Killing Lorenzen: Love•Basketball•Murder
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 405 ratingsLorenzen Wright's voice was last heard on a desperate 911 call in July of 2010, but his story — and the path that led him to that moment — began long before that fateful night.
WREG TV began covering Wright from the time he emerged on the local high school basketball scene in Memphis in the early 1990s, through his college playing days at the University of Memphis and his 13-year run in the NBA, including playing on his home turf with the Memphis Grizzlies. He was considered by many to be a shining star.
Killing Lorenzen: Love | Basketball | Murder is an investigative podcast by WREG's investigative team about the life and death of Lorenzen Wright, and his ex-wife Sherra Wright, now sitting behind bars after pleading guilty to facilitating his murder, nearly nine years to the day later.
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Episodes
EPISODE 10: The Legacy of Lorenzen Wright
November 14, 2019 21:30 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBIn our final episode, our investigators retrace the shocking plea deal Sherra Wright made in the case that allowed her to avoid a trial. We also take you inside a special fundraiser for Lorenzen Wright's family held at the estate of Penny Hardaway, and talk to some former NBA stars about their memories of Wright. And we look at the family push to make sure Lorenzen's memory and his legacy remain alive.
EPISODE 9, Part 2: Operation Rebound
November 07, 2019 18:44 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MB'Operation Rebound' chronicles Sherra Wright’s trip back to Memphis from California after being arrested for the murder of her ex-husband Lorenzen Wright. We take you through the court dates, the attorneys Sherra lost and then gained, and her jail house antics that got her in trouble. And for the first time, you will hear about the other alleged accomplices to the murder and why they were never arrested.
EPISODE 9, Part 1: Operation Rebound
October 30, 2019 18:20 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBIt was the news Deborah Marion waited seven long years to hear. On November 9, 2017, Memphis police announced their first break in her son’s murder case. Someone led them to the gun reportedly used to kill Lorenzen Wright. Within a matter of weeks, police made not one, but two arrests for Lorenzen's murder — plus they dropped another bombshell along the way.
EPISODE 8: The Lake
October 18, 2019 22:22 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBIn this episode, Sherra Wright and Lorenzen's parents sue the city of Germantown, Tennessee, saying they failed to follow up on a 911 call from Lorenzen. For the first time, we hear from the psychic who Wright's family turned to for answers, and we look at how a book written by Sherra was a reflection of her troubled marriage. Plus, we take you back to the day the first break came in the Lorenzen Wright murder case, and the clue that finally moved the murder case forward.
EPISODE 7: They Killed Him Twice
October 10, 2019 19:47 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBIn August of 2010, just weeks after her ex-husband was found brutally murdered, his body left rotting in a field near southeast Memphis, Sherra Wright packed up and moved out of her Collierville home. But on her way, out, Sherra gave law enforcement somewhat of a trail of evidence to follow in Lorenzen’s murder investigation. By November of 2010, another NBA basketball season had started, Lorenzen would have celebrated his 35th birthday. and as the days turned to weeks, and weeks...
EPISODE 6, Part 2: Ten Days
October 01, 2019 21:43 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBPart 2 of "Ten Days" goes into the finding of Lorenzen Wright’s body 10 days after he disappeared in July 2010. Hear from friends and family who re-live the tragedy of finding out Lorenzen had been murdered, go behind the scenes at his funeral as eyes were on his ex-wife Sherra Wright and learn why police were at a disadvantage in the murder investigation.
EPISODE 6, Part 1: Ten Days
September 20, 2019 20:38 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBIt's February 2010. NBA star Lorenzen Wright is no longer playing professional basketball. He's divorced and facing mounting debt. Despite those troubles, friends and family had no idea that five months later, he'd disappear ... and be found dead.
EPISODE 5: The Divorce
September 12, 2019 22:03 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBBy 2009, Lorenzen Wright's 13-season, $55 million NBA career was over and so was his marriage to Sherra, his wife of 11 years. The two who'd been brought together by basketball, had seven children and lost one, were calling it quits. The 12,000-square-foot mansion in Eads, Tennessee, they bought in 2008 for $2.7 million was sold on the courthouse steps. Their million-dollar home in Atlanta eventually went into foreclosure, too. It was just a sign of the turmoil. Their divorce was...
EPISODE 4: Till Death Do Us Part
September 03, 2019 13:01 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBThe year was 2001, and sports history would be forever changed in Memphis, Tennessee. The Bluff City was now home to an NBA franchise, and even better ... a son of Memphis was coming home to help lead the team. Lorenzen Wright played for his hometown Grizzlies for five seasons and made more money than ever before in his NBA career. But his big return home didn't stop the problems with his money and his marriage. Then, Lorenzen and his wife Sherra suffered a tragedy that some say...
EPISODE 3: The NBA
August 23, 2019 19:31 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBLorenzen Wright makes it to the NBA. But even though the basketball star was making millions, he and his girlfriend Sherra where living paycheck to paycheck. Find out what they were spending all their money on, and what friends and family say started to tear the young couple apart. The episode also covers their early years of marriage, and what some say were signs of trouble.
EPISODE 2: Memphis
August 14, 2019 23:42 - 37 minutes - 34 MBA new last name and a new city to call home. The Oxford, Mississippi native who’d been born Lorenzen Vassar took his father’s last name during his final years of high school and would soon relocate to his dad’s hometown of Memphis for his senior year. Memphis meant big-time exposure for Lorenzen’s basketball career — in Memphis, basketball is a way of life, and he was a major NBA prospect. It also meant spending even more time with his new girl. The distance between Oxford and M...
EPISODE 1: Oxford
August 06, 2019 00:25 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBEpisode One covers Lorenzen Wright's childhood in Oxford, Mississippi, how his parents met and his budding basketball career before he moved to Memphis and met a girl that would change his life forever.
Killing Lorenzen: Love | Basketball | Murder (TRAILER)
July 28, 2019 14:23 - 8 minutes - 7.63 MBThis podcast retraces the story of NBA star Lorenzen Wright, from his birth to his untimely death and the search for justice in his killing. It is also a story of Sherra Robinson Wright, who pleaded guilty in July 2019 to facilitating his death — but not for the murder itself.