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start the show start it hey weirdos I'm Elena I'm Ash and this is [Music] more oh yeah you said it I did I was
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going to also saying this is morbid I was just blinking really weird at her before and then she said start the show
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start the show start it and I couldn't it made me think of Sutton when she says n name them start the show start it
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start it name them name them namum oh man namum we're in a place of Wy today yeah I just had a little DC I got my
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little caffeine from a dc. Coke didn't know what that was for a second I'm not going to lie I know I saw you looking
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around the room like what did she recently have I was like what did she have that I
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didn't know about and I had a little perfect bar they make mini ones now so it gave me a little sugar from the
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chocolot little sug little Su and I feelo you feel and seem cuckoo I feel jaavan
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actually how do you feel really you're in a place of Real Housewives at all times yeah we not establish that every
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day on my life that I wake up just got to point it out yeah I mean please please never don't I I never won't never
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don't I never won't you don't have to worry it's a little bit of a later in the day recording so yeah you know those
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can get a little Wily yeah we won't get Wily once we get into this because whoa but we won't trust me but we figured we
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just start you off with how wly we are yeah been through a lot of different subjects today yeah hit a lot of
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different things kind of silly kind of really please really Mikey you're [ __ ] the tone
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with which you just said that really really really D keep it in keep it in mention it all mention it all another
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real like are you guys all right we are not no I don't really think there's a way to transition into this I'm just
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going to go for it yeah we're never going to get there no we just got to get there so the bandid off today as you can
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tell from the title we're going to be talking about the mysterious death of Charles Morgan this is a twisty turny
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case I love a twisty turny case it's very twisty turny it is unsolved oh and I am not going to tell you what I think
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and you're not going to say what you think because you'll see oh okay so you guys
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can figure out whatever you think but I don't have any fig I'm not sharing my thoughts I'm just telling you the case
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oh okay okay okay so in March of 1977 Arizona businessman Charles Morgan he went missing from his home in Tucson
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Arizona only to turn up 3 days later in the middle of the night shoess traumatized
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and with broken plastic handcuffs over his wrists and ankles completely unable to speak he wrote that he had been
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drugged by an unnamed individual kidnapped but refused to tell his wife more than that and refused to let her
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call the police or otherwise report the assault okay 3 months later Charles Morgan's body was discovered in the
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desert with a gunshot wound to the back of his head one of his teeth wrapped up in a handkerchief and a $2 bill pinned
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to his underwear I have heard of this have you it was the $2 bill to the underwear that
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made me think it yep yeah I don't know all the details no I don't know all the details I know that part and I think
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that's as far as I know but oh yeah I want to just start you off by like really bringing you in I'm not going to
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tell you any more than not right at the top we're going to get into some other stuff but the tooth and the handkerchief
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the tooth and the handkerchief so the thing was from the outside Charles Morgan appeared to live a very normal
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and for lack of a better word unexciting life but when investigators started digging into his background to find out
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who would have wanted him dead they discovered a very complicated and very bizarre story of supposed government
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agents mobsters and really a mystery just straight out of a movie wow but now we're
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a little bit backwards let's go backwards so let's do that Charles Chuck Curtis Morgan he was born March 16th
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1938 in Everett Washington he was the oldest of two children bored to Leonard and Doris Morgan and he was raised in
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Tucson Arizona so pretty much lived there his whole life yeah in 1958 he married a woman named Ruth and they had
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four daughters Megan Aaron Heather and Colleen friends describ Chuck as quote quiet and dedicated to his work family
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in Masonic Lodge life uh described by his colleagues as an escro genius which like wow you're you're awesome that
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feels Niche an escro genius it is a little niche he took a job with the country escro service where he worked as
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an agent managing accounts and working on behalf of clients to mitigate risk offer Financial advice execute
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transactions quickly and smoothly the whole nine this was the first of his two stints with the county escro service and
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outside of work he continued exploring his interests in real estate finance and quote dabbled in personal real estate
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deals okay so he's kind of he he's got like a money mind he understands money money mind and although he was
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considered to be a true profession professional by true professional true professional and by most accounts really
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easy to get along with like most people liked him in February of 1977 he did get
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into a rather uh heated argument with his supervisor at Western Title Insurance or title insurance excuse me
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and and that resulted in his being fired for insubordination oh which seemed really abrupt yeah but after his
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departure from Western Title Insurance he ended up borrowing $330,000 from a Tucson based lender in order to purchase
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a controlling interest in Statewide escro service with plans to build up the company okay but in order to secure the
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loan Chuck took out a third mortgage on his home to use as collateral hoping that the risk would pay off once the
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business started growing yeah but the Arizona State banking Department flagged the transaction as suspicious and they
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put a hold on the transfer which ultimately delayed the sale by more than 3 months oo and this was for a reason uh
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oh but for people who didn't know that the states hold on the transfer of shares seemed pretty odd because for
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people who knew Chuck they were like he's done stuff like this before like he's an escro genius yeah he's not like
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a suspect kind of guy or anything why are they putting why are they so sus of this transaction yeah but what was
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equally confusing was was was was was that the delay was followed by warnings and threats from the state banking
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Department to deny Chuck a license to operate Statewide escrow huh so now they're not only delaying the
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transaction itself like the the loan but they're saying we're not even going to let you operate Statewide escrow what's
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going on however by early may it became clear that the state's interference with
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the transaction and the operation of Statewide was an attempt to force Chuck Morgan's cooperation with their
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investigation into the lender that he was going through banko International what the [ __ ] M on May 4th 1977 he was
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actually subpoenaed by the district attorney to testify against three banko officials the following week whoa and
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after this escalated very quickly didn't it and after his testimony they released
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their hold on the Statewide share transfer and the sale was approved so it was very clear that the
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they had this was like we're not going to let you have this until you testify he did and he
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got now the case involved what amounted to insider trading and other acts of fraud committed by at least three Bano
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officials with whom Chuck Morgan Had close relationships and following his secret testimony provided in May Chuck
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told several individuals quote that he feared for his life damn insider trading is pretty [ __ ] scary yeah that [ __ ]
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can get really really wild gets super Wily not worth it my friends I don't want to know anything about it I don't
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want to know anything about anything you trading inside I don't know anything keep me out of it trading inside I don't
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even know outside I don't know don't even do that don't Just sh don't worry about me I know I don't know sh I don't
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know hush but however when State officials offered physical protection for Chuck and his family Chuck declined
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the protection and rarely spoke of the matter again huh now it's interesting that he would the offer of protection
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because now we're going to go back a little bit here sorry we're kind of doing like forward backward forward
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backward but we're going backward here before he testified okay on the morning of March 22nd
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1977 Chuck said goodbye to his wife Ruth and left the house to drive their daughters to school just like he did
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every other morning no one knew it at the time but the state banking Department was breathing down his neck
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pressuring him to testify in this B case it turned out that the case against Bano
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was only one of the secrets that Chuck was keeping at the time oh journalist Don Deo told producers from Unsolved
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Mysteries in 1990 exactly that's the one so don Deo told them he was around the edges of a
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couple very large organized crime groups in Arizona at the time it was very easy
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to get in over your head he was doing perhaps upwards of a billion dollars of escrow work in bul Boolean and platinum
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these were transactions that only existed on paper he was a straight businessman that probably got a little
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too close to the flame he flew too close to the Sun yeah and that's not good so basically he's saying he's involved in
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Shady Sopranos type [ __ ] yeah that's like high level Shady stuff oh you just wait it gets higher level like I can see
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why he was scared yeah immediately because he's like I know what I've dipped into right allegedly perhaps
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allegedly he was like I'm a little worried about what I allegedly possibly dipped myself into exactly allegedly
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perfect way to say that I think that was very smooth I think that was great not clunky at all nope at all so when Chuck
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failed to return home that evening his wife Ruth obviously became worried and she continued to worry as one day turned
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into two and there was still no sign of Chuck but finally on March 25th 3 days after he'd left the house Ruth was
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awoken by a loud thump at the back door in the middle of the night and she remembered she was laying in bed and the
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dog started barking truck had come home but it wasn't that simple Ruth was obviously super relieved that Chuck was
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home now but once she took a look at him her relief slowly started to fade away she said I got up went to the door and
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opened it and there was Chuck he was missing a shoe and had one plastic handcuff around one ankle and a set
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around his hands when he motioned to his throat and didn't say a word I asked him
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can you talk can you write he shook his head yes that he could write so I went and got a tablet and a pen he wrote that
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his throat had been painted with a hallucinogenic drug and that the drug could drive him irrevocably insane or
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destroy his nervous system and kill him I wanted to call a doctor and the police
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but he was adamant that that would be signing a death warrant for the entire family his
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throat had been painted with a hallucinogenic hallucinogenic drug that could drive him insane yep or or just
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like blow up his nervous system and he's like don't get a doctor nope we're just going
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to wait this one out we're just going to see what happens here and Ruth obviously
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like wanted to call a doctor wanted to call the police she's scared what does that mean but he's he's sitting there
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saying like if you do that our whole family is going to die so she's like okay I guess I won't but like what the
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[ __ ] I hate this yeah how do you paint someone's throat I don't really want to
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know personally that was my first question yeah that was mine too and then I said don't ask yourself that I got to
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stop asking questions you should for sure but I still have that question yeah I think against their will is the best
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answer oh my goodness I'm upset yeah I don't like this at all but according to Chuck he'd been kidnapped and the
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kidnappers had tortured him before administering this mysterious drug but he refused to elaborate on who they were
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quote unquote Ruth insisted that they needed to go to a hospital at the very least very least and Report The Assault
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to the police but Chuck was like nope that will put me you and all four of our daughters at serious risk for further
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harm so Ruth was like okay like I guess I won't do that and she just nursed him back to health at home holy [ __ ] and he
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ended up recovering now a short time later once his voice had started to come back which like his voice took a little
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while to come back Ruth said and you wonder if it really was what he said what they had told him it was you know
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what I mean or if it was a scare tactic yeah and they did something else that you know [ __ ] him up for a little
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while that was just like made you lose your voice who knows like what does that I just I don't know what this is
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upsetting it's so upsetting but once his voice had started to come back he claimed that his captors um he had
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escaped them near Phoenix's Sky Harbor airport but he would not go any further than that he just said he got away from
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them but he would make vague Illusions to being uh to his being some sort of a secret agent for the US
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government later Ruth would tell Unsolved Mysteries he wrote they took my treasury Iden ification that was the
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first I'd heard of it then he told me he'd been working for them for about 2 or 3 years and that was it but the only
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other bit of information that Chuck imparted to his wife was that quote a $2 bill he always kept with him was
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temporarily taken in the kidnapping and remember I said when Chuck is eventually
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found dead a $2 bill is attached to his underwear what the [ __ ] and he said to
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her this first time that he was kidnapped and allegedly escaped his kidnappers and came home that they
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temporarily took it and why did he say the word temporarily like they're going to give it back to me right like you're
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going to meet meet up with these people again somehow or like or you're going to
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try and go get it back sounds to me like they made it seem like they were going to see him again and give him that
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that's what it sounds like like maybe it was and this is me totally speculating cuz obviously I have no [ __ ] clue
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what's going on no that perhaps they told him like he had to do something in he does it he gets that back his $2 bill
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and maybe his like something else like those are being held as collateral for something else and maybe he didn't he
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wasn't able to do the thing I think that's a pretty good he told to do pretty good uh speculation I hate this
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czy this is very upsetting it's crazy I know I keep saying that but it is it's upsetting me no it's crazy I I just keep
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saying it's crazy I feel bad for this family like wow I feel so bad for this family cuz they never got answers yeah
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ever oh that's awful but what Chuck didn't tell his wife but later told his friend and employee Jeff tuberville was
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that his kidnappers had stolen several platin excuse me seven platinum bars from the trunk of his car worth
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approximately $50,000 he just had those in his car I literally wrote you know the kind that
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everybody has laying around in their trunk like what this was the first of multiple strange and unusual statements
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that Chuck made to family and friends after this alleged kidnapping in the weeks that followed Chuck who always has
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like was completely clean shaven and kept his hair tidy and short started growing his hair out and letting his
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beard grow and he also started telling his wife and his close friends that he quote had damaging potentially
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embarrassing information on prominent uh TUC tucsonans and that uh area uh politicians involving escrow and land
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deals and laundering money he had all that kind of information on people most of the time those vague Illusions made
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no sense to anybody around him like the time he told Jeff tuberville that an unnamed employer of his was quote
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somehow messed up in the mafia and had threatened his family but there wasn't any direct
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evidence of anybody having threatened him but still Chuck became hyper Vigilant and paranoid about his safety
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he started carrying around a gun on him at all times and always had at least one
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gun in the car he also started wearing a bulletproof vest everywhere he went what
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the [ __ ] and refused to let his daughters leave the house unescorted and never allowed strangers in the house or
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near the children I mean which like I can't say I blame him I don't blame him at all after that but despite the lack
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of evidence and the fact that one doesn't immediately think of Tucson Arizona in regards to organized crime
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Chuck's vague statements about the mafia and the land fraud are at least somewhat
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rooted in history actually huh in the early 1960s New York City Crime Boss Joe bonano moved to the Phoenix area and he
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remained somewhat active in organized crime while he was out there in 1960 Tucson police discovered the body of
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Arizona real estate promoter leis serota in the trunk of his car strangled to death with the ropes still around his
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neck holy [ __ ] and his murder was the first of very few Gangland style murders
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in the Tucson area but it was suggested that while not totally common to the region there were some organized crime
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related murders in this area so it wasn't completely out of the frame of possibility of possibility kind of thing
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exactly and in fact in his 1999 autobiography Joe banan's son Bill claimed quote he ran a crew of 25 to 30
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men in Arizona that was into gambling and shylocking but never admitted to any crimes of violence damn so that's from
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from the family himself know I didn't know that that was all happen in there I don't know either who who knew who knew
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now the bonano crime ring wasn't the only criminal operation running in Tucson or Phoenix at the time there was
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also a number of gangs and smallscale Rings running drugs across the border and and using Arizona real estate to
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launder the money throughout the 1970s Arizona actually had laws and regulations that allowed land to be
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purchased through a blind trust which meant that the actual owner couldn't be traced oh making it kind of the perfect
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arrangement for money laundering yeah and these deals would almost certainly require an escrow agent in the buying
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process making that escro agent a participant willing or unwilling depending on the circumstance oh [ __ ]
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yeah and they would be involved in fraud and moneya laundering oh damn which is actually kind of ironic because the
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entire idea behind having an es agent in the first place is to avoid fraud if something goes wrong with the deal so
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it's funny that it's like this is actually showing fraud yeah but you could actually find yourself wrapped up
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in it like even completely unwillingly yeah but and then at that point there's nothing you can do yeah what can you do
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you're involved exactly damn now it should be noted that there were rumors about uh Chuck having done escrow work
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for the bonano family and Ned Warren another known criminal but investigators didn't make any mention of it in their
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reports and there's no direct information in the Contemporary contemporary reporting of this so that's
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all alleged okay but people do say that there are rumors okay now if Chuck was paranoid after his disappearance in
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March he became decidedly more so after testifying in the bankco international Case in May because remember the state
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was breathing down his neck and he agreed to testify but before the time he testified that kidnapping took place
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that alleged kidnapping then he testifies in May and afterwards he's like super freaked out he continued
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wearing a bulletproof vest nearly everywhere he went continued to carry guns on his person and keeping them in
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the car and he also had his car equipped with a CB radio and a police scanner that allowed him to monitor all kinds of
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criminal activity in law enforcement in the area like just so he always knew what was going on just knew what was
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happening his car had also been fitted with a special lock that unlocked the doors from a release under the front
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fender of the car huh yeah now on the afternoon of June 7th 1977 Chuck went to a work meeting around lunchtime and
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called his office a little before 1: p.m. to let him know let the office know that he was on his way back and he'd be
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there in about a half hour but he never returned to the office that day or any other after what happened the first time
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Chuck disappeared Ruth this time didn't waste any time reporting this second disappearance to the police but the
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problem is that there's no laws preventing an adult from completely abandoning their responsibilities
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without telling anyone and there was no evidence of a crime so there really wasn't anything they could do to go find
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Chuck oh that must have felt so helpless especially with what she woke up to in the middle of the night like a couple
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months earli she knows what was what happened there or she doesn't know what happened there but she saw the aftermath
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yeah and she's like I know that you had said like if if I reported this people were going to come after us have they
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come after you anyway yeah and it's like are they now going to come after us yeah
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you're probably just imagining like all worst case scenario what do in that scenario I have no idea but chuck had
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been missing for nine days when Ruth rece received a mysterious call at home from an an an an anonymous caller Ruth
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recalled that this she said this woman said Ruthie I said yes she said Chuck is all right Ecclesiastes 12 1-8 and then
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she hung up up which that's like a verse from the Bible I was just going to say is that a yeah
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eclesiastes 12 1 through as far as Ruth knew that particular passage had no special meaning or relevance to her or
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Chuck but one section jumped out at her the woman said and this is a quote men are afraid of a high place and of
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Terrors on the road remember him before the silver cord is broken and the Golden
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Bowl is crushed then Dust will return to Earth as it was and Spirit and the spirit will return to God who gave
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it okay so she just receives this I like I have chill saying this this weird ass
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phone call and she's sitting there trying to pick apart what this message means this is a nightmare a absolute
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nightmare now 2 days later around 8:00 in the morning Chuck's body was discovered oh he was found by two
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teenagers alongside Arizona rout Route 86 about 15 miles east of cells Arizona when they arrived at the scene
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investigators found Chuck lying about 10 feet away from his car which had been pulled off the road his body was Face
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Down On The Desert floor with a large hole in the back of his head that appeared actually to have been made with
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his own 357 Magnum which was lying by his left hand strangely his eyeglasses which he always were or excuse me were
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attached to his left wrist and he was wearing a black belt that concealed a large knife but there was wasn't any
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evidence that he had tried to to draw the knife at any point huh otherwise there didn't appear to be any struggle
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at the scene and there weren't any Footprints to be found what the [ __ ] mhm when officer searched his car they found
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that CB radio in the police scanner as well as quote large amount amounts of ammunition and several weapons but one
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of the more dis disturbing discoveries came when technicians found a piece of one of his teeth in the backseat of the
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car wrapped in a white handkerchief with no idea how it ended up there what it's like it's
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so did he have like injuries like that he had been in a fight no like somebody had punched him no to me that feels like
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it's like you get punched and break break a teeth break a teeth break a teeth break a tooth and
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like I don't I'm trying to like wrap my brain none that were listed because they
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it's like what the [ __ ] or it's like or maybe just broke his tooth and wrapped
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it in a white handkerchief and threw it in the back seat of his car I don't know
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it's [ __ ] weird I mean this whole thing is weird I have no idea I'm trying to find any kind of normaly in here
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there's none don't don't even look wow the the tooth in the back seat of the car is very strange to me the piece of
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the tooth I should say but the strange discoveries continued once the scene had been cleared and the body was taken away
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to be processed the pathologist determined that Chuck had been dead no more than 12
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hours meaning that he had been alive nearly the entire time he'd been missing so when that person called and said
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Chuck is fine they were telling the truth he still alive and now the bullet had entered quote the top back of the
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head and launched in the soft pallet behind Chuck's front teeth okay so there's that doesn't explain the
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tooth in the back seat that just explains where the gun gun uh the bullet lodged and you wonder like cuz it's like
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the doesn't sound like there was any blood spatter in the car to indicate that he was killed in a car no and it's
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like you wonder if there was blood spatter on the ground at the scene I think I assume that there was some kind
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of blood blood spatter but cuz this sounds like a like execution style yeah and that's the thing and even more
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strange there were no fingerprints on the 347 Magnum but there was gunpowder residue on Chuck's left hand indicating
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that he had fired a gun at the at the very least very recently though not necessarily the gun used in his death
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now this fact struck Ruth as among the strangest elements of the case because according to her Chuck was right-handed
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and she said he could do practically nothing with his left hand hm strange yeah like that this gun this uh
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GSR on his hand right and on his left hand on his left hand okay indicating that he had fired a gun recently but
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maybe not necessarily this one with his left hand but his wife is saying no he can't do anything with it's like did
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they make did they put their hand around his hand and make him essentially do it
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with their help and maybe there's no that's why there was no fingerprints on the gun but it's like even that's such a
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strange angle too cuz oh it's such a strange angle doesn't make any sense but it's like I don't know
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yeah the top and that's well I guess the top back of his head so that's not that
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strange of an Ang it's still a weird angle it's weird but if you're but doable you know yeah try we're both
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sitting here like trying to make it work with this is wow this is a weird one it
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is and I would I would love to know like the the analytics of like this the crime
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scene yeah like the like any blood spatter and like what direction it looked like it was going in cuz it's
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like did it look like he was looking this way did it spatter that way did it right CU it's like that is an easy
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way to do it if you turn your head to the side yep than doing it back there cuz then your angle gets weird you get
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kind of smed this your angle's a little more yeah and if somebody was holding your hand to make it look like you did
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it kind of thing that's an easier angle to go about it but mhm that's the only reason I could think of that he has GSR
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on his left hand right which he doesn't use right and that there's no fingerprints on the gun because maybe
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they just wiped it down I guess yeah and maybe they wore gloves right because then the only fingerprints would have
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been his which obviously makes sense if the gun is not in his hand well it only gets stranger oh good so finally and
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perhaps strangest of all the pathologist discovered like I said at the top of the
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story a $2 bill pinned to his underwear mhm it was unclear whether this was the same $2 bill that Chuck kept with him at
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all times and he claimed had been taken by his kidnappers in March but somebody had marked the bill significantly on the
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front of the bill there were seven SP names beginning with letters a through G and above them the note was Ecclesiastes
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12 oh yeah so that really was someone calling absolutely on the back of the bill the signers of the Declaration of
00:28:41
Independence were each numbered one through 7 and there was a crudely drawn map that led to an area between Tucson
00:28:48
and Mexico quote to the towns of Robel Junction and Salis City both known for smuggling oh so it's like is this some
00:28:56
kind of map to say like he was involved in some [ __ ] up [ __ ] yeah what is this now the
00:29:04
crime scene if that's what it was even because at this point they don't know was deeply strange and mysterious but as
00:29:10
far as every anybody could tell like investigator wise there was no evidence of a murder even the county pathologist
00:29:17
couldn't say whether Chuck's death had been homicide or suicide so law enforcement uh officials luckily pursued
00:29:24
it as though it could be either they didn't rule one or the other out I'm glad for the pumac county sheriff's
00:29:29
detectives the mystery surrounding the case was more frustrating than anything else because on one hand the incredibly
00:29:36
bizarre circumstances surrounding Chuck's disappearance and death suggested a conspiracy like right out of
00:29:42
a fiction novel it really did like this this seems like something you would see in the first scene of some like wild new
00:29:50
crime show yeah you know wild new crime movie and you go back get you right out of the gate and you figure out what
00:29:55
happened there and it's like this how is this real right and all these like weird
00:30:00
strange details symbolism and the Bible being involved and stuff it's like what's going on here the Bible the
00:30:07
signers of the Declaration of Independence like and they're numbered they're numbered 1 through I have no
00:30:13
idea and then there's because all the the signers are numbered and then there was also Seven Spanish names that were a
00:30:19
through G written on the front of the bill wonder if anybody I hope I'm I'm assuming someone has like tried to find
00:30:26
some kind of pattern here you know absolutely but on the other hand the physical evidence strongly supported the
00:30:33
theory that Chuck's death had been a suicide a strange and elaborately planned one but a suicide they were like
00:30:41
it's possible we could see both sides of this according to one sheriff's deputy Morgan could have pulled the revolver's
00:30:46
trigger with his thumb even though it would have been awkward and blood and dirt found on the gun could account for
00:30:52
its lack of fingerprints okay which like I guess but like fired it with this thumb did we
00:30:58
know if did we know if the handwriting on the bill was not his like they knew it was not his I don't know anything
00:31:05
about the handwriting on the bill actually so maybe I would assume if it was his like similar to his that would
00:31:10
be like a that would be kind of like a that would kind of be the thing that it's like okay he wrote this yeah
00:31:15
exactly but I'm wondering like what who wrote that because I'm like I could buy the cuz I he seemed like he was in a a
00:31:23
big state of paranoia obvious like rightfully rightfully so with what he had gone through and he had all this
00:31:29
stuff kind of closing in a little bit mhm so it's like you wouldn't be shocking it would be very tragic but it
00:31:36
wouldn't be wouldn't be like the craziest thing world like you can kind of you could see why that could be the
00:31:41
outcome right but like then you look at the that $2 bill and stuff it's like who
00:31:46
wrote on that and somebody calling that's the thing the fact that that the writing on the $2 bill correlates with a
00:31:52
woman calling Ruth and referencing the same Bible passage and the thing it's like so we know he wasn't just like out
00:32:00
there you know going through it and then ending it this way it's like he was obviously he could have been going
00:32:07
through it but obviously he was with other people like obviously somebody knew where he was to call and do that
00:32:12
exactly so it's like I this is just a really this is a wild one it's a strange one and the
00:32:19
suicide Theory held no weight with Ruth or any of Chuck's close friends and associates they all insisted he was
00:32:25
quote just not the kind of person who would kill himself of course we know that people don't usually believe their
00:32:32
loved one would take their own life uh but in this case the evidence was not that of a man on the verge of ending his
00:32:38
own life at least how Ruth and and close people to him saw it yeah and I mean they're the ones who know him yeah so
00:32:44
and family friend Ronald Newman told reporters he had everything going for him he was a family man and real active
00:32:50
in the lodge he had just acquired a new business which he had been trying to do for a long time he had finalized one of
00:32:56
his goals s yeah and just driving that point home even further in the months between his disappearance in March and
00:33:03
his death in June Chuck definitely seemed very deeply concerned for his own safety to the point that he never went
00:33:09
anywhere without being heavily armed so they're saying why would he go so hard on this safety thing to protect himself
00:33:18
only to end it yeah which I I could see people saying well like maybe that just got to be too much and he couldn't
00:33:25
handle it anymore and if anybody was gonna end his life it was gonna be him like you could make that argument but he
00:33:31
was going so hard and why why go for such a strange angle yeah to do it like that I can't get over that
00:33:41
like they're saying like oh he could have done it with his thumb why though why why would he do that right like why
00:33:45
would he do why would he do that what would the point be like this is an awful thing to think about but it's like why
00:33:50
would he not just do the you know unfortunately like a lot of times like the gun in the mouse like yeah or side
00:33:58
of the temple even or in the you know what I mean like as awful as that is to think about why would you pretzel
00:34:04
yourself like that and make it difficult and do it with your left hand and randomly out in the middle of the and
00:34:11
beforehand pin a $2 bill to your under with strange writing all over and when you look at the writing cuz you can find
00:34:17
a a picture of the dollar of the $2 bills so you can see the writing if you look it up um it's it's clear that
00:34:24
person tried to disguise their writing because write all in capital letters right so and that's an easier way to
00:34:30
disguise soes sense it feels like somebody trying to disguise their writing right which there's so many
00:34:36
strange little yeah none of this is making S I don't right now to me it just doesn't feel like it makes much the most
00:34:46
sense as a suicide but I don't know there's just a lot of bizarre details there's a lot of bizarre details like
00:34:53
and this is so sad yeah I mean he had four daughters and family obviously had no idea what was
00:35:00
going on and they have no answers and you don't even know what he knew what was going on it's like what the hell's
00:35:05
going on here and then like we said beforehand like is Ruth just spending the rest of her life thinking people are
00:35:09
going to come after her and her kids at this point you know yeah but the first lead in the case came just a couple days
00:35:16
after the body was discovered and it only made things even [ __ ] weirder when Pac County Sheriff's detectives
00:35:21
received a call from a woman who called herself green eyes that's when the first
00:35:25
lead came in according to the caller green eyes she was the person chuck had gone to meet on the afternoon that he
00:35:31
went missing and she was the one who called Ruth and gave her that Bible passage Greene eyes told the detectives
00:35:38
that Chuck had met her at the motel where he showed her a briefcase containing thousands of dollars in cash
00:35:44
telling her quote that the money would buy him out of a contract the mob had put on his life huh now the story green
00:35:52
eyes told detectives was for sure very unusual and would likely have been considered a prank call or grouped in
00:35:58
with tips from unreliable callers except that green eyes seem to know quite a lot
00:36:03
about Chuck's whereabouts and his personal life to the point that chief deputy sheriff Clarence D dupnik
00:36:09
believed her to be credible he told reporters this proves that Morgan was not really
00:36:15
missing and that's because Greene eyes explained that she had met Chuck about a month before his death and she had quote
00:36:22
been seeing him socially from time to time she said she'd seen him at least four times in the time since he had been
00:36:28
missing from his home and she had visited him at the E8 Motel which is where he showed her that briefcase of
00:36:34
cash so investigators followed up on the information that they' been giving given
00:36:39
and they confirmed that he had been staying at the E8 Motel the whole time he was missing what and that briefcase
00:36:47
that supposedly contained thousands of dollars was discovered in his car but when they discovered it quote it only
00:36:53
contained business cards so all the cash was gone if there had been any in the first place the call from Green Eyes
00:37:00
gained further credibility when the sheriff received a call from a man who referred to himself as the husband of
00:37:06
green eyes and this man told him quote Morgan and his associates were involved in buying gold bars and gold coins in
00:37:14
Mexico the man wouldn't wouldn't answer any more questions from the sheriff and unfortunately investigators were never
00:37:21
able to identify either caller what but they had all this weird that was then some of it at least
00:37:29
validated what do you mean they were never able to come on cuz it was the 70s I guess they didn't oh I didn't even
00:37:36
think of that I'm sitting here like what they couldn't like trace it back this was 1977 when he went missing or excuse
00:37:43
me when he was killed Bonkers yeah yeah wow so to everybody that knew Chuck the details of his death and the leads
00:37:51
coming from Anonymous callar seemed wildly Off the Mark as far as they knew he was was just this mild mannered escro
00:37:58
agent dedicated family man not some kind of like government agent trading in gold
00:38:03
and silver across the Mexican border like what but the more and more that investigators dug into Chuck's Affairs
00:38:10
the more the tips from callers like green eyes seemed potentially legitimate wow going through his personal papers
00:38:16
and Records detectives discovered that he was what they called quote a collector a man who collect uh collected
00:38:23
records and not notes of every type oh according to investigators he had been keeping notes and Records on prominent
00:38:30
people in and around Tucson oh quote as well as very detailed notes on his alleged gold and land deals oh so he was
00:38:39
presumably involved in Gold dealings yeah because he was keeping record of it he was keeping record of it while the
00:38:45
purpose of the notes would remain a mystery they did seem to corroborate what chuck had told Ruth about his being
00:38:51
targeted as a result of what he knew about powerful people so while the notes about people in and around Tucson and
00:38:58
Phoenix didn't seem to be connected to anything in particular the notes about gold and land deals may have been
00:39:04
significant a few weeks after Chuck's death investigators got information from the US Customs Service regarding an
00:39:11
investigation that they had launched in 1973 according to their report Customs officials had received a tip that Chuck
00:39:19
himself and two Associates had been involved in what they called a scam to sell non-existent gold also according to
00:39:28
that Customs report investigators weren't able to find enough evidence to secure a Federal indictment and the US
00:39:34
attorney's office decided not to pursue a case what the [ __ ] which makes you wonder like was somebody involved in
00:39:41
this yeah that's that's exactly what I was thinking I was like what's going on here now this is interesting to me
00:39:47
investigators thought it seemed unlikely that this was connected to Chuck's death
00:39:51
which I'm like I actually feel as though it's very related to his death I'm going to have to disagree with these
00:39:58
people here if it was a murder then wouldn't that be a perfect motive he has all this information he's involved in
00:40:06
Shady dealings and people are pissed off about it like I think that actually sounds like the very beginning of a
00:40:12
murder that's the motive exactly so they felt like it was unlikely that it was connected but at the very least it was a
00:40:20
possible explanation they felt for the voluminous records telegrams notes and figures is about buying and selling
00:40:27
millions of ounces of almost pure gold that Chuck had been exchanging with people as far as Mexico Switzerland and
00:40:36
England damn that's deep like you don't think that's connected like that's deep that that is rolling very deep my friend
00:40:47
right yeah so by the end of the month the pumac County Sheriff's Office was starting to put together a timeline of
00:40:53
Chuck's movements from when he disappeared quote unquote on June 7th to when his body was found Ruth Morgan Had
00:41:00
described her husband as missing for this period of time but green eyes had referred to it as Chuck being in hiding
00:41:06
but from what investigators could tell while he may have been staying in a motel he didn't exactly appear to be
00:41:12
hiding he registered at the motel under his own name and several people reported
00:41:17
seeing him as he quote conducted routine business in the city in a normal fashion huh so he's just not going home
00:41:26
calling his wife during this period of time which is strange because people know him as a dedicated family man yeah
00:41:33
but he had supposedly was checked into this Motel under his own name and people said that they saw him in the city which
00:41:41
we know I would so that makes me wonder was was that Chuck who was checked in yeah or is
00:41:50
that somebody checked in as Chuck trying to make it seem like Chuck is in a motel
00:41:54
this whole time no he's he fine huh but then at the same time get weirder and weirder and it will only continue to but
00:42:03
then at the same time was it Chuck that was registered at that Motel because remember when he was found he'd been
00:42:09
missing all this time but they presumed that he was only Dead about 12 hours when they found him yeah that's true so
00:42:15
so it's like where was he before that if he wasn't there right and he was it does
00:42:20
make sense maybe he was at the motel possibly that that was him yeah because like again where where would he be yeah
00:42:29
if he wasn't like where was he all that time if he wasn't in the place where he's registered at and even stranger the
00:42:36
same appeared to be true for his disappearance in March when he claimed that he had been kidnapped and drugged
00:42:41
according to investigators quote the day after the abduction was alleged to have
00:42:45
taken place he was seen in Tucson when he was supposed to be in Phoenix so it didn't look like he had
00:42:51
gone into complete hiding it appeared that for some reason or another he was hiding from his family and his
00:43:00
friends I wish I could put these pieces together in any way the only thing that I can think of is why he's staying away
00:43:07
from his family and his friends is because he feels like his status as a target has heightened and he doesn't
00:43:12
want them wrapped up in it that's honestly the only thing I could think of too was was like you know going with
00:43:21
that you know dedicated father and dedicated husband and like family man he's trying to keep it away from the
00:43:28
people he cares about the most that's the only thing I can think of but then he returns home in the middle of all
00:43:34
that but maybe he thinks he [ __ ] has like died down a little bit it's like whatever that like $2 bill thing was or
00:43:40
like maybe he was supposed to do something and they were like you know we'll leave you alone or whatever do
00:43:45
this and you'll get it back and it's like so maybe he had to go back to start that process of whatever it is they were
00:43:51
having him do or wanted him to do y and maybe maybe that's the only reason he went back cuz he thought he was going to
00:43:58
end up helping his family in the long run by like getting this taken care of whatever this is and remember if if he
00:44:05
did think that he was taking care of it maybe that explains the Briefcase full of cash that he thought was going to get
00:44:10
him out of this hit maybe this was supposed to be like you get this we do this you'll get
00:44:17
all your [ __ ] back at the end of it like we're holding it for collateral right so
00:44:22
he goes away from his family and everything to try to keep them out of it but then he comes back to try to do
00:44:26
whatever it is he needs to do goes back or doesn't do it in time but it sounds more like he just went back to finish
00:44:35
off the deal cuz he had that if if if he had that Briefcase full of money right and was at that Motel maybe it's like he
00:44:43
was there cuz he was told to go there like maybe that was part of the thing like you go to this hotel you check in I
00:44:49
want you to have a briefcase full of this much money in this denomination kind of thing you know like when you see
00:44:54
in the movies y and was like and then we will meet you here or you will meet us here with that
00:45:00
briefcase and then we will send you on your way right and maybe that's what he thought was going to happen and maybe
00:45:06
they did everything they took that money from him because and they they Ked it in
00:45:10
the end yeah whoever it is maybe and then it's like the $2 bill of it all is so weird because they're keeping a $2
00:45:18
bill for collateral well and it's like an the writing on it what the [ __ ] does
00:45:22
that mean and the fact that green eyes said she's the one who called Ruth and yeah alluded to that
00:45:29
same Bible passage that's then written on the $2 bill it doesn't yeah but then like was like that's all I'm going to
00:45:36
tell you bye and it's like was she scared was she trying to like I don't know I don't know I don't
00:45:45
know this is this is fkers this is just such a weird one it really is so and the
00:45:51
problem with all these Fantastical leads if you can even really call them that coming into the Sheriff's Office was
00:45:57
while they were certainly interesting and compelling as we're sitting here trying to dissect them they didn't seem
00:46:01
to go anywhere that's the thing they Chas down a lead and then they'd be like okay what what next like yeah we're
00:46:08
stumped cuz even if you're sitting there coming to the the whole like okay maybe
00:46:13
he was he had to go do something and they wanted him to have this money and he they he was supposed to meet them
00:46:17
somewhere who's them who's them you can't you don't even know where to begin you're like who the [ __ ] is them yeah
00:46:23
and rumors and stories of him buying and selling gold could have gone way explain his Mur if
00:46:29
what it but they never were more than rumors and similarly the stories of Chuck having gone into hiding seemed to
00:46:36
be somewhat exaggerated because it's true he had checked into a motel but it seemed at least to the investigators
00:46:43
like if he was trying to hide from somebody he wasn't trying very hard using his own name and being seen in
00:46:49
public yeah that's the thing like it really doesn't feel like that's what it was so rather than focusing on the
00:46:55
majority of excuse me focusing the majority of their attention on things they couldn't improve investigators
00:47:00
toward their attention toward the evidence and leads that were more likely to be fruitful as far as anybody could
00:47:05
tell Chuck's paranoia and his very strange Behavior began around March shortly after he left Western Title and
00:47:12
set out to purchase that majority share in Statewide escro service it was that decision that led him to bko
00:47:19
International where he had eventually secured a loan but it was that relationship that led to his being
00:47:26
pressured to testify in the state's case against Bano and several of its agents the testimony in that case was
00:47:33
confidential and has actually never been released to the public but the documents
00:47:37
and information that is available to the public indicates that the case was related to several instances of fraud on
00:47:44
the part of three members of Banko's board who were trying to buy majority stake in the bank okay and because the
00:47:50
case involved Chuck's former employer Western Title and because one of the board's members in question was a man
00:47:57
who was actually representing Chuck in the purchase of a majority stake in Statewide his testimony was essential in
00:48:05
securing the conviction so that tells you something like Chuck was a a key witness for this case so I mean that's
00:48:13
something right there and that's going to put you in danger you have all these higher ups and these big companies doing
00:48:19
insider trading and [ __ ] all kinds of [ __ ] stuff I was going to say all kinds
00:48:24
of [ __ ] that I even wrap my brain around yeah like I can barely do simple division but I know it's I know it
00:48:29
doesn't it probably doesn't bring a lot of great people around you and I'm not trying to [ __ ] with that no but the case
00:48:35
was eventually settled out of court and then in August of 1977 and two investigators they didn't think that
00:48:42
that was related to Chuck's death huh which is weird because I'm like come on sound like it could be it's I mean that
00:48:52
sounds like a again another perfect motive for someone another Shady dealing you know what is going on here so the
00:49:01
death of Chuck Morgan started out as a case obviously shrouded in mystery and Intrigue but with each passing week
00:49:06
investigators Drew closer and closer to what they felt was a more plausible explan explanation he had taken his own
00:49:12
life they thought that was way more plausible which to me I don't know I don't know I don't know I'm not going to
00:49:20
say it doesn't seem like the most plausible yeah that does not seem like the most plausible when we get to the
00:49:26
end it still won't by the end of June there were a number of factor factors in the case that were causing Sheriff's
00:49:31
detectives toward the suicide Theory and these included the location where Chuck
00:49:35
had been discovered the fact that it was very public and quote did not indicate that somebody was trying to cover up a
00:49:40
murder okay which it's like okay but then also is it a show of like don't [ __ ] with us yeah like that it could
00:49:48
very much be that they might not be trying to cover it up and so you're saying he decided to end his life in a
00:49:54
very public setting like yeah in a very public area that's I don't know I don't know they said if Morgan had been killed
00:50:02
because of something related to a land deal or money laundering the killer like likely would have rifled through his car
00:50:07
or belongings to remove any incriminating evidence but all of his papers and business documents appeared
00:50:13
to be untouched which that's strange that is strange and he was known to push himself professionally and had been
00:50:20
known to regularly overwork himself quote until he had a nervous breakdown and had to take the week off so they
00:50:25
were like did he just work himself up into a nervous breakdown and this the end of it Poss maybe so while those
00:50:32
closest to him flatly refused to accept that possibility that he could have taken his own life others who did know
00:50:39
him not like super close in his Circle but knew him well enough they were less certain that he wouldn't have done that
00:50:45
okay several colleagues and friends told reporters that Chuck often struggled with social relationships and quote was
00:50:51
an insecure man who seemed to need the approval of others more than most according to one friend Chuck quote
00:50:57
tended to create a crisis once in a while just so he could solve it and although Morgan appeared to be a
00:51:03
brilliant man he always seemed to be in financial difficulty okay and others who
00:51:07
knew Chuck echoed those sentiments according to Pat Baldwin who took over Chuck's position at Statewide after he
00:51:13
died quote the entire board of directors resigned once they knew he was buying the firm whoa but I'm also
00:51:22
like there were also people that still worked there that were probably involved in some shady [ __ ] that he testified
00:51:28
against or they just worried so is this all just wrapped up in that like that part of it you know like that could be a
00:51:33
whole different kind of scenario exactly or was it that like yeah CU also he was known as an escro genius so
00:51:43
you're going to leave I don't know I don't know because he's involved like it doesn't really make a lot of sense to me
00:51:47
but a little over a month into the investigation no new evidence had been found and all the leads had dried up so
00:51:53
with no evidence to support a murder case and no new tips coming in from the public the sheriff's department issued a
00:51:58
statement on August 10th announcing that based on the evidence and statements collected from those who knew him
00:52:04
Chuck's death was being considered a suicide wow in a statement to the press the sheriff Sergeant Joe jet said we
00:52:10
have found no evidence that anyone took part in the death but himself and Jet went on to say that the biggest factors
00:52:16
in labeling the death of suicide was one all the fing and these are all quotes all the fingerprints and Footprints at
00:52:22
the scene were Morgans there was no sign of a struggle of any kind two the bullet that killed Morgan was
00:52:28
fired at very close range from his own 357 Magnum Revolver which lay inches from his body and large deposits of
00:52:35
gunshot residue on his left hand indicate that he held the revolver Barrel in that hand when he fired into
00:52:40
the top of his head and three Morgan was in deep financial trouble at the time of
00:52:45
his death records indicate that he had cash assets of about $400 and debts of more than
00:52:51
$40,000 including a third mortgage on his East Side home wow which like that's a lot yeah and this is interesting so
00:53:00
the sheriff's department is like we're going to go ahead and rule this a suicide the county Pathologists didn't
00:53:06
didn't challenge the sheriff's department conclusion but they declined to classify the death as a suicide huh
00:53:14
and Chuck Morgan's death on paper with the pathologist remains classified as unknown interesting that to me is very
00:53:23
very interesting interesting because like if the pathologist isn't willing then that gives me pause yeah
00:53:32
and it's like is there war that maybe wasn't released to the public that the pathologist has access to that maybe
00:53:39
just wasn't recorded on interesting yeah cuz when they when a pathologist refuses
00:53:44
to to bend to the sheriff or somebody else to with that I'm like that's big what's going on like what what else is
00:53:51
there what kind of feeling did you have what did you see yeah initially what did
00:53:54
you think that made you question it yeah oh that's interesting I thought so too and the sheriff's decision to label the
00:54:01
death as a suicide came as a big surprise to Ruth Morgan Chuck's wife and those closest to the family who remain
00:54:07
convinced that Chuck was murdered and I feel really bad for them cuz it's like cuz then you don't have any answers yeah
00:54:13
Ruth told Unsolved Mysteries in 1990 there's no way chuck would have committed suicide and if he had even
00:54:18
contemplated suicide he would have left a letter for his girls and for me and I can understand her thinking that yeah
00:54:25
and I I mean obviously I don't know Chuck from a hole in the wall but yeah wouldn't you like just based off of the
00:54:31
descriptions of how much he like he wouldn't even let his children leave the house unprotected he wouldn't let
00:54:37
strangers in the house he wouldn't let Ruth go to the police because it was going to endanger the family yeah to me
00:54:43
it seems like and for her to say that for her to say there's no way something wouldn't happen without him leaving
00:54:49
communication for me and for his girls yeah that's her saying like I know him as a man and as a father and as a
00:54:56
husband and I know that he wouldn't have left this world without talking to us with a note at least giving us like just
00:55:03
giving us some kind of communication for why and it doesn't I don't think from what she's saying again I also don't
00:55:11
know Chuck I don't know this family but I don't know it just doesn't seem like he would have wanted to leave all this
00:55:19
mystery for his children and his wife I agree with that cuz that's a lot to Grapple with for them to have to Wonder
00:55:25
mhm so what she's saying I think makes the most sense to me which is he would have left notes for us I think so too
00:55:32
explaining what was going on and what happened right yeah yeah and uh journalist Don Deo who I mentioned
00:55:38
earlier he agrees with the family's theory he said I've never seen in all my years as a journalist a fellow take
00:55:45
himself out in the desert wearing a bulletproof vest and shoot himself in the back of the head that's true like
00:55:51
he's wearing a bulletproof V and he shoots himself that doesn't make any sense and Deo cites the statements from
00:55:56
Greene eyes and the man who identified himself as Greene eyes husband as compelling evidence to support the
00:56:02
theory that maybe he was organ uh maybe he was involved in organized crime and that he was working as an agent of the
00:56:08
government perhaps that's what makes the most sense to me to be honest right and
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he elaborated saying there's a great likelihood that Mr Morgan was in fact doing something with the government I
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think this was a guy who was extremely naive about a lot of things I think somebody blew his cover and he got
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killed damn I don't know I don't know I mean all of honestly all of these theories you could say that makes sense
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yeah all of them exactly so now sadly Ruth Morgan unfortunately passed away after battling cancer in 2006 but
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according to their children she remained steadfast in her belief that Chuck was absolutely murdered their daughter Megan
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told reporters in 2010 my father had a lot of information about people here in Tucson uh that could have been very
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detrimental there was a lot of information about politicians people who are still alive that work in our
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government he had a lot he had that information and they wanted to silence him that's awful which I have chills you
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that's awful to even think about now the 1990 segment of Unsolved Mysteries featuring Chuck's story actually
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generated a light flurry of interest in the case and resulted in quote more calls than any other in the show's
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history up to that point and the Sol mystery was the way to go man you want to get a case out there that was the way
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to go especially the original one oh so creepy but among those tips was one from
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an anonymous source that quote pointed to a paid Hitman then living in the Wilks bar Scranton region who may have
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traveled briefly to Arizona to carry out a murder contract according to this Anonymous caller The Hitman supposedly
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quote shot a Tucson businessman in the head in 1977 because he knew too much and then came back to Pennsylvania
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loaded with money that's why it's wild to me that they're like I don't no this got like it
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doesn't seem like somebody who would murder someone would leave the scene like this and I'm like I don't know a
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Hitman would like he just goes and does his job and leaves plenty of people would like they just peace out they're
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not worried about like staging a crime scene here they're just they're doing what they were paid to do and they're
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out a job that they've done countless other times too which is like why you didn't find probably yeah now a second
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airing of the Unsolved Mysteries episode a few months later generated more call some of which were actually routed to
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the sheriff's department and generated a new potential suspect according to Sergeant Dave Thomas of the County
00:58:33
Sheriff's Department investigators interviewed at least one former wils bar area resident but are not releasing the
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suspect's name for legal reasons interesting he noted that the case was never closed and investigators were
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following up on leads as they received him but he added that in the absence of any further good Witnesses he said we
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probably won't be able to to go any further with this which that is such a that is such a like concrete statement
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like I don't think we'll be able to go any further with this nope probably not bye huh I don't know now despite the
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activity and interest generated by the unsolved mystery segment the leads unfortunately went nowhere and Chuck's
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case was put back on the Shelf jeez but the case popped up in the news again 2 years later when 35-year-old Tucson
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computer technician jug Johnston Doug Johnston excuse me was found dead in his car from a gunshot wound to the Head
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investigators were unable to find the gun but without evidence to support a murder Theory the case was labeled a
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possible suicide and detective cited his mounting debt as a possible reason and the case was closed Don Deo on the other
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hand believes that the death and this is [ __ ] crazy was the result of a mistaken hit that had been meant for him
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what according to Deo Johnston drove a car very similar to his own own and the two men look generally similar similar
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to one another resulting in Johnston receiving a bullet meant for Deo in order to stop him from further
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investigating Chuck's story because he was going like deep into it trying to get
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answers uh nevertheless Deo hedged I'm not here to tell you for certain that the bullet Johnston took was meant for
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me nor that there's a known that or that there's a known contract out on me for looking into the conspiracy but I do
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know that I'm concerned and that will probably come around again and this time they'll make it look like an
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accident I have no idea what happened and I'm not going to look any further into it that's the thing I didn't look
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super deep into anything I don't know what happened we just looked very surface level into this but wow and
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those are just the facts of the case but as of now the death of Charles Morgan remains an open and unfortunately
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inactive case with the county sheriff's department and no new leads or suspects have been identified since the ear early
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90s and I don't know anything I don't know anything isn't that a crazy tale what a wild wild case a wild story I
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feel for his family not having any ansers and I feel for Ruth she went she lived the rest of her life with all
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these questions yeah but luckily she was safe for the rest of her life at least glad that his daughters were unharmed
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and jeez but it's a spooky one very spooky and one I will never read any further into nope me either and so with
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that being said we hope you keep listening and we hope you keep it weird but not swear that you look any further
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into this case love you so much [Music] bye [Music]