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 exceptional forensic investigation. hands down the best forensic work i ve ever seen in any case i ve ever been involved in. this is one case that probably encompasses about every genre of forensic science that s out there. this is probably the most interesting case i ve had yet. you would think their
you put up one post and the next day you have all these candidates. makes my job a lot easier. [ female announcer ] over 100,000 businesses have already used zip recruiter and now you can use zip recruiter for free at a special site for tv viewers; go to ziprecruiter.com/offer5. both lawrence morrell and justin glove denied any involvement in wesley person s murder.
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 soil s eastern rich and iron in itself will give false positives in a luminol test. but in the basement,
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 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 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. they picked him up in harrisburg and took him home so they could get the money they believed he d stolen from them.