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Forensic Files-20140712-07:47:00

as were his friends, justin glover and lawrence morrell. >> they were involved in a bank scheme. and essentially what the bank scheme involved was using falsified records to obtain loans. and they would take the lone mono and pocket it. >> the alleged scam utilized a front person, usually a young woman looking to buy a used car. after getting a lone from the credit union, she wouldn't buy the car. instead, she'd split the money with wesley person and his partners. when the loan wasn't repaid shall the credit union couldn't repossess the car for nonpayment because no car was purchased. the scam ruined the woman's credit union, but wesley and his partners walked away unscathed. >> a lot of people in the banking community were giving out loans without a lot of

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Forensic Files-20140712-07:39:00

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 friends justin glove and lawrence morrell. both men were in their early 20s, and like wesley, had minor

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Forensic Files-20140712-07:40:00

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 could find nothing. absolutely nothing in that house that gave us any indication he was shot and killed there. >> police also checked lawrence morrell's car, the one wesley person got into after christmas

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Forensic Files-20140712-07:52:00

>> investigators felt they knew who planned this attack. >> lawrence morrell is the smart one here. and he's 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? bulldog: it's true! i am a bundle of talent!

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Forensic Files-20140712-07:57:00

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 they were owed. justin glover and lawrence morrell were supposed to receive at least a thousand dollars each from each of these loans. >> police believe lawrence and morrell found out and wanted revenge.

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Forensic Files-20140712-07:48:00

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 them for a profit. >> the victim was wrapped in plastic, construction plastic, consistent with someone who's rehabbing a house. >> this also might explain the unusual plaster found with wesley's body. could one of morrell's construction projects be the

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Forensic Files-20140712-07:49:00

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 person's body. >> we're looking for slugs, bullet holes in the walls. we were unsuccessful. >> investigators sprayed luminol in the basement of lawrence morrell's construction property on south 13th street and ran into an unexpected problem. >> as we're looking at that, crime lab techs are explaining to me that in harrisburg, their

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Forensic Files-20140712-07:56:00

both lawrence morrell and justin glove denied any involvement in wesley person's murder. they both claimed they had alibis for that night. so investigators checked the men's cell phone records. >> glover's phone is trackable, because he is constantly either receiving calls, or he's making calls. and from those cell phone calls, we're 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 his girlfriend from the cellular telephone which is not consistent with him being with her the whole night. >> the records show that glover was in the area where the burning body was found. >> and a check of lawrence morrell's cell phone records revealed he was in the area as

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Forensic Files-20140712-07:59:00

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

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Forensic Files-20140708-06:40:00

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 could find nothing. absolutely nothing in that house that gave us any indication he was shot and killed there. >> police also checked lawrence morrell's car, the one wesley person got into after christmas shopping. >> we checked the trunk and the interior of the car for any

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