The Trail Went Cold – Episode 20 – Chuck Morgan and Doug Johnston

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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June 18, 1977. Tucson, Arizona. After disappearing from his family for eleven days, the body of escrow company owner Charles “Chuck” Morgan is found outside his vehicle in the desert. He has been shot in the back of the head and is carrying a two-dollar bill which appears to have a coded message written on […]

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0:00.0	June 18th, 1977.
0:04.1	Tucson, Arizona.
0:06.7	After disappearing from his family for 11 days, the body of Escro company owner Chuck
0:11.6	Morgan is found outside his vehicle in the desert.
0:14.9	He has been shot in the back of the head, is carrying a $2 bill which appears to have
0:19.1	a coded message written on it.
0:21.8	Even though Chuck is wearing a bulletproof vest, and it allegedly survived a kidnapping
0:26.1	or deal three months earlier, the police rule is death to be a suicide.
0:31.1	13 years later, a phoenix man named Doug Johnston is murdered, the apparent victim of a
0:36.5	mistaken contract hit intended for a journalist investigating Chuck Morgan's death.
0:42.8	After that, the trail went cold.
0:56.1	It is not a very normal place to shoot oneself as a suicide.
1:26.1	In very mind, he is wearing a bulletproof vest at the time.
1:38.9	Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the trail went cold.
1:43.2	I'm your host Robin Warder and that sound bite you just heard was from an unsolved
1:47.3	mysteries interview with an investigative journalist named Don DeVero, who is a prominent
1:52.3	figure in today's story.
1:54.2	Today, I will be profiling the unsolved deaths of Chuck Morgan and Doug Johnston, two cases
2:00.3	which were featured on unsolved mysteries, and happened to be connected together through
2:04.5	Don DeVero in a very frightening way.
2:07.4	By the time you hear this, Chuck Morgan's case will have already been featured in a two-part
2:12.5	Halloween themed article I co-wrote titled, The Creepiest Unsolved Crimes No One Can Explained,
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