Lawrence Morrell News Today

Well. >> at 4:30 in the morning his cell phone is used right near the capitol building. >> morrell was checking his voice mail. oddly, so was someone else. at the exact same place and exact same time. >> it shows, when you look at the cell phone records that they were together. >> ten weeks after wesley person was killed, justin glove and lawrence morrell were arrested and charged with his murder. prosecutors believe wesley person cashed a check for a fraudulent bank loan without telling his par...

Outskirts of baltimore, they hauled the body down an embankment, doused it with fuel and set it on fire. but the fire didnt consume wesleys entire body. enough remained to create this likeness. and the animal hair plaster and construction plastic ultimately led police to the murder scene. >> without that pile of debris, without that piece of ductwork, wesley persons case would be unsolved today. >> justin glover and lawrence morrell were convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in ...

All he had was 50s and 1 hundreds. >> wesleys cousin said when they were finished shopping, wesley left with friends whom he didnt know. he said there seemed to be some tension among them. >> they go to the back of the car, talking. and when theyre talking back there, its an intense conversation. >> it wasnt an argument. but you can see that he was talking like he was either frustrated or angry, but it wasnt loud. >> the three men drove off. and the next day wesley person was dead. police questi...

Background investigation. >> during a two-year period, wesley person and his partners embezzled about $120,000. was it possible that a falling out among the three scam artists was the motive for murder? >> disrespect always plays a big part in a lot of the murders ive seen in this community. if these guys were pure business men, they wouldnt have killed him. >> a background check of wesleys friends revealed an interesting coincidence. lawrence morrell was involved in the construction business. h...

Brushes with the law, but had never served time and had no violent offenses. >> my understanding they had known each other going back to when person lived in new york. >> when questioned by police, both men denied any involvement in wesleys murder. they said they dropped wesley off at his house, and that was the last time they saw him. >> shopping bags of recent purchases from that morning wesley had were found in the house. we feel certain that wesley person did make it back to the house. >> po...

Actual murder site? >> we found five properties listing him as the owner in harrisburg, pennsylvania. when we began looking at these properties, we were able to determine that three of those properties were vacant at the time of the murder. >> the property that needed the most work was on south 13th street in downtown harrisburg. records showed it had been built in the 1930s, around the same time builders used animal hair plaster like the kind found with wesley persons body. >> were looking for ...

Both lawrence morrell and justin glove denied any involvement in wesley persons murder. they both claimed they had alibis for that night. so investigators checked the mens cell phone records. >> glovers phone is trackable, because he is constantly either receiving calls, or hes making calls. and from those cell phone calls, were able to see what tower, the closest tower that cell phone is going to hit off of. >> glover said he was with his girlfriend. >> he made a series of telephone calls to hi...

>> investigators felt they knew who planned this attack. >> lawrence morrell is the smart one here. and hes the one with the brains to be able to put this thing together. >> but could they place justin glove and lawrence morrell at the scene? .. chocolate is my other favorite... oh yeah, and frosted! whats your most favorite of all? hmm...the kind i have with you. me too. touch down... every morning... ten times! not just... now and then. once more on the rise... nuts to the flabby guys! go, you...

>> morrell was checking his voice mail. oddly, so was someone else. at the exact same place and exact same time. >> it shows, when you look at the cell phone records that they were together. >> ten weeks after wesley person was killed, justin glove and lawrence morrell were arrested and charged with his murder. prosecutors believe wesley person cashed a check for a fraudulent bank loan without telling his partners, and in doing so signed his own death warrant. >> wesley person never paid them th...

Wesleys body. could one of morrells construction projects be the actual murder site? >> we found five properties listing him as the owner in harrisburg, pennsylvania. when we began looking at these properties, we were able to determine that three of those properties were vacant at the time of the murder. >> the property that needed the most work was on south 13th street in downtown harrisburg. records showed it had been built in the 1930s, around the same time builders used animal hair plaster l...