Lawrence Horn

Lawrence Horn

Lawrence Horn is an African-American musician, formerly a record producer and chief recording engineer for Motown Records. He is currently serving a life sentence for hiring a hit man to commit a triple-murder.

Horn was notable for pioneering many mixing techniques while at Motown, and for directly supervising most of the mixes for Motown singles during the label's success period from 1964 to 1967.

Laid off by Motown in 1990, Horn slid into debt. In 1993, Horn contracted James Perry to kill his wife, mentally challenged son, and the family's overnight nurse. The motive for hiring the murder was that Horn stood to gain around $1.7 to $2 million from his son's trust fund that was established after the settlement of a lawsuit resulting from a medical procedure that left him a quadriplegic. Perry was sentenced to the death penalty in 1993 for the murders, and in 1996 Lawrence Horn was found guilty on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of murder conspiracy.

The case prompted a lawsuit against Paladin Press, the publishers of "," which is a how-to book that James Perry used as a guide to execute the murders.


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Horn (surname) — Horn is a surname, and may refer to:* Alan F. Horn * Alfred Horn (1918–2001), American mathematician ** Horn clause is a term in formal logic named after him * Alfred Aloysius Trader Horn, an African trader during the Scramble for Africa * Anton… …   Wikipedia

  • Lawrence Leonard — (born August 23, 1923, died January 4, 2001) was a British conductor, cellist, composer, teacher and writer.Leonard received his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music and the École Normale de Musique de Paris. His musical career began… …   Wikipedia

  • Lawrence Riley — (1896 1974) was a successful American playwright and screenwriter. He gained fame in 1934 as the author of the Broadway hit Personal Appearance , which was turned by Mae West into the classic film Go West, Young Man (1936), starring… …   Wikipedia

  • Lawrence Fritts — (* 31. Dezember 1952 in Richland, Washington) ist ein US amerikanischer Komponist und Musikpädagoge. Fritts studierte an der University of Chicago bei Shulamit Ran, John Eaton und Ralph Shapey. Er ist Professor für Komposition an der University… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Lawrence Dillon — (born 3 July 1959, Summit, NJ) is an American composer, and currently Composer in Residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts. His music has a wide range of expression, generally within a tonal idiom notable both for its rhythmic… …   Wikipedia

  • Horn Pond Branch Railroad — B L Stammstrecke Boston–Lowell, Stand 1999[1][2] Legende …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti — Infobox Writer name = Lawrence Ferlinghetti imagesize =120px caption = Ferlinghetti at City Lights Bookstore birthdate = birth date and age|1919|3|24 birthplace = Yonkers, New York, United States deathdate = occupation = poet, activist, essayist …   Wikipedia

  • Bruce Horn — Bruce Lawrence Horn né en 1960 61[1], est un développeur qui alors qu il travaillait pour Apple a écrit le Finder. Sa signature fait partie de celles incrustés à l intérieur du boiter des Macintosh 128K. Dr. Horn a reçu sa Maîtrise en sciences et …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Siegfried Horn — Siegfried Herbert Horn (17 mars 1908 28 novembre 1993) est un archéologue et un érudit allemand adventiste. Il est connu pour ses nombreux livres et articles et ses fouilles archéologiques à Tell Hesban en Jordanie. Il fut professeur d… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • The Horn of Mortal Danger — infobox Book | name = The Horn of Mortal Danger author = Lawrence Leonard cover artist = Gavin Rowe country = United Kingdom language = English genre = Science fiction publisher = Walker Books release date = 1980 pages = 224 isbn = 0744508479 The …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”