morgan s attorney, jack mcmahon, said the case for murder against morgan was weak. she wasn t at the crime scene when kevin was killed and had no convincing motive for wanting her husband dead. in fact, financially, she was way worse off with her husband s death than she would have been with him alive. he was the lifeblood of the company, and there was no life insurance. you think she sort of had some musings about, oh, i wish my husband wasn t around, i wish someone took care of it? i think morgan was walking around with musings, saying this to various people. the person that took action was chappelle. he is a cold-blooded killer. a cold-blooded killer? he hardly looked like one when police picked him up in denver and got him into the interrogation room. he was meek. his voice was quiet and shaking with fear. district attorney, pat. he admitted the crime, said he was in love with the woman,
here at pigeon forge, they are allowing people to return home. the morgans turned home devastated. they had hoped that somehow some miracle would have happened and the fire department would have been able to stop the flames from taking their house but everything is gone. the authorities now say that for many of the people spending the night in shelters, it s going to be a very long road to recovery but they are working with the federal government, that s fema, as well as the local resources to try to help people get started. imagine, you ve lost everything but you have insurance but those insurance papers, everything you have, it s inside your house and your house is gone. there are at least eight who were unaccounted for. kate? kerry sanders, thank you so much.
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
and able to laugh again. though the gaping hole left by jennifer s death is, they tell us, just as painful as ever, along with the newer wound that comes from being accused. and though tom morgan still wonders if some cop will come knocking at his door, it seems unlikely that sheriff kenny boone, at least, would want to arrest him. why? because, says boone, both tom morgan and his nemesis pat moug have likely both been looking at all the wrong places from the very beginning about. well, you know, it s one of my only unsolved homicides and i d love to be able to solve it today. where far from being botched, as both the morgans and pat moug seem 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 who seemed to be obsessed with jennifer. but it turns out there was an