WEBVTT - A Blade of Grass 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.160 Before this episode published, I called Tiffany Horn. I wanted 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.600 to make sure she knew what was coming. I wanted 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:09.080 to let her know that we begin with her brother, Trevor. 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:11.799 She said to me, I put my love for him 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.080 in this box in my heart and I don't open 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:18.560 it often because it's too painful. But she insisted he 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.400 should be seen. He deserves it. And just so you 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:26.439 know this episode of Hitman might be hard to hear listener, 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:34.680 discretion is advised. A blade of grass. There was this 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:39.920 single blade of grass on Trevor's cheek when the police 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.760 found him on the morning of March third, nineteen ninety three. 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.360 He was lying in his crib wearing his white and 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:50.839 blue Peachays. One of the nurses would later testify that 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.160 he was given a bath every evening before bed. They 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:59.120 were very thorough, and the nurse she knew that grass 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.600 couldn't have been thereby accident. He stayed in his wheelchair 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.880 any time he went outside. If he played, she said, 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.120 it was on the rug or on the quilt in 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:12.480 his room. The prosecutors argued that the grass had to 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.600 have come from the killer's hands, that he wrapped one 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.520 hand around the boy's nose and mouth and the other 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:23.160 around his track opening and left behind that blade of grass. 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.520 I came across the crime scene photos of Trevor last 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:32.040 year and I tried not to look. It almost felt disrespectful. 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:35.880 But this is the reality of what happened to him, 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.760 As Tiffany said, I owed him a moment of acknowledgement 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:44.720 of seeing him. I understand if you've been trying to 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.080 put Trevor out of your mind, if you'd rather I 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.880 tell you more about Motown or this crazy book hit man, 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.000 or the French publisher behind the murder manual, or maybe 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:54.320 you just want me to hurry up and get to 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:58.800 the part where they catch the killers. But anytime someone 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.080 tells me, oh, it's just to book, it's just a book, 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.120 it's just a book. I remember that a hitman entered 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.240 a quiet home in the middle of the night and 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.520 smothered an eight year old child. I remember that blade 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:17.920 of grass. It wasn't an accident. Trevor wasn't collateral. His 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.800 death was all part of the plan. It was the plan. 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.480 Trevor had to die in order for Lawrence to inherit 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:29.320 Trevor's money, but Millie had to die so that Lawrence 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:43.560 could inherit all of it. I'm Jasmine Morris from My 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:55.840 Heart Radio and Hit Home Media. This is Hitman. It 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.160 took eighteen months for detectives to complete their investigation into 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.400 the triple murder of Trevor and Millie Horn and Janice Saunders, 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.919 but it only took one day for police to establish 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:11.160 a prime suspect in a motive. Millie had seen this coming. 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:17.600 She knew. She was very fearful for Trevor's life. Millie's 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.720 sister Maryland, and she was also fearful for herself because 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.280 she always said, I will not die in an aeroplane crash. 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:29.800 If something ever happens to me, it's Lawrence Horn. And 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.320 all the sisters were there and we laughed about it. 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:36.400 We're like Millie, he's crazy, but he's not that crazy. 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:42.119 She actually said that to you. She said that, she said, 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:46.240 if anything ever happens to me, you all make sure 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:51.840 that Lawrence Horn is never alone with Trevor. Lawrence never 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:55.600 took responsibility for Trevor, even on the day he was born. 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:57.880 I mean, he didn't even show up for the birth, 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.520 so he had no connect into this child at all. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.760 He showed no interest. My brother being sick was such 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.640 a turn off. He totally rejected him. And that was 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.160 when my mom was finally really done with my dad, 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.479 which is looking back, really sad for her, but I 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.359 think she knew it just was never going to go 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:28.560 the way she wanted it to go with him. And 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.039 so here's where I need to tell you about how 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:35.280 and when Trevor's life suddenly became valuable to Lawrence Horn. 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.200 Remember when Trevor and his twin sister, Tammiel were born 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:43.000 three months premature. Trevor was really sick. He had been 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.800 born with underdeveloped lungs, but by the time he was one, 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.720 he was exceeding doctor's expectations. He was doing really well. 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.599 And then one day he went in for something routine 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.640 at Children's Hospital in d C and there was some 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.040 kind of accident. He was without oxygen for seven or 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:05.440 eight minutes, leaving him with significant brain damage. They put 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:10.200 him in the COLMA. Yeah, you didn't give us very 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:15.480 much hope, and they talked to Milly about removing him 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:20.360 from life support. So she talked to us about it 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.799 and we said, Milly, you know, what's your decision, because 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:25.880 I said he would you know, more than a vegetable. 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.760 She still wasn't sure what she was going to do, 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:35.800 and so Milly went to his room and Trevor opened 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:39.960 his eyes, looked urd smile, and that was the answer. 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.200 Doctors told Milly to put Trevor in a care facility. 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:46.640 They said that caring for him would be too much 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:50.120 of a burden on her and her family. Milly refused, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.480 here's Tiffany. I mean she learned how to be a nurse, 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:58.320 Like who does that? She definitely did. She knew his 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.520 care better than the nurses that she fired, and she 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:02.599 would fire them if they didn't do what she wanted 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:07.400 them to do. Milly made sure that Trevor had a 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:11.120 life the same as any other child. At a pool party, 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:15.400 he's in the pool. The nurse and Trevor and Millie, 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:20.159 they're in the pool. Halloween, he had his costume. He 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:24.160 got dressed up. Actually I remember too. One was a clown, 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.839 another one was Peter Pain. They said he would never talk. 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.320 Trevor learned to talk. He used to say I love you. 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:38.200 His favorite story was Three Little Pigs. He was so smart. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:43.679 I would say the wolf would huff and he would puff. 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:49.320 He would be laughing so much. Here's John Marshall, a 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:53.760 lawyer and close family friend. He was doing better and 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:59.960 better and better and defining the odds, you know, Salts Corner, 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:05.120 but by dint of determination of his mother and sure love. 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.920 That's who Milly was. She was determined and willful. It's 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.520 like she never questioned what insurmountable things she had to 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.400 do to protect the ones she loved. It reminds me 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.679 of this story Maryland told me about their childhood growing 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:25.800 up in South Carolina. During Jim Crow, our family decided 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.880 that we would get a better education at an integrated school. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.040 It was horrible. I just couldn't believe that people could 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.400 be so mean to me because of the color of 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.360 my skin. And there was this guy on the bus. 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.040 It was a white guy, and he was bigger than 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.680 me and older than me, and every day he would 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.360 push me, and one day I decided I am not 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.000 going to take that anymore. So when he pushed me, 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.720 I pushed him back, and of course he pushed me 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.040 down on a seat and he's beating me up. I mean, 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:03.320 he's really beating me up. And Millie Millie came to 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:07.440 my desfense. Millie stepped in and the boys stopped beating 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:11.200 Maryland and started in on Millie. She was badly hurt. 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.480 She had to be taken to the hospital. Her shoulder 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:18.200 was dislocated. She was not going to stand by it 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.720 and the herd or simply so That's the way she was. 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:30.200 She was our big sister. It wasn't until about three 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:34.040 years after the accident when it became clear just how 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.160 challenging and expensive it was going to be to care 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:40.120 for Trevor. That's when Milly decided to pursue a lawsuit 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:46.160 against Children's Hospital. John Marshall and Howard Siegel representator. Here's John. 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.160 This was not a case where this family was going 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.280 to make millions of dollars. This was a case where 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:57.000 whatever money that was going to be received out of 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.200 the matter was going for Trevor's use. And that was 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:05.360 Millie's goal from day one was just how do I 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.160 take care of him? So John helped the family bring 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.440 a lawsuit against Children's Hospital. I had been in touch 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.679 with Lawrence. He called and we talked about it, and 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.360 I explained to him the cases we saw. It was 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.960 at its core Millie and Trevor. They had the bond. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:28.040 That was the emotional heart of the case. As we've 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.360 heard from Tiffany, Lawrence was barely a father to Trevor. 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.160 Even still, the lawyers felt Lawrence should be listed in 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.880 the suit. They thought it played better to a jury, 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.200 the idea that this estranged couple came together to fight 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:45.760 for their son. Here's Howard Siegel, John's co council. The 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:47.640 first time I ever met him was at the trial. 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:49.960 He made a good impression. He was a big, nice 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.880 looking guy, and Lawrence played his part. John and Howard 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.800 went back and forth with the hospitals insurance company for months. 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.920 Finally they got a settlement offer they thought was fair. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.280 This is a really important moment, and so for the 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.480 next couple of minutes, I'm just gonna let John and 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:11.719 Howard tell you what happened next. They offered a significant 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.200 amount of money, and Millie was clear this was going 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:19.240 to Trevor. Every lawyer is different, but our philosophy was, 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.880 if you get to a point where you can look 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:23.880 at the client in the eye and say, you know, 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:28.560 we can't guarantee you're gonna do better, and this number 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.200 in this kind of a case, will if we invest 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.800 it wisely, that he will be able to be taken 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:39.600 care of so Milly was fine. Lawrence Horn was sitting 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:44.080 at council table with us, and Lawrence turned to us 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:49.040 and he said, that's not enough. And I turned to 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.080 him and I said, what do you mean that's not enough. 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:56.680 It turned out that Lawrence Horn through a major bomb 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:01.280 into the settlement. He wrote down on a yellow pad 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:07.040 with a red pen a million dollars times which was 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.240 the interest rate back then is a hundred thousand a year, 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.439 and he said, I came here expecting this for me. 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:18.360 I turned to him and I said, what makes you 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:22.080 think you're entitled to one nickel of this child's money? 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:26.480 And he looked at me and he said, Trevor lives 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:31.320 through me. I assumed he meant that because Trevor was 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:36.560 profoundly disabled and could not enjoy life, that when Lawrence 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:40.840 took his money and wrote down Hollywood Boulevard in a BMW, 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:45.280 that Trevor would be enjoying it. I was stunned. I've 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.880 just never been so shocked by anything anybody said to 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:52.360 me in my life. It was the first time he 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:57.840 had revealed himself, and we were floored. It had just 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.400 never been discussed that the parents were going to get 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:06.400 any money at all. I just never came up from 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:10.200 that point on. He just dug his heels in. We 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.560 took a recess. I went out in the hall with 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:19.319 John Marshall and I said, I have just looked into 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:24.520 the eyes of pure evil. This man scares me. It 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:26.920 was the way that he said it. It was chilling, 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:31.920 It was detached, It was matter of fact. Lawrence Horn's 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.600 only concern was what he was going to get out 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:52.439 of it. The Children's Hospital settlement came through and the 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.440 family was awarded two million dollars, with roughly half of 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:59.800 that going into a trust for Trevor and three dollars 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.480 going to Millie, which she used to buy that big 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.120 house in Silver Spring, with the whole wing devoted to 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:12.160 Trevor's care. Lawrence walked away with Millie's sister Maryland. He 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.080 felt that he got cheated, that he should have gotten 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.400 more money, and it was all her fault. As long 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.440 as Lawrence was working at Motown, the majority of Trevor's 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.480 medical bills were covered and the settlement money would go 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.880 into that trust. But then Lawrence lost his job. In 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:33.160 Trevor had exhausted the lifetime maximum benefits on Milly's insurance 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:35.679 and we had to go to court for the first 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.400 time to ask for some money to be used for 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:42.760 Trevor's care, which meant that every month, now six thousand 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.719 dollars the cost of Trevor's care was going to come 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.800 out of Trevor's one point seven million dollar trust fund. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.880 All of this timing was because these policies had run 0:13:55.920 --> 0:14:01.600 out and now we were cutting into Trevor's money. There 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.640 there's no accident about this timing. This was all done 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:10.920 to maximize the return to Lawrence. I remember Millie being 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:17.840 very wary, very agitated that something was amiss, and of 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:22.720 course she was right. A month later she was killed, 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.960 and as we're about to learn, Lawrence Horn had been 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:34.600 planning this for a very long time. We'll be right back. 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.720 When you think about Hitman, you probably imagine the ones 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:56.640 you've seen in movies, like John Wick, Jason Bourne, James 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:00.200 Bond with his double ow license to kill. They only 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:05.120 killed bad men, men who deserved it. The Hitman book 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:09.320 plays on these same tropes. The writer Rex Ferrell insists 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.280 that he's quote the last recourse in these times when 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:17.160 laws are so twisted that justice goes unserved. But in 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:22.120 this story, the mark was a defenseless child and two mothers. 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.320 So I know we've been jumping around a lot in 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:32.040 the story telling you different bits of pertinent information. But 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.440 for the rest of this episode, I'm going to walk 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:38.480 you through Lawrence's plan. This wasn't just something that was 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:40.560 done in a vacuum where my dad, in a crime 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:45.120 of passion, just murdered them, which is not okay either way. 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.800 But there was a lot of planning. There was a 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.240 lot of time that passed by within the planning. There 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:55.240 was money exchange. About a year before the murders, in 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:59.320 the spring of Lawrence took a trip back home to 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:03.520 Detroit and reconnected with family. Here he is talking about 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.720 that in a deposition. You drove to Detroit? Did you 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.840 do it one day? Yes? You know how far it 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:17.760 is the Detroit seven hours, five hundred miles? And where 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:24.920 did you stay in Detroit? Had a relatives? Relatives? Did 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:33.440 you when you were in Detroit? Tommy Turner? What else 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:44.160 he related to, Oh, he's my mother's sisters son. Lawrence 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.920 hadn't seen his cousin, Thomas Turner in twenty years. Turner 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.680 would later take immunity, but according to his testimony, Lawrence 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.440 talked about his divorce and said quote that he was 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:58.520 having a problem seeing his children. Turner didn't even know 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.080 that Lawrence was married or had it's until this visit, 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.280 but that's when he told Lawrence about his close friend, 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:09.680 a straight preacher and spiritual advisor. Turner drove a truck 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.320 in the occasional taxicab and he'd helped this guy drom 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.520 up business by passing out as cards and flyers that 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:20.080 said things like that love problem must go, get your 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.680 luck straightened out, feel good again. Don't worry. I got it. 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.359 I see where you just feel like giving up. Listen 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.600 at the darkest moment, there is a light. All you 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.480 need is faith in God, and get this He has 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.679 given me to give unto you. I know just what 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:43.600 to do for all your problems. That friend, James Edward Perry, 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.479 turns out they met in prison thirteen years prior before 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:55.119 becoming a spiritual advisor. Perry once shot at a Michigan 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:58.160 State trooper in an attempted bank robbery in the seventies. 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:01.399 Lawrence would visit his cousin more than once in the 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.800 spring of NTO, and this is around the same time 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.359 he started showing up in Maryland to see his kids. 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:11.440 Remember those recordings we'd played last episode, the ones he'd 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:16.840 make while driving around with his daughters. Where am I here? 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.959 Oh I got business? Well, investigators found something else on 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:25.359 those tapes. At one point, he recorded himself driving the 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.840 route from a daizen in Rockville, Maryland, the same one 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:38.760 Perry would later stay at, to Milly's house. He was 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:43.520 not only pretending to be personable or caring for his 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:47.199 family and spending time with his two daughters. That's Lawrence 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:50.600 Horns defense attorney Jeff O'Toole. It became clear that when 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.520 he was doing his videotaping he was he was planning 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:58.000 the escape route for James Perry. These trips out to 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:03.359 Maryland were like reconnaissance missions. And remember that moment in 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:07.080 our last episode when he asked his two young daughters 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:16.760 where Trevor's room was. Which one? Well, that's not all. 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:23.320 There was another tape where he asked Tiffany two videotape 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.240 Trevor and where his room was in the house. He 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:31.040 was like, well, I have a video camera. Do you 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:33.680 think if I show you how to use it that 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:37.439 you can? You know, tape Trevor and like show me 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:41.640 your new house. That you keep talking about and I mean, 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:46.920 obviously I'm going to do it. He's my dad. I 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:48.840 went right in and came right out and gave it 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:53.280 to him. He made it seem like this was his 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.199 way to try to learn more about his son. I 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:58.159 wanted him to be that dad. I wanted him to 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.240 like dig deep down and find in the love for 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:05.040 his child. I felt like he was so disappointed that 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:09.200 he wasn't like a normal son that it almost broke him. 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.960 So I was trying to feel sympathetic towards my dad. 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.000 I'm trying to tell him, no, it's okay, Like you know, 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:19.159 we've created this life and he's he's perfect. You know, 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:26.080 we love him. Tiffany and her dad were close at 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:30.680 one point, and he used that he definitely manipulated me. 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:33.560 He was just a liar, like he was just a 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:38.359 sick person that I felt, just this obsessive need to 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:41.480 like prove something or win, and he was willing to 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:45.439 throw everything away, even his relationship with me. And it 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:48.240 wasn't the last time Lawrence would use Tiffany like this. 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:52.720 A day before the murders, late at night on March one, 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:56.640 Tiffany got a phone call to a dorm room at 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:01.680 Howard University. He never called me, but he asked me 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.919 whether my mom was going to be flying out the 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:07.879 next morning because he wanted to talk to my sister. 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:12.840 And so I told him that my sister, if she 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.840 wasn't home, would probably be at my aunt's house. I 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:18.760 called my mom right after I got off the phone 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.720 with him. He was like searching for information, which I 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:24.440 found odd. Tiffany said, over the course of their ten 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:27.640 minute call, he asked her about Millie and Tammielle four 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:32.280 or five times. The following evening on March two, Millie 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:36.720 also received a call. I talked to Millie at night 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:40.040 about ten o'clock. She called to tell me guess who 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.399 called me. Lawrence called me, and she said, do you 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.280 know I was actually nice to him. I talked nice 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:49.160 to him for a change. So that's the last time 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:53.480 I talked to her. Lawrence was also asking Milly about 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:59.240 Tammielle's whereabouts. Here's Prosecutor Bob Dean. Lawrence made sure that Tammielle, 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:03.680 twin sister of Trevor, would not be home the night 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:07.240 of the killing. And you know, we had an information 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:10.680 that that. You know, he was careful about that, and 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:13.239 I don't know what that means or shows other than 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:16.639 the fact that you know, she didn't fit into the 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:36.760 plans for the inheritance. They ordered a copy of the 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:41.960 book from Palinin Press. They did it was like, oh 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:46.119 my god, here it all is. It was written out, 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:51.040 So there were many similarities that say about what was 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:53.320 said in this book and what was done, and some 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:57.800 of the evidence that they hadn't covered also matched specifics. 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:00.880 Just so you know, there's no evidence that Lawrence ever 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:03.920 read Hitman. In fact, there's no evidence James Perry read 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:07.679 it either. Investigators never found an actual copy, but they 0:23:07.680 --> 0:23:10.199 found the Paladin Press catalog in his apartment with the 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:12.399 book's title circled, and they got a copy of the 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:15.919 check he made out to Paladin for two books, including Hitman, 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:19.600 though that checked it bounce. Paladin even shared the order 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:24.080 form with investigators, so they believed he ordered it. And 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:27.520 the similarities between rex Ferrell's manual and the murders of 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:30.880 Millie Horn, her son, Trevor, and Janice Saunders are difficult 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:33.400 to ignore. I'm going to walk you through some of those. 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:38.520 Now we've already told you about a few Hitman instructs, 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:42.040 An explicit detail with photographs how to build a homemade 0:23:42.080 --> 0:23:46.200 silencer from material available in any hardware store. The silencer 0:23:46.600 --> 0:23:49.520 is one of the most important tools a professional will 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:52.280 ever have. Again, we got that same actor to read 0:23:52.320 --> 0:23:56.280 these lines. The silenced weapon, when fired will not draw attention. 0:23:56.960 --> 0:24:00.000 Lack of adenda means more time. More time means getting 0:24:00.000 --> 0:24:04.439 a job done right. According to the Deputy Chief Medical 0:24:04.440 --> 0:24:08.440 Examiner for Maryland, Donald writes testimony, one of Janis Saunder's 0:24:08.480 --> 0:24:12.600 gunshot wounds indicated Perry likely used a silencer. A hitman 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:15.600 without a gun is like a carpenter without a Hammer's 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:20.240 not very effective. The first weapon listed in the basic 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:23.560 Equipment Checklist for Beginners on page twenty one of Hitman 0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:27.080 is an a R seven rifle, exactly what was used. 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:30.080 Hitman goes on to instruct its readers on where to 0:24:30.080 --> 0:24:34.200 find the rifles serial number here's Bob Dean. It suggested 0:24:34.240 --> 0:24:37.280 that you drill out the serial numbers to the weapon, 0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:41.240 which James Perry did. But beyond obscuring the serial number, 0:24:41.680 --> 0:24:44.760 Hitman also explains that the gun barrel needs to be 0:24:44.800 --> 0:24:48.040 altered with a rattail file as well. Each one of 0:24:48.040 --> 0:24:51.600 these items leaves its own definite mark and impression on 0:24:51.640 --> 0:24:53.680 the shell casing, which if any shell has happened to 0:24:53.680 --> 0:24:55.960 be left behind, can be matched to the gun under 0:24:56.000 --> 0:24:59.240 a microscope. In the police laboratory, we found the file 0:24:59.600 --> 0:25:03.200 in the BA back yard, the file that was used 0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:06.160 to go into the barrel of the gun. We had 0:25:06.200 --> 0:25:12.800 that file tested. That file had elements of ammunition on 0:25:12.840 --> 0:25:17.200 the file. It's clearly consistent with rubbing through and defacing 0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:21.840 the interior of a rifle. Hitman suggests shooting at close 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:26.040 range to ensure quote the desired result has been achieved. 0:25:26.240 --> 0:25:28.320 It's best to shoot from a distance of three to 0:25:28.400 --> 0:25:31.040 six ft. You'll not want to be at point blank 0:25:31.160 --> 0:25:34.240 range to avoid having the victim's blood splatter you or 0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:37.880 your clothing. Ballistics showed Millie and Jennie were shot from 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:40.200 about a foot and a half to three ft away, 0:25:40.560 --> 0:25:44.440 aimed for the head, preferably the eye sockets. If you 0:25:44.480 --> 0:25:49.240 are a sharp shooter. Lawrence Horns defense attorney again Jeff O'Toole, 0:25:49.720 --> 0:25:54.200 the book suggested shooting the victims in the eye because 0:25:54.240 --> 0:25:57.440 that was going to be the most assured way to 0:25:57.440 --> 0:25:59.760 to make sure they're dead. That's an image from the 0:25:59.800 --> 0:26:03.000 book that you just can't. You just can't let go. 0:26:03.680 --> 0:26:06.240 And the reason Rex Ferrell recommends the a R seven 0:26:06.240 --> 0:26:09.840 in his book, it's a gun that's easily disassembled. The 0:26:09.880 --> 0:26:13.800 book suggested that you dismantle the gun in the silence 0:26:13.880 --> 0:26:16.000 room and throw it along the way as you're escaping. 0:26:16.080 --> 0:26:18.640 So they did a drag net search of these woods 0:26:18.840 --> 0:26:24.240 and they found a small piece of a gun, but 0:26:24.320 --> 0:26:29.200 it was the trigger mechanism only, which is an odd thing. 0:26:30.000 --> 0:26:33.280 They were instructed to break the gun into many pieces 0:26:33.320 --> 0:26:36.439 and distribute them wherever, you know, felt like it. We 0:26:36.560 --> 0:26:39.399 had an analysis done on the pieces of the gun 0:26:40.119 --> 0:26:43.800 and according to the FBI expert did he did a 0:26:43.920 --> 0:26:48.880 rust development analysis. He felt that based upon the weather 0:26:48.920 --> 0:26:53.680 conditions of March of that year that they had been 0:26:54.240 --> 0:26:56.919 outside for you know, the side of the road for 0:26:56.920 --> 0:26:59.760 for several weeks, a matter of weeks, it was clear 0:26:59.800 --> 0:27:02.359 that this was the weapon, the weapon that was used. 0:27:02.440 --> 0:27:04.680 If the hit was supposed to look like a burglary. 0:27:04.920 --> 0:27:07.560 Messed the place up a bit, take anything of value 0:27:07.600 --> 0:27:11.760 that you can carry concealed. There was some disheveling and 0:27:11.880 --> 0:27:15.800 disturbance of pieces of furniture. There's a bookshelf that was overturned, 0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:18.080 but it didn't appear that much was stolen. There were 0:27:18.080 --> 0:27:22.800