Curtis: I just assumed it would go unsolved
like a, a thousand other murders do in milwaukee, um,
which hurt more because there was no closure.
But then when we found out it was porsche,
everything made sense.
Like, the lead-up to that happening made sense.
Her reaction when I told her made sense.
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- narrator: Just before her trial is set to take place
in January 2018,
porsche reaches an agreement with prosecutors.
- Grant: The defense indicated that porsche might be willing
to plead guilty, and we offered
a second-degree reckless homicide.
The important factors was we wanted to make certain
that she was convicted of homicide because
she had killed the victim.
But one of the factors that came into our decision
was we don't know what she was going to say
if this went to trial.
It only made sense to accept the plea deal.
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- narrator: At her sentencing in March,
prosecutors assert that the evidence proves
porsche took loren's life.
- Grant: Her cell phone records clearly show that she was there.
The fingerprint evidence that shows that she's there.
The fact that she attempted to manufacture an alibi
to police showing up with all sorts of information
when they didn't even know what day the victim died.
- Narrator: Prosecutors cannot hide the lingering questions
around what actually happened inside loren's home that night.
- Grant: We don't know what happened in that room.
I--I can't point to a single fact as to what happened.
There's no fight that anybody heard.
There's no defensive wounds that we can see.
We're left with a gigantic question mark.
- James: No one else was present besides loren and porsche.
We don't know exactly how this went down,
why it went down, and, really, the only person
that can answer that is porsche.
- Narrator: Defense attorneys
finally present porsche's version of what took place
on the night of February 1st, 2017.
- Grant: The defense attorney
indicated that porsche had gone over to the residence,
that the two of them had been intoxicated,
that the victim and porsche had had some discussions about
how to handle a firearm.
- Narrator: According to the defense,
loren pulled out his gun, offering to show porsche
how to use it.
- Grant: She mishandled it, pulled the trigger,
and shot him in the chest.
- Narrator: Loren's friends find porsche's story
hard to swallow.
- Curtis: I do not think that she accidentally shot him.
That's complete hogwash. I don't believe any of it.
- Kc: Porsche knew exactly what her intentions were
when she went over there,
and it wasn't to play with a gun. It was to kill loren.
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- narrator: In March,
a judge hands down porsche's sentence.
- Shannon: She pleads guilty to second-degree reckless homicide
and is sentenced to nine years in prison.
- Amber: She only got nine years inside
for what she did,
and where was the justice in that?
- Curtis: Because of the level of pain I feel
when I have to recount seeing his body lay there,
um, knowing the person that did this,
and knowing that justice will not be served,
this is a total mockery of this man's life.
Like, I can't believe you can kill someone
and get nine years in prison for it.
- Narrator: Exactly what took place
inside loren's home that night remains a mystery,
but for those who knew the couple,
porsche's motive is crystal clear.
- Kariba: I honestly don't think that she ever had any man
to love her the way that loren loved her,
so once she found that,
she didn't wanna share it with anybody.
I love you to death, no one can have you.
If I can't have you, no one can.
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