sister, helped out by his own father and brother. tom, the budding screenwriter, still doesn t believe the sheriff and still suspects the fraternity boyfriend. and sheriff boone thinks they re both wrong, that quite possibility the neighbor did it. kávñéçíúzure i m sure it s something i can t do /]g÷&ipg reporter: and so the picture s yellow. the memory of her smile still dances across aging family films. all the possibilities that never were. and at the glacial pace the investigation has moved, the new generation of the morgan family may be in college themselves before tom can finally let it go. but not yet. in spite of all that s happened, not yet. i had a conversation with my father the other night. he said, you know, no matter
floor, injuring one person. officials saying the flames came from a residence there. now back to our msnbc special. reporter: so what about that substance? for pat it was crucial. it was the only evidence he offered to imply an incestuous relationship between tom and jennifer. but did it even exist? pat moug says he got the story from florence county sheriff kenny boone, who said he learned about it from the forensic pathologist. but she told us simply this. as far as she remembers, there never was any milky white substance. here is her autopsy report. i put everything i found in here, she told us. if it wasn t in the report and it isn t it didn t exist. reporter: and remember how pat ferreted out tom morgan s
not all the evidence. reporter: but what about that failed lie detector test? well, said both boone and the state police, it was all the available evidence that made them decide that the polygraph result was simply an error and that neither tom morgan nor any member of his family had anything to do with jennifer morgan s death. but pat moug was right about one thing. kenny boone did not cooperate with a fellow police officer, the one from livonia, michigan. you know somebody can sit in michigan and armchair quarterback this thing, but i take great offense to it. he didn t work night and day on this case like we did. but i think you ve got a patrolman with a rookie attitude wanting to make a name for himself. reporter: but the fact is, tom morgan and pat moug may both have missed the real story. murder on a november morning, as
kenny boone is sheriff of florence county. i mean i really thought that we was going to go straight to, you know, maybe a boyfriend or an acquaintance. this, he was convinced, would not be so hard to solve. of course, things don t always work out the way we d like them to. and that movie idea? it ll soon be time for that part of the story. there would be two movies, remember, twin parades of hope and folly. but first suspicion falls as it often will on an attentive young male. clingy, protective, stalky, a key just stalked her. came to. they came to see us in florida. make that alabama. make that mississippi. the best part of the gulf is wherever you choose. and now is a great time to discover it. this year millions of people did. we set all kinds of records. next year we re out to do even better. so come on down to louisiana. florida. alabama. mississippi.
reporter: but if pat wasn t a exactly trained psychologist, he was and is an experienced policeman. he s been on the force for 18 years. so what about that milky white substance he says the sheriff told him was found in jennifer s body, which was at the heart of pat s suggestion that jennifer s death could have been caused by some inappropriate sexual event involving tom? how does he know? by coincidence, he writes this script where he s bringing ice cream to the murder scene. and lo and behold, the detective has this milky white substance in the vagina. reporter: but aren t you taking two and two and coming up with five? no, i don t think so. reporter: he s fictionally writing about him being there with ice cream. and you think it s a coincidence that he shows up in his script that he places himself at the murder scene minutes before his sister s murder and he s bringing a substance that after fire could be melted down and be a milky white substance? do you think that s a