Snapped: Women Who Murder - Porsche Humphery

Episode Date: September 4, 2022

When a well-liked young man in Milwaukee is found shot to death inside his locked home, detectives must piece together his final days through a network of friends and lovers to expose a killer's desire to kill what they couldn't keep.Season 29, Episode 1Originally aired: April 4, 2021Watch full episodes of Snapped for FREE on the Oxygen app: https://oxygentv.app.link/WatchSnappedPodSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hi, I'm Lindsay Graham, the host of Wonder East Podcast American Scandal. Our newest series looks at the story of OxyContin, a popular painkiller that helps spur an epidemic of addiction and drug abuse, in which prompted a broad campaign to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable. Listen to American Scandal on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. He was an unapologetic ladies man, until she captured his heart. He expected them to be married to have children. He loved her like no one had ever loved her.

He was her night in signing armor. But the couple's plans for a happily ever after are stopped cold, one frigid February afternoon. I see him, and he's laying face forward. He was so stiff and so cold, I realized he was dead in that moment. There's a great deal of blood on the front of his t-shirt. The ensuing investigation uncovers a web of potential suspects. The only drama that was ever really surrounding

Lauren was with women. But it's the tangle of one woman's lies that detectives must ultimately unravel. She was an extremely jealous woman. She started to do one thing after another, and it will get crazier and crazier every time. Her entire version of events was a lie. I love you to death. I can't have you.

No one can. I first met Lauren when I was about 10 years old. We introduced ourselves and we were thickest thieves pretty much from that moment on. Lauren Hyde was born on April 20, 1988 in Milwaukee and raised an only child by his mother and grandmother. His mother and grandmother, very smart, very hardworking black women, self-sufficient homeowners, they had very high expectations of Lauren. He was raised a certain way with certain principles and morals. When Lauren was 18, his world was turned upside down when his mother died suddenly

from a heart attack. It was absolutely the most heartbreaking reaction to something that I had ever seen. And he was absolutely never the same after that. After his mother died, I felt like a piece of him just left. He just didn't know how to feel that void. So he was just, you know, looking for love in a lot of places that it was improper.

An attractive and charming young man, Lauren dated plenty of women, but he didn't find love until he met Natasha Bent. Natasha was cool, very, very, very polite young lady, very respectful. She was nothing but a good influence on him. By his mid-twenties, Lauren had two daughters with Natasha. He was a great father. He read them looks.

He would tuck them in at night. He prayed with them. The values that his mother instilled in him, he was really putting that into his girls too. Though Lauren was dedicated to his kids, He was really putting that into his girls too. Though Lauren was dedicated to his kids, he found it more difficult to maintain a commitment to Natasha. Lauren's young living like a bachelor. I think that that was a lot of the issues

in their relationship. Lauren and Natasha remain cordial after they split ways. I don't think that it affected them too much negatively because they were able to communicate for the children's sake. Unfettered by a relationship, Lauren enjoyed a bachelor lifestyle. Lauren was a little bit of a lady's man.

He was very charming. Lauren was very sweet. And he was very easy to like, very easy to love. Lauren finally found a reason to settle down in 2015 when he began dating Portia Humphrey. Portia had the gift of gap. She was a smooth talker. She definitely could adapt to any surrounding.

Portia came across as poised and put together, but like Lauren, her childhood in Milwaukee was shaped by tragedy. Her mom had killed her dad in front of her when she was younger. Her mom had killed her dad in front of her when she was younger. Her mom was in prison. She was put into the system. She turned to me and to feel the gap that she felt like she didn't

get from anybody else. Still in her teens, Horsesche began a relationship that ultimately resulted in four children, but it didn't last. When 29-year-old Porsche started dating Lauren, they both fell hard and fast. He loved her, like, no one had ever loved her. She felt like he was her night in sign-in armor, as she felt like she was her night in sign in armor.

And she felt like she was going to be with him forever. Lauren felt that Portia shared the values that had been instilled in him by his mother. She had a nice home. Her kids were really well taken care of. She did a good job being a mommy. He genuinely loved Portia. He expected them to be married to have children.

But after almost a year and a half, tensions began to surface in the relationship. Portia talked about a couple fights she had with Lauren. Each time it was either about money or she went through his phone while he was in the tub or he's texting this girl. She just didn't trust him. She was an extremely jealous woman. He had like somebody's post on Facebook and they had a full-fledged argument about that.

So they had broken up. He was just done with all the drama. He was done with all the unnecessary bickering. As Lauren and Portia moved on from the relationship, they intended to maintain a friendship and both found new things to be excited about. I honestly believe Portia was on the track getting her life together. She had got two jobs. she had a nice apartment, she had a new guy. In early 2017, Lauren started a long-distance relationship with an old friend, Su-Zet Bourgeois. Lauren and I, we were like best friends really close. We didn't go a day without speaking to each other. And if we did, then there was something seriously wrong.

And on February 5, 2017, it becomes clear something is seriously wrong. Responding to a report of a potential suicide, Milwaukee Police Detective James Hutchinson arrives on the scene. I see that there's a great deal of blood on the front of his t-shirt. There's also a gunshot wound found in his chest.

We didn't find any firearm that may have been used. There's things that we're missing that should have been there if Lauren killed himself. All the detectives have a dead body and no gun. So they've got to find any way possible to get information. Whether or not it's the killer or a witness, they're looking for information. Coming up, the crime scene tells a story

about Lauren's final moments. On that piece of glass, there was some white powder. We believe that to be some sort of drug use. It appears as though Lauren may have been shot with his own weapon. And details of personal entanglements unearth a wellspring of suspects. Lauren had a lot of friends and female acquaintances

that he was dating and seeing. On February 5, 2017, Milwaukee police detectives are at the home of 28-year-old Lauren Hy, who was found deceased on his living room floor. All we could tell at the scene was that he had a room with a house in the middle of the room. And the house was in the home of 28-year-old Lauren High, who was found deceased on his living room floor. All we could tell at the scene was that he had a gunshot wound

in the center of his chest. As we started to look around, we noticed there was an ambient temperature within the house of only 47 degrees. It doesn't take very long for a human body to start decay. And one of the early signs of that is the odor that's emanated from the body, some discoloration, things of that nature.

Those weren't readily evident in this case because his residence was almost a refrigerator temperature. Time and death is hard to do to begin with, but in a room that was close to being a freezer. That doesn't allow a lot of decay. It might give you a better idea as to time of death. As detectives take a look around the home, nothing seems obviously out of place. Valuable things are things that were worth money were still present within the residents. So it didn't appear to be a burglary.

When you see no signs of forced entry, it leads you to one or two conclusions. Either A, someone came in the same way Curtis came in, or B, the victim let his killer in. In the living room, investigators find a piece of evidence that could be crucial to solving the case. We see a cell phone near his body. We find that that's an item that we need to get as much information from as we can. We can't access it right away because there's a password on it.

That evidence is transported back to the Milwaukee Police Department headquarters and its process there. Detective Hutchinson also spots a piece of glass on Lauren's couch. On that piece of glass, there was some white powder, clear as a black bag, as well as a razor blade. So right away, we believe that to be some sort of drug use.

On the glass, detectives find a single fingerprint. That latent print is recovered and then sent to the latent print division to see if they can identify whose print it is. That'll take some time. Detectives step outside to speak with the man who found Lauren's body, Curtis Peterson. He was a longtime friend of Lauren. Obviously, I've said that he found his friend dead on the living room floor. However, Curtis did shed some light onto what was going on in Lauren's life. The police were asking me what kind of people did he hang around.

Do you know of anybody that would hurt Lauren? Did you know that Lauren does cocaine? Did he only want money? And I could like absolutely answer no to all of those questions. Pretty says that Lauren does use a little bit of marijuana that he's not a drug dealer. This is a small drug user.

Frankly, other than the white powder in the residence, there was no evidence that there was anything but marijuana usage. Curtis tells detectives that Lauren generally steered clear of trouble with only one exception. Lauren had a lot of friends and female acquaintances that he was dating and seeing the only drama that was ever really surrounding Lauren was with women. Curtis tells them that he began to worry about his

friend when he wasn't returning his calls earlier that day. His worry only grew when Lauren's girlfriend, Su-Za-Berj Bourgeois, contacted him, expressing concern for Lauren. Around 1 o'clock that day, Su-Zet and Curtis are talking about how the victim had seemed a little depressed, that he gets down around the time of his mother's death, which was around this time. She's like, hey, can you please go and check on Lauren?

I haven't heard for him. We talk every day, like literally, and his phone is never off. And his phone has been off for three days. Curtis says when he found Lauren dead, it wasn't just Susette's comments that led him to first suspect suicide. Curtis did tell us that Lauren did in fact have a 40 caliber block fire arm at his house.

And we owned one and he always had it out. Though they've ruled out the possibility of suicide, detectives are interested in Lauren's gun, which was not located during their search of the home. The Forty-Caliver firearm that Curtis told us that Lauren had, it was missing. It appears as though Lauren may have been shot with his own weapon. After speaking with Curtis, investigators are eager

to talk with Lauren's long-distance girlfriend, Susette. They reach her by phone at her home in Atlanta. When we first spoke to Susette, we wanted to verify that things Curtis was telling us, and we wanted to make sure that she was actually in Georgia during the time frame of Lauren's murder. I told detectives, Lauren and I spoke every single day, rather it was send in, you know, memes on social media, or textin or FaceTime in.

She says that four days ago, the constant communication came to an abrupt halt. Last time she had any contact with them was around the evening hours six or seven p.m. on February 1st, 2017. Suzette confirms she asked Curtis to check on Lauren, and the next thing she knew, Curtis delivered devastating news. I just fell to the ground with my phone in my hand, listening to Curtis, and he just kept saying he's dead. He's dead. The last time she had talked to him, Lauren had indicated that he was depressed in having problems with Portia.

Susette explains that 30-year-old Portia Humphrey was an ex-girlfriend Lauren couldn't seem to shake. Every single time he mentioned Porsche, it was something just either manipulative, mean or cruel that she had done, there was just something very disrupting about Portia. Just days before the murder, Susette witnessed their volatile relationship firsthand during a video call.

Portia showed up to his house maybe a week or so before he was murdered. She just kept banging on the door, and finally they opened the door, and she was like, I need to use the bathroom From what I saw in her She went to the bathroom and she came out naked and laid across the couch She started to do one thing after another and it will get crazier and crazier every time That's when he was like completely done with her. [♪ dramatic music playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in that she was in Georgia at the time of Lauren's death. She didn't have anything to do with what had happened. After speaking with Su-Zet,

investigators fan out to talk with Lauren's neighbors. One of the neighbors that lived near Lauren did tell us he had seen Lauren just a couple of days prior to February 5th in passing. They kind of said hello to each other, and that was it. He was alive and well when he was seen by that neighbor that day. So that closed the window from February 3rd to February 5th.

With Lauren's complicated personal life emerging as a possible factor in his death, investigators are eager to track down Porsche. But before they can, they get word that another woman has just shown up at the crime scene. A woman by the name of Casey Spencer comes up to an officer who's on the perimeter and asks about Lauren. She's close to the victim, and immediately we want to

get as much information from that person as possible. And at that point, frankly, we don't rule out anyone. Especially after a crime of passion, it's not unusual for the murderer to return to the crime scene once police arrive. Coming up, startling new information, the shifts the investigators' focus. I was able to let the police know that Lauren had started seeing another young lady. And her routine interview ends with an unexpected arrest.

We believe there's a reason she's obstructing the case and we need to find out what that is. She had information that no one else in the entire world had. -♪ Investigators in Milwaukee, Wisconsin are looking into the shooting death of 28-year-old Lauren Hyde. When Casey's Spencer shows up at the crime scene, investigators immediately questioned

whether she might have been involved. She says she heard about Lauren from a friend down the block, but her appearance on the crime scene has detectives suspicious. My friend said that his family lived next door to Lauren, and it saw all the police officers there. They were able to say that they were lived next door to Lauren, and it saw all the police officers there. They were able to say that there was a deceased person in the lower unit of the duplex,

and that was the unit that Lauren lived in. So I drove down to the residence, and I was just so confused, and I was crying. Kasey tells police that she and Lauren are just friends. Like Curtis and Suzette did before her, she paints Lauren's love life as a complicated web. I was able to tell the police that he was involved with Portia.

I was able to let the police know that Lauren had started seeing another young lady during that time. Casey says the new woman in Lauren's life isn't Susette or Portia, but that's all she knows. I never knew the young lady's name. Lauren never gave me her name, but I was able to let them know that Portia had been in his life recently and that there had been some issues between Lauren and Portia. At that time, Lauren was into marijuana. But I never knew Lauren to be into anything hard.

Lauren did let me know that Portia could have possibly been into hard drugs and there was word that Lauren had experimented with it. Had Porsche brought the mysterious glass and white substance into Lauren's apartment? To find out, investigators track down Porsche and bring her in for an interview. We don't have the fingerprint evidence back yet.

We don't have the cell phone information back yet. That's all in the process. That was why they contacted her and asked her to come down to speak to them. It was simply an attempt to put together a timeline of the last moments of the victim's life. Horsesha acknowledges that she and Lauren hadn't been successful in making a clean break when they ended their relationship, but insists they were on good terms. She says that they have a relationship that's kind of an on-again off-again, that they had broken up, but that they were fine.

Investigators ask Horses Porsche to help establish a timeline for Lawrence last days. The information that detectives had was that the Lawrence body was found on February 5th. A neighbor had indicated that the victim had possibly been seen alive on February 3rd. So they're just trying to figure out when the last time she may have seen them alive.

But before detectives can ask Porsche about February 3rd, she presents them with a detailed account of where she was on February 1st. Two days before Lauren was allegedly seen alive by his neighbor. She comes in with a lot of paperwork, and his paperwork that she says is gonna show where she was on the day that she believes the detectives are gonna talk to her about,

which is February 1st. It was unusual to detectives at that time that she's providing this very detailed accounting of events on February 1st when when we thought, at that point, that Lauren hadn't been killed on February 3rd. So that became very suspicious. Investigators ask Portia if she knows anything about the glass and white powder found on Lauren's couch.

They asked her if she'd ever touched that glass. She stated she'd never touched it. Horses says she hadn't been there in weeks. Detectives ask the same question about Lauren's gun. At first, Horses says she had handled his gun in the past. Then, she changes her mind. As she's communicated to during the rest of the interview, she then says, no, I never touched Lauren's gun.

And that became suspicious. Well, why did you say that you had it? And then later say, you never touched it. She contradicted herself in the interview. Catching Portia in a lie gives investigators legal grounds for an arrest. When Portia is placed under arrest, detectives take possession of her purse, which she brought with her.

She was arrested for obstructing, but we believe there's a reason she's obstructing the case, and we need to find out what that is. That includes obtaining a search warrant for her apartment in Waukesha. The next day, investigators take a search warrant for her apartment in Waukesha. The next day, investigators take a search warrant to Portia's house and are met there by her sister. Who tells detectives, she'd seen Portia on February 2nd, three days before Lauren's body was found.

She said that Portia was acting very depressed that day, was upset about something, and that she said that she had been contacted by someone who said that Lauren had been shot, and he's in the hospital. Summer is finally here, which means the great outdoors are hotter, more humid, and filled with bugs. Actually come to think of it, there's no better way to spend the summer than an air-conditioned comfort while listening to your favorite podcasts.

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No one knew anything about this. That means that Porsche had information that no one else in the entire world had. She is now a suspect in this homicide. Nobody else knew that. Porsche's sister tells police that later that day she noticed something odd at Porsche's apartment. She told police that when she went to go take a shower,

she saw a bag of clothing, including maroon jacket and other items in the top. As detectives conduct the search of Porsche's home, they find the clothes her sister described in the bathroom. During the search warrant, the police find the coat, they find the boots, they find the scarf. They appear to be wet, and they smelt of cleaner. Those items of clothing were taken by us in inventory for some further analysis.

The rest of the search fails to yield additional evidence. We did not find the weapon. We did not find anything other than the clothes. Portia was released from custody after a short time, and the investigation continued with her not in custody. Another potential source of evidence becomes available when investigators learn Lawrence phone has been unlocked. There is no signs of life on his phone after February 1st.

We are now realizing, hey, this idea that he was seen on February 3rd, that's wrong. That timeline is off. The neighbor was mistaken as to the day he saw the victim alive. With his phone indicating that Lauren possibly died on February 1st, investigators try to make sense of Horses odd behavior during her interview. Her behavior was more like she's trying to cover her tracks and less like she's trying to cooperate in the investigation, like the other witnesses were. Detectives also find that Lauren and Korsha exchanged multiple messages that day.

There were a number of text messages between the victim and Korsha. It was very clear that there was a decision made that they were going to have a kind of a conversation to air the grievances, maybe put it all behind. Porsche texts the victim asks if he's home, the victim indicates that he is, she says, okay. However, just after midnight, Portia texts Lauren back. It sounds like they had plans.

Portia wasn't able to make it, and then was apologized to Lauren for not coming over. The exchange between Portia and Lauren indicates more reconciliation than strife. Portia's messages in and of themselves were not immediately suspicious that she's the one that killed Lauren.

If Portia didn't go to Lauren's home that night, who did? As detectives combed through the messages, they find that Lauren communicated with another woman on February 1st. We also see that he's having some communication with his new girlfriend, Deschanel. Detectives consider the possibility

that Deschanel might be the mystery girlfriend Casey referred to. This was the first time we had heard this name through the investigation. We see this in his phone. We see this text exchange going on between her and him. And on the evening of the date that we believe that Lauren was killed, she becomes somebody that we have to talk to. Somebody very significant at that point. Coming up, detectives interview, Dashanel.

She immediately recognized that piece of glass with the powdery substance on it. And a major break reveals a killer. It's just pinging, boom, one after another, just constantly hitting at the victim's residence. After combing through the phone records of 28-year-old murder victim Lauren Hyde, Milwaukee police have discovered that Lauren was texting a new love interest in the hours before police believe he was killed. When we look at Lauren's phone records, Dashinell was somebody that was communicating with him

and that became significant. So she was somebody that we had to talk to. On February 11, detectives interview Dashinell Harris. She is troubled by the news of Lauren's murder. We're here to talk to you about a homicide. She says it's not Lauren, is it? She indicated that she had not heard that the victim was dead,

but that she hadn't heard from him since February 1st, when she had seen him in person in the morning. Deschnell had actually spent the night with him on the 31st of January into the 1st of February. She says that she left that day and that was the last time she had seen him. She then realized also that she had a text exchange with Lauren the evening of the 1st of February. That text exchange was a conversation where Lauren was saying that he's having a much needed conversation with an ex and asked Deschinell to wish him

luck. When Deschinell checked in with him later that night to see how it went, Lauren never responded. About 1125, she sent them another text saying, well, I guess that conversation's still going or worse that effect. And Dashnell had a feature on her phone that she showed the detectives that showed when a text message was read and when it hadn't been read. The first text exchange, obviously with Lauren, was read because he texted back to her, but the second one at 11.25 pm that evening on the first was not read by Lauren. The unread text helps detectives narrow down

their murder time frame even further. The fact that it was not red also became very significant for the fact that we believe that Lauren was killed now, sometime between the hours of 10 pm and 11 pm on February 1st. Based on their interview with Dashinell, investigators find no indication that she was involved in the murder. Between her job and her roommates, Dashinell is able to give a pretty tight alibi of where she's been the past week.

Before they leave, investigators have one final exercise for Dashinell. She's shown pictures from the scene and asked, is anything out of place or different from when you were there that day? Dashinell was able to point to the couch and say that this piece of glass with the drug residue on it

was, in fact, not there when she left the morning of February 1. TENSE Detectives then get word that the piece of glass has been processed by the crime lab. The drugs were MDMA or ecstasy, and there was a fingerprint present on this glass, a fingerprint belonging to Portia Humphrey.

Portia was saying that she never went to Lauren's house that day, and now we have her fingerprint on this piece of glass that was in fact not there. One dish and I left the morning of Figory First. To further strengthen their case, investigators combed back through items collected from Porsche after her first interview. They find a bus pass in her wallet.

MCT as bus passes can be tracked and buses are equipped with security cameras. They're able to get the bus records to let us know what times that day on February 1st she used the bus. That security video shows us exactly what clothes that she's wearing. We're able to see that Portia's infosession of Eggbag

and also that she's wearing a burgundy coat, base scarf, and some type of hat to beret on her head. The clothes match the ones detectives recovered from Portia's bathtub. She washed the clothes. Portia was attempting to get rid of whatever trace evidence or DNA evidence she thought may be on her clothes. As for the bag, investigators suspect it might have contained Lauren's 40-gloc.

She somehow got rid of that gun. We believe that she took it from Lauren's apartment and somewhere got rid of it, but didn't take it back to her house. Sensing they are closing in on Porsche, Milwaukee detectives continue to push for more evidence. We're gonna need information that would let us know whether or not Porsche was at the victim's residence on February 1st, that's the last piece of the puzzle we were looking for. Finally, in March, Porsche's phone records come in

and detectives land the break they've been looking for. What was important was that phone showed a series, if I'm not mistaken, of over 100 hits between 730 and 1130, hitting at the victim's residence. It's just pinging, boom, one after another, sometimes within 10 feet, sometimes a little farther than that, constantly, regularly hitting at the victim's residence.

She was in Lauren's house for about four hours that evening, and her phone put her there the entire time. Prossacuters are now ready to upgrade the charges against Portia. Portia was initially arrested for obstructing an officer. However, she was released from custody after a short time. Detectives now had reason to arrest her again.

I'm now convinced we have enough to charge her with homicide. We now know that her entire version of events was a lie. We now know that she was present with the victim on the day he died. That disproved her story. And in my opinion, showed that we could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she killed the victim. We charged her with first degree reckless homicide.

Coming up, detectives press Porsche for her side of the story. Wanted to go over some things with you about some new things that came up in the case. And one big question remains. We don't know what happened in that room. By March 2017, investigators in Milwaukee, Wisconsin have just charged 30-year-old Porsche Humphrey

with first-degree murder. In the death of her ex-boyfriend, Lauren Hyde. We're gonna go over some things with you about some new things that came up in the case that you know was going on. See if you got any questions for us, see if you got something to say about it. What's been going on with you since you got released, everything? Okay.

Can you come on later? Portia gets arrested, does not provide us any more details about what happened. She essentially requests an attorney and that's it. I just assumed it would go unsolved, like, a thousand other murders, do in Milwaukee, which hurt more because there was no closure. But then when we found out it was Portia, everything made sense. Like, the lead up to that happening made sense.

Her reaction, when I told her made sense. Just before her trial is set to take place in January 2018, Porsche reaches an agreement with prosecutors. The defense indicated that Porsche might be willing to plead guilty, and we offered a second-degree reckless homicide. The important factors was we wanted to make certain that she was convicted of homicide because she had killed the victim. But one of the factors that was we wanted to make certain that she was convicted of homicide, because she had killed the victim. But one of the factors that came into our decision

was we don't know what she was going to say if this went to trial, and only made sense to accept the plea to that. At her sentencing in March, prosecutors assert that the evidence proves Portia took Lauren's life. Her cell phone records clearly show that she was there. The fingerprint evidence that shows that she's there.

The fact that she attempted to manufacture an alibi to police, showing up with all sorts of information when they didn't even know what day the victim died. Prosecutors cannot hide the lingering questions around what actually happened inside Lawrence home that night. We don't know what happened in that room. I can't point to a single fact as to what happened. There's no fight that anybody heard.

There's no defensive wounds that we can see. We're left with a gigantic question mark. No one else was present besides Lauren and Portia. We don't know exactly how this went down, why it went down, and really the only person that can answer that is Portia. Defense attorneys finally present Portia's version of what took place on the night of February 1, 2017. The defense attorney indicated that Portia had gone over

to the residents, that the two of them had been intoxicated, that the victim and Porsche had had some discussions about how to handle a firearm. According to the defense, Lauren pulled out his gun, offering to show Porsche how to use it. She mishandled it, pulled the trigger, and shot him in a chest. Lauren's friends find Porsche's story hard to swallow.

I do not think that she accidentally shot him. That's complete hogwash. I don't believe any of it. Porsche knew exactly what her intentions were when she went over there, and it wasn't to play with a gun. It was to kill Lauren. In March, a judge hands down Portia's sentence. She pleads guilty to second degree reckless homicide

and his sentence to nine years in prison. She only got nine years from sight for what she did and where was the justice in that? Because of the level of pain I feel when I have to recount seeing his body lay there, knowing the person that did this and knowing that justice would not be served. This is a total mockery of this man's life. Like, I can't believe you can kill

someone and get nine years in prison for it. Exactly what took place inside Lauren's home that night remains a mystery. But for those who knew the couple, Horses Motive is crystal clear. I honestly don't think that she ever had any man to love her the way that Lauren loved her. So once she found that, she didn't want to share it with anybody. I love you to death, no one can have you if I can't have you, no one can. Porsche Humphrey will be released in 2026. She will be 39 years old.