guarding and watching the property, but there was no one around. the premise was destroyed. i figured that there would absolutely be no resolve. so that investigation was what? it was botched. what of the evidence investigators did have, at least they had that watch, the old boyfriend s gift found in jennifer s hand. tom thought the killer might have put it there as a message of some sort. now that s strange to me that that watch would be in her hand and both the guys were there on monday night. both knew who gave her that watch. it seemed to tom that the watch must be important evidence. did the wanna-be boyfriend, chris, plant the watch in her hand just to make boyfriend scott look guilty? surely an interesting question. and yet authorities simply sent the watch to jennifer s mother. that s not evidence apparently. so if that s the way that evidence, potential evidence was treated, i m sure there s not much. but even as tom says he tried to dampen the anger that was
she would have fought back. and their suspicions grew. one of the weirdest things happened the day after the incident in the trailer park. this boy, chris, and one of his fraternity brothers came over to the morgan house. and out of the blue, unsolicited offered a bizarre theory as to how jennifer may have been killed before the fire got to her. that what probably happened was a lamp fell over and probably ignited the carpet, the chemicals in the carpets made these fumes, and these fumes probably killed jennifer before the fire ever got to her. the thing that made the story suspicious, said the morgans, was that when chris told it just one day after jennifer s death, no one knew she was dead before the fire. we all looked at each other like how odd is that? this person who was so in love with her would come, and instead of shedding one tear or even saying i m so sorry, he sat there with a fraternity brother and described what probably
caretaker, and i had said, has anyone come and inquired about jennifer s grave? and he said, yes, and he described chris. surely this was significant, thought the morgans, and perhaps would trigger law enforcement to take a second look at chris. when you called them, what was the response? i had called the lead investigator at the time, and he would always assure me, we are working on this, not a day goes by that i don t think about the case. years went by, and tom morgan and his family heard less and less from investigators growing more and more pessimistic that anybody would ever be charged. mind you, jennifer s father had been feeling that way since two days after the fire when he came here to the trailer park to pick up her car. i could tell at the time that in my mind that it was not an accidental death. i ll just say that. was there a guard around the place? no, i was told they would be
for her even though she didn t want to hear them. here s a quote from the transcript of the interrogation. i said, jennifer, promise me one thing. she was like, what? i said, promise me that you know i love you. nything ever happens. she was like, you know, quit. nothing ain t going to never happen to me, and it did. one more thing, chris told boone he argued with jennifer about their relationship and left her trailer about 10:30 the night before her death. i felt like this could be it because the motive could be there because of his jealousy or anger. investigator boone alerted the polygrapher. it was time to take that test. and meanwhile, who was leaving gifts at the cemetery and why? we found a bracelet at jennie s grave.
happened that day. in fact, kenny boone didn t tell them somebody killed jennifer and tried to hide the crime with a fire until the day after chris offered his explanation. later that same week, the morgans saw chris again at the funeral. did you watch him? chris reaction was very stoic, really expressionless and as i would speak to my relatives, he would walk over to where we were all standing and get close to where we were almost trying to overhear conversation. that struck me immediately. what did it seem like he was doing? wanted to know if anybody thought he did it. does anybody suspect me? is anybody saying anything? i had gone to the caretaker, and i had said, has anyone come and inquired about jennifer s grave, and he described chris.