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.
right back. what d they say? positive for gasoline. boone sent the body to the forensic pathologist. there was no soot, no carbon monoxide in her lungs. we knew she had to be dead prior to the fire. but who would have wanted to kill jennifer? and why? she was very, very loved by a lot of people. and she was just that kind of kid. you were just drawn to her. tom morgan was inconsolable but found some comfort in believing his sister s killer would be found. i had complete confidence in our law enforcement. i had complete confidence that they were doing all the right things and that they were going to bring this thing to some closure for us. and so did that arson investigator in charge of the case. after all, the murder and the fire to cover it up all happened in broad daylight, right in the middle of a mobile home park next to a busy four-lane highway.
polygraph examination came back inconclusive, which could have went either way. you know, that was a red flag and we just weren t sure. boone says chris woodson claimed that the morning of the murder he d been paying college fees and played racquetball too before going to engineering class. was he telling the truth? still suspicious but not enough to take him in? right. but the morgan family was convinced that kenny boone had, in fact, found the murderer, chris woodson. when you heard that it was a murder, did your mind go to suspicions? exactly. yes. my mind went right to who did it. why woodson? a whole list of suspicions, for one thing, his obsessive phone calls, almost like a stalker, they felt. and they believed jennifer must have been attacked by someone she knew. she w she was not a small girl. she would have fought back if it was someone who came to her trailer that she did not know.
even when detective kenny boone decided not to arrest chris woodson, the morgans remained deeply suspicious. partly because the odd things didn t stop, even after jennifer was buried and the months began to turn into years. around her birthday or the date of her death, we would come out and find flowers that were laid here, and we would always ask the people who were close friends of hers, oh, did you lay the flowers, and we could never account for who had put them there over and over again. and it wasn t just flowers the family found but couldn t explain. we found a bracelet at jennie s grave. a string bracelet with beads laying on her right on the stone. the flat stone. yes, i had gone to the
there was no police presence, said tom. but then why would there be? it was an accident, after all. time was a blur as jenny s parents planned the funeral. and then two days after her death, kenny boone called, and they tried to absorb more news. jennifer s death was not an accident after all. whoever set that fire was trying to hide a murder. only the method was still unknown. she hadn t been stabbed. she hadn t been raped. she hadn t been shot. and at the time they said, we d like you to keep it quiet. we don t want anything tainted by you telling people because everybody still thought it was an accident. and now their grief was salted with anger and confusion and impossible questions. the investigator, kenny boone, told them what he knew, that he saw right away the fire was so intense, it had to have some extra fuel, some sort of accelerant. we started taking samples from the carpet. i immediately got those results