The rumor mills seem to be silent and not much of any substance has come out in the media for a couple of days, so I used the down time to put together a timeline of events along with my sources.
Timeline of the Murder / Murder Investigation of Lorenzen Wright
June 16, 2010 - Three armed men looking for Lorenzen Wright allegedly showed up at the home of the former NBA player's ex-wife. They ask if Lorenzen is present, she says that he is not. The three men threaten her that they will harm her and her children if she reports the visit, then leave without further incident. -Memphis Commercial Appeal
July 16, 2010 - Lorenzen Wright asks family friend Jeremy Orange to drive the children to their mom's Memphis home July because oldest daughter Loren, 14, was competing in a beauty contest. Orange said Wright, known to friends as "Ren," hugged each child and gave Loren a kiss goodbye as they left the Atlanta area. - Memphis Commercial Appeal
July 18, 2010 - Lorenzen Wright's room mate, Michael Gipson drops Wright off at the Atlanta Airport. Wright flies to Memphis with plans to ride back to Atlanta the following day with Orange and his own six children. - Memphis Commercial Appeal
July 19, 2010 - The Germantown Police Department receives a 911 call from the cell phone of Lorenzen Wright. Approximately 12 gunshots are heard before the connection is lost. The GPD cannot locate the origin of the call. Germantown Police do not forward information about the call to Memphis Police for 8 days. - New York Daily News
Note: Early newspaper reports stated that just before the shots were fired a male voice uttered either one or two expletives. Those reports dried up after the heavily redacted 911 transcript was released. The assertion has never been refuted, only silenced.
July 19, 2010 - Hours after the 911 call local barber Antavio Brigance of New Era Barbershop claims to have cut Lorenzen Wright's hair.
July 22, 2010 - Wright's mother, Deborah Marion officially files a missing persons report. - Atlanta Journal Constitution
July 26, 2010 - Sherra Wright advises Collierville Police Department of the alleged visit by the three armed men. Lawyer Gail Mathes said her client, Sherra Wright, was afraid for herself and her children, so she kept quiet about the encounter until Monday. She then alerted police in the Memphis suburb of Collierville. -Memphis Commercial Appeal
July 27, 2010 - Investigators learn of the 911 call. They use information from it to launch the search that finds Wright's body one day later. - Huffington Post
July 27, 2010 - Sherra Wright places a phone call to a Collierville detective and gives a statement claiming that her ex-husband had left her house a 10:30PM, July 18, 2010 with a "box of drugs" and some money. She says he then returned to the house with an undisclosed amount of money and finally left for the evening at 2:AM.
Ms. Wright alleges that on the same night she heard her ex-husband make several phone calls to persons unknown. She says that one of the phones was a Trac-Phone or other similar type of (disposable) phone. She quotes him as telling some one on the phone that he was "going to flip something for $110,000. - New York Daily News
July 28, 2010 - The body of Lorenzen Wright is found. Dental records are used to confirm his identity. The Medical Examiner rules that his death was "by gunshot wound". - Memphis Commercial Appeal.
August 1, 2010 - Police serve a search warrant at the home of Sherra Wright. They conduct a search of the house and the back yard with special attention paid to the fire pit in the back yard. The search of the fire pit is prompted by a report from neighbors that there was a raging fire there the night of Wrights death. Court records show that the only items recovered were one letter to Lorenzen and Sherra Wright and some pieces of burnt metal. No guns are found in the home. - NY Daily News.
August 2, 2010 - The following is reported by Fox News: Wendy Wilson, who alleges to have worked as Lorenzen Wright's personal assistant for three years, blitzed reporters last Wednesday with a barrage of accusations against Sherra Wright. Wilson alleged she had turned over tapes to police containing alleged 2003 phone "threats" made by Wright's wife directed at Wright during their hotly contested divorce proceedings.
"When I had the tapes I went to Memphis Police because it concerned him at the time to say make a report. Here's what she's saying. I don't know if it means anything. Her conversation was all over the place. But, at the same time there was underlying threats," said Wilson. -MyFoxNews.com
August 4, 2010 - Thousands attend memorial and funeral services for Lorenzen Wright at the FedEx Forum in Memphis.
August 4, 2010 - Coleman Garrett, criminal attorney for Sherra Wright announces that his client will not be making a statement. When asked about the discrepancy between the time Sherra Wright says Lorenzen left her house and the time of his 911 call 2 hours earlier and 9 miles away he replies, "I don't know whose timeline that is," Garrett said. "She was in bed; she didn't know what time it was." -New York Daily News
August 5, 2010 - Sherra Wright's divorce attorney (she also has a criminal attorney), Gail Mathes announces she is considering a Civil Suit against the Germantown Police Department for the "mishandling" of Wright's 911 call. -New York Daily News
Same Day / Same Story: "Mathes said that Sherra Wright may file for bankruptcy to pay her debts.
"There is a life insurance policy, but if it goes to Mrs. Wright then it would be subject to creditors," Mathes said. "Mr. Wright's creditors cannot attack it; but if Mrs. Wright is the sole beneficiary, her creditors can seek to attain it."
Mathes doesn't know the amount of the policy but believes it wouldn't be enough to cover the entire debt." - New York Daily News
August 10, 2010 - The Memphis Commercial Appeal obtains copies of Sherra Wright's July 27th statement to Collierville Police. The allegations are spread nationally. - Memphis Commercial Appeal
August 11, 2010 - Sherra Wright's attorney, Coleman Garrett, says the first he heard about her statement to police was this morning. He also tells us it's the last one she'll make and it's not because she had anything to do with his murder. He says she won't be a part of tarnishing his legacy. [direct quote from an August 11th post on WREG.com]
August 11, 2010 - Statement from Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin, "You've got a man here that played professional ball and traveled extensively," said Godwin. "We're tracking pretty much everywhere he's been in the last two months and we're going to reach out to those areas."
Now two weeks after Wright was found dead, Godwin said in this investigation they're doing things they don't normally do to try and crack the case.
"His extensive travel has caused us to have to reach out to a lot of different cities, talk to a lot of different people… Some are quick. They hadn't talk to him, hadn't seen him, you know what I mean. Some are a little more involved."
Analysis of the evidence is another thing police say they're waiting on." -MyFoxNews.com