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 loan money and pocket it. the alleged scam utilized a front person, usually a young woman looking to buy a used car. after getting a loan 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, the credit union couldn t repossess the car for nonpayment because no car had been purchased. the scam ruined the woman s credit rating, but wesley and his partners walked away unscathed. a lot of people in the banking community were giving out loans without a lot of background investigation. during a two-year period, wesley person and his two partners embezzled about
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 hoping for slugs, we re hoping for bullet holes in the walls. we re hoping for anything we could get. we were unsuccessful. investigators sprayed luminol in the basement of lawrence murrell 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 iron rich and iron in itself will give false positives
the capitol building. murrell was checking his voicemail. 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 glover and lawrence murrell 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 murrell were supposed to receive at least $1,000 each from each of these loans. prosecutors believe lawrence and murrell found out and wanted revenge. they picked him up in harrisburg, then took him home
so they could get the money they believed he d stolen from them. then they forced wesley back into their car and drove him to the home on south 13th street in harrisburg that murrell was renovating. the evidence shows this is where they shot person three times in the head. his blood spattered onto a piece of ductwork on the basement floor. the two men cleaned up the scene, but didn t see the blood on the ductwork. they wrapped the body in construction plastic, unaware that bits of animal hair plaster were wrapped with it, plaster that tied the body to the house. after driving 65 miles to the outskirts of baltimore, they hauled the body down an