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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace At nearly seven feet tall, Loren's and Wright

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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

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Speaker 1: Levi page, Levi, tell me about Lorens and Wright's NBA career. So,

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Speaker 1: Nancy Lorens and Wright grew up in Mississippi, but when

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Speaker 1: for six children and trying to put them in a

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Speaker 1: lifestyle that they had become accustomed to during the life

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

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Speaker 1: in the lifestyle to which they were accustomed, she bought

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Speaker 1: herself expensive clothes, expensive cars, and jewelry. Okay, I'll let

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Speaker 1: doctor Angela Arnold work that one out. Time stories with

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. Guys, what happened to Lorenzen? Right? The NBA

433
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: star take a listen to our friends at Sports Illustrated.

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00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: Fox Sports didn't have any part in Lorenzen's murder, and

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Speaker 1: mat First, I'm my wife, then I'm a mother, and

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00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 1: then thirdly, I'm an author the law enforce. One should

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00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 1: do what's mess to find out who's the killer. And

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Speaker 1: you understand obviously why I had to ask that I do.

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00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 1: But I'm a wife, a mother, and an author. I

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00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 1: let people do what they're good at doing, and I'm

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00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: just gonna do what I'm good at doing. They need

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00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: to spend time and focus and find out what happened

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00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: to him. We all need to know. Shara has since remarried,

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00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: recently moved to Houston, become a minister, and wrote a

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00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: self help novel for abused women, beast loosely on her

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00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: marriage to a basketball star. Okay, guys, Jackie got the

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00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: answer for me. LEVI did you hear that? Thirty two

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00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: grand for a calait escalade and a Lexus whoa about

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00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: twelve thousand for a labbist trip to New York City,

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00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: eight thousand for oh my goodness for a swimming pool

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00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: just as a deposit, a knee pool knee furniture for

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Speaker 1: seventy grand, oh and five grand from motorized lawnmore. You

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00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: know what, when I was growing up, Joe Scott, I

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00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: don't know if you had this or not, but you know,

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00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: we grew up on a red dirt road in Middle

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Speaker 1: Georgia and we actually had the lawnmoar that was not motorized.

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Speaker 1: That's a nice way, that's an ephemism. It had a

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Speaker 1: blade that turned around. It just turned around and you

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00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 1: pushed it over and over for the whole front and backyard.

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Speaker 1: Are you showing me more expenditures? Oh oh, okay, about

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Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars on properly she placed in her

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Speaker 1: children's name. I mean it just goes on and on.

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00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: Do you remember those lawnmoars? They still exist. They're not

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Speaker 1: that old Joe Scott Morgan, but she's been on a

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Speaker 1: motorized riding lawnmore five grand. Well, yeah, I started out.

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Speaker 1: Those are called real lawnmoors. I started out on one

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Speaker 1: of those r E E L and yeah, they're the

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00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 1: devil to push through high grass and you have to

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00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: stay on top the grass or you'll want losing about

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00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: fifty pounds of water weight out in the hot southern sun. Yeah,

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00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: I'm very familiar with those. Nancy five thousand dollars. Okay.

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00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: Royce Layton would tell you she's just expressing her grief.

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00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: But take a listen to the real woman, and lorenz

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Speaker 1: And writes live. Take a listen to our friend Ryan

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00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 1: Smith at ABC twenty twenty. It was almost like he

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00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: was just blind with love, right, Yes, yeah, gard crazy.

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00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: He put moves on him by karate a job. They

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00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: didn't do him this different. I was hearing that that

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00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: Cheryl was wanting to get pregnant and to marry Lorenzen,

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00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: assuming that he was going to beat this great NBA

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00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: basketball player. When she saw Lorenzen, she saw a future

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00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: with a millionaire. Some of the people closest to Lorenzen

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00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: sees Chary as a gold digger. So were you concerned

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00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: he will listen to no one else? And I counted

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00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: like cool down because I said, if I got a

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00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: lighthood a little bit, you know, to keep my son

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00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:11,719
Speaker 1: close to me. You didn't try to disrupt the relationship

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00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: because he loved her exactly. So there's the dilemma, doctor

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00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: Angela Arnold, you're the psychiatrist. When the mother does not

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00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: like the daughter in law at all, that keeps up

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00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: a relationship to stay close to the sun and vice versa.

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00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: But you know what, Nancy, not all gold diggers or murders.

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00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: Let's be honest, true, very can't we can't you know?

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Speaker 1: Just because okay, so she wanted a nice life. Nancy,

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00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: who doesn't want a nice life? I don't know anything

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00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: about their angel Arnold, Doctor Angie, because I never grew

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00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: up wanting to a five thousand dollars motorized lawn more

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00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: or fancy clothes or expensive jewelry didn't think about that

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00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: or you know, vehicles, and she got it. She got

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Speaker 1: a taste of that. I mean, how is that part

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Speaker 1: of a permanent parenting plan? I know, I agree with you, Nancy,

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00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: but I'm not going But just because she's a gold

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00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: digger doesn't mean she doesn't mean that she would become

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00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: a murderer. You know what, I've got a feeling that

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Speaker 1: Troy Slightness about to put you on retainer, Doctor Angela Arnold,

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00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: go ahund Troy Slighton. I'm sure you're chopping at the bit.

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00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: Let me guess she runs through a million dollars on herself,

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00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: and the mother always says she was a gold digger.

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00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:34,280
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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Speaker 1: could tell us all about it. It's interesting you say

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00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: that because nobody else ever heard about that battered women's syndrome.

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00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: Her face was so damaged by this NBA star that

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Speaker 1: she has permanent disfigurement and fractures in her school. Hold

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Speaker 1: on one moment, let's hear cut nineteen Please Alexi Lorenzo

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Speaker 1: Fox thirteen. Through the years, the shock turned into sorrow

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00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: for each of Lorenzen's family members as they kept up

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Speaker 1: with the case. Before Shara's twenty seventeen arrest, she published

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Speaker 1: a book. It was Love and Hate at the Very

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00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: First Sight, she wrote in the twenty fifteen publication, The

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Speaker 1: La Times says the book details several violent instances and

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00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: infidelity between the two main characters. In an interview with

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00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: The Commercial Appeal, Shara said ninety nine point nine percent

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

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00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 1: the couple's relationship, but Lorenzen Wright's mother says her son

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00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: never laid a hand on anyone, not Shara and not

527
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 1: the kids. I'll tell all book came out in twenty eighteen.

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00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: It was written by Shara's last boyfriend and detailed everything

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00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: Sharah had told him about her and Lorenzen's relationship and death.

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00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: I went through it today and couldn't find any allegations

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00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: of domestic abuse. The demand abuse contested. But it is true,

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00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 1: is it not? Bobby Chicone? That typically the first person

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00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: you'll look at and a homicide is the spouse. That's

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00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: just standard operating procedure. Yeah, it certainly is. And so

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00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: you start looking at all the different issues and problems

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00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: that could come up in a marriage. So you know,

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00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: these two obviously had gotten divorced, so and you know

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00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: obviously then they tried to get back together again. So

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00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,320
Speaker 1: you look at all of those issues in a marriage

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00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: that could cause stress and train and you know, and

541
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 1: anger towards each other. And so sure are you always

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00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: going to look at the spouse, you know in the

543
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 1: initial round of success, and the things that they do

544
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,879
Speaker 1: in their behavior either lead you towards them or away

545
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: from them. Speculation was high until a guy named Jimmy

546
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: Martin steps into the spotlight. Listen to Paul Hagerman homicide

547
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: investigators interview Jenior Morgan, who say that he had a

548
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: role in the murder of Arncy Riding. Jimmy Martin stated,

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00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: in the days before the murder of Lorens and Right,

550
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 1: he was presenter and during a meeting in which Sharyl Wright,

551
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: Billy Turner, and he planned the murder of Lorenz and Right.

552
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: Jimmy Martin say that he participated in the planning of

553
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 1: the murder with Shara Wright and Billy Turner, and he

554
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: received payment for this by Shara right. Jimmy Martin then

555
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,439
Speaker 1: stayed in the days after the murder of Lorenson. Right,

556
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 1: he was picked up by Shara Wright at his home

557
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:32,240
Speaker 1: in Baseball, Mississippi. Jimmy stated at Chary right barn metal

558
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: detecher from his mother, Edna Robinson, and they then left.

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00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: Jimmy Martin said that he rode to Memphis, Tennessee with

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00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: Shara Wright, where they picked up Billy Turner and they

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00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: confessed to him that they had just murdered Lorens. And right, Okay,

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00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 1: that cracks the case wide open. When this guy comes

563
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 1: forward claiming that he was paid by Lorenzen's wife, Shira

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00:36:55,440 --> 00:37:00,479
Speaker 1: to commit a murderer, listen to this. Jimmy Marry Martin

565
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: say that he assisted Sharaw Wright and Billy Turner in

566
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: cleaning up the crime scene and destroying evidence from the murder.

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00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: Jimmy Martin say that the metal detector was using an

568
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: attempt to locate a firearm that was dropped during murder.

569
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: Jimmy Martin stated he accompanied Billy Turner to a lake

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00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 1: located on Highway seventy two in Walden, Mississippi, where Billy

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00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: Turner to smoke dispose of a handgun that was used

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00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: to murder Warrens and right on May the thirty four,

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00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, investigators took Jimmy Martin to a lake near

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Speaker 1: two four nine one country Road number three or two

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00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: in wad, Mississippi. So we've got the wife, Jimmy Martin

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00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: and Billy Turner allegedly involved. Billy Turner, a church deacon,

577
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: Levi Page the one sings like a bird? What happened

578
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 1: to the other two? The church deacon and Shira Wright?

579
00:37:54,640 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: So Nancy actually Jimmy Martin is Lorenzen's cousin who aimated

580
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 1: at his own cousin's murder, and after he was arrested

581
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: for murder in a separate case, he told police he said,

582
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 1: Sharah Wright wanted me to kill Lorenzen right, she wanted

583
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: him dead. He gave police of the names of people involved,

584
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: including Turner, who was a landscaper in a Memphis suburb,

585
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: and Sharah Wright. They attended the same church. They masterminded

586
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 1: this plot, and they had done so not only in

587
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 1: Memphis where he was killed, but they had tried unsuccessfully

588
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: to do it a year earlier in Atlanta, where he lived.

589
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: And she has actually pled guilty to that Nancy. She

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00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: is eligible for parole after serving thirty percent of her sentence,

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00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: which will be in about nine years. Nine years she

592
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 1: could walk She was paid to gold digger who planned

593
00:38:55,120 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: to take lorenzen Wright's money from the first moment they met,

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00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 1: and she could walk free in a matter of nine years.

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00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: That is not justice. Nancy Gray's crime story, signing off

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Speaker 1: Goodbye friend,