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please see the show notes for this episode on your app or on our website today's episode deals with a crime
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committed against the child that won't be suitable for all listeners on the evening of March 2 1993 43
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year-old Mildred horn known by friends as Millie found herself in a predicament a senior flight attendant with American
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Airlines Millie was roasted on flight 731 to San Juan departing the following morning at 807 from baltimore-washington
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International Airport due to her early start the single mother needed others to look
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after her children there wasn't an issue for her eldest daughter 18 year old Tiffany a freshman
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living on campus at Howard University in Washington DC it was Millie's eight year old twins
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Tammy ole and Trevor who required a sitter Millie was able to send Tammy ole to spend the night at her mother's
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however tamils twin brother Trevor was unable to stay elsewhere severely physically and intellectually disabled
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Trevor required around-the-clock care he could barely see hear or speak and was often bedridden suffering from
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underdeveloped lungs he breathed through a tracheostomy tube receiving oxygen and
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humidification via tubing that ran from a portable oxygen tank when he went to school Trevor was accompanied by a nurse
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who monitored his oxygen at all times described as a cheerful and happy youngster Trevor was making exceptional
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progress in class he had mastered a few words in sign language and enjoyed his physical education class and playing
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games with friends when it came to Trevor Milly was described as a super mom a formidable
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and extraordinary mother she devoted herself to ensuring her son received the very best of care
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and showered him with unconditional love the pair were often seen at Nobel merely
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gently pushing Trevor along in his wheelchair or driving him around in her specially modified chevrolet astro
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minivan during Halloween Milly would help dress Trevor up as his favorite fictional
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character the free-spirited into mischievous Peter Pan Trevor loved visiting relatives who dubbed him tricky
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Trev his cheeky laugh that carried throughout the house bringing joy to all those who heard he inherited a love for
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music and clearly had his favorite tunes reacting with delight when they were played the devotion and dedication of
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his mother siblings and extended family towards Trev was to those who witnessed it totally beautiful
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despite doctors believing such an achievement would be impossible Trevor was able to vocalize some words and had
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developed his own special language l referred to his twin sister Tammy of Lala meant I love you during the night
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Trevor relied on a life-support machine to assist his breathing as he swiped a constant vigilance and monitoring of
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these machines was crucial as they were responsible for keeping Trevor alive the
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nurse rusted on to supervise Trevor the evening of March 2 1993 called up unwell
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and was unable to stay over Milly couldn't stay up watching over her son as she needed to rest in preparation for
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her flight the following morning Milly sister Vivian was always more than happy to look after her nephew however on this
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occasion Vivian reluctantly declined as she too had worked the following day Millie contacted another one of Trevor's
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nurses 38 year-old Janice Saunders that night Janice was home with her husband Michael into their five-year-old son
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when she received the call from Milly Janice understood that the mother's dilemma having worked for the horns for
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five years Janice developed a strong fondness of young Trevor she graciously agreed to
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step in at the last minute and watched Trevor over the night of March 2 to 3 to ensure both child and mother slept well
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to help a storm throughout the late hours Janice took with her some needlework she recently started across
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stitch pattern titled the parade demahjay was by artist Pete Buckley Moss whose work Janice discovered years
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earlier and instantly loved so much so that this was the fifth cross stitch of her art Janice created it showed a boy
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pulling a wagon carrying a girl and her collection of black kittens Janice had only gotten so far as stitching the
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boy's hat and hoped to make significant progress on her project whilst watching over sleeping Trevor
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it was around 7:15 the following morning of March 3 when Vivian drove to her sister's white two-story brick house on
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the leafy suburban Northgate Drive it was only a short trip as Vivian lived only a few doors down from Milly the
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pair resided in the world to do area of Silver Spring in the coastal state of Maryland on America's East Coast
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as merely would have already left for work Vivian knew the only ones home would be her nephew Trevor and his nurse
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Janice Saunders Janice was due to finish a 10-hour night shift at 8:00 a.m. grateful the nurse took the shift on
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such short notice Vivian was keen to ensure Janice left on time and didn't have to stay longer than
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expected Vivian pulled up at the front of her sister's house she immediately noticed
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the garage door was wide open with nobody inside Millie's minivan was missing Vivian had never known her
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sister to leave the garage open when she wasn't home upon entering the garage something was clearly amiss sofa
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cushions were strewn across the floor Vivian's attention was drawn to a scent coming from inside the house that was
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both familiar and out of place there was the furious high-pitched beeping of young Trevor's apnea monitor the sound
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it made to alert the nurse Trevor had stopped breathing overcome with worry Vivian rushed to a neighbor's property
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and beat the front door she begged them to accompany her into her sister's house
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after unlocking the front door Vivian led the neighbor into the house first but the door would barely open
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there was something heavy on the other side blocking their entry Vivian peered through the gap to see what was in the
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way looking into the house she saw a body on the floor against the door her sister Millie's fixed and unblinking
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gaze were staring up at her half of her face was missing [Music] police arrived to the horn family house
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within minutes upon entry they immediately found newly horns body by the front door wearing her new clothes
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it appeared she been shot in the face at close range by a high-powered weapon following the sound of the beer beam the
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officers had it upstairs that led them to a year-old Trevor horns bedroom the inside of the room was clean and orderly
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much like a hospital room except for the blood surrounding the body of nurse Janice Saunders on the floor she too had
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been shot dead two small abrasions above Janice's right eyebrow looked to have been caused by tiny debris from a
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silencer the officers approached the specially built crib light bed by the beeping machine HBS signaled for each
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breath that was missed laying inside surrounded by his beloved stuffed animals was Trevor his body showed no
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external signs of trauma the boys left eye was speckled with pinpoint bleeding suggesting he had made violent attempts
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to breathe prior to death it appeared as though Trevor's killer plug to the child's tracheostomy tube with their
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finger and perhaps held their other hand over the boy's mouth and nose suffocating him to death a few areas of
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the horn house were obviously disturbed some drawers were tossed about a cocktail table in the living room had
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been moved cushions were on the floor and a rock kicked to the side scattered on a bathroom floor were the contents of
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Millie's purse a bookcase was toppled over and a hallway closet was open its contents dumped haphazardly on the floor
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in the basement the mesh screen of a window was pulled away and there were pry marks on the frame police surmised
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the intruder broke in this way from the messy state of the house and the markings on the basement window all
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signs pointed to a burglary gone horribly wrong if it was a burglary it was a particularly incompetent one
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despite nearly every room having been slightly ransacked little of value appeared to be missing nun Milly horn
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substantial collection of jewelry including a five carat diamond bracelet lying in plain sight on a bathroom
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counter was taken Janice Saunders purse and jewelry were undisturbed first televisions music and electronic
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equipment usually prime targets for burglars because of the ease with which they could be quickly sold all remained
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untouched all that was missing were some credit and check cashing cards taken from Millie's purse season two
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detectives suspected the scene was staged to look like a burglary gone wrong to mask what actually appeared to
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be a planned and professional murder the victims were killed with ruthless efficiency Milly with three gunshots to
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the head and Janice with two young Trevor's death was senseless the child had no way of identifying the intruder
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or telling anyone what happened yet the killer took no chances forensics went over the horn house with a fine-tooth
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comb but no foreign fibers or hairs or any shoe palm or fingerprints had been left at the scene fragments of one 22
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caliber bullet was found lodged in a wall in Trevor's bedroom 22 caliber bullets are liable to distort upon
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firing making it hard to match the bullet to a gun only two things were left behind by the
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killer at the same a small fall with tape around the handle was found near the garage door he tested positive for
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gunshot residue the second item was flecks of grass on Trevor horns face neither item provided investigators any
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further insight into the perpetrator the time of the murder was accurately pinpointed thanks to the meticulous logs
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kept by Janice Saunders of Trevor's vital signs every hour without fail Janice wrote her medical observations
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down in a notebook when they stopped at 2:00 a.m. police knew the killer arrived
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a short time later Millie's minivan was located around midday found abandoned in
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the parking lot of a townhouse development in the suburb of Lake Hill less than a mile from the horn house the
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vehicle was locked in the case left in the ignition investigators believed the killer parked their car at the
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construction site and walked the 1 mile to the horn house after committing the murders they then drove Millie's van
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back to their own car before fleeing later that same afternoon Millie's credit cards were handed in to police
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a jogger running along Route 28 in Montgomery County found the card scattered on the side of the road less
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than 20 miles west of the horn house as the area in and around the crime scene was being carefully searched
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investigators went to Howard University to pick up Tiffany horn upon hearing her
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mother and brother had been killed the 18 year old blurted out my father had something to do with this didn't he
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Lawrence Thomas horn better known as LT was Motown music royalty he joined at the iconic record production company as
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a young man in the 1960s taking a low-paying job as a favor to his friend and Motown Records founder Berry Gordy
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Jr a talented sound engineer before long Lawrence was running the control room at
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Hitsville USA Motown's original Detroit headquarters the Motown sound was a mixture of soul funk and pop during the
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50s and 60s Motown signed up unknown artists who later became mega stars Michael Jackson
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and the Jackson 5 The Supremes Frankie Valli in the four seasons and Diana Ross amongst many others soon Motown artists
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were rocketing to the top of the charts Lawrence was a pioneer and an innovator responsible for overseeing most of the
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mixes for Motown singles from 1964 to 1967 he was the chief technician on the temptations hit my girl which debuted at
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the top of the charts in 1965 and stayed there for 13 weeks shotgun by junior Walker and the
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all-stars was Lawrence's proudest achievement he was credited as the songs producer the peaked at number four on
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the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965 as Motown's fame and fortunes soared so did Lawrence Horne he gained a reputation as
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a gifted engineer not afraid to experiment to create new sounds although never in the limelight those in the
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music industry considered Lawrence to be the man behind the Motown sound he introduced himself as LT your man with a
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plan popular with the ladies he had one short-lived marriage to a Motown receptionist which lasted just the year
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in the late sixties Motown moved from Detroit to LA where it expanded into television and film production as the
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bay expected Lawrence went with it Motown Records was a phenomenal success story for a small family-run business as
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its chief recording engineer Lawrence Horne was rolling in the money in 1972 Lawrence crashed his Porsche completely
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riding it off he should have been killed or at least severely injured but he escaped without a scratch rather than
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convincing him of his invincibility the accident caused Lawrence to take stock of his life shortly after he was sitting
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in his first-class seat on an American Airlines flight when he met an angel he believed was sent by God to save him
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Mildred Murray dreamed of being a flight attendant since she was a little girl one of 14 children Millie grew up in
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South Carolina in a close and loving family we're chasing one's dreams was encouraged bubbly happy and popular
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Millie was a head-turner always bell at the ball as soon as she was able she entered stewardess school and excelled
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in every aspect easily making it through the grueling training regime even though
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her work took her all around the country Millie always remained deeply woven within her family roots it didn't take
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long for American Airlines to promote Millie to the position of senior flight attendant tasked with looking after the
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more demanding first-class passengers Millie's patience and optimism saw her settle well into the new role one day as
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she worked the Los Angeles flight route fate had Millie serving drinks to a handsome confident music executive
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Laurence Horne was immediately drawn to the beautiful 21 year old Millie accepted Lawrence's invitation to dinner
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and he said about courting her with ease a late lifestyle of fun donning good wine jet-setting
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and celebrities Laurence and Millie became a celebrated couple in Hollywood's music scene the pair turned
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heads at all the glamorous parties yet outside the spotlight and behind closed doors there's was a stormy relationship
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from the beginning volatility drama and fiery fights were followed by passionate
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reconciliations eventually the pair married in Las Vegas in August 1973 the birth of their first
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child Tiffany in 1974 only served to highlight the issues in their marriage Lawrence put his job Motown and partying
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ahead of his parental responsibilities merely still loved the extravagant lifestyle Lawrence provided the
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prioritized family above all those fights between the couple became more frequent and reconciliations less
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satisfying until in 1979 after five years of marriage they went their separate ways
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Milly moved with Tiffany to Maryland to be near her family whom she could always
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rely on Lawrence stayed in Los Angeles where he could be close to his beloved Motown
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during her childhood Tiffany's visits with her father were relegated to summer holidays but they
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were always exciting Lawrence took her to Hollywood get-togethers attended by famous singers and musicians she
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especially looked forward to the annual no team picnic where the elite of the u.s. music scene would bring their
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families to meet the people they worked with at one of these events her father introduced her to Stevie
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Wonder Millie seemingly moving forward with an independent life filed for divorce from Lawrence in 1981 yet
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despite their differences Lawrence and Millie found it difficult to stay away from each other they would often find
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themselves together or after meeting to drop off or pick up Tiffany or when Millie's work took her to Los Angeles
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a bombshell dropped in 1984 Millie was pregnant and Lawrence was the bother and came as a shock to her family who were
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under the impression the couple ended things years ago it was immediately clear to Millie's network of support
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that Lawrence held no interest in providing her any assistance or comfort during her pregnancy her family rallied
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around her as they always did especially when they discovered she was carrying twins Millie went into
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premature labor at seven months twins Tammy L and Trevor were born on August 5 1984 there were immediate complications
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at birth doctors told Milly Tammy L was small but in good health but Trevor only
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had a 50/50 chance at survival during the birth of her twin siblings Tiffany was on one of her summer visits with her
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father in Los Angeles her aunt Vivian called asking Lawrence to rush Tiffany to Maryland so she would have the
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opportunity to meet her newborn brother in case Trevor didn't pull through Lawrence told Vivian that Tiffany was
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looking forward to the motown picnic on the weekend and he didn't have time to bring her home before him as had become
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the custom Lawrence put his job and celebrity lifestyle above his family even as his firstborn son's life hung in
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the balance as it turned out both Lawrence and Tiffany would get to meet Trevor despite
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suffering a multitude of health problems Trevor was a fighter and survived eventually he was allowed home but
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required constant care and frequent hospitalization Trevor's frail key and ill health took on nightmare proportions
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on September 16 1986 during one of his many visits to Children's Hospital National Medical Center Trevor's
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tracheostomy tube was accidentally disconnected in an interview with WRC TV after the event Milly horn explained
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quote they were trying to get an IV to give Trevor his blood transfusion his trucky ostomy tube came out and they
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could not get it back in he went into an arrest he was coded for an hour in 20 minutes
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and as a result of that Trevor experienced brain damage they told me Trevor probably would not be any
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more than a vegetable I was just totally crushed it was like darkness in a tunnel
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there was not going to be any light and at that point I almost considered taking
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Trevor off all life support and just letting nature do its will but I just couldn't do it it's been a struggle but
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because of Trevor's tremendous will to live I've had the will to hang in there with him and give him the best support
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that I can the best life that I can it was in these times when Milly entered Superman mode Lawrence on the other hand
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held a little interest in raising or supporting Trevor in a conversation with his daughter Tiffany Lawrence stated
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that an intellectually disabled a quadriplegic could never be a real son to him Milly and Lawrence's divorce was
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finalized in 1987 Lawrence was ordered to pay 650 dollars per month child support although they technically
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had joint custody Milly took on full-time parenting of their children while Lawrence returned
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to Los Angeles the following year the horn sued the hospital for negligence resulting in Trevor's extensive injuries
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along joinha court battle ensued taking the better part of two years the relationship
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between million Lawrence became increasingly bitter especially when Lawrence's career took a spectacular
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nosedive as it was prone to doing the music industry changed crooning soul music and disco fell out of fashion with
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dance new wave and rock stylings emerging as the mainstream as a result Motown's owners sold out to a
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multinational organization Lawrence horn would soon discover there was no place or use for him in the company's new
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phase by 1990 Lawrence was fired from his very last job at Motown a low paying no status job as a tape library in'
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assuming the money would always be rolling in lawrence had no savings and was rapidly falling behind in his child
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support payments the settlement of Trevor's court case in March 1990 could not have come at a better time for
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Lawrence Trevor was awarded an annuity of four thousand eight hundred and thirty five dollars per month for life
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indexed for inflation with a lump sum payment of 1.1 million when he turned 18 years old
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the lump sum was to be hold in trust with Milly horn as trustee in addition Milly was awarded three hundred and
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twenty two thousand dollars during negotiations in a shall we display of arrogance Lawrence scribbled a million
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dollar figure on a sheet of paper and slid it across the table to the hospital's attorney once the settlement
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was reached Lawrence was only given about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
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Lawrence was vocal about his unhappiness with his share of the windfall after a heated argument about money with Milly
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he stormed out of the house declaring he was done with the whole family true to his word he cut off communication with
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all of them including daughter Tiffany [Music] Milly used the entirety of her lump sum
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to buy a family home in the upscale Orlais Hill section of Silver Spring just a few doors down from her system
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Viviane Lawrence quickly blew through his settlement check and consequently he stopped paying child support for his
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three children as such Milly had to keep working to provide for her family by 1992 Lawrence was behind in payments to
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the tune of almost $20,000 merely knew she would have to go to court to get the money out of him
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which she was willing to do for the sake of her children his former wife's persistence on getting
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what little money he heard angered Lawrence always prone to violent outbursts he would scream at Milly down
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the phone threatening to come after her if she went through with recovering child support confiding in her
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colleagues Milly told about Lawrence bragged about shoving a sailor off a ship's deck during his naval service
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making it look like an accident Milly warned them if she were ever killed Lawrence would be responsible
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[Music] fear compelled Milly to install a burglar alarm in her home and she warned
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Trevor's nurses not to open the door to strangers while she was away she forbade
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Lawrence from coming to or entering her house in the spring of 1992 Lawrence contacted
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his eldest daughter Tiffany it had been near two years since Tiffany last spoke to her father and date down and she
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missed him Lawrence seemed to have had a change of heart saying he missed her Lawrence wanted to be part of his
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children's life again when Lawrence asked about Trevor Tiffany was pleased he was finally showing interest in her
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baby brother Lawrence asked many questions wanting to hear all about Trevor's health and care tiffany filled
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him in detailing what was required in nowadays to ensure trevor was well including what the nurses did for him
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every day On June 17 1992 Lawrence arrived to Millie's house with a video camera Milly wasn't home at the time
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allowing Lawrence to set up a tripod in her driveway without issue placing a camera on the tripod he
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pointed at a Millie's house and asked Tiffany to point out which windows led to whose rooms claiming he wanted to see
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Trevor Lawrence then asked if he could go inside respecting her mother's demands Tiffany refused her father
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access to the house but not wanting to keep him from seeing his son Tiffany agreed to take the camera inside and
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film Trevor so Lawrence could in some way see he's a little boy it was an odd situation but Tiffany was glad her
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father was taking steps to being a part of their lives again on the day of the triple homicide
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Tiffany Horne poured out all this information to the police Lawrence Horne became prime suspect in
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the murders motive was clear Lawrence was unemployed broke and indebted to Milly for child support and legal fees
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he was prone to violence and Milly held a genuine fear of her former husband furthermore Tiffany informed police of a
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call she received a couple of nights prior to the murders Lawrence was on the line bombarding her with questions about
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where she and Tammy would be over the following days the evening before the murders Lawrence found his former
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sister-in-law vivian checking up where his daughters were staying the night finding out that were not in Millie's
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place police tracked Lawrence to his mother's house rather than expressing shock and grief over news of the murders
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he queried if he was being viewed as a suspect when it was clear investigators were
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looking at him with suspicion Lawrence handed them a videotape the footage showed Lawrence in his living
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room standing in front of his television the local news flashed across the screen
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the date and time the footage was taken was displayed in the bottom right hand corner 11:45 p.m. los angeles time which
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was 2:45 a.m. maryland time the exact time of the murders the footage proved laurence horn could not have been the
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killer and he was on the other side of the country during the slayings but the convenient video recording only
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served to fuel investigators suspicions it was incredibly bizarre Lawrence just happened to be videotaping his quiet
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night at home lost his former wife their son and a nurse were being executed investigators dubbed at the video
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recording the alibi a tape over the following week detectives interviewed everyone close to or associated with
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million liance they heard many stories of the couple's stormy marriage and how Milly had grown to be afraid of their
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ex-husband Milly sister Vivian told police straight up she was certain Lawrence was
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responsible for the murders other family members also provided information pointing to Lawrence sniffer dogs
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scoured the crime scene and beyond on route 28 where Millie's credit cards were found the dogs uncovered a piece of
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metal that was the trigger mechanism from an AR 7 a semi-automatic rifle the weapon took 22 caliber bullets the same
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type found at the crime scene the serial number on the middle piece had been carefully drilled out erasing it for
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good making the weapon untraceable expert analysis determined the medals corrosion was consistent with having
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been exposed to the elements for only a matter of weeks and that the weapon was intentionally fractured and disassembled
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investigators were certain they had found part of the murder weapon nine days after the murders police executed a
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search warrant of Lawrence horns Los Angeles residents in a testament to the hard times the Lawrence had fallen on
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since his high-roller days the apartment was as small as it was cheap police confiscated three computers
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computer disks hard drives backup drives telephone and bank records video tapes cassette tapes micro cassette tapes and
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a telephone answering machine along with several files worth of papers for investigators were assigned full time to
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sift through the massive amounts of evidence taken among the thousands of documents detectives found a few items
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of interest a hand-drawn map of North Cape drive featured an X where Millie's house was located a piece of paper
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contained the number and departure time of the flight Millie was scheduled to work the morning she died there was a
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homemade video of Alliance making the long drive from Washington DC to Millie's house upon arrival he pointed
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the camera at the house and zoomed in on each window announcing what rooms were behind them most intriguing was a 22
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second recording from Lawrence's answering machine the voice on the other end belonged to an unknown male he spoke
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rapidly and his words were cryptic he mentioned not being able to finish something because of quote the noise you
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understand what I'm saying detectives subpoenaed telephone records for all calls made to and from Lawrence
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Warren's apartment one week either side of the date of the murders of the long list of calls made for long-distance
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calls Budhia Lawrence received two phone calls through his apartment from numbers in
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Detroit where the men once had his roots in the music industry the other two calls were from Maryland all of them
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were traced back to pay phones one call came through at 5:12 a.m. on March 3 1993 the morning of the murders
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the 22 second call was made from a pay phone outside of a Denny's restaurant in Gaithersburg Maryland approximately 10
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miles were around a 10 minute drive west from Millie's house police suspected this was the same 22 second call
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recorded on Lawrence's answering machine featuring the unidentified caller speaking cryptically strangely Millie's
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00:36:35
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00:36:42
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00:36:49
horns apartment in Los Angeles the motels manager allowed investigators to examine guests logbooks on the night of
00:36:58
the triple homicide a man from Detroit checked in a little after midnight and was gone by 6:30 the
00:37:05
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00:37:14
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00:37:23
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case file [Music] James Eduard Parri had his finger in many pies depending on who you asked he
00:41:20
was a minister businessman or hustler his business card covered all possibilities emblazoned with a moon and
00:41:28
star emblem and the design of a walking cane the card read the House of Wisdom dr. Jay Perry cold reader case buster
00:41:38
spiritual advisor by appointment only the self-proclaimed - doctor thought of himself as a learner demand his shelves
00:41:48
were stacked with an abundance of how-to books known as a fixer James Perry held
00:41:54
the reputation of being able to fix any problem for the right price generally the things people wanted him to fix fell
00:42:02
foul of the law legitimate employment prospects were scarce for the street hustler who had done two stints in
00:42:09
prison for armed robberies the second a botched bank robbery culminated in the non fatal shooting of a Michigan State
00:42:17
Trooper as a result James Perry was incarcerated for 10 years during the 1970s upon release
00:42:26
Perry styled himself into a minister of religion as a street preacher he referred to himself as a possible James
00:42:33
and claimed to have psychic abilities standing barely over five feet tall others dubbed him the [ __ ] minister
00:42:41
but not to his face he conducted business affairs in Detroit from a seedy dive bar called Frances and
00:42:49
a shady storefront called mr. money why the 44 year old Detroit based the career
00:42:56
criminal visited Maryland for just six hours on the night of March 2 and three remained to be seen five weeks later
00:43:06
Lawrence Horne participated in an interview with a local newspaper appearing the grieving father and
00:43:12
denying any involvement in the murders regarding the odd videotapes he took of Millie's house and of Trevor Lawrence
00:43:20
confidently brushed them off as innocent mementos to show his mother back in California because she missed their
00:43:25
grandchildren it was a claim his mother readily backed up Lawrence insisted he had nothing to gain
00:43:33
financially from his son's death adding he thought Trevor's medical bills drained to the trust fund so
00:43:40
disinterested in any money Lawrence claimed he wasn't even sure if he kept a copy of the 1990 court
00:43:46
settlement yet among Lawrence's personal effects were handwritten notes on documents relating to Trevor's trust
00:43:54
fund and annuity they showed Lawrence was well versed in the legalities of the settlement in the event of Trevor's
00:44:01
death the documents revealed his trust money now work 1.7 million was to be distributed tax-free to Lawrence and
00:44:08
Milly Horne although with Milly or so out of the picture Lawrence was the sole heir to the entire 1.7 million with this
00:44:19
revelation a new horror dawned on investigators eight-year-old Trevor was likely the primary target when asked by
00:44:32
reporters how he felt about being treated as a suspect Lawrence stated quote I guess they have to do their job
00:44:40
I just want it to be over with because it's been a nightmare months of investigation dragged on with
00:44:49
police trawling through evidence determined to make an arrest this was in the days before information could simply
00:44:56
be run through a computer so every piece of evidence needed to be manually and thoroughly examined investigators went
00:45:04
line by line through Laurens horns phone records making inquiries the telephone companies to determine to whom each
00:45:10
number belonged and where edge call originated from they work backwards from the day of the murder
00:45:16
checking thousands of phone calls over hundreds of days nearly all of which led nowhere until finally they uncovered a
00:45:26
promising piece of evidence incoming calls to Lawrence's apartment were made from several telephone boxes in Detroit
00:45:34
using a calling card registered to the name kamila McKinney her calling card is used to pay for telephone services often
00:45:43
international law long-distance calls a fixed amount of credit is stored on the card and when the credit runs out the
00:45:51
card can be discarded it's not necessary to have the physical card when making calls only knowledge of the Associated
00:45:58
pin linked to the card is required when searching for kamila the calling cards owner police instead found a woman named
00:46:08
Marsha Webb Marsha admitted to falsifying her identity in order to obtain telephone service from Pacific
00:46:15
Bell who had cut off service under her real name due to unpaid bills so Marsha opened a new account under the false
00:46:22
name of Camilla McKinney and purchased the calling card Marsha told investigators she obtained the card of
00:46:30
the suggestion of her cousin who happened to be Lawrence horn Lawrence told Marsha
00:46:37
he wanted the calling card to use whilst traveling as he didn't want the bills to
00:46:42
go to his home address they were sent to Marcia's place and to Lawrence covered them the calling card was used to make
00:46:50
66 calls from Los Angeles pay phones to career criminal James Perry's residence in Detroit starting almost a year before
00:46:57
the murders nearly all these payphones were within walking distance of Lawrence Warren's
00:47:02
apartment the card was also used to make 70 calls from Detroit pay phones to Lawrence's Los Angeles home
00:47:09
these Detroit payphones were close to where James Perry lived ten carried out his business evidence gathered so far
00:47:18
was enough to allow authorities to place a discreet wiretap on Lawrence's home phone however Lawrence was keenly aware
00:47:25
he was being viewed as a suspect and to never said anything over the phone to incriminate himself teams of
00:47:32
investigators were sent to watch the pay phones in both Detroit and Los Angeles used to call the homes of James Perry in
00:47:39
Lawrence horn but neither men were spotted using them then on July 20 1993 Marcia Webb's calling card was used
00:47:49
again the call was made from a pay phone at the Calverton shopping Center in Beltsville Maryland
00:47:56
it went to Frances bar in Detroit the local haunt of James Perry unbeknownst to Lawrence horn he was
00:48:04
photographed by police using that exact payphone at that precise torn detectives
00:48:11
were confident Lawrence horn and James Perry were in contact and suspected it was over the murders Lawrence was still
00:48:19
waiting to obtain his payout from his son's insurance settlement the process was being held up by Milly sister Vivian
00:48:26
who filed a civil suit against Lawrence to keep him from claiming Trevor's estate she was invoking an obscure
00:48:33
Maryland law known as the Slayer rule Vivian claimed to Lawrence horn should not be entitled to the proceeds of the
00:48:40
trust because she was certain he caused the death of Trevor Horn knows Lawrence navigated bureaucracy to get his hands
00:48:49
on the money detectives stepped up their surveillance of suspected triggerman James Perry
00:48:54
Perry had a few people with whom he spent a lot of time with one was a man named Thomas Turner a trucker by trade
00:49:04
Thomas Turner had a side hustle driving a cab Turner and Perry were close friends
00:49:09
having met whilst in prison some 13 years earlier both from Detroit they kept in touch after release Turner
00:49:18
helped promote Perry's business handing out business cards to his taxi passengers flyers for Perry's House of
00:49:25
Wisdom were stored in Turner's home which he distributed to those who required the kind of help James Perry
00:49:31
could provide there was something more important about Thomas Turner than his friendship with James Perry Thomas
00:49:39
Turner was another of lawrence horns cousins investigators finally had a definitive connection between James
00:49:48
Perry and Lawrence Hall Thomas Turner they paid James Perry a visit at his home in Detroit answering
00:49:57
their questions on his doorstep Perry admitted to being in Maryland on the night of March 3 but claimed that
00:50:03
was for business Perry insisted he never heard of Milly Trevor or Lawrence Horne and had no
00:50:09
knowledge of any murders investigators didn't expect Perry to reveal anything to them they just hope to their visit
00:50:18
might spook him into contacting Lawrence Horne however the two suspects made a no
00:50:24
direct contact investigators suspected the pair were communicating via mutual associate Thomas Turner as such they
00:50:33
received permission to wiretap Turner's phone investigators discovered both James
00:50:40
Perry into Lauren's horn called and spoke to Thomas Turner often but the three men were careful in the language
00:50:47
they used and two nun said anything damning it was obvious to detectives Turner was passing coded messages
00:50:54
between the men but they couldn't prove it around Thanksgiving 1993 authorities got
00:51:02
wind that James Perry was preparing to move out of his apartment worried the disruption could disturb or destroy
00:51:09
evidence they obtained a warrant to search the residence knowing Perry's history of violence against police and
00:51:16
believing he was in possession of high-powered firearms a heavily armed SWAT team was sent to storm the property
00:51:23
the raid was anticlimactic James Perry was in bed and offered no resistance the search turned up a little in the way of
00:51:31
evidence although detectives found some of Perry's possessions to be odd for a man who professed the bayum minister the
00:51:39
apartment was littered with voodoo relics and solider of Fortune magazine's there was an abundance of how-to books
00:51:46
on every nefarious topic imaginable including the science behind criminal investigations police procedures crime
00:51:54
scene and blood spatter analysis managing gunshot wounds and interpreting evidence in a court of law
00:52:02
police bagged items within the terms of their warrant such as video cassettes and bank statements but left without
00:52:09
arresting James Perry something that struck detectives is strange with the dozens of how-to books
00:52:18
James Perry owned many came from the same source a small publisher called paladin press paladin press did most of
00:52:27
its advertising in the back pages of soldier of fortune a magazine favored by would-be mercenaries and conspiracy
00:52:34
theorists the publisher Brad do was the most dangerous press in America offering
00:52:40
books and films on controversial subjects such as Anarchy survivalism homemade Arsenal's exotic weapons combat
00:52:48
explosives knives locksmithing martial arts military and police science new identities espionage murder and a body
00:52:59
disposal the books were cheap short and easily digestible raids aimed at survivalists anarchists thriller and
00:53:07
crime writers and aspiring criminals one of their avid readers was Oklahoma City
00:53:14
bomber Timothy McVeigh who owned a copy of paladin presses how to book homemade c4 a recipe for survival investigators
00:53:25
contacted paladin press to find out whether they had a record of books James Perry ordered they did and two books
00:53:33
stood out delivered to Perry's home in January 1992 detectives ordered their own copies of these books one titled how
00:53:44
to make disposable silences and another titled hitmen a technical manual for independent contractors
00:53:53
the Hitman manual was authored by Rex Farrell who claimed to be a veteran of the hitman business the 130 page God
00:54:01
detailed how to carry our professional murder-for-hire full of helpful hints tips and steps
00:54:08
everything from preparation place of hit renting a car with stolen plates from out-of-state
00:54:14
choosing a motel and traveling to the scene of the crime the manual recommended any would-be assassin use an
00:54:22
AR 7 rifle due to the advantage of a being lightweight and easy to conceal when disassembled as suggested drilling
00:54:30
out the weapons serial number to avoid it being traced in explicit detail using photographs it instructed readers how to
00:54:38
construct a home-made whisper-quiet silencer from material available in any hardware store the book recommended
00:54:47
shooting victims three times and to aim for eye-sockets to ensure death it also advised the groaning a file inside the
00:54:54
gun barrel while still at the crime scene to change ballistic markings according to the book assassins should
00:55:01
mess up the crime scene and steal concealable items of value to make it look like a burglary and urge the reader
00:55:08
to dispose of the stolen items along with the weapon parts at various different locations as soon as possible
00:55:16
investigators immediately saw the striking parallels of every instruction in the hitman manual to the Maryland
00:55:22
triple homicide crime scene it was likely James Perry used the Hitman manual as a blueprint and carefully
00:55:30
followed its instructions when soliciting preparing for and committing the murders of Millie
00:55:35
Trevor and Janice however he made one mistake the book advised the reader to pay cash and use a fake name when
00:55:45
arranging accommodation near the murder site James Perry didn't account for the Days
00:55:50
Inn Motel receptionist to request to see his ID when paying for the room there was no instruction in the hitman
00:55:57
manual to guide him out of such a nun for seeable predicament with no other options James Perry foolishly showed his
00:56:05
own driver's license investigators turned up the heat around her James Perry their spotlight encompassed not
00:56:14
just Perry but all his associates in January 1994 Perry's close friend Thomas Turner was brought in for questioning
00:56:23
under intense pressure and the threat of prison time Turner agreed to talk in return for complete immunity Turner took
00:56:35
investigators back to the spring of 1992 he had opened his front door to find his
00:56:41
cousin Lawrence horn on his doorstep that had been about a decade since the relatives had contact
00:56:47
despite this Lawrence poured out his personal troubles to his cousin stating how he wanted to see his children but
00:56:55
his vindictive ex-wife was refusing him visitation rights as well as withholding
00:56:59
money rightfully years in a desire to both hope his cousin and to drum up business for his best friend Turner gave
00:57:07
Lawrence a business card and said give mr. Perry a call because he helps people Turner claimed he made no inquiries as
00:57:18
to what sort of help his friend provided his cousin but nine months later when newspapers detailed the murders of
00:57:24
Millie and Trevor Horn Turner felt uneasy this feeling amplified when several months after the murders
00:57:32
both Lawrence and Perry expressed paranoia about wiretaps and enlisted his help as their go-between delivering
00:57:39
messages and arranging meetings for them to avoid police detection Turner told police I got to thinking I was brought
00:57:48
in to something and I didn't know exactly what I had my suspicions it had been a year since the murders of his
00:57:58
wife and son Lawrence Horne decided it was time to push the insurance company for his inheritance from Trevor's
00:58:04
malpractice suit which meant facing Millie's sisters in court the case dragged on but depositions in
00:58:12
the civil suit were finally scheduled on July 6 and 7 1994 civil cases have different rules to criminal cases the
00:58:21
criminal case involves the state against the defendant the state has the burden to prove the defendant guilty beyond a
00:58:28
reasonable doubt the defendant has the right to stay silent on any question and in neither a judge or jury can draw
00:58:35
adverse inferences from their choice not to answer its ones basic right not to incriminate yourself
00:58:41
a civil case however is between citizens and the burden of proof is much lower a
00:58:48
judge or jury will find in favor of one party based on evidence given there's no
00:58:54
pleading the fifth in a civil trial refusal to answer questions reflects badly on the person doing the refusing
00:59:00
and can be treated unfavorably by a judge as such it was in Lawrence's best interest to cut his losses and never set
00:59:10
foot in that courtroom however blinded by greed he failed to notice the workings around him he did
00:59:17
not suspect questions asked of him during his civil trial were carefully supplied to lawyers by the FBI
00:59:24
questions based on evidence amassed over the previous 15 months implicating Lawrence in the murders of his wife son
00:59:31
and visiting nurse were tossed at him to have any hope of receiving a windfall from the estate Lawrence had to answer
00:59:39
every question in his deposition Lawrence admitted having the pen of Marshall Webb's long-distance telephone
00:59:47
calling card but denied using the card after January 1993 according to Lawrence he didn't allow anyone else to use the
00:59:56
card he also denied speaking to James Perry on the phone or having any contact with the men on March 2 or 3 1993 all of
01:00:06
this was contradictory to the evidence detectives had so far gathered the point for investigators was not to get
01:00:13
Lawrence to admit to anything the reason for the questions was so Lawrence Horne
01:00:18
was on record in a court of law having answered them prosecutors could then reference these answers in a future
01:00:24
criminal case where he would most likely remain silent after his testimony in civil court
01:00:31
investigators had solid evidence Lawrence had lied under oath and were finally ready to put out arrest warrants
01:00:38
a week later a Montgomery County grand jury handed down indictments charging Lawrence Horne and James Perry with
01:00:47
murder and conspiracy in relation to the brutal murders of Milly Horne Trevor Horn and the selfless woman who had the
01:00:54
misfortune of getting caught up in the plot Janis Saunders on July 19 1994 after 16 months of
01:01:03
intense often frustrating investigation Lawrence Horne was arrested in his apartment in Los Angeles
01:01:10
hours later James Perry entered a police station in Detroit he wished to file a complaint against two FBI officers who
01:01:18
had been openly following and taunting him for the past few days he demanded to know if the FBI was going to arrest him
01:01:25
or merely harass him Perry arrived to the station just as police received final word on his arrest
01:01:32
warrant they happily answered his question placing him under arrest on three counts of first degree murder
01:01:43
James Perry was first to stand trial in mid-1995 the paper trail investigators meticulously compiled showed a complex
01:01:53
web of telephone calls and records Western Union payments and meeting arrangements organized by Lawrence Horne
01:01:59
enlisting James Perry services as a hit minute the jury was shown proof Perry ordered the Hitman manual and
01:02:07
methodically followed its instructions to carry out his crime they heard the recording on Lawrence horns answering
01:02:14
machine where Perry spoke about not being able to finish something because of quote the noise you understand what
01:02:21
I'm saying it was likely Perry was referring to the beeping noise made by Trevor's up near alarm tape to phone
01:02:30
conversations and the testimony of Thomas Turner sealed his fate on October 12 after just five hours of deliberation
01:02:40
the jury returned to court with a verdict they found a James Perry guilty on each of the three counts of first
01:02:47
degree murder judge D Warren Donahue imposed three death sentences and an additional
01:02:54
sentence of life in prison for conspiring to commit murder six months later in April 1996 it was finally time
01:03:03
for Lawrence horn to face trial for masterminding the murders as was carefully planned by
01:03:09
investigators testimony Lawrence gave in the civil suit was presented in court proving he was a lawyer despite what
01:03:17
Lawrence claimed hundreds of pieces of evidence linked him directly to James Perry
01:03:23
his cousin Thomas Turner was called that give evidence in the trial turn a [ __ ]
01:03:29
of introducing Lawrence in Perry and later acting as their go-between when they wanted to speak to one another
01:03:33
clear of police surveillance the jury watched the videotapes Lawrence made of himself driving to Millie's house and
01:03:42
the footage taken once he got there Tiffany Horne testified against her father she spoke of her devastation of
01:03:50
being an unwitting accomplice in his murder plot believing her father's good intentions
01:03:55
Tiffany filmed to the interior of her mother's house including Trevor's bedroom believing her father just wanted
01:04:02
to see his estranged son she could never have suspect that her father would provide the footage to a hit man so he
01:04:09
could acquaint himself with the layout of the house Lawrence's alibi tape was also shown in
01:04:16
court members of the jury watched as the camera zoomed in on the television so the time and date were clearly visible a
01:04:24
cruel act Lawrence did purposefully knowing at that exact moment near 3,000 miles away his helpless son was being
01:04:33
suffocated to death for his own financial gain on May 3 after seven and a half hours of deliberation Lawrence
01:04:44
Horne was found guilty on three counts of first degree murder and on one of conspiracy to commit murder two weeks
01:04:53
later when the court reconvened to hear his sentence the families of Milly Trevor and Janice were there to make
01:04:59
sure justice was served Janice Saunders husband Michael spoke to the court of being haunted by the image
01:05:06
of the fun-loving sparkle in his wife's eyes being blown away Milly siblings revealed that devastating loss from
01:05:14
losing their loving caring sister into their little nephew tricky Trev to the dismay of victims families
01:05:24
Lawrence Horne escaped the death penalty instead he was given three life sentences without the possibility of
01:05:31
parole Tiffany Horne looked at her father and said I hate you I hate you so much
01:05:39
you've killed my family Lawrence showed no emotion as it was led away although Lawrence Horne and James Perry
01:05:51
were in prison their victims families believed there was one more culprit in the deaths of their loved ones they took
01:05:59
the unprecedented step of taking paladin press the publishers of hitmen a technical manual for independent
01:06:05
contractors to court for their role in instructing James Perry in the art of committing murder the book was
01:06:13
deliberately marketed as a serious instruction manual by a professional in the trade named the Rex Farrell
01:06:19
the promotional text for the book in paladins catalog said learn how to get in do the job and get out without
01:06:27
getting caught in total perry followed at least 22 instructions detailed in the book to the letter when carrying out his
01:06:36
crime a federal judge initially threw the case out on summary judgment they ruled the
01:06:43
book was protected by the first amendment which guarantees freedom of speech but even the publication itself
01:06:50
boasted of pushing such boundaries selling works that left quote even diehard advocates of free speech
01:06:57
second-guessing their opposition to censorship in November 1997 the US Court of Appeals reversed the decision
01:07:07
permitting the victims families to sue paladin press the president and founder of paladin press peddle unde claimed to
01:07:16
feel compassion and sympathy for the victims families but added quote I feel no moral or ethical responsibility for
01:07:25
publishing information I am NOT responsible for the misuse of information of whatever type any
01:07:31
information obtained from paladin had nothing to do with Perry's predisposition to violence lund accused
01:07:40
the victims families of being money-hungry and declared the lawsuit a war on the Bill of Rights
01:07:45
his lawyers contended any decision finding liability on behalf of the publisher would have far-reaching
01:07:51
effects on the rights to freedom of speech and freedom of the press Luna pointed out that in 10 years of
01:07:59
publishing 13,000 books were sold and only one person actually used one as a guide for committing homicide yet
01:08:08
paladin press conceded that by publishing distributing and selling hitman to James Perry they assisted him
01:08:16
in the subsequent perpetration of the murders but they maintained that they should not be held liable
01:08:24
in a decision that stunned the legal world the Supreme Court contended a jury could reasonably find paladin aided and
01:08:31
abetted in the murders through the quote quintessential act of providing step-by-step instructions for
01:08:38
murder so comprehensive and detailed as if the instructor were literally present
01:08:43
with the would-be murderer the case was set for trial on May 25 1999 meanwhile journalists sought to unmask the
01:08:55
mysterious author of the book Rex Farrell in the opening of the book Farrell wrote quote it is my opinion
01:09:03
that the professional hitman feels a need in society and is at times the only alternative for personal justice
01:09:10
moreover if my advice and the proven methods in this book are followed certainly no one will ever know people
01:09:20
surmise that perhaps Farrell could be linked to one solve the murders no doubt when the trial went ahead Farrell would
01:09:28
be subpoenaed to give evidence but then on May 21 1999 a few days before the trial was set to begin paladins
01:09:38
insurance company deemed the case to be an unacceptable risk they decided to settle paying several million dollars
01:09:45
compensation to both the horn and Saunders families the settlement went against the wishes of poet and press who
01:09:52
were certain they would win the court case the publisher also had to agree to cease publishing the book and pulp the
01:10:01
remaining stock of 700 copies according to paladin those copies sold out before they could withdraw them from stores in
01:10:13
2001 James Perry's death sentence was commuted to three life sentences eight years later in December 2009 Perry
01:10:23
died in a hospital from illness at the age of 61 Janice Saunders 84 year old mother told
01:10:31
a reporter she was happy he was dead adding quote I was hoping somebody killed him I was hoping it was something
01:10:39
awful and lingering in memory of his wife Janice's husband Michael started a nursing scholarship in her name
01:10:49
contributing the first two and a half thousand dollars of a fifty thousand dollar goal the son would pay a year's
01:10:55
worth of tuition books and fees for a chosen student at Montgomery College where Janice herself graduated in 1983
01:11:04
most of the remaining scholarship money was donated by local businesses but the biggest contribution came from P Buckley
01:11:11
moss Janice's favorite artist mas made a special print in memory of Janice titled
01:11:18
stitching nurse had depicted a civil war-era nurse doing needlework the pattern in her lap was clearly the
01:11:25
parade the same pattern Janice was working on at the time of her death the Civil War nurse sat before a window
01:11:33
showing the crisp bleakness of winter outside the season Janice was killed Michael Saunders quote
01:11:42
it's actually given my son and I array of hope to see so much good is out there in the world in February 2017
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Lawrence Horne died from cancer in prison visiting her father on his deathbed Tiffany was left devastated
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when even a death's door Lawrence never apologized or took responsibility for his actions
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pedda wound the founder and publisher of paladin press died suddenly on June 3 2017 his death was the catalyst for
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paladin press closing after 47 years in business and the word of the author of the hitman manual of whom paladin press
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once wrote rex farrell kills for hire some consider him a criminal others think him a hero in truth he is a lethal
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weapon aimed at those he hunts he is the last resource in these times when laws are so twisted that justice goes
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unserved he is a man who controls his destiny through his private code of ethics who feels no twinge of guilt at
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doing his job he is a professional killer news publication The Washington Post uncovered the truth of Rex Farrell
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Farrell was actually the pseudonym of a divorced mother of two who lived in Florida she originally wrote hitman as a
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novel the pallidum press was the only publisher to express any interest they would only publish it if she refashioned
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the manuscript to fit paladin's catalog of how-to books in a letter the author sent to paladin press she claims to have
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gotten her ideas from books television movies newspapers police officers karate instructor and a good friend who is an
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attorney the author agreed to rework the manuscript into a how-to guide by a fictitious criminal named Rex Farrell in
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return for a book advance of a couple thousand dollars she admitted no I am NOT a hitman I don't even own a gun but
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don't tell anybody the hitmen manual can be freely found online and an edited version is sold
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through Amazon in one part the book says the kill is the easiest part of the job
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people kill one another every day it takes no great effort to pull a trigger or or plunge a knife it is being able to
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do so in a manner that will not link yourself to the crime it makes you a professional
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