The documentary ended with what Pat intended as the climactic interview. What set it off was that phrase. The two were found dead the night of June 25 at 3119 Nicklaus Court in the Country Club of South Carolina. Shed of fought back. Did you fly into Charlotte? 1999 cold case baffles detectives in two counties - WMBF News Families want 'Monster of Florence' serial killer case reopened Investigator Boone alerted the polygrapher. For Pat, this was the way to justice a film crammed with insinuation, accusation and an angry challenge to the sheriff of Florence county. A cop zeroes in Ethan Im gonna catch the person who did this. But not yet, in spite of all thats happened, not yet. I moved down here after she died, guess what I didnt, I moved down here in f in October. Three of them, actually. Whatever.Behind the Scenes. (from Bold as a Lion)Tom: Thats the kind of person she was. In the audience, her parents and older sister. WMBF News Anchor Paula Caruso asked Patel if he got the feeling Gopaldas was scared for her life. Cold case: Myrtle Beach murder with no suspects 'It's been a tough road': Family has hope for justice in - WBTW Itll soon be time for that part of the story. Tom Morgan was inconsolable, but found some comfort in believing that his sisters killer would be found. She fought him off quite a lot, Patel said about Gopaldas' relationship with Hiral. Sheriff Boone: But, one of the suspects that we had was right here.Morrison: In that one right there? Tom is now happily married and father to three members of the new generation. The false start with the film-making cop from Michigan was forgotten now. A personal advertisement. 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. Heres a quote from the transcript of the interrogation: I said Jennifer promise me one thing. Map Browse By State. He agreed to read his script and said he liked it. And yet, there is not much doubt: these are friends, and theyre hugely supportive. We could hardly wait to get back to South Carolina to confront with Pat Mougs theories the two men hed spent most of his film attacking: And Tom Morgan. What could the substance have been? Surely, he thought, somebody at least owed him an explanation. It was an apparent success. But on that awful day Tom was in Charlotte, North Carolina. Then I faxed him a request from my detective bureau this was solely 100 per cent as a police officer, a fellow police officer and he never responded.Morrison: He doesnt think theres anything suspicious. Pat Moug: And all of a sudden in the middle of the script I get to the murder scene. It wasnt payback. And able to laugh again, though the gaping hole left by Jennifers death is, they tell us, just as painful as ever, along with the newer wound that comes from being accused. And to try and keep this investigation going for her sake. And that is how Tom Morgan found himself attached to the state police poligraphy machine. Sheriff Kenny Boone: I can remember it just like it was yesterday. Unannounced. 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. (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. It seemed to Tom that the watch must be important evidence. 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. I told a lot of people that. And lo and behold the detective has this milky white substance in the vagina.Morrison: But arent you taking two and two and coming up with five?Pat Moug: No, I dont think so. Its one of my only unsolved homicides. Investigators claimed to have linked his father to the crime scene, too. He was no longer the brother campaigning for justice, the nagging critic of the police investigation. And so did that arson investigator in charge of the case. And here is a version of the awkward true scene the Morgans remembered so vividly the day after Jennifer died when the real fraternity boy, Chris, came by their house and offered that theory that sounded more to the family like a cover-up. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. You can cancel at any time. Morrison: What were the questions?Tom Morgan: Were you there when Jennifer Morgans trailer caught fire. He took some footage on her college campus. Plus, Moug had a great idea. And finally, here it was: 11 years after her death, Jennifers story, flickered to life on the screen. But early on it didnt look like that precaution would be needed. 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. 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. Why? A banker from Charlotte, N.C., named John Schwert heard about the script, loved it, and offered to finance Toms film. In fact, Kenny Boone didnt tell them somebody killed Jennifer and tried to hide the crime with a fire until the day after Chris offered his explanation. They buried her, or what was left of her after the fire, in this garden-like cemetery, in the finest casket they could find. That included any fibers, hairs or fingerprints that might lead to a suspect. And waited until the next morning to make the four-hour drive to his parents home in Myrtle Beach. I would pick up the phone to the point that it was annoying.I said youve got to do something about this relationship. 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. And then the second the advanced class is like a two-day seminar.Morrison:Then what? It took a moment, then he told Tom what that meant. . Go through the whole thing. Im insulted.Pat Moug: I was disappointed that we didnt get tothe bottom of the matter. She just said its a friend of mine. . For example, the conversation with Tom. Then there was Pats suspicion that Tom knew too much about the murder if he wasnt around to witness it. South Carolina is loaded with history and ghostly tales of suspense. I could smell it then.. Morrison: He didnt do those things?Tom Morgan: I dont think hes never spoke to my family. Well how about ice cream? Florence County double murder victims' family speaks out, Coroner: NC college student hit, killed by car in Myrtle Beach, PHOTOS: Damage reported after Sunday storms move through Grand Strand, Police: 1 dead, another hurt after shooting reported at Horry County bar, Coastal Carolinas Jerrod Clark, Lance Boykin sign with NFL teams, [email protected] - (843) 839-9623. What is she doing? And one of its founders on Marion Campusnumber 26 here on the roster of memberswas Chris Woodson. Pat Moug: They can say whatever they want to me. The whole family was all but paralyzed by grief. And this sidelight what he really was passion was for acting and for making film.Morrison: SWAT team by day, thespian by night, huh?Tom Morgan: Yeah. I just didnt want to feel like that anymore. Chris told Boone he argued with Jennifer about their relationship and left her trailer about 10:30 the night before her death. And didnt Florence County Sheriff Kenny Boone appreciate all of Pat Mougs suggestions about what happened on that warm November day back in 1994? Nothing to do with it, responds Pat. Thats the time when Pat suggested Tom knew too much about the killingthat he knew things only the murderer would know. Or a DVD. Kerry Morgan: She hadnt been stabbed she hadnt been raped she hadnt been shot. Pat Moug: After three to four years of me asking nicely, Im tired of asking nicely. The Monster murdered fourteen victims, usually young couples secluded in search of intimacy, in wooded areas during new moons.. Law enforcement conducted several investigations into the cases over . Snowden: I was there for five, maybe ten minutes. We think the person thats responsible for this had to be in the home to use the telephone or break in or some other motive.. Deputies found both women stabbed to death with Jai by his mother's body. Kerry Morgan, mother: I had started calling her the line was busy-busy-busy. This boy, Chris, and one of his fraternity brothers came over to the Morgan house. On December 19, 1959, the entire Walker family was brutally murdered in their home in Osprey, Florida. Callers need not reveal their identities. And the person who he told me in real life that he based the script on, this fraternity brotherhe goes to the trailer and when he gets there theres a man already there and he listens from underneath the window and the man leaves. But then Ethan loses his temper and accidentally kills her, and that part is Toms speculation. The allegations had been couched words like suspicion, avoiding direct accusations. 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! Boone sent the body to the forensic pathologist. His name is David Deitz. Finally. As the interview continued, Pat heard other suspicious statements. MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - The Myrtle Beach Police Department had only one unsolved murder during 2009, and even with few details in the case, investigators are hoping someone will come. And then, said Tom, he virtually collapsed, went numb, cried. What the family needs now are more witnesses. Theres no reason to put yourself at a murder scene of an unsolved homicide. Angry now, Tom fired off a legal request - a demand, really - to see whatever evidence the state police had. So the project languished for a couple of years until, again, a happy accident. Well, youve heard about him already. Pat, remember, had been replaced as the movie director when a new man was brought aboard. Im demanding justice for Jennifer Morgan. A man and a woman (who have come to be known by Jacques and Jane) were shot three times each. But far from being botched, as both the Morgans and Pat Moug seemed to think, The sheriff says his investigation was quite thorough and that he looked pretty carefully at the suspect Tom Morgan made into a character in his fictional movie, the real-life frat boy, Chris Woodson, who seemed to be obsessed with Jennifer. You know that was a red flag and we just werent sure. Did the wanna-be boyfriend, Chris, plant the watch in her hand just to make boyfriend Scott look guilty? Tom Morgan: She was 510 and 130 pounds. And who might that mysterious suspicious somebody have been? 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. But I take great offense to it. He called it Bold as a Lion. But it certainly wasnt to raise money, as his fake undercover alibi had suggested. Pat recalled that the Florence county investigator, Kenny Boone told him that an unidentified substance may have been found in Jennifers body. When I read his script. Tom Morgan: He was edging around the back of the headstone and was down here with just a little edger to clear the grass away and he popped out a fraternity ring. Tom Morgan: Im sitting there checking my voicemail messages thinking I gotta get out of here and the guy walks back in and says, You failed the test.Morrison: Failed?Tom Morgan: Failed the test. All the old impatience, the frustration, the crazy feeling, came flooding back the minute Toms parents found that fraternity ring at Jennifers grave. The case remained unsolved for decades, until the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office took another crack at the Walker family murders case. The Murdaugh Murder Mystery Deepens in South Carolina - New York Times It was an accident, after all. At first, said Pat, he wanted to back out of the project. If Tom lied about where he lived on the day of the crime, was he lying about his actions that day, too? Pat instantly thought back to his police training in part, to acourse in criminal psychology hed once attended.
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