family could be seen in this video celebrating what would be one of their last christmases altogether. the house was decorated, and there were plenty of presents under the tree. ren was playing center for the kids, and in the garage, sarah had a surprise waiting for him. you love it, daddy? i love it. reporter: it was right out of a christmas movie, but behind the scenes, reporter mark says that their life was not always so picture perfect. people who knew them yell, they knew that they had troubles. reporter: a volatile mix of infidelity and jealousy, he says. it was a darker, darker side. reporter: for lorenzen, life in the nba was intoxicating. under the bright lights in the biggest cities with plenty of
family that runs and wright was found dead here. by now, a large crowd was holding an impromptu memorial at the grim site. among them was when s friend, kenny hardaway. a great loss. such an early age. amid, it s senseless. that, lawrence s body, which had been left in the siri memphis some are ten movies, was taken inferred autopsy. i ve seen decomposed bodies before, but i was not ready for that. i was not ready for lorenzen remains. i would not have known that was him. reporter: lorenzen wright was just 34, the father of six young children, now police confirmed the horrible news with the rest of his family and close friends. i literally remember freezing. i dropped the phone, and my
forefront, lorenzen wright s ex-wife sherra. she s always been a person of interest, no matter who we talked to, no matter what door enough, down no matter what crime tip we got, it was that right back to sherra. was anybody coming to her defense and saying, she loved lorenzen, she would never do this. i am just getting people and add people come to their defense. i had never gotten a call from anybody that has defended sherra, ever. reporter: maybe that is why sherra had lawyered up and stopped talking to the police. out of the public, i see she sometimes surfaced at the mall of baptist church, where she was now an ordained minister and ran a nonprofit, born to profit ministries, which helps local kids. as for supporting her own children, sherra s primary source of income still came from ren. she is getting his insurance money and the pension from the
face. was it finally liberating for lorenzen the be finally out of the marriage? finally free. reporter: as part of the divorce settlement, lorenzen took out 1 million dollar life insurance policy that would be paid the six children upon his death. it would be administered by sherra, since she was awarded custody. ren was also ordered to pay alimony in child support, totaling $26, 000, a month. lorenzen, even though he made $55 million playing basketball, he was broke. he had two very expensive homes that were foreclosed on. they were bouncing checks left and right. they burned through all this money. he seemed to be in need of money. reporter: big money, but from where? detectives had a new lead about how ren was trying to raise some quick cash, and it would take his murder investigation in a whole new direction. you had to take the drug
now, here you are, and it s his funeral. the morning was a little bit deeper. the loss of such a great person and the fabric of mantas society was so tragic and painful. you can see that on peoples faces, all the tears, the hugging. reporter: to help the city heal, the memphis mayor made a promise. justice will be done, that s not a pledge. reporter: justice, of course, dependent on a thorough police investigation. detectives were not playing catch-up, given how long it had taken to find lorenzen s body after he was murdered. at the crime scene, clues were already emerging. police found different shell casings at the scene. reporter: different casings, which means that more than one gun was used to murder lorenzen. which indicated that there possibly were two suspects responsible for the shooting. reporter: tony armstrong was