kontji anthony: it was just surreal. mean, the town had already been through the shock that he was missing. and then he was killed so brutally, murdered, and now here you are, and it's his funeral. and the mourning was just a little bit deeper. the loss of such a great person in the fabric of memphis society was just so tragic and painful. and you could see that on people's faces. all the tears. the hugging. andrea canning: to help the city heal, the memphis mayor made a promise. justice will be done. that's our pledge. [applause] [music playing] andrea canning: justice, of course, depended on a thorough police investigation. detectives were now playing catch up, given how long it had taken to find ren's body after he was murdered. but at the crime scene, clues were already emerging. reporter: police found different types of shell casings at the scene. andrea canning: different casings, which meant more than one gun was used to murder ren. which indicated there could have possibly been two suspects responsible for the sh

it was hardly a bestseller, but kontji anthony found it quite read.s between sherra and lorenzen and the two main characters in the book are uncanny. and as you're going through the book, you're hearing claims of infidelity to domestic violence. marc perrusquia: so i asked her. i said, did this really happen? she goes, oh, yeah. absolutely, this happened. 99.9% of that book is our real life. i just changed some names around. andrea canning: the book ends with the sherra and lorenzen characters settling in for a night of romance. but in real life, ren's close friends were beginning to share the same suspicion his mom and police already had. that on the last night of his life, sherra wasn't ren's lover. she just might have been involved in his murder. bill adkins: i felt very confident that she played some kind of role in it. but to what degree, i did not know. so maybe even indirectly. indirectly, directly, yeah. before the fact, after the fact, she had something to do with it. andrea canning: maybe, but no one was able to prove it. as the fifth annive