And I might know who did it. Tom Morgan: Finally when I did talk to him his response was, its not illegal to put a ring under a headstone. I figured that there would absolutely be no resolve.Morrison: So that the investigation was what?Jim Morgan: It was botched. Ryan had just returned . Jennifer: get out Ethan: (flashbackscannot hear what he says). This, it seemed to Pat, justified his suspicions. I could smell it then.. 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Tom: We need money for a movie. Another time, investigators thought someone named Barney had acknowledging his guilt in an ad placed in The Sun News newspaper in Myrtle Beach. Pat Moug: Were you already back in Michigan? Itll soon be time for that part of the story. As for Kenny Boone, he says hes determined still that someone will be charged with the murder of Jennifer Morgan. Among Brothers was set in a college fraternity. Uncovered: Unsolved South Carolina Murders Kerry Morgan: Tom was a protector, Tom always wanted to take the role over his dad; wanted to know who she was seeing what she was doing, taking care of her.Morrison: So you felt you could go to bed at night if she was out because Tom?Kerry Morgan: Tom was right there waiting for herExactly. Nine years after Jennifers death, her father, Jim, was tending her grave, clearing away weeds. I immediately got those results right back.Morrison: Whatd they say?Boone: Positive for gasoline. Of course, things dont always work out the way wed like them to. Morrison: Be careful what you wish for.Tom Morgan: Thats right. I just remember how excited she was that weekend, and I just remember my little sister, and I miss her. And waited until the next morning to make the four-hour drive to his parents home in Myrtle Beach. This database currently consists of unsolved homicides from 50 Florida counties, 46 U.S. states, and 3 international countries. Besides, all Tom knew about making movies is that he didnt know anything about making movies. First, Pat looked through the interviews hed shot before he was dropped from the movie project. You know, question his authority? And he even interviewed Tom about the murder itself, about the movie project and about fundraising. >> Anyone with information about the Jennifer Morgan case is asked to call the Florence County Sheriffs Office at (843) 665-2121 or Crime Stoppers of the Pee Dee at (843) 667-TIPS (8477) or (866) 369-TIPS (8477). But on that awful day Tom was in Charlotte, North Carolina. Couldnt wait to be able to make money. Tom Morgan: No, listen to me. Before long Investigator Boone had heard about Chris Woodson, too. I wasnt there. What Tom did not know is that Pat was only pretending to make a documentary. But the fact is, Tom Morgan and Pat Moug may both have missed the real story. He can sketch a diagram of Morgans mobile home. We would do anything to bring her back.Morrison: The key argument that Pat Moug makes isyou put yourself in this moviemaybe because youre a narcissistic sociopath who needs to get to taunt peopleto get as close as you can to the crime. Florence County, SC Area Cold Cases Crime Map Trends Analytics Cold Cases Missing Persons Daily Archive Name Janice Wessinger Age 47 Cause of Death Homicide Info Homicide Agency South Carolina Crime Stoppers View Source Name Christopher Jordan Age 23 Cause of Death Murder Info Murdered Agency South Carolina Crime Stoppers View Source Name Tom Morgan: Now thats strange to me that that watch would be in her hand. Tom Morgan: When I got that letter, I called him that day. 310 S. Dargan Street Florence, SC 29506 . Well, yes, in fact, someone did the South Carolina State Police. In fact, in that hidden camera interview, Tom tells Pat he was at work in North Carolina, 170 miles away, on the day of the fire. If you're looking at the places in South Carolina with the most murders, and where residents have the highest chances of being killed themselves, this is an accurate list. Morrison: That was what initially tweaked your suspicion?Moug: Yes. The investigator, Kenny Boone, told them what he knew: that he saw right away the fire was so intense, it had to have had extra fuel, some sort of accelerant. What happened to Jennifer Morgan has become enmeshed in suspicion and professional jealousy. And didnt Florence County Sheriff Kenny Boone appreciate all of Pat Mougs suggestions about what happened on that warm November day back in 1994? Chris told Boone he argued with Jennifer about their relationship and left her trailer about 10:30 the night before her death. Morrison: Hes fictionally writing about him being there with ice cream.Pat Moug: And you think its a coincidence that he shows up in his script that he places himself at the murder scene minutes before his sisters murder and hes bringing a substance that after fire could be melted down and be a milky white substance. And then those others, those would-be Sherlocks, chasing the riddle down their strange, opposing paths. That this staged event at the murder scene isand the ring is possibly staged.Morrison: Did you ever ask Tom about that?Pat Moug: No. Tom Morgan: There are only so many weights you can lift and so many miles you can run and so many things you can do to try and get rid of that anger and that energy and then it comes to a point where you just have to deal with it. Other paranormal phenomena are also regularly reported here. Pat Moug is a 4th generation policeman. Hardly a confession. When he said, No youve got it all wrong. But we still talked and kept it close.Morrison: And did you intend to begin a full-time relationship when you graduated?Snowden: Thats hard to say. I wish I had that chance again.Morrison: You never get those chances again do you?Tom Morgan: Nope you dont. Because at that very moment, Jennifer Morgan, is lying on her bed. The Patel family traveled from England, Missouri and Illinois to speak with WMBF News about the case. I did ask her that question and she said no, Patel responded. It was an apparent success. Years went by, and Tom Morgan and his family heard less and less from investigators, growing more and more pessimistic that anybody would ever be charged. Pat Moug: Then whyd youwhyd you tell me -- ?Tom Morgan: Because I was embarrassed. I had gone to the caretaker and I said has anyone come and inquired about Jennifers grave? On August 6, 2000, Wanda Evans was found dead in her home. And wouldnt the police want to, in light of Pat Mougs allegations? Yes, and somehow larger than life. Tom Morgan: Heres a guy that I think potentially did it and what would that conversation be like? Unsolved Morgan murder still haunts Florence County sheriff 20 - SCNow Finally I had gotten someones attention. It didnt make him feel better of course. It was late afternoon when Toms dad called. Working on it. Partly because the odd things didnt stop, even after Jennifer was buried and the months began to turn into years. He had made an independent film, directed and starred in it himselfa movie called The Ugly One.. Sheriff Kenny Boone: And it was signed, Barney. And at the time they said wed like you to keep it quiet. And that movie idea? In the summer of 2005, Tom Morgans movie about the killing of his sister, showed up here and there in independent film festivals. Very ambitious. Where we can interview you. Inside the burned mobile home in Country Squire Mobile Home Park lay the body of Jennifer Morgan, a 23-year-old FMU student from Horry County who shared the mobile home with a roommate. Hed reverted from filmmaker to cop. Last year, the judge gave full custody to Hiral Gopaldas and Punam's family hasn't seen the boy since. But Pat came to a different conclusion. Sheriff Kenny Boone: I can remember it just like it was yesterday. Callers need not reveal their identities. He was no longer the brother campaigning for justice, the nagging critic of the police investigation. Couldnt wait to kind of go off into the world and do her thing. Clutched in Jennifers hand - not on her wrist, but in her grip was a watch. And who might that mysterious suspicious somebody have been? Jennifers autopsy revealed no sign of sexual assault. Kerry Morgan: She hadnt been stabbed she hadnt been raped she hadnt been shot. She was a few months from her college graduation and a degree in marketing. Did you fly into Charlotte? He had left, he says, feeling like a suspect but not knowing why. (scenes from "Bold as a Lion") Tom Morgan: I remember that day I was at a friends house in CharlotteI flew in to Charlotte and then I drove on the way down to my parents house at the beach. One of the weirdest things happened the day after the incident in the trailer park. For it to happen so early in the morning it shows that it mustve been somebody she knew. To make it contradict itself. You know that was a red flag and we just werent sure. It was time to take that test. We have worked so hard (emotional) to try and keep this in the forefront of peoples minds. Our family is very tight, we are very close knit. There's new DNA technology [investigators] are saying they are very excited with it, and they'll be applying those techniques, Bhav Patel told WMBF News. Tom Morgan: I just want the story to be told, told over and over again until maybe somebody says hey I know something about that. Its an easy way to say you left Michigan as opposed to I was having sex with a married woman andI was doing other things that I wasnt too proud of and so I left.. His name was Pat Moug. They also consulted psychics, but so far, nothings panned out, Boone said. And when he brought the young man in for questioning, his suspicions only intensified. What do you do? In June 2011, she was nearing the end of a contentious custody battle with her estranged husband and had her mom, Vinaben Patel, living with her to care for Jai. Mind you, Jennifers father had been feeling that way since two days after the fire when he came here to the trailer park to pick up her car. Victims of these crimes and their families should be afforded justice, that's why this crime should be thoroughly investigated.. Had even made his own movie pointing at a particular suspect. Kenny Boone put his suspect, Chris Woodson, into a car, and drove him the 90 miles from Florence, S. C. , to Columbia, where a polygrapher was waiting at the headquarters of the state police, or sled as they are called. Tom Morgan: And they said weve got a cold case unit and we wanna reopen your sisters case.Morrison: Cold case unit?Tom Morgan: I was really excited. All along, something Tom told Pat had made him very suspicious. Pat Moug: Was this milky white substance placed there as a result of an assault including oral sex? I think she was looking forward to just having it settled. Maybe its chocolate ice cream.Pat Moug: Well they didnt say that.Morrison: Well you dont know do you? Morrison: And you think Tom did it.Pat Moug: I think theres a distinct possibility that Tom did it, absolutely. Snowden: I have no idea why she wouldve been clutching that watch. Both knew who gave her that watch. You might believe that Morrison: In fact youve got nothingPat Moug: I dont agree with that. It seems unlikely, however, that Sheriff Boone would want to arrest him. Maybe theyll get interested in your project.he went along with the idea. Where did you get the information youre using there?Tom Morgan: We were all speculating at the time. Toms theory? And of course, we have our legendary tale of the "swamp man.". Whats interesting about his interview is that wed all had conversation, and Pat as a police officer says, Well what do you think about this? Jim Morgan: We found a bracelet at Jennies grave.Kerry Morgan: String bracelet, made with beads laying on her.Morrison: Right on the stone?Kerry Morgan: Yes. It was still going on, they said, the weekend before Jennifers death as the family gathered for an early Thanksgiving. They were murdered in their car as Locci's six-year-old daughter was sleeping in the back seat, according to The Atlantic. Here it is. We cut the carpet and picked it up. For example, the conversation with Tom. And that, strange though it may sound, was the birth of the movie; it came out of anger and frustration. So if thats the way that evidence, potential evidence was treated, Im sure theres not much. We felt we couldn't talk about certain subjects and if we had, then we would lose our rights and it would have a detrimental effect on custody of the child, Patel told WMBF News. After months of examining what remained of Morgans home, Boone developed a theory about Morgans murder. Days after the murder, a tantalizing lead in the classified section of a local newspaper. As far as she knew, her whole lifetime was spread out ahead of her. The Florence salon and the Dolly Madison Bakery murders remain unsolved. And Sheriff Boone thinks theyre both wrongthat quite possibly the neighbor did it. Southern sun. If, and this was a condition, if he, the banker, could direct it. He called it Bold as a Lion. But it certainly wasnt to raise money, as his fake undercover alibi had suggested. And when I do, the district attorney is gonaa seek the death penalty and probably get it.. Especially when someone else makes the sequel. And so surely, that investigator down in Florence county, South Carolina, Kenny Boone, would jump all over what Pat had learned. That was the day he said he admitted his deepest feelings for her, even though she didnt want to hear them. That window is his bedroom? And to try and keep this investigation going for her sake. Tom Morgan: I told everybody I moved down here after my sister died. Its important to me, Boone said. I think partly because its based on a true story and partly because its a pretty good film. Scotts sister Dina knew someone, a fraternity boy named Chris. Gopaldas murder unsolved. Tom had sent it to lead investigator Kenney Boone, hoping Boone could trace it back to the jealous would-be boyfriend and thus solve the case! You know thisI was okay with it. Keith Morrison, Dateline correspondent: Still suspicious but not enough to take him in?Sheriff Boone: Right. 310 S. Dargan Street Florence, SC 29506 . But Scott had questions of his own. At that point, you know, wehis alibi was clear. South Carolina is loaded with history and ghostly tales of suspense. Jennifer: Ethan what are you doing? This was that someone. It was the last night Scott saw Jennifer, at her trailer, when Chris showed up. For one thing, that odd story of the way Toms dad told him about Jennifers death. A big, friendly bundle of gung ho. This whole thing tears me up. So what about that milky white substance he says the sheriff told him was found in Jennifers body, which was at the heart of Pats suggestion that Jennifers death could have been caused by some inappropriate sexual event involving Tom? On Saturday, October 8, 1988, Alice Haynsworth Ryan was found dead on the kitchen floor of her home, 16 Woodland Way in Greenville, with multiple stab wounds. Some terrible accident but you killed her.Tom Morgan: No. There was, however, one very curious discovery. It was the fall of 2004. Snowden: I was there for five, maybe ten minutes. Investors would never see this tape, but Pat had every intention of ensuring that investigators did. We watched Bold as a Lion together, with frequent stops when Tom objected to Pats allegations. A good video, suggested Pat, could attract investors. Tom Morgan: I just kept thinking how long is it gonna take before they arrest this person, how long is this gonna take? FLORENCE Delmae Elementary School students held signs and cheered principal Roy Anne Jolley Monday as she was paraded around the schools bu, FLORENCE, S.C. -- One person was taken to a Florence area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries Sunday afternoon following a two-car cra, FLORENCE, S.C. Students from Wilson High School placed first among schools from North and South America in an engineering contest, winning t, Vera Nicole Godwin has been caring for patients at McLeod Regional Medical Center for five years. She was like, you know, quit nothing aint gonna never happen to me..And it did.. And soon they had their answer: Tau Kappa Epsilon, a new and small fraternity then at Francis Marion. I just didnt want to feel like that anymore. The Morgan family also knew about Chris Woodson. Unsolved slaying haunts retired Marion police captain - SCNow He went in and we got to the door and I blew her a kiss and she winked at me and smiled real big and we said, Ill talk to you later and that was it. In the film the visitor is her brother; in real life it was Chris Woodsons rival, Scott Snowden. Some people down in South Carolina have suggested this is all payback because Tom dropped Pat from the movie project. Why, he followed in the very footsteps of his quarry, Tom Morgan. It was the morning of November 6, 2001, when a. Unsolved Murder Files; Unsolved Mystery Files; Legend Files; Suggested Cases; The Investigators . Now he sees hes got something to lose and now hell leave us alone. While this homicide did not happen in my jurisdiction, I cant walk away. Snowden: It was awfully odd for her to leave campus in the middle of the day like that during her classes to come home. Where is she? The premise was destroyed. South Carolina Crime Stoppers View Source Square with arrow pointing upper right. Tom Morgan: Then were sitting and waiting for funding. Pat Moug, the Livonia, Mich., acting cop, looked like a cross between Mr. When I read his script. Im insulted.Pat Moug: I was disappointed that we didnt get tothe bottom of the matter. It wasnt at all surprising, said Boone, that Tom seemed to know things about the crime that perhaps only the killer would have known.