SELF-HELP GURU JEFFREY LOCKER WAS MURDERED: JURY

MURDERED

MOTIVATIONAL speaker Jeffrey Locker was murdered not assisted with suicide even though he sought help to end his own life, a jury has decided.
Keith Minor stabbed him seven times in what cops initially thought was a robbery gone wrong.
But as they delved deeper into the case they found that the troubled self help guru had been planning his own death for some time.
Having run up huge debts investing in a Ponzi scheme by former Backstreet Boy's manager Lou Pearlman, he took out huge life insurance policies and then looked into ways  of killing himself.
He knew that his death would provide an $18 million payout for his family, but that would not happen if he killed himself, the 52-year-old started to look for other ways of bumping himself off.
So he hit on the plan of getting someone else to do it.

But the first man he approached took his $4000 and ran so he approached the down on his luck Minor to do it instead.
Initially Minor, 38, said he brushed off Locker's offer, but then began to feel sorry for him as he explained his financial problems.
So eventually he agreed to help and said he just held the knife against the car's steering wheel while Locker repeatedly lunged into it, and a prominent pathologist testified his account was plausible. He now faces life behind bars when he's sentenced in April although his lawyer said he was already planning an appeal.  
"I'm confident that this case ultimately will be reversed," Daniel Gotlin said.