Report: Police Search The Home Of Lorenzen Wright’s Ex-Wife

According to reports out of Memphis, the Memphis police force searched Lorenzen Wright’s home this weekend in connection with his murder last week. From an ABC affiliate in Memphis:

Homicide detectives spent their Sunday afternoon in Sherra Wright’s Collierville home collecting evidence. They spent an hour in the backyard which doesn’t come as a surprise to neighbors Tim Coleman and Ruth Ann Carnes who saw heavy smoke coming from the fire pit the day Lorenzen went missing. They say that’s because Sherra Wright started a fire in the backyard, and they thought it was unusual for Wright to light a fire on one of the hottest nights of the year.

According to the neighbor that the reporters spoke with, that’s not all:

Coleman says that’s not the only bizarre behavior he’s noticed over the weeks. While on the phone in her front yard he heard Sherra Wright on the phone. “I just heard her talking to somebody about needing her money. I don’t know anymore than that. I really try not to listen to it but when she’s screaming it’s hard not to hear stuff.”

Initially, Sherra Wright claimed that she had been visited by armed men looking for Wright, giving the appearance that whatever trouble Wright was in, she was a victim, too. Now, though, it’s becoming less and less clear who deserves blame here, and it seems the authorities in Memphis are beginning to look to Lorenzen Wright’s ex-wife with a more suspicious eye.

The details of Sunday’s search, particularly the bit about the fire pit, certainly offer a more complicated picture of Sherra Wright’s role in Wright’s murder. Stay tuned more details as news emerges.