She Killed Her Famous Husband - The Lorenzen Wright Story
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What led to Lorenzen Wright's murder?
Do you remember when this famous NBA player got murdered by his own wife? Now the wife's name is Shara and Shara is about 39 when the story starts and she's living in Memphis. And Shara seems to really want money. Well, no problem because Shara is married to this recently retired NBA player.
So she should have access to lots of money. However, things are not going great in this marriage because both she and her former NBA husband believe that the other person is cheating on them. So they're like fighting all the time. And so one day in 2010, after 13 years together, they decide that it's too much and it's time for Shara to get a divorce from her husband. Here's the thing about her famous former NBA player husband though. His name is Lorenzen, and he's retired now, but he made a lot of money over the course of his basketball career. But despite that, he and Shara are somehow having financial problems. And while they're trying to get along and co-parent through this whole divorce, it's not really working for Shara.
I guess she just doesn't trust him and she feels like he isn't telling her the whole truth about all their finances. And so at some point, she decides the best way to get some more money out of him is to just murder him and get paid through his life insurance plan. Now, Shara, she's a high-class woman. She's not going to commit this murder herself. She's going to get someone else to do it. And that is when this guy comes in, Billy. And Billy, he's a landscaper. I guess he does Shara's landscaping for her. And I guess she thinks he is fine because pretty soon they start smashing. So she ends up recruiting him to help her with this murder plot. Shara also recruits her cousin to help her, this guy, who we'll just call Cousin.
So, Shara brings Billy and Cousin together, and she's like, we've gotta murder Lorenzen! And these two guys are like, alright. So then, the two of them, Billy and Cousin, they drive from Memphis all the way over to Atlanta, where Lorenzen's condo is. Then, they break into the place all quietly, and there, on the couch, they see someone sleeping. And one of them walks up to this person and he realizes that it's not Lorenzen. And they're like, well, damn. And they leave and they drive back to Memphis. So that plan failed. But Shara is not about to give up. She really wants that life insurance money. So instead of trying to murder Lorenzen in his house in Atlanta, Shara now decides to lure him over to Memphis and assassinate him there.
And she's going to lure him there by offering him sex. So she gets to work and she starts sending Lorenzen spicy text messages and whatnot, suggesting that he should come to Memphis soon so that they can smash. And I don't know if this works or what, but Lorenzen does end up coming to Memphis one weekend. And while he's there, he's scheduled to do a lot of stuff. Like he's got to attend his son's basketball game. He's got to attend his daughter's dance recital. And he's got to attend his sister's baby shower. So he's there in Memphis at his son's basketball game with some of his friends. And at some point he looks down at his phone and he sees that he's got some spicy messages from Shara as she is literally sending him adult photos of herself telling him to come over right now.
But I guess Lorenzen isn't interested right now. He still wants to keep doing his own thing. So after the game, he and his son go hang out with his other buddy. So now, Shara has to change tactics. Offering to Smash didn't work. How embarrassing. So she gets pissed off, and she calls him, and she demands that he bring their son home right now. And Lorenzen, he doesn't want to argue, so he gets one of his buddies to drive him over to Shara's house and drop him and his son off. Once they're there, the son and their other kids go to bed, and Shara tells Lorenzen that she needs to go out to this random swampy field to meet a guy and pick up some money. Which sounds really shady to me, but that's what she says she's gotta do.
Not only that, but she wants Lorenzen to come along with her.
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