Lance Herndon (pictured above) was a poor boy made good: he launched a computer consulting company that made him a millionaire; he was awarded a 'National Service Award,' at the White House for his philanthropy. He was also a ladies' man with a sex addiction and three failed marriages behind him. He had a penchant for expensive cars and-light skinned black women.
As a prominent member of black Atlanta's young, wealthy, and powerful set, he was surrounded by the city's beautiful people, whom he wined and dined with finesse. In April of 1996, Lance Herndon, 41, stood beneath a magnificent Baccarat crystal chandelier and greeted his guests, among them the mayor and the district attorney of Atlanta. He was celebrating his forty-first birthday with the creme de la creme of Atlanta's Black elite. Four months later, he'd be dead--viciously bludgeoned in his sleep.
When he failed to show up for work one day, friends and family started to worry. Their concern soon turned to horror when he was found murdered in his own home, in what appeared to be either an act of jealousy-fueled rage or a seedier sex crime. At the time of his death, Herndon had at least three women in his life; each would become a prime suspect in his murder.
One woman is now serving 10 years for killing him-as he slept after they had sex: Dionne Baugh (pictured above), a hot headed Jamaican immigrant, was enraged that Herndon wasn't planning to appear in court to ask for charges against her to be dismissed in an earlier trespassing charge at his home.
