June 18th, 1977, Tucson, Arizona.

After disappearing from his family for 11 days, the body of escrow company owner Chuck Morgan is found outside his vehicle in the desert.

He has been shot in the back of the head and is carrying a $2 bill which appears to have a

coded message written on it.

Even though Chuck is wearing a bulletproof vest and it allegedly

survived a kidnapping ordeal three months earlier, the police rule his death to be

a suicide. Thirteen years later, a Phoenix man named Doug Johnston is murdered, the apparent victim of a mistaken

contract hit intended for a journalist investigating Chuck Morgan's death. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, and uh,

uh, uh, but uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, uh,

and uh, and uh, and uh,

uh,

uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, It is not a very normal place to shoot oneself as a suicide. And bear in mind he's

wearing a bulletproof vest at the time. I've never seen in all my years as a journalist

a fellow taking himself out in the desert wearing a bulletproof vest and shoot himself in the back of the head.

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail went cold. I'm your host Robin Warder and that sound bite you just heard was

from an unsolved mysteries interview with an investigative journalist named Don Devereaux who is a prominent

figure in today's story. Today I will be profiling the

unsolved deaths of Chuck Morgan and Doug Johnston, two cases which were featured on unsolved

mysteries and happened to be connected

together through Don Devereaux in a very frightening way. By the time you hear this

Chuck Morgan's case will have already been featured in a two-part Halloween themed article I co-wrote titled

The Creepiest Unsolved Crimes No One Can Explain, which was published at crack.com just two weeks ago. The timing is good because I've actually had a few track from the Unsolved Mysteries Board at the sitcoms online forum who goes by the

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