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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 partners, and in doing so signed his own death warrant. >> wesley person never paid them the money that...

Outskirts of baltimore, they hauled the body down an embankment, doused it with fuel and set it on fire. but the fire didn't consume wesley's 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 person's case would be unsolved today. >> justin glover and lawrence morrell were convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. >> first thing i think of when i think of this case is

All he had was 50s and 1 hundreds. >> wesley's cousin said when they were finished shopping, wesley left with friends whom he didn't know. he said there seemed to be some tension among them. >> they go to the back of the car, talking. and when they're talking back there, it's an intense conversation. >> it wasn't an argument. but you can see that he was talking like he was either frustrated or angry, but it wasn't loud. >> the three men drove off. and the next day wesley person was dead. police questioned wesley's family and learned that the men matching the description were wesley's long time...

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 i've seen in this community. if these guys were pure business men, they wouldn't have killed him. >> a background check of wesley's friends revealed an interesting coincidence. lawrence morrell was involved in the construction business. he'd buy distressed residential properties in harrisburg, pennsylvania, fix them up, then sell the...

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 wesley's 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. >> police obtained a search warrant and checked every room. >> we luminoled that housetop to bottom. we ...