One of the lesser-known cases of American true crime is also a very sad one. Meet Charles Morgan, a man who got in over his head with organized crime.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck. He's older than 50, it turns out. And there's Jerry. And this is short stuff. And let's go.
That's right. This is the case of a sort of a lesser known unsolved true crime murder, in fact. Yeah. I hope that didn't spoil anything. I don't think so. In this thing you put together, called it bizarre. I take issue with that. I don't think it's bizarre at all. But it is unsolved and interesting.
Okay. I think when you, yes, you're right. No, it's not bizarre.
It sounds like any episode of The Sopranos to me.
It is unsung in that it doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. No mention of this whatsoever on all of Wikipedia, which is very surprising. But we're talking about the death of a man named Charles C. Morgan. who died in May of 1977 in the desert outside of Tucson, Arizona. And his death was, like you said, almost certainly a murder.
But it was pronounced suicide by the local sheriff, even though the coroner was like, I don't know what this was. Everyone else on the planet will tell you it's a murder, especially once you know the details, which we're going to get into right now.
Yeah. Well, let's just describe the crime scene. This guy was found deceased at the scene wearing a bulletproof vest from a gunshot wound from his own handgun to the back of his head. And it did not have his fingerprints on his own gun.
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