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Man seeks ‘closure’ with ex-girlfriend – and ends up murdered
Intelligent, beautiful and with charm to spare, Loren High had a way with women. But when an ex couldn’t have it just for her, he ended up dead. High was born in 1988 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was an only child and was raised by his mother and grandmother. “They had very high expectations for Loren. It was created in a certain way with certain principles and morals, ”said friend Curtis Peterson to the Oxygen program“ Snapped ”, broadcast on Sundays at 6 / 5c on Oxygen. When he was 18, High’s mother died unexpectedly of a heart attack. Friends say he was never the same. “After his mother died, I feel like a piece of him has just left. He just didn’t know how to fill that void,” ex-girlfriend Suzette Bourgeois told producers. Porsche Humphery High had several girlfriends, sometimes dating three in Later, he fell in love with a woman named Natasha, with whom he had two daughters. “He was a great father. He read books to them. He put them to bed at night. He prayed with them”, friend Kariba Watson said “Snapped.” Loren and Natasha’s relationship would not last, but they remained on good terms for the sake of their children. In 2015, High started dating Porsche Marie Humphery. Humphery was a “soft talker”, according to Watson, with a confident attitude. However, a family tragedy in childhood left an indelible mark. “Her mother killed her father in front of her when she was younger,” Humphery’s friend Laquisha Martin told Snapped. “Her mother was in prison. She was put in the system. She turned to the men to fill the gap that she felt she couldn’t get from anyone else.” As a teenager, Humphery began a relationship with a man with whom she would have four children. When she was 29, she started dating High. “He loved her like no one ever loved her. She felt like he was her knight in shining armor and she felt like she was going to be with him forever,” said Martin. High and Humphery talked about marriage and children, but after a year their relationship started to falter. They fought over money and Humphery feared that High would leave her for another woman. “She was an extremely jealous woman,” friend Amber Williams told Snapped. “He liked someone’s post on Facebook and they had a big discussion about it. So they split up after that. He was done with the drama.” Then, on February 5, 2017, Curtis Peterson went to High’s home in Milwaukee. No one had heard from him in days and people were starting to worry. When High didn’t answer the front door, Peterson entered. found the 28-year-old on the living room floor, shot to death in the chest. Peterson called the police, who soon arrived at the scene. Loren High The temperature inside High’s apartment was about 47 degrees Fahrenheit. This means that his body was exceptionally well preserved, but it also made it difficult to determine the time of death. Investigators found a piece of glass on the living room sofa that contained an unknown drug. A fingerprint was located on the glass. Two .40 caliber bullet capsules were found at the scene, according to court documents. Peterson told detectives that High had a .40 caliber firearm that was missing at home. No valuables were taken and there were no signs of forced entry. The detectives contacted Suzette Bourgeois, who lived in Atlanta and was having a long-distance relationship with High. She said that they communicated daily and that she had heard of him for the last time around 7:00 pm on February 1. Bourgeois said, when they last spoke, High was depressed and discussed his continuing problems with Humphery. “Each time he mentioned Porsche, it was manipulative, mean or cruel that she had done,” Bourgeois told the producers. Days earlier, Bourgeois was on a video call with High when Humphery appeared, insisting that she needed to use the bathroom. “She went to the bathroom and came out naked and lay on the couch,” Bourgeois told the producers. “She started doing one thing after the other and was getting more and more crazy. That’s when he broke up with her completely. “The detectives spoke to a neighbor who claimed to have seen High a few days before his body was discovered.” That closed the window from February 3 to 5, “Milwaukee police detective James Hutchinson told Snapped. High, KC Spencer, spoke to the police and told the details of his complicated love life. “I was able to let the police know that Loren started dating another young woman at that time,” Spencer told “Snapped.” “Porsche had been in your life recently and there have been some problems. ” Spencer says that while High only smoked marijuana, Humphery was known to get involved with hard drugs. The detectives contacted Humphery and asked her to go for an interview. She confirmed that she and High had an intermittent relationship. While the detectives asked questions, trying to establishing a schedule, Humphery started to remove the receipts. “It is the paperwork she says will show where she was on the day she believes the detectives will speak to her, which is February 1,” said District Attorney Grant Huebner of Milwaukee County to producers. That was surprising to investigators. “It was unusual for detectives at the time to provide a very detailed account of the events on February 1, when we thought at the time that Loren had not been killed until February 3” , Hutchinson told “Snapped.” When asked about the glass found on High’s couch, Humphrey said she hadn’t been to his house in weeks. conflicting stories about whether or not she had already handled High’s weapon. By catching her lying, the detectives managed to arrest her for obstruction. The police searched Humphery’s home near Waukesha. They confiscated several wet and smelling clean clothes, according to court documents. They then interviewed Humphery’s sister, who said she saw her on February 2, three days before High’s body was found. “On February 2, Porsche will tell you that your sister Loren was shot. No one knew that Loren had been shot. Nobody knew anything about it. This means that Porsche had information that no one else in the world had, ”Huebner told the producers. High’s phone showed no communication after February 1, prompting detectives to determine that his schedule was wrong. They now believed that he was murdered five days before his body was found. High and Humphery sent text messages all day on February 1, making plans to meet. Humphery sent a final text at 12:47 pm on February 2, saying “I hope you’re not mad at me because I didn’t come,” according to court documents. High was also exchanging text messages with another girl he was seeing, DaShanell Harris. The investigators interviewed Harris, who said he spent the night of January 31, 2017 at High’s home. On the night of February 1, High texted Harris: “Having a much-needed conversation with my ex to wrap up. Wish me luck. “Harris said the” ex “was Porsche Humphery, a CBS affiliate from Milwaukee WDJT reported in 2017. Investigators asked Harris to look at the crime scene photos in the hope that she could locate something out of place “DaShanell was able to point to the couch and say that this piece of glass with drug residues was actually not there when she left on the morning of February 1,” Police Sergeant Nathan Butz of Milwaukee told Snapped. Tests revealed that the substance in the glass was MDMA. “There was a fingerprint on this glass, a fingerprint belonging to Humphery,” explained Hutchinson. Investigators obtained video footage of Humphery aboard a city bus on the day of the murder wearing confiscated clothing from his home, according to FOX 6 Now Milwaukee. Even more striking were the data on Humphery’s cell phone. “The important thing is that the phone showed a series – if I’m not mistaken – of more than 100 hits between 7:30 am and 11:30 am, reaching the victim’s residence,” said Huebner. told the producers. Humphery was arrested and charged with reckless first-degree murder on March 21, 2017. She ended up pleading guilty to reckless second-degree murder in the shooting at Loren High. On March 23, 2018, she was sentenced to nine years in prison and another six years of extended supervision, according to FOX 6 Now Milwaukee. Now 34, she will be released in 2027. For more information on this case and others like it, watch “Snapped”, broadcast on Sundays at 6 / 5c on Oxygen.