and finally here it was. 11 years after her death, jennifer s story flickered to life on the screen. i m ethan, by the way. i m tiger woods. you are definitely not tiger woods. i m jennifer. in the audience, her parents and older sister. the story was based on fact but tom had made some significant changes to real events and added lots of speculation, and then the director took over and made some more changes, so this certainly wasn t a nonfiction movie. ethan, what are you doing? what does it look like? we re here as friends. okay. still, tom s suspicion of what really happened to his sister did come true. i was wondering if you wanted to see a movie or something with
by dousing her body in gasoline and setting it on fire. all these years, pat suggested, jennifer s whole family may have been involved in a massive cover-up. the documentary ended with what pat intended as the climactic interview. i m on your side, but there s people out there that have been telling me stuff. here tom has no idea that a microphone and two cameras are placed in the room. pat is moving in for the kill. for what he hopes will be tom s confession. tom, i know you re at your sister s accident, jen s accident. no, i wasn t. tom, i know you were. no tom, no, no, no no, listen to me. tom for two years you ve been telling me things that put you at your sister s accident. pat, this is what i m telling you. listen to me, what i m telling you. i was not at my sister s. i had i loved my sister.
reopen your sister s case. a cold case unit. i was really excited. finally i had gotten someone s attention. of course, tom had not forgotten this was the same state police agency which once admitted it lost the file on the murder years before. one of the first questions to them was why d you pick this? why d you pick this case now? they made it sound like it was just luck. we lucked upon this. you know, we were the lucky lottery winner that they pulled up our case. so tom packed his year s worth of notes into his car and drove over to state police headquarters in columbia and there for 2 1/2 hours with investigators, he reviewed every detail, everything he knew about the case. they were very good at putting me at ease talking about the fact that we know that you know a lot about this case, we know that you know probably more than anybody about this case. and then came quite suddenly another one of those moments. the air seemed different. right then and there the complexi
where did you want to start? reporter: in the summer of 2005, tom morgan s movie about the killing of his sister showed up here and there in the indie film festivals. though tom was not aware of it, the man who he once pegged to make the movie was working against him. i believe one police officer in one state should work with other police officers to take a murderer off the street and that s just how i am. i m not going to go away. reporter: now it looked as though pat moug s policeman s passion would fade off. tom morgan, the brother who had been pestering investigators for years about his sister s murder was hauled in for questioning and now seemed to be a suspect himself. pat waited for word of an arrest and waited. right now, if he was in our state, i believe i have enough evidence for probable cause to arrest him.
in 2002 i met tom morgan but to lay out his case piece by piece that tom morgan should be a prime suspect in the murders of his sister. what we call the butch interview, tom begins to talk about where he was at the time of his sister s homicide. reporter: all along something tom told pat had made him very suspicious. tom said he had been living in michigan when jennifer was murdered when, in fact, a few weeks before she died, tom moved to charlotte, north carolina. and charlotte was just a 2 1/2 hour drive from the scene of the crime. if tom lied about where he lived on the day of the crime, was he lying about his actions that day, too? i remember that day, i was at a friend s house in charlotte. i flew into charlotte and then i drove on the way to my parents house reporter: here pat seems to have caught tom as he tries not to reveal that he s been lying