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Speaker 1: we read about them and the tabloids. They're famous, they're young,

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Speaker 1: they're athletic, they got it all right. Well, not this

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Speaker 1: NBA star who ends up dead. Why I'm Nancy Grace.

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Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us

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Speaker 1: here at Fox Nation and Sirius XM one eleven take

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Speaker 1: a listen to this. At nearly seven feet tall, Lorenzen

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Speaker 1: Tony Armstrong says Wright's impact was big. You can imagine

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Speaker 1: with all of their lives to hear to us not

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Speaker 1: It was a phenomenal story. We are in a vertage

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Speaker 1: watch in the case NBA star Lorenzen Wright who ends

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Speaker 1: together again. First of all, renowned criminal defense attorney joining

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Speaker 1: us out of La Troy Slayton Bobby Chicoon, former special

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Speaker 1: agent FBI, screenwriter on Criminal Minds. Doctor Angela Arnold, you

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Speaker 1: Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University, author of

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Speaker 1: Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon and now the star

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Speaker 1: of an e show Poisonous Liaisons on the True Crime Network,

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Speaker 1: and Crime Online dot com. Investigative reporter Levi Page. Levi

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Speaker 1: tell me about lorenz and Wright's NBA career. So, Nancy

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Speaker 1: friend Melissa McCartney at Crime Watch Daily. This woman accompanying

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Speaker 1: playbook on how somebody is supposed to act when the

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00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 1: father of her children are gone. She's now responsible for

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00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,360
Speaker 1: six children and trying to put them in a lifestyle

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00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: that they had become accustomed to during the life of

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Speaker 1: their superstar father. So to put the children back in

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00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: the lifestyle to which they were accustomed, she bought herself

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00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 1: expensive clothes, expensive cars, and jewelry. Okay, I'll let doctor

433
00:27:44,400 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 1: Angela Arnold work that one out. Times to race with

434
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. Guys, what happened to Lorensen? Right the NBA

435
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: star Take a listen to our friends at Sports Illustrated

436
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: Fox Sports have any part in Lorenzen's murder? And at first,

437
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: I'm a wife, then I'm a mother, and then thirdly

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00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: I'm an author through the law enforcement should do what's

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00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: best to find out who's the killer. And you understand

440
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: obviously why I had to ask that I do. But

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00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 1: I'm a wife, a mother, and an author. I let

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00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: people do what they're good at doing, and I'm just

443
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: gonna do what I'm good at doing. They need to

444
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: spend time and focus and find out what happened to him.

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00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: We all need to know. Shara has since remarried, recently

446
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: moved to Houston, become a minister, and wrote a self

447
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: help novel for abused women, beast loosely on her marriage

448
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: to a basketball star. Okay, guys, Jackie got the answer

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00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: for me. LEVI did you hear that? Thirty two graham

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00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: for a Caliac escalade and a Lexus whoa about twelve

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00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: thousand for a labbist trip to New York City, eight

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00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: thousand for oh my goodness for a swimming pool just

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00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: as a deposit, a knee pool knee furniture for seventy grand,

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Speaker 1: oh and five grand for a motorized lawnmore. You know what,

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00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: when I was growing up, Joe Scott, I don't know

456
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: if you had this or not, but you know, we

457
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: grew up on a red dirt road in Middle Georgia,

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00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: and we actually had the lawnmore that was not motorized.

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00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: That's a nice way, that's ephemism. It had a blade

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00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: that turned around. It just turned around, and you pushed

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00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: it over and over for the whole front and backyard.

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00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 1: Are you showing me more expenditures? Oh oh, okay, about

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00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars on properly she placing her children's name.

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00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: I mean it just goes on and on. Do you

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Speaker 1: remember those lawnmars They still exist. They're not that old

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Speaker 1: Joe Scott Morgan, but she's been on a motorized writing

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00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: lawnmore five grand. Well, yeah, I started out. Those are

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00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 1: called real lawn moors. That started out on one of

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00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: those R E E L And yeah, they're the devil

470
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: to push through high grass and you have to stay

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00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: on top the grass or you'll wind up losing about

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00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: fifty pounds of water weight out in the hot southern sun. Yeah,

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00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: I'm very familiar with those. Nancy five thousand dollars. Okay,

474
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: choice Layton. We tell you she's just expressing her grief,

475
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: But take a listen to the real woman and laurents

476
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: and writes. Take a listen to our friend Ryan Smith

477
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: at ABC twenty twenty. It was almost like he was

478
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 1: just blind with love, right, Yes, yeah, that girl crazy.

479
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: He put moves on him. I karate a job that

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00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: they don't do him this if I was hearing that

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00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: that Cheryl was wanting to get pregnant and to marry Lorenzen,

482
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 1: assuming that he was going to be this great NBA

483
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: basketball player. When she saw Lorenzen, she saw a future

484
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: with a millionaire. Some of the people closest to Lorenzen

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00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 1: see Sheryff as a gold digger. So were you concerned

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00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: he was listening on Earth? And I counted like cool

487
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: down because I said, if I gotta light her a

488
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: little bit, you know, to keep my son close to me.

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00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: And you didn't try to disrupt the relationship because he

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00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: loved her exactly. So there's the dilemma, doctor Angela Arnold,

491
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: you're the psychiatrist. When the mother does not like the

492
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 1: daughter in law at all, that keeps up a relationship

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00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: to stay close to the sun and vice versa. But

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00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: you know what, Nancy, not all gold diggers or murders.

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00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: Let's be honest. True, you can't. We can't, you know,

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00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: just because Okay, so she wanted a nice life, Nancy,

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00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: who doesn't want a nice life? I don't know anything

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00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: about their arnold, doctor Angie, because I never grew up

499
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: wanting to a five thousand dollars motorized lawn more or

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00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: fancy clothes or expensive jewelry, didn't think or vehicles and

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00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: she got and she got a taste of that. I mean,

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00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: how is that part of a permanent parenting plan? I

503
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: know I agree with you, Nancy, but I'm not going

504
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: But but just because she's a gold digger doesn't mean

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00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: she doesn't mean that she would become a murderer. You

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00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 1: know what, I've got a feeling that Troy Slightness about

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00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: to put you want retainer, doctor Angela Arnold. Go ahead,

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00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: Troy Slton. I'm sure you're chopping at the bit. Let

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00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: me guess she runs through a million dollars on herself

510
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: and the mother always says she was a gold digger.

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00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 1: But that does not a murder make right. Absolutely, there's

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Speaker 1: something called battered woman syndrome, and I'm sure doctor Angie

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00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: could tell us all about it. It's interesting you say

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00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: that because nobody else ever heard about that battered women's syndrome.

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00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: Her face was so damaged by this NBA star that

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00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: she has permanent disfigurement and fractures in her skull. Hold

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00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: on one moment, let's hear cut nineteen, Please Alexa Lorenzo

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00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: Fox thirteen. Through the years, the shock turned into sorrow

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00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 1: for each of Lorenzen's family members as they kept up

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00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: with the case. Before she was twenty seventeen arrest, she

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00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: published a book. It was Love and Hate at the

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00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: very First Sight, she wrote in the twenty fifteen publication,

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00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: The La Times says the book details several violent instances

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Speaker 1: and infidelity between the two main characters. In an interview

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00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 1: with The Commercial Appeal, Shara said ninety nine point nine

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Speaker 1: percent of the book was made up of true stories

527
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: of the couple's relationship, but Lorenzen Wright's mother says her

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00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: son never laid a hand on anyone, not Shara and

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00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: not the kids. I'll tell all book came out in

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00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. It was written by Sharah's last boyfriend and

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00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 1: detailed everything Sharah had told him about her and Lorenzo's

532
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 1: relationship and death. I went through it today and couldn't

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00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 1: find any allegations of domestic abuse. The domestic abuse contested,

534
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: but it is true. Is that not Bobby Chicon? That

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00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 1: typically the first person you'll look at ana homicide is

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00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: the spouse. That's just standard operating procedure. Yeah, it certainly is.

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00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,240
Speaker 1: And so you start looking at all the different issues

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00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: and problems that could come up in a marriage. So,

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00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 1: you know, these two obviously had gotten divorced, so um,

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00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: and you know obviously then they tried to get back

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00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,240
Speaker 1: together again. So you look at all of those issues

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00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: in a marriage that could cause stress and train and

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00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: you know, and anger towards each other. And so sure

544
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: are you always going to look at the spouse, you know,

545
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: in the initial round of success, and the things that

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00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: they do in their behavior either lead you towards them

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00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:26,280
Speaker 1: or away from them. Speculation was high until a guy

548
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 1: named Jimmy Martin steps into the spotlight. Listen to Paul Hagerman.

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00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 1: Homicide investigators interviewed Jimmy Martin, who say that he had

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00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,240
Speaker 1: a role in the murder of Lorens and Right. Jimmy

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00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: Martin saved in the days before the murder of Lorens

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00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: and Right, he was presenter and during a meeting in

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00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: which Shara Right, Billy Turner, and he planned the murder

554
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: of Lorenz and Right. Jimmy Martin say that he participated

555
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 1: the planning of the murder with Shara Right and Billy Turner,

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00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: and he received payment for this by Shara Right. Jimmy

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00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: Martin then stated, in the days after the murder of

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00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,399
Speaker 1: Lorenson Wright, he was picked up by Shara Wright at

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00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: his home in Baseball, Mississippi. Jimmy stated that Chary Right

560
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: barton metal detector from his mother, Edna Robinson, and they

561
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: then left. Jimmy Martin say that he rode to Memphis,

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00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,800
Speaker 1: Tennessee with sharl Wright, where they picked up Billy Turner

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00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: and they confessed to him that they had just murdered

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00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: Lorens and right, Okay, that cracks the case wide open.

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00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: When this guy comes forward claiming that he was paid

566
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: by Lorenzen's wife, Shira to commit a murderer, listen to this.

567
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: Jimmy Martin say that he assisted Shara Wright and Billy

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00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: Turner in cleaning up the crime scene and destroying evidence

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00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: from the murder. Jimmy Martin said that the metal detector

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00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: was using an attempt to locate a firearm that was

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00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: dropped during the murder. Jimmy Martin stated he accompanied Billy

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00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 1: Turner to a later located on Highway seventy two in Wallen, Mississippi,

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00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: where Billy's Turners smoke dispose of a handgun that was

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00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: used to murder Lorensen. Right one May to thirty foy

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00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: twelve investigators took Jimmy Martin to Lake near two four

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00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: nine one County Road number three or two in Wall

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00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: in Mississiity. So we've got the wife. Jimmy Martin and

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00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 1: Billy Turner allegedly involved. Billy Turner a church deacon, Levi Page,

579
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: the one sings like a bird? What happened to the

580
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:37,720
Speaker 1: other two? The church deacon and Shira Wright? So Nancy

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00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: Actually Jimmy Martin is Lorenzen's cousin who participated in his

582
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: own cousin's murder, and after he was arrested for murder

583
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: in a separate case, he told police he said, Shara

584
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:55,280
Speaker 1: Wright wanted me to kill Lorenzen Right, she wanted him dead.

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00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: He gave police of the names of people involved, including Turner,

586
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 1: who as a landscaper in a Memphis suburb and share

587
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: a right. They attended the same church. They masterminded this plot,

588
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,879
Speaker 1: and they had done so not only in Memphis where

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00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: he was killed, but they had tried unsuccessfully to do

590
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: it a year earlier in Atlanta, where he lived. And

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00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: she has actually pled guilty to that Nancy. She is

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00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: eligible for parole after serving thirty percent of her sentence,

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00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: which will be in about nine years. Nine years she

594
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: could walk She was paid to gold digger who planned

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00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: to take Lorenz and Right's money from the first moment

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00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:45,959
Speaker 1: they met, and she could walk free in a matter

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00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 1: of nine years. That is not justice. Take a listen

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00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: to this. Billy Ray Turner is the one person still

599
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: left to answer for that killing. Our w rg's April

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00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,720
Speaker 1: Thompson as Lot. What can you tell us about the jury?

601
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: Teen jurors, seven of them are white, eight of them

602
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,840
Speaker 1: are black, eight females and seven males. Those are the

603
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: individuals that are going to try this case. Billy Ray

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00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 1: Turner is the only person to stand trial in the

605
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 1: murder of Lorenzen Wright back in twenty ten. Wright's ex wife,

606
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,280
Speaker 1: Shara took a plea before she ever went to trial,

607
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: admitting she facilitated the murder. She got thirty years. She

608
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 1: is said to have solicited Turner, her church member, to

609
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: do the crime, but the attorney for Turner plans to

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00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 1: prove he is innocent. The prosecution it met her cousin,

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00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: Jimmy Martin, who led police to the gun that killed

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00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: lorenzen Wright and then to Billy ray Turner will be

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00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: in court and he is a big part of this

614
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,280
Speaker 1: trial because he was the key as far as finding

615
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: the gun and also linking Billy ray Turner to this case.

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00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: But Jimmy Martin is also in jail. He has been

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00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: convicted of killing his girlfriend. So you can expect that Billy,

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00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: Billy ray Turner's attorney will bring that up, that he

619
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: can't be trusted about what he has to say and

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00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: pointing the finger at Billy ray Turner. Nancy Gray's crime

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Speaker 1: story signing off goodbye friend,