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[Tennessee] Shots in the Dark: The Lorenzen Wright Story · Bless This Mess: A Southern True Crime Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Anyway, This is the story of a beloved NBA star
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  Speaker 1: and hometown hero who vanished a chilling midnight nine one
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  Speaker 1: one call with eleven rapid gunshots and a murder weapon
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  Speaker 1: tossed into a muddy Mississippi lake. Now, if you are
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  Speaker 2: I will do it. You know, this story starts back
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  Speaker 2: in the mid nineteen nineties in Memphis, Tennessee, in the
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  Speaker 2: city of Memphis, Tennessee basketball era. It's not just a sport,
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  Speaker 2: it's practically a religion, kind of like Friday night lights
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  Speaker 2: out in West Texas as a religion.
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  Speaker 1: Well, just in Texas in general. Yes, basically a religion here,
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  Speaker 1: yes it is.
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  Speaker 2: There ain't much else to do though, in West.
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  Speaker 1: Texas well, in West Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Then playing football on Friday nights. Now, nobody embodied that
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  Speaker 2: spirit more than a young man by the name of
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  Speaker 2: lorenzen Wright. He stood six foot eleven and he was
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  Speaker 2: simply known as Wren to everyone in town. And he
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  Speaker 2: was a natural phenomenon. They say. He was gentle, constantly smiling,
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  Speaker 2: and remarkably gifted on the court. During his high school
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  Speaker 2: days at Booker t Washington, he became one of the
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  Speaker 2: top recruits in the entire country. When the national colleges
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  Speaker 2: came a re looking for somebody, Lorenzen chose to stay
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  Speaker 2: at home, committing to the University of Memphis the Tigers
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  Speaker 2: under head coach Larry Finch.
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  Speaker 1: Now, staying at home made him a local legend before
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  Speaker 1: he even played a single minute in the NBA because
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  Speaker 1: most of the time when you most of time these
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  Speaker 1: guys they head off, you know, they want to get
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  Speaker 1: you know, move away from home or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: But he was already a legend in high school, and
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  Speaker 1: so now he's moved that celebrity into the local university. Now,
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six, Lorenzen entered what is widely considered
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  Speaker 1: one of the greatest NBA draft classes in history. He
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  Speaker 1: went number seven overall to the Los Angeles Clippers. Is
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  Speaker 1: that Are they still the Los Angeles Clippers or did.
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  Speaker 2: They move around now they're still the Clippers? Okay, last
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  Speaker 2: I checked.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, I know it's I think it's always crazy when
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  Speaker 1: a football team or somebody changes, you know, like it's
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  Speaker 1: not the Oakland Raiders anymore.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just like you just up and leave it town
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  Speaker 1: that just.
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  Speaker 2: Went to Los Angeles at one point they went to
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles for ten years.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, could you imagine the Dallas Cowboys being like
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  Speaker 1: the the I don't know, the New Orleans Cowboys. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I couldn't think of it. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they were the Kansas City Oh they were?
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  Speaker 1: Is that why there's a lot of people that are
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  Speaker 1: were Kansas City Chiefs fans and they hate the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs were Maybe they were the Dallas Texans
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  Speaker 2: and then they went to Ksey. I can't remember anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So he was picked number of seven overall for
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  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Clippers, and he shared the stage with
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  Speaker 1: some icons like Alan Iverson, Kobe Bryant, and Steve nash
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  Speaker 1: Rip Kobe Bryant.
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  Speaker 2: I know Allen Iverson. No, No, nobody else in the
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  Speaker 2: top seven. What do you mean, Oh, I'm looking at this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at the draft right now. And so it
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  Speaker 2: shows Lorenz and right and went seventh, I know. And
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  Speaker 2: then there's some names that I don't remember.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I'm not a big basketball person. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a big sports person at all.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I kind of lost interest when Jordan retired.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, went to go play baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Well I'm old. Well.
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  Speaker 1: He went on to play thirteen seasons in the league,
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  Speaker 1: including a celebrated homecoming when he spent five seasons playing
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  Speaker 1: center for the Memphis Grizzlies. But what made Memphis love
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  Speaker 1: Lorenzen was that fame and tens of millions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: in NBA contracts never changed his heart. He bought uniforms
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  Speaker 1: for local youth centers, paid rent and utility bills for
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood families, and stood outside in the Tennessee heat until
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  Speaker 1: every last kid had an autograph and a high five.
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  Speaker 1: So he's one of these nice ones, not like not
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  Speaker 1: some of these jerks these days.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, like, get out of my face, kid, What are
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  Speaker 2: you going to sell my autograph? I ain't given you one.
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  Speaker 1: Well, in their defense, probably the kids a decoy for
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  Speaker 1: their parent. Who's going to sell the autograph of these days?
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  Speaker 2: Quite possibly. Yeah. While Lorenzen's basketball career was taking flight
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  Speaker 2: in the late nine nineties, his personal life was anchoring
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  Speaker 2: itself in Memphis as well. Back in his junior year
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  Speaker 2: of Summer League basketball, Lorenzen met a young woman by
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  Speaker 2: the name of Shara Robinson. Sherah like Kara, kind of
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  Speaker 2: like Kara.
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  Speaker 1: Kara and Sharah a couple of what what.
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  Speaker 2: Sherah was a well connected person in the local basketball scene.
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  Speaker 2: Her father was Julius Robinson, a respected AAU coach and
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  Speaker 2: mentor to young athletes across the city. Lorenzo and Shara
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  Speaker 2: fell in love, welcomed their first child, Lorenzen Junior, and
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  Speaker 2: officially tied the knot in nineteen ninety eight. Over the years,
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  Speaker 2: their family grew quickly. They welcomed daughter Lauren, twin boys
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  Speaker 2: Lamar and Shamar, daughter Sophia, son lawson, and the baby
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  Speaker 2: girl was Sea Era.
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  Speaker 1: Dang, we got a lot to catch up, I know.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Well, they cheated with well, they.
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  Speaker 1: Cheated with them twins.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah. They moved into an expensive, expanse of luxury
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  Speaker 2: home in Collierville, a wealthy suburb east of Memphis, complete
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  Speaker 2: with gated grounds and every luxury and NBA career could provide.
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  Speaker 1: Kara Now for all the wealth and community adoration, grief
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  Speaker 1: struck the family hard. In March of two thousand and three,
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  Speaker 1: their eleventh month old infant daughter, Sierra, tragically passed away
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  Speaker 1: from sudden infant death syndrome. The loss tour through both
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  Speaker 1: parents and family members noted that the emotional strain began
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  Speaker 1: cracking the foundation of their relationship. Because I don't remember
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  Speaker 1: what the statistic is, but Pete, like couples who lose
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  Speaker 1: a child, it's it's pretty low, very high.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it seems like eleven months old getting SIDS also
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  Speaker 2: is outside the which you would.
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  Speaker 1: Say the normal. Well, because I could get into this
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  Speaker 1: how they classify SIDS, but I won't. SIDS is true,
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  Speaker 1: SIDS is very very rare. They just throw all these
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  Speaker 1: other ones in there, like it could be from like
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  Speaker 1: sleeping with a blank, like unsafe sleep. But I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Back in two thousand and three, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: they had the back to Sleep campaign, which was the
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  Speaker 1: big push to put the babies to sleep on their
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  Speaker 1: back with nothing else in the crib, you know, sleep sacks,
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  Speaker 1: things like that. So there was a lot that people
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that you know, could so eleven months old.
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  Speaker 2: Is like pretty yeah, I was in the crib with
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  Speaker 2: the bumpers and the stuff, dankets.
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  Speaker 1: I was sure I was in the crib with like
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  Speaker 1: the needles and the whatever, you know, just they'll figure
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  Speaker 1: it out.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, if they don't make it Barwin, Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Truth, like they say, true SIDS is two to four
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  Speaker 1: months old. Is the window for like true true SIDS,
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  Speaker 1: not all these other things that happened. But I digress.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into it because I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to.
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  Speaker 2: Deal with the hate mail.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, all right, the lost tour, Oh, we already talked
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  Speaker 1: about that. Now. As Lorenzen transition into the final years
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  Speaker 1: of his NBA career, the couple spending remained lavish, but
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  Speaker 1: the professional paychecks were beginning to slow down. Arguments over money, lifestyle,
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  Speaker 1: and infidelity became frequent and volatile. By two thousand and nine,
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  Speaker 1: after more than a decade of marriage, the couple filed
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  Speaker 1: for divorce. That's going to be a hefty settlement divorce, yes,
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  Speaker 1: And that's the thing is it's always crazy to me
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  Speaker 1: that you see these athletes and stuff, they make so
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  Speaker 1: much money, which I think I think now most teams
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  Speaker 1: set you up with the financial person right when you join,
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  Speaker 1: like right when you join the team and with all
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  Speaker 1: this money, and you know, in hopes that you'll listen
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  Speaker 1: to them. Because they've seen so many players just spend
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  Speaker 1: all their money in.
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  Speaker 2: Hamaiton.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what happened? Man?
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  Speaker 2: He played football, then he got into the music, and
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  Speaker 2: then he walked around with that entourage all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Who was that guy that got in trouble for Wesley
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: Snipes and he got in trouble with taxes? Yes, and
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: Barbara Walters had to go to had to go. I
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: don't remember this, Okay, it was a very long time ago. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he did have IRS troubles along with Willie Nelson
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: at one time. I think Red Fox had IRS troubles.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a lot of money you got to pay
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  Speaker 1: in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: It is, it is. The divorce was bitter and complicated.
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  Speaker 2: Lorenzen relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, trying to figure out the
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  Speaker 2: next chapter in his post retirement life, while Shara remained
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  Speaker 2: in Collierville with the children. Under their court agreements, Lorenzen
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  Speaker 2: was ordered to pay a substantial monthly child support and alimony,
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  Speaker 2: along with maintaining a one million dollar life insurance policy
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  Speaker 2: specifically designated to support and educate this six surviving children.
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  Speaker 2: By the spring of twenty ten, the financial walls were
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  Speaker 2: closing in on Sharh. She was facing foreclosure on multiple properties,
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  Speaker 2: mounting utility bills, and the reality of Lorenzen's financial reserves
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  Speaker 2: were no longer unlimited. It was during these desperate months
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  Speaker 2: of early twenty ten that Shara began looking for a
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  Speaker 2: permanent way out of her financial situation.
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  Speaker 1: But there is. But if you can't manage with tens
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  Speaker 1: of millions of dollars, you getting more money, you could
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  Speaker 1: win the lottery and they'll be She'll be broken a
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  Speaker 1: year or two like you, And there's no quick fixes.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the whole Dave Ramsey thing comes in. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: there's no you got to retrain how you function in life,
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  Speaker 1: how you budget, how you how you viewed debt and
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  Speaker 1: things like that.
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  Speaker 1: So Shara was an active member of Mount all of
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  Speaker 1: Number one Missionary Baptist Church in Collierville. That's a number
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  Speaker 1: in its number one. Dude, I don't know if they
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  Speaker 1: named him, they want to go to the number two. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: It was through this community network that she reconnected with
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  Speaker 1: a man named Billy Ray Turner. Billy Ray was a
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  Speaker 1: local landscaper who ran a lawn care business and served
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  Speaker 1: as an usher and deacon at the church. Beneath his
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  Speaker 1: quiet demeanor and church roll, Billy Ray began carrying on
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  Speaker 1: a secret romantic relationship with Shara No Yes, stop it.
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  Speaker 1: In May of twenty ten, sher convened a secretive meeting
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  Speaker 1: at her Collierville home. Man Collierville is a hard word.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, well, I can get a little tricky
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  Speaker 2: the more you have to pronounce yes.
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  Speaker 1: Sitting in the room, I know, I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I said it right the one time I've.
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  Speaker 2: Got to see I got to say it another twenty times.
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  Speaker 1: Sitting in the room with her were Billy Ray Turner
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  Speaker 1: and Schera's cousin, a man named Jimmy Martin. Jimmy Martin
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  Speaker 1: was a formy nate for me, a Navy sailor who
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  Speaker 1: was already facing serious legal trues trouble of his own,
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  Speaker 1: as do those former Navy sailors, sometimes in an unrelated
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  Speaker 1: homicide case and Shara had been helping him with legal expenses,
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  Speaker 1: so now she's got a potential murderer that she's assistant
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  Speaker 1: quickly with finances.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, Billy Ray Turner is a pretty good
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  Speaker 2: Southern name, Oh, Billy Ray.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jimmy Martin is a pretty good Southern name. You think, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's Jimmy. I mean, come on, okay, fine, then how
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  Speaker 1: about Jimmy Joe Martin.
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  Speaker 2: Is Jimmy Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Joe Martin. That's a better Southern name. We just
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  Speaker 1: need to find out what his middle name.
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  Speaker 2: Joe with j O not Joe, of course, no, Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Is how you spell the female version? Okay, If Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Joe Martin was a female, perfect Southern name, you think, yes,
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  Speaker 1: they wait, we have We just did a case and
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  Speaker 1: she went by Jimmy. Mary Carpenter was went by Jimmy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know, Okay, just go on anyway, at
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  Speaker 2: that kitchen table, share a lead out a cold blooded proposition.
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  Speaker 2: She wanted lorenzen and dead so she could collect the
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  Speaker 2: one million dollar life insurance payout. She promised both men
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  Speaker 2: cash compensation once the insurance money cleared the bank. The
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  Speaker 2: first plan was set for Atlanta. Sheriff provided a vehicle
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  Speaker 2: containing handguns and an extra and instructions to Lorenzen's Atlanta condominium.
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  Speaker 2: Arm With the handguns, Billy Ray Turner and Jimmy Martin
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  Speaker 2: drove to Georgia in the dead of the night. They
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  Speaker 2: located Lorenzen's condo, found an open window, and crept inside,
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  Speaker 2: ready to ambush him, but when they reached the living room,
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  Speaker 2: they found an unknown man sleeping on the couch who
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  Speaker 2: was not Lorenzen. Spooked and realizing their target was not there,
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  Speaker 2: the two men fled Atlanta and drove back to Memphis
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  Speaker 2: empty handed.
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  Speaker 1: Well that was quite the stories, do you think so? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Who are these two idiots that are just like gonna drive?
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  Speaker 2: Well what, Jimmy Martin has legal issues. He needs money
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  Speaker 2: front attorney.
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  Speaker 1: He's already been, he's already up. Yes, he's already got
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  Speaker 1: a case against him for homicide. Let's just double down
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  Speaker 1: on that.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't do it. I need to go kill this
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  Speaker 2: guy so I can pay my legal fees to prove
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  Speaker 2: I didn't kill the other guy.
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  Speaker 1: So, having failed in Atlanta, the plan shifted back to Memphis.
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  Speaker 1: In mid July twenty ten, Lorenzen drove his vehicle up
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  Speaker 1: from Atlanta to Memphis to spend time with his six
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  Speaker 1: children and watch his son participate in a summer basketball camp.
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  Speaker 1: On Sunday night, July eighteenth, Lorenzen was visiting his children
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  Speaker 1: at Scher's home in Collierville. Why do I have to
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  Speaker 1: keep reading that name?
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  Speaker 2: Stick? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Late that evening, after the kids had gone to bed,
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  Speaker 1: Shara lurd Lorenzen out into the night under the guys
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  Speaker 1: meeting up in a private, remote location. Mmm she maybe
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: she was like, let's just rekindle, make yeah, spend it
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: a long time lonely. They drove out toward the southeast
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: edges of Shelby County, heading into a secluded, unlit wooded
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: clearing near Hack's Cross in Winchester Roads. If you're from
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: the area adjacent.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: To Callus cut Off, oh I know.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Someone maybe someone listening right now, was like, oh my god,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: I know where that's at.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Well, I had no clue where you're going till you
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: said it was adjacent to Callous cut Off. And I
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: was like, I know. Waiting in the dark of those
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: woods was Billy ray Turner. What followed was a coordinated,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: ruthless ambush. As Lorenzen stepped out, he was confronted by
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: the armed assailants. Realizing he was being cornered and running
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: for his life through the tall, swampy brush, Lorenzen pulled
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: out a cell phone and he desperately hit nine one one.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: It was exactly twelve eighteen am on the morning of
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: July nineteenth, twenty ten. The emergency signal connected to the
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: nine to one to one dispatch center in Germantown.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Now, the audio recorded by Germantown Dispatch remains one of
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the most haunting pieces of evidence in modern Southern law enforcement.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: When the dispatcher answered Germantown nine one one, what is
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: your emergence or where is your emergency? There was no
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: clear voice speaking into the microphone. Instead, the line captured
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: heavy footsteps, labored breathing, and rustling weeds. But suddenly the
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: silence was shattered by a rapid barrage of gunfire. It
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: was like popping noises. Eleven separate gunshots were tore through
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: the dark. In the background, someone yelled out in distress,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: and then the line went dead.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, the dispatcher repeatedly said, hello, Hello, and if you've
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: listened to it, you can hear in slight.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Well, she was snip it, like like put out, like hello,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: you got an emergency or what? There's literally someone like
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: you could tell it was gunshots in the background. She's like, hello, Hello,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I can't fucking help you if you don't tell me
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: where you're at.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: And my tin fish sandwich that I just unwrapped I
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: was about to eat it or whatever, I was gonna
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: have it.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: She just kept She's like, all I can and then
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: she's talking. I guess she turns someone. She's like, all
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I can hear is gunshots.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Just another day.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Anyways, it's pretty I've always had this feel like I
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: don't want to be that the one for the Idaho murders,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the nine one one dispatcher, because her call gets played
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: over and over and over and over on every documentary
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: and everything, and she just looks. She just sounds so
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: put out by.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: These these stupid kids.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure she's used to dealing with nobody.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Nobody said there was blood everywhere, though, No, nobody like
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: they won't wake up.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: It was like an important detail. Drink that there was
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: blood everywhere.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, She's like, they won't wake up.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought they were just like water down. I'm
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: sure I was tired of dealing with college kids or
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: whatever drinking too much.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Possibly alcohol poison. Anyway, the dispatcher, like we said, repeatedly
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: said hello, hello, but received no response. Because the cell
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: tower ping was on the borderline between Germantown and Memphis jurisdiction,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: the dispatch operator failed to immediately locate the exact street coordinates.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Instead of alerting patrol units to immediately sweep the cell
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: tower radius, and instead of transferring the recorded gunfire to
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: the Memphis the Police Department, the dispatcher simply logged the
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: call as an unbeverified hang up and filed it away.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: No. She yeah, she definitely needed to be I hope
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: they let her go because she's how do you hear
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: gunshots and just be like, oh, they were just butt dial. Yes, there,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: she sounded like a real bitch.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Freight days, the critical recording sat in the queue while
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: a murder victim lay undiscovered in the Tennessee summer heat.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Back in Atlanta and Memphis, Vinson's family knew something was
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: terribly wrong. Lorenzo spoke to his mother, Deborah Marion, nearly
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: every single day, and he never missed a basketball event
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: for his sons. When days passed with his phone going
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: straight to voicemail, Deborah walked into the police station on
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: July twenty second and officially filed a missing person's report.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Detectives immediately contacted Shara Wright. Schery spun an elaborate narrative.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: She told officers that Lorenzen had arrived late on July eighteenth,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: carrying a box of cash and drugs, made secretive phone calls,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: and then walked out into the night around two am
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: with two unidentified armed men who looked like hitmen. So
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: he just went with his murders.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Yes, he just completely stepped out of character from his
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: entire life.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Yes. She claims that Lorenzen told her he was involved
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: in dangerous business dealings and warned her not to ask
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: any questions. I'm also a secret member of an elite
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: crime fighting team.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, the super secret Squirrel.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: On July twenty eighth, ten days after Lorenzen vanished, investigators
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: finally connected the missing persons report to the neglected July
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: nineteenth nine to one to one dispatch log, realizing gunshots
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: had been recorded on Lorenzen's exact phone line. Memphis Police
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: and Shelby County deputies rushed to search, rush their search
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: units and cadaver dogs to the wooded area near Hack's
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: cross Road. Within hours, search teams located Lorenzen's body line
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: face down in an overgrown brush. He had suffered at
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: least five gunshot wounds to the head, chest, and right forearm,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: fired from two different caliber weapons. A massive thunderstorm swept
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: through Memphis shortly after the discovery, but the city had
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: already plunged into mourning for its beloved hero Kara.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, and it is hot during like this is the
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: worst time of year in the South July, late July, August.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I mean we're just over it at this point.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, I was stationed there and we had to run
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Pete in the morning and it was sweaty.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: So yeah, any type of there's gonna be rapid decay,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: there's gonna be bugs, there's gonna it's it's not gonna
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: be good.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Yes, lots of heat.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Immediately following the shooting on July nineteenth, panic had set
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: in among the conspirators. During the chaotic ambush in the
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: dark woods, one of the handguns had slipped into the
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: tall grass. Jimmy Martin was summoned back to Memphis, where
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: he and Shera and Billy ray Turner returned to the
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: woods armed with a metal detector to locate the dropped
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: weapon and remove any stray bullet casings from the scene.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Once the evidence was gathered, Billy ray Turner and Jimmy
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Martin took the primary murder weapon, drove across the state
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: lines into Walnut, Mississippi, and tossed the handgun into the
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: deep muddy waters of a secluded lake off of Highway
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: seventy two.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Fourteen months after Lorenzen's funeral in September of twenty eleven,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Shara Wright collected the one million dollar payout from Lorenzo's
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: life insurance policy. By law, this money was held in
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: a trust specifically established to provide for the upbringing, housing,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: and college education of her six children.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Which that's a pretty broad you can say. Upbringing and
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: housing could.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Be electric bell yep, hlaps.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Louis Vuitton pers like whenever to carry you know, the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: kids just snacks in. What's frustrating is because those guys
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: were idiots and dropped the handgun and had all the
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: public casings and every thing out there. If this stupid
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: nine to one one person had just done their job,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: they would have collected the gun and everything at the time,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: or might even game out there and like caught them.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, possibly thought at the time. What happened next shocked
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: the entire community, and just ten months, Sharah blew through
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: nine hundred and seventy three dollars. I kid, who was
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: nine hundred and seventy three thousand.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: You don't have to pay taxes on a life insurance. Well, no,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: you do not very nice. No, don't look at me like, oh,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: STU is life insured at this.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Point, yes, quit looking at me.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: You're looking like a million bucks.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: She purchased a three hundred and twenty five thousand dollars home,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: spent one hundred thousand dollars on luxury renovations and a
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: custom swimming pool. She bought expensive lawnmowers, at least luxury vehicles,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: went on designer shopping spreeze, and took first class family vacations.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: By twenty fourteen, Lorenzo's father, her Bright, had to file
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: legal action in Shelby County Circuit Court demanding a full
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: financial accounting after discovering that the children's trust had been
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: almost completely drained.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Yes, this is just terrible. She does need Dave Ramsey,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: she should have you definitely don't leave. That's a bad thing.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: She did. Maybe paid cash for the house, but we
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: should have stopped there and not done renovations.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: We should The kids needed a pool to swim in,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: though well had to have the waterfall feature the splash pad.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: While living off the insurance proceeds, Schera decided to write
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: and publish a fictional book titled Mister Tell Me Anything,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: later rebranded as The Whispering Woods of Shara Wright. The
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: novel told the story of an NBA wife married to
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: a deceitful, cheating basketball star named Kent, that bastard who
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: moves his family to Atlanta, becomes embroiled in dangerous affairs,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: and ultimately ends up shot and killed in the woods.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: You stop it.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Can't make this shit up, you know. The thinly veiled
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: book seemed like a direct taunt to the Memphis community.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: For years, billboard signs featuring Lorenzen's face stood along Memphis
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: highways with the question who killed Lorenzen Wright. His mother,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Deborah Marion held vigils, spoke at every press conference, and
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: publicly stated that she believed chare was directly involved.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: In twenty sixteen, Memphis Police department leadership launched a cold
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: case initiative dubbed Operation Unfinished Business. A dedicated schoo.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Came up with that name.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know. They were like a genius.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: They're like, oh my god, let's call it. Let's call
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: it like Operation cold Case, nearly no Operation Unfinished Business.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: This person obviously went to college, took a class in marketing.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: You don't think no, I think there's a bunch of
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: idiots at at a bar.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Onen't I sitting around going? What do you think?
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: I to call it? I don't know. Another round. A
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: dedicated squad of veterans homicide detectives reinterviewed every original associate
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: and re examined phone records. The critical breakthrough came when
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: investigators pressed Jimmy Martin, who was serving prison time in
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: another state on his separate homicide convention which I guess
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: he didn't get enough money out of the insurance payment
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: to get out of it. Seeking immunity in Lorenzen Right case,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Martin confessed to his role in the planning, described the
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: failed Atlanta attempt, and gave investigators the exact geographical location
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: of the discarded murder weapon in Mississippi.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, there were too many shady characters involved with this
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: for somebody not to They went a long time without
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: breaking But.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, well that didn't question them.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I guess no, they because it seems like the.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: First time they came to Jimmy and started asking any questions,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: he started talking.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah he didn't. I mean he was sitting at Jill,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: so he's like, what do I have to lose? Okay,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I'm already here, Yeah, I'm hardy here. In late twenty seventeen,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Memphis detectives and FBI dive teams traveled to the lake
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: in Walnut, Mississippi, submerging themselves in near zero visibility and
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: thick silt. Divers combed the lake bed until they struck metal.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: They pulled up the handgun used to fire the fatal
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: shots into Lorenzen. Right. On July nineteenth, twenty ten, ballistics
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: testing confirmed the match. On December fifth, twenty seventeen, law
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: enforcement moved in and arrested forty six year old Billy
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Ray Turner in Collierville. Got it again, I did, changing
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: him with change changing like I got Collierville right, all
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: these doesn't then I stopped charging. Yes, well, I did
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: our thing as a PD at this time, and it's
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: like really small font for me, so I'm having a
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: hard time. But that didn't make sense at all, changing
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: him changing his diaper, and then no charging him with
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: first degree premeditated murder.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Ten days later, on December fifteenth, twenty seventeen, federal marshalls
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: and local police surrounded share A Right at her home
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: in Riverside County, California. She was arrested and extradited back
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: to Tennessee to face charges a first degree murder, premeditated murder, conspiracy,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: and attempted murder. After seven long years await in, the
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: handcuffs were finally slapped on the conspirators.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, she got there, Like, get your ass out of
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: California and come back to Tennessee the dead of winter.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Well, I guess she moved out to Riverside. How would
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: she move out there? She sounds like she's terrible at
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: financial planning.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe she found somebody else to minimum move you
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: off of. Yeah. On July twenty fifth, twenty nineteen, just
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: days before her high profile trial was set to open
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: in Shelby County Criminal Court, share A Wright surprised the
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: courtroom by entering a negotiated guilty plea. She pleaded guilty
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: to facilitation to commit first degree murder and facilitation to
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: commit attempted first degree murder. Judge Lee Coffee Senate, that's
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: a great name too, Senates share to thirty years in prison.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Under Tennessee's sentencing guidelines, she must serve at least thirty
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: percent of her sentence before becoming eligible for parole consideration,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: which is bullshit. I think, yeah, it should at least
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: be fifty good.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Lord, at least fifty one. Yeah, heard first degree premeditator.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: At her first parole hearing in May two, the Pearle
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Board unanimously rejected her release. So maybe at least they're
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: just paying. Okay, fine, it's thirty percent, but it's not
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: gonna let you out.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Billy ray Turner rejected all plea offers and took his
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: case before a Shelby County jury in March twenty twenty two. Dummy.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: During the trial, prosecutors presented ballistics, phone records, and the
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: detailed eyewitness testimony.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Detailed still work as detailed like.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Detail drink and the details drink, There you go, eyewitness
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: testimony of Jimmy Martin on March twenty first, twenty twenty two.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: How stupid is Billy Ray? Come on? Yes, there's one
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: person's already played guilty to this, the ring leaders, the
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: other guys in prison, that's already flipped.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: And you're gonna beat this.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Yes, I mean, come on on.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: March twenty one, twenty twenty two, after only two hours
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: of deliberation.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: And that was them just being nice because that's it.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: I were like, hey, we're here, we need to get
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: our lunch.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Yes, that was probably like whenever I was on jury duty, Oh,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: do tell that guy was like definitely guilty of the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: drunk driving because they literally had all the everything that
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: you could possibly against somebody. They had bodycam footage, all
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: this stuff, all the science behind it, everything, and so
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: we were in there and we're like, okay, well he's guilty,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: and so we're just looking around. I'm like, well, maybe
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: we should just walk through everything just for fun.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Scenes, you know, let's get our pre lunch.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like we need to. I'm like, let's just
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: walk through because everybody's like, should we just literally it's
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: been it literally had been like two minutes and We're like,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: we should probably take a little longer, and so we
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: walked to the whole thing. I pretended to be the person.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: I did the whole sobriety test for everybody and everything
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I didn't tell you then, Yeah, I offered to do
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: because they were like, it was I was the only
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: young person. And I use that as relative because I'm
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: not young anymore, but I was young compared to him.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: They were all in their like seventies eighties, sixty seventies
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: eighties anyway, So I volunteered because they were talking about
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: the sobriety test that he failed the field sobriety test.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: So I went up and demonstrated everything for everybody and
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: they all watched me and they're like, oh yeah, I'm like,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: see you can there's one that you can do this
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: if you're not because they were like, well what if
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: you're just like not very balanced or something like that,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, well he had boots on, I have
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: these flimsy ballet flats. If I can do it, and
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I'm pregnant, so you know anyway, So yeah, I did that.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: I was the four I'm sure all of you heard
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: this before. I was the four person. I got to
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: read the sentencing or the verdict.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Verdict.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, a big, big moment for me, Toto big moment.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: And there I was trying to get out of Jerry
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: duty and you're like what, Like, yeah, I wrote them
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: twice because they caught me twice. We were going on
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: vacation or something going somewhere, and now I'm going to
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: be in town. And then the third time that just
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: took me off. Oh, they summoned me and I was like, shit,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: there ain't no getting out of it now. And that's
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: the last minute. I got a phone call saying you
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: are not required to be there.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Yep, wow, you just really just you know who. I
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: don't want to be on the journey for though the
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Lindsay Clancy try. No, actually I do, because we will
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: go through that I had. I had fifteen points if
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: you include the bow on the prosecutor to go through.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: But I have additional points now because we haven't recorded
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: that episode. Yet.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, we recorded it. We recorded the first five minutes, okay,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: and then Popeye over there.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: We recorded late. I was swimming and having a good
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: time and I was like, no, I need to be
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: fully alert to go through this. I cannot this Lindsay
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: clancy thing is too important. Anyways, Finish up this is
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: where we're getting distracted. Finish up your less little bits too.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: In March twenty first two.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: We did that already after deliberation.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's as far as I got. I was reminding
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: people where we were though, after you sidetracked. After only
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: two hours of deliberation, Karen, the jury returned guilty verdicts
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: on all counts first degree premeditated murder, conspiracy to commit
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: first degree murder, and attempted first degree murder. Judge Coffee
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  Speaker 2: sentenced Turner to an automatic life sentence in prison, plus
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: an additional forty one years on the conspiracy and weapons charges.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Lorenzo's mother sat in the front row, looking at Billy
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Ray Turner in the eye as justice was finally delivered.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, they all ended up in jail. That's my chair,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: squeaking fl We're getting new chairs.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: That's your chair.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: It is my chair. The fact is is, and now
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: you can probably really hear it because the echoing of
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: the closet, but we're getting in what is that I'm
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: working Stewart shut that is not even remotely true. All right,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: that's our case for this week's due. Do you have
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: your you'll need Jesus ready?
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: I do. Okay, let me look it up. Read you
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: the headline, Caara, you can tell me if it's Florida
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  Speaker 2: or not. Florida woman wearing hot DOUO Hot Dude, hot
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  Speaker 2: dog costume arrested after covering neighbors vehicle in toilet paper.
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  Speaker 1: I would say that's Florida. That would only happen in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: You think so? Are you sure? I'm sure you are correct?
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Kara from Saint Petersburg, Florida. August twenty two, twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: five from Fox thirteen, Tampa Bay. A Saint Petersburg woman
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  Speaker 2: wearing a hot dog costume was arrested for disorderly conduct
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  Speaker 2: this week, according to officers. The Saint Pete Police Department
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: said Marsham Morgan was arrested Monday for disorderly conduct and
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: resisting an officer without violence without vice.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that was an option.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't know either, I thought. Officers said. Morgan
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  Speaker 2: was upset that her neighbor was parking near her yard.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: When totally gets start. I do too.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: I totally understand this.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, in Texas, these people park on the streets and
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: it drives me bananas. Not that we're not doing it
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: because we don't have enough room.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Well, we're in these neighborhoods with no driveways. What do
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: they want from us?
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Okay exactly, they said, She, while dressed in a hot
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: dog costume, started leaning against her neighbor's vehicle. She also
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: ripped toilet paper and started placing it all over the vehicle,
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: The responding officers said in her arrest after David affid David,
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: she is accused of being intoxicated, there's there's a reasoning
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: for it, and refusing to copperate. Cooperate with the intoxicate.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: I am a little bit. I have been drinking. Yes,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: According to SPPD, that would be her Saint Petersburg Police
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Department there and that's where we're that with Marshall Morgan,
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: the hot.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Dog drink, dressed as a weenie.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: And a weenie costume, TPN car.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: You know, some of these people might have in this
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: neighborhood might have got me to that points. Dude dressing
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: up like a hot dog and TP or like toilet
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: paper in their cars. These people, although our neighbor was
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: super nice, although I think he just wants us to leave.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he's the one that was riding hoa
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: about our weeds. Did you talk to him? No, Yeah,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: he parked because the moving van was parked in front
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: of his driveway, so we had to park across the street.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: And his wife is walking with her cane. Oh Jesus
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: to get into the driveway.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Lovely, Well he could. They could have just asked him
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: to move. I guess. I guess they figured by the
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: time they moved, Yeah, because they could have backed it
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: up a little bit. Yeah, I mean, I don't know
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: what you do these We're in a neighbor one of
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: these neighborhoods. It's a d R. Horton neighborhood. Literally, everybody's
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: on top of everybody's asses over here. There's no driveway space,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: there's nothing like you're just piled up on top of
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: each other. So anyways, that's a that's a that's a sitting,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: sipping and bullshitting story.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we will talk.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: We will talk about yeah on this week's Sitting, Sipping
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: and Bullshit and we will be talking about the Lindsay
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Clancy trial mainly. I do have a true crime episode
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: that I watched that we were gonna if we have time,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: we'll get to that. But I have a lot of
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: feelings about the Lindsay Clancy trial. I'll just start randomly.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: It's just like me doing something and all randomly walking
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Around'm like, can you believe this? The neighbor said he
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: saw her in the snow at what was it? It
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: was five point fifty pm, but Patrick claims he talked
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: to her at five point thirty four pm. Some means
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: within sixteen minutes she was done with all the stuff
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: she's going to do with herself and laying in the
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: snow that makes snow, and her core body temperature was
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: eighty two degrees eighty two six nine six h nine.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: And he got in contact with nine one one a
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: couple minutes later because he said he couldn't the Wi
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Fi and the cell service kept going in and out. Well,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: he said, the Wi Fi and the nine one one
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: call kept going in it but he literally just said that.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: He called Lindsay when he got home because he couldn't
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: see her car and he thought she had taken it,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: although she said she hadn't been driving for a while
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: because she had been fit to fill and so off.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: There's just a lot of things, but I'll go through
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: it point by point all of I have everything more
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: organized in a document, Stew. We will hash it out.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: We've got new stuff coming up this week because the
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: defense has taken over, so we will see. Anyways, we
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: shall all right, do you have anything else for us?
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: I do not?
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, stay safe, lock your doors and keep
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: that portch that on? Buyevery one? Oh, say bye, Stew.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Saens he just got me out of the podcast.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Oh because on all the videos online, I've gotten better
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: at saying our ending. Because all the videos online I
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: say it, and I just say Biber wouldn't.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Have I then you just hang up.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, stay safe, lock your doors, and keep that porch.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: It on, by everyone, say bye to bys do.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Don't you know it's bad to be supersticious? Mind nothing else.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: It's working and it's really learning and sick. It's worthy.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: I can