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Feb 2021
1h 22m

Death of a Hometown Hero

NBC NEWS
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There was probably no player as popular in the history of Memphis high school, college and NBA basketball as Lorenzen Wright. When he goes missing in 2010 and is found dead ten days later, Lorenzen’s mother insists she knows who murdered her son and is relentless in helping detectives solve his case. Andrea Canning reports.

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