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00:00:02Tonight on Dateline.

00:00:03When people tell me she's in heaven now.

00:00:06No, Morgan doesn't want to be in heaven.

00:00:08She wants to be here.

00:00:09She wants to be raising her daughter.

00:00:10She wants to be living the life.

00:00:13She was shot while she was getting into the vehicle.

00:00:16So this is an execution.

00:00:18That's what it appeared.

00:00:19She was discovered by her boyfriend.

00:00:21There's very distinct things that you're doing that are not normal.

00:00:27She was a manager at FedEx.

00:00:29She came to me and she was crying.

00:00:31She felt that people were harassing her.

00:00:33She had complained about it to management and what?

00:00:36She said that nothing has been done.

00:00:38I'm like, oh my God, one of those boys at work did this to her.

00:00:41Did you ever want something romantically with her?

00:00:44No.

00:00:44Did you shoot Morgan Fox?

00:00:47No.

00:00:48One manager had it bad for her.

00:00:50He really wanted to date her.

00:00:51You're wondering how, who, where, and why.

00:00:55We found close to 100 pictures taken off of Morgan's Instagram without her knowledge.

00:01:01Panic rushed over my body.

00:01:03Every single red flag came out.

00:01:05Let me guess.

00:01:06This is all a big mistake.

00:01:08A young mom gunned down in the dark of night.

00:01:12Even darker.

00:01:13The killer's secret obsession.

00:01:15I'm Lester Holt.

00:01:17This is Dateline.

00:01:26Here's Josh Mankiewicz with Breaking Point.

00:01:37Here's the thing about working in America.

00:01:40You put a bunch of people in an enclosed space, tell them to work as a team, shoulder to shoulder,

00:01:48add in some deadline and performance pressure, and a couple of things are sure to happen.

00:01:54They'll start to rate each other.

00:01:57Who's good?

00:01:58Who's lazy?

00:01:59Who's cute?

00:02:01He was significantly at or.

00:02:03Yes.

00:02:03You could tell.

00:02:04You could tell.

00:02:06They'll start to date each other.

00:02:08It's unavoidable.

00:02:10She met a guy at work.

00:02:12He was super sweet and super kind.

00:02:16And sometimes they'll start to hate each other.

00:02:20That's when management usually steps in.

00:02:22I went straight up to the supervisor, and I was like, he's bothering me again.

00:02:28Some things companies just can't predict.

00:02:31Some things they can.

00:02:33Like the dependability of an employee like Morgan Fox.

00:02:39Ah, Morgan, she was great.

00:02:41She was fun to work with.

00:02:43She was genuine and very much a hard worker.

00:02:48All was there as her shift started, except on the morning of October 28th, 2020.

00:02:56Quite a few people were asking, like, hey, has anybody seen her?

00:03:01Has anybody talked to Morgan today?

00:03:03Morgan worked the early shift at this FedEx ground sorting facility in North Canton, Ohio.

00:03:10Nikki Watkins was her co-worker.

00:03:13Everybody's radioing, like, no, I haven't talked to her.

00:03:16Has anybody tried calling?

00:03:18Maybe try calling her mom.

00:03:19Because this was so unlike Morgan, people got concerned pretty quickly.

00:03:22Yes, very quickly.

00:03:24And then we kind of ended the shift with, it was a no-call, no-show.

00:03:29Maybe she just slept in.

00:03:32It turned out Morgan had not just slept in.

00:03:36911, do you need police, fire, or medical help?

00:03:39What her co-workers didn't know was that at about 6.30 that morning, Morgan's boyfriend, Jason, called 911.

00:03:47Uh, medical.

00:03:48I mean, I'm pretty sure my girlfriend's dead.

00:03:52What makes you say that, sir?

00:03:54Um, I came out.

00:03:56I got up to work and came out.

00:03:58Look, I thought I'd seen a car out here.

00:03:59I came out here and she's laying in her front seat, unresponsive, very cold, covered in blood.

00:04:05Looks like her head is bleeding from behind.

00:04:07I don't know if she fell or if she got bashed.

00:04:10If you think he sounds a little less than frantic, you are not alone.

00:04:15You want to try CPR or do you think she's...

00:04:19You don't feel a pulse at all, sir?

00:04:21I don't feel a pulse at all.

00:04:26When you get here, officers are already here.

00:04:29Paramedics are here.

00:04:30Yeah.

00:04:31Stark County Sheriff's Office Sergeant Craig Kennedy supervised the investigation.

00:04:37Her car's parked right here in the driveway.

00:04:39And she's still in it?

00:04:41So, partially, she slumped into the driver's seat with one foot still out on the ground.

00:04:48Door still open?

00:04:49Door was still open.

00:04:50And there was some remnants of some food wrappers that appeared she was taking items for lunch.

00:04:58The passenger side window had been shattered.

00:05:0229-year-old Morgan had been shot.

00:05:05So, she comes out the front door, gets in her car.

00:05:08Somebody comes up from behind her.

00:05:09Yes.

00:05:10It's quick.

00:05:11Yes.

00:05:11And this is an execution.

00:05:13Like, there's no fight.

00:05:15Correct.

00:05:17Around 8 a.m., one of Morgan's family members noticed the law enforcement presence at the house

00:05:22and called Morgan's mom, Cindy, who at first was not worried.

00:05:28She had just chatted with her daughter at 1.30 a.m., about six and a half hours earlier.

00:05:36She's like, she should be fine.

00:05:38Morgan's aunt, Chris Wilkop.

00:05:40So, then she started trying to call Morgan and she couldn't get a hold of Morgan.

00:05:45And then she called Morgan's boyfriend and couldn't get a hold of him.

00:05:50So, Cindy got in the car and drove over.

00:05:53That's what she found out?

00:05:54Yeah.

00:05:55When she got there, the police officer wouldn't tell her anything.

00:05:59Finally, a reporter screamed across the yard to her that she was dead.

00:06:04Somebody shot her in the head.

00:06:06That's how she found out.

00:06:10That's not how that's supposed to happen.

00:06:12No.

00:06:13Yeah.

00:06:15It is the kind of loss that, to this day, is hard for Morgan's family to accept.

00:06:21Doesn't go away, does it?

00:06:23No.

00:06:25It's like something that you only see on TV that never happens, you know, to you.

00:06:33To investigators at the scene, the time of Morgan's murder was starting to become clear.

00:06:38She talked to her mother at about 1.30 in the morning.

00:06:42She had to be at work at 2.30, so this was around 2 a.m.

00:06:45Right.

00:06:46So, 2 a.m. when she would normally leave for work.

00:06:48Correct.

00:06:49Answering the question of why she was killed was going to be a lot more complicated.

00:06:56Anything of hers stolen?

00:06:57When we looked through, there was money laying in the console of the vehicle, and her purse

00:07:02was draped around her neck, so it didn't appear that anything was stolen.

00:07:07Not a robbery, which meant someone wanted Morgan Fox dead and badly.

00:07:14The question now was who?

00:07:18Nobody could think of any person that would have reason to do this to her.

00:07:23When she came to me, she was crying.

00:07:25Detectives would uncover many potential suspects.

00:07:40You think to yourself that could have been me?

00:07:42Yes.

00:07:42I think it is a true definition of if I can't have her, nobody can.

00:07:47Did you kill Morgan Fox?

00:07:48Yes.

00:08:01Morgan Fox's stepsister, Cora Stonerock, had just put a roast in the crockpot that October

00:08:08morning when one of her other sisters let out a scream.

00:08:12I'm thinking, what could be wrong?

00:08:14So, I go downstairs, and she is completely ghost white, and she says, she's dead.

00:08:22And I'm like, who?

00:08:23Who's dead?

00:08:24And she's like, Morgan.

00:08:25And I'm like, Morgan who?

00:08:26Like, because in my mind, there's no way that, like, our sister is dead.

00:08:31And I remember screaming at her, like, how?

00:08:34Like, what are you talking about?

00:08:35Why are you saying that?

00:08:38Hearing that made little sense to Cora.

00:08:41Didn't then.

00:08:43Doesn't now.

00:08:44I just cannot wrap my head around the fact that that's really how Morgan's story ends.

00:08:53Like, I just don't get it.

00:08:54I don't get it.

00:08:56How somebody's so pure is just gone.

00:09:02Cora and Morgan met when they were both about seven years old.

00:09:06Morgan's mom, Cindy, married Cora's dad.

00:09:09And the two girls were suddenly siblings, blended together in a new family of 12 kids.

00:09:16I mean, that can go one of two ways, right?

00:09:19You can suddenly be put in this house with this other girl your age, and you're like, who are you?

00:09:24Or you can become great friends, and you became great friends.

00:09:27Yeah, absolutely.

00:09:28I remember literally meeting her and thinking, like, I just met my new best friend, and this is a friend

00:09:33that I get to live with, stay with.

00:09:35She doesn't have to go home.

00:09:36We get to share clothes.

00:09:38We don't have to return anything.

00:09:39She's just here with me all the time.

00:09:40Cora says Morgan was fun and had a knack for getting them both into trouble.

00:09:46I heard you teepeed a house once.

00:09:48Yes, we have toilet papered a house, and Morgan thought it was a great idea to ring the doorbell and

00:09:53wake them up so that they could see our lovely teepee job.

00:09:58And she was also unflinchingly kind, especially to those who needed a helping hand.

00:10:06The amount of animals that we brought home, the amount of trouble we got in on bringing said animals home,

00:10:12you know?

00:10:13She didn't care.

00:10:14No, not at all.

00:10:15Not at all.

00:10:16I remember we were set on starting a nonprofit to help animals.

00:10:22To help broken-winged birds.

00:10:23Yeah, we were going to have all the animals in the world, and we were just going to save everybody

00:10:27and give everybody a home.

00:10:28And if she saw someone being wronged, she would stand up for them.

00:10:33And if she thought she was being wronged, she would say something.

00:10:36Yeah, yeah.

00:10:37Morgan was very loud.

00:10:38You know, that's something she didn't hold back on.

00:10:40That was her beliefs.

00:10:42If she stand on it, she stood on it, and she was going to let you know about it.

00:10:46Morgan grew up quickly, pregnant at 20.

00:10:49She had a daughter, Amelia, Emmy for short.

00:10:53Morgan raised her as a single parent.

00:10:56When she landed an entry-level job as a package handler at FedEx,

00:11:01that was good news for a working mom.

00:11:04Working at FedEx was a big step up from what Morgan had been doing before.

00:11:07Yes, because she had had a lot of server jobs,

00:11:10so this was something that she's seen as an opportunity to better herself and her life for her and her

00:11:16daughter.

00:11:18Inside the FedEx facility, Morgan quickly made an impression.

00:11:22Within two years, she was promoted to manager.

00:11:26Her co-worker, Michelle Hanna, saw Morgan's value.

00:11:29She didn't tell someone what to do.

00:11:32She would get into trucks and move packages,

00:11:36showing other package handlers how to actually do it.

00:11:40Feels like exactly the kind of employee you want to hire and retain.

00:11:43Absolutely.

00:11:45Mickey Watkins started calling her Mary Poppins

00:11:49after Morgan helped her through a feminine hygiene crisis.

00:11:53She was like, what's wrong?

00:11:54Like, what happened?

00:11:55And I was like, I have no pads.

00:11:58Nothing.

00:11:58And she goes, gets somebody to cover my line,

00:12:02grabs this little backpack, and shoved her whole arm in.

00:12:05What'd she give you?

00:12:06She gave me a pad,

00:12:07and she handed me a little small bag of Cheez-Its and a Hershey's bar,

00:12:11and then said, do you need a Powerade so that you can get back to work and be hydrated?

00:12:16That's a great manager and a good friend.

00:12:18She was exceptional.

00:12:21FedEx is also where Morgan met the man who made that 911 call,

00:12:26Jason Skarnackia.

00:12:28Jason came out of the military and was a single parent, just like Morgan.

00:12:33I remember her saying that she met a guy at work,

00:12:36and that he was super sweet and super kind, but he had a daughter.

00:12:40And I remember thinking, like, I know that you would be a good person for his kid, too.

00:12:47At first, they kept their relationship quiet.

00:12:50When it became public, they decided it was best for one of them to leave FedEx.

00:12:57Both of them knew that they wanted to be together,

00:12:58so they agreed that Jason would get another job.

00:13:02In July 2020, they moved into that house together,

00:13:07and Morgan started to dream about a future.

00:13:11She really wanted to expand her family.

00:13:14You know, she wanted to own a house, get married, have more kids.

00:13:18She longed for that.

00:13:20Only three months after moving in,

00:13:23Morgan Fox was shot dead in her driveway.

00:13:27Investigators found a .22-caliber bullet lodged in her car door,

00:13:31and they noticed something else.

00:13:33When I look over here, there's actually a fresh set of tire tracks

00:13:39that had left indentations in the ground because it had been raining.

00:13:44Fresh mud had been flung all over the side of the fence.

00:13:49As if?

00:13:50As if someone had pulled out in a hurry and spun out.

00:13:55So you're thinking that's your killer making a getaway?

00:13:57Correct.

00:14:00Investigators also talked with the neighbors,

00:14:02who surprisingly had not seen or heard anything at 2 a.m.

00:14:08It's got to be dead quiet here at that hour.

00:14:10It's a very quiet neighborhood.

00:14:12It's dark, not a lot of street lights.

00:14:15Nobody hears a gunshot?

00:14:16Correct.

00:14:17Including her boyfriend, who's right here?

00:14:19Yes.

00:14:20Or at least that's what he says.

00:14:21He doesn't hear anything.

00:14:22That's what he told us.

00:14:24It's safe to say that wouldn't be the last eyebrow-raising thing

00:14:29about Jason Skarnecchia.

00:14:32There's very distinct things that you're doing that are not normal.

00:14:50If there's a handbook for how you're supposed to act

00:14:54when your girlfriend is murdered,

00:14:56Jason Skarnecchia did not follow it.

00:14:59When we spoke with Jason, he wasn't super upset.

00:15:03He didn't exhibit signs of being hysterical or anything like that.

00:15:09And he sounds pretty calm on that 911 call.

00:15:11He was pretty calm on the 911 call.

00:15:14She's bleeding from her head.

00:15:15It looks like it, yeah.

00:15:17But we kind of kept in mind people handle stress differently.

00:15:21His lack of emotion was not the only thing

00:15:24that caught investigators' attention.

00:15:27When we wanted him to come to the sheriff's office for an interview,

00:15:31he said that he wanted to get a pair of socks.

00:15:34And at that point in time for scene preservation,

00:15:38we told him we couldn't just allow him to go through the residence,

00:15:41that we would retrieve them for him.

00:15:43And he decided not to wear any socks to the sheriff's office.

00:15:49Suggesting he doesn't want you looking through his bedroom?

00:15:51Correct.

00:15:52Well, that must have made you sit up a little taller.

00:15:55That's our first red flag.

00:15:59Jason, my name's Craig Kennedy.

00:16:01Within an hour, a sockless Jason

00:16:03was sitting face-to-face with Detective Kennedy

00:16:07at the sheriff's office.

00:16:08How long have you guys been dating?

00:16:10How long have you lived together?

00:16:12Dating since August of last year.

00:16:14And how does he see him in that interview?

00:16:16In the interview, he was relatively calm.

00:16:18Jason walked the investigator through the previous 12 hours.

00:16:23He said he and Morgan had dinner at home.

00:16:26Then Morgan dropped off her daughter at her mom Cindy's house,

00:16:30where she sometimes slept when Morgan had to get up early for work.

00:16:34So once she comes back home, what happens?

00:16:40I was in the bedroom.

00:16:41She goes, hey, I need to use your laptop.

00:16:43She's typing her email.

00:16:44I eat an apple.

00:16:45And I said, hey, all right, I'm going to bed.

00:16:47She goes, okay, I'll be in soon.

00:16:50Jason said he went to sleep

00:16:51and was only half-conscious when Morgan got out of bed

00:16:55around 1.30 a.m.

00:16:58She goes, I'm getting ready for work.

00:16:59I was like, oh, okay, that's right.

00:17:01I'm about to sleep.

00:17:02Jason said he did not hear the gunfire

00:17:05that killed his girlfriend.

00:17:08You sleep with earplugs in, anything like that?

00:17:11You guys sleep with the pan on, anything like that?

00:17:14No.

00:17:15You never heard any gunshots last night?

00:17:17No, I didn't.

00:17:19Jason said he woke up about five

00:17:21and at first did not notice anything unusual.

00:17:25Then he glanced out the window

00:17:27and saw Morgan's car still in the driveway.

00:17:31I was like, okay, that's really weird.

00:17:34So I went to my room, put on some clothes,

00:17:38tried a flashlight and went out there.

00:17:41That's when he said he found her.

00:17:43I was like, kind of shook her head a little bit.

00:17:45Morgan, poor Morgan.

00:17:47Morgan, he's like, are you awake, Morgan?

00:17:49Hello, Morgan, Morgan.

00:17:50I was shaking her a little bit.

00:17:51Checked her pulse, checked her wrist.

00:17:54Couldn't find a pulse.

00:17:56She was really cold.

00:17:59Ran inside, up to my bedroom,

00:18:01grabbed my phone, went outside

00:18:02and called 911.

00:18:04Is your relationship good with Morgan?

00:18:08Absolutely.

00:18:08No issues whatsoever?

00:18:10We're fine.

00:18:11We're blending a family, so we're fine.

00:18:14There were challenges.

00:18:16Investigators did talk to Morgan's mom,

00:18:18who indicated that they were having some struggles

00:18:21in their relationship.

00:18:23Her mom paints a little less rosy picture

00:18:25of that relationship than the boyfriend does.

00:18:27Correct.

00:18:28Did you guys ever get physical with each other?

00:18:30No physical violence at all?

00:18:32No.

00:18:33Well, a text on Morgan's phone suggested that wasn't true.

00:18:38Morgan had gotten physical with him

00:18:40during a fight just two weeks earlier.

00:18:43There was one text message that was in there

00:18:46where Jason indicated that he would never forgive Morgan

00:18:51for what she did,

00:18:53and ultimately that was because

00:18:55she had either, like, pushed or swatted at him.

00:18:59And even though Jason handed over his phone willingly,

00:19:03he hesitated

00:19:04when Detective Kennedy asked to access it.

00:19:08Do you have a passcode on your phone?

00:19:10I do.

00:19:10You do.

00:19:11What's that passcode?

00:19:13Do I have to give you my passcode?

00:19:14This interview wasn't going well for Jason.

00:19:18Detective Kennedy told him exactly what he was thinking.

00:19:22There's very distinct things that you're doing

00:19:25that are not normal.

00:19:27Okay.

00:19:28Okay?

00:19:28We call them red flags.

00:19:30He asked why Jason had been so reluctant

00:19:33to let investigators look through his bedroom.

00:19:36In the drawer above my sock drawer,

00:19:37I have a little bit of marijuana.

00:19:39Okay.

00:19:39In the grand scheme of things, Jason,

00:19:41do you think I give two s*** about a little bit of marijuana?

00:19:44It's like, I give up, yeah.

00:19:45I know.

00:19:46So, second question,

00:19:48what do you have on your phone that you're not real fun?

00:19:52I have nothing.

00:19:53I was just asking.

00:19:54Okay.

00:19:55Because the typical reaction during a homicide

00:19:58when your girlfriend you're in love with, I presume,

00:20:02is what do you need?

00:20:03Whatever it takes.

00:20:04Right.

00:20:05You know what I'm saying?

00:20:05I'm sure.

00:20:06You didn't shoot, Morgan?

00:20:08No.

00:20:10Absolutely not.

00:20:11What did you tell me if you did?

00:20:13Yes, I would tell you if I did.

00:20:17After the recording ended, Kennedy says,

00:20:20Jason broke down.

00:20:21At the end of the interview,

00:20:23he did exhibit some emotions

00:20:25which we would expect from someone

00:20:27that's kind of in shock

00:20:29and after everything finally hits them.

00:20:34So, was he telling the truth?

00:20:37Morgan's family believed he was.

00:20:41I think that it's normal to think that, like,

00:20:43boyfriend, you know, jealousy.

00:20:46Something goes wrong in the relationship?

00:20:48Yeah, absolutely.

00:20:49Did you ever wonder about Jason?

00:20:50I never thought it was really Jason Skardecchia.

00:20:52He cared too much about Morgan.

00:20:54The Jason the family saw was devastated.

00:20:59Morgan's mom pointed Sheriff's investigators

00:21:01in a new direction.

00:21:04The first thing out of Cindy's mouth was,

00:21:06go to FedEx.

00:21:07FedEx is how this happened.

00:21:21As far as investigators could tell,

00:21:24Morgan Fox was a woman with no enemies.

00:21:29There was no obvious place to begin

00:21:32the search for her killer.

00:21:35Except, according to her mom,

00:21:38maybe one.

00:21:39The first thing out of Cindy's mouth was,

00:21:42go to FedEx.

00:21:43FedEx is how this happened.

00:21:45FedEx, the job Morgan had been so excited to land.

00:21:49Her family says she had been happy

00:21:52working at the sorting facility

00:21:53for a couple of years.

00:21:56Then, everything changed.

00:21:59Some of her colleagues didn't like it

00:22:01when Morgan was promoted to manager.

00:22:04I think it just put a big target on her back.

00:22:06And she was young.

00:22:07And I think that it just rubbed them the wrong way

00:22:09and kind of made a few people upset.

00:22:12It wasn't just one person.

00:22:13It was a couple of people

00:22:14that were rubbed the wrong way.

00:22:15Yeah.

00:22:15Because this, what,

00:22:17young, attractive woman

00:22:18was suddenly in charge.

00:22:19Yeah.

00:22:21Detective Kennedy discovered

00:22:22Morgan's workplace

00:22:24had very quickly become the place

00:22:26where she was least comfortable.

00:22:29She had recently been having some problems

00:22:32with other co-workers,

00:22:33male co-workers,

00:22:35that she felt she was being treated unfairly

00:22:38and harassed by.

00:22:39What kind of behavior are we talking about?

00:22:41It appeared that they were playing jokes on her

00:22:43by moving her chair,

00:22:45hiding items,

00:22:47and taking clipboards from her desk.

00:22:49Morgan's co-worker, Michelle,

00:22:51says the warehouse

00:22:52wasn't exactly a comfortable place

00:22:55for women to work.

00:22:57I mean, it's a warehouse,

00:22:58so you walk into a big building

00:23:00and you feel like, as a female,

00:23:03I felt small walking around

00:23:06and then people staring

00:23:08and maybe making comments.

00:23:10So I know that Morgan experienced that

00:23:13because she actually told me,

00:23:14you know, that people were making comments

00:23:17as she walked by

00:23:18or staring at her.

00:23:20What picture emerged

00:23:21of the culture at FedEx?

00:23:23Throughout our investigation,

00:23:25it actually appeared

00:23:27that harassment at that point in time

00:23:30in that facility

00:23:31was a common practice,

00:23:33especially from male co-workers

00:23:35towards women co-workers.

00:23:37It was like a frat house.

00:23:38Yes, correct.

00:23:39Were you aware

00:23:41that men who worked there

00:23:42were jealous

00:23:43that Morgan had gotten

00:23:44that promotion to manager?

00:23:45Oh, yeah, I knew that.

00:23:46There was quite a few people

00:23:47that made it verbally known

00:23:49that they did not like

00:23:51the fact that she was

00:23:52in that position.

00:23:53The one manager,

00:23:54he said she only got it

00:23:56because she was pretty.

00:23:58I was like, okay.

00:24:00Three weeks before Morgan was killed,

00:24:03she had apparently reached

00:24:05a breaking point.

00:24:06One of her co-workers

00:24:08took her personal cell phone.

00:24:11She didn't know who.

00:24:13After she was looking around

00:24:14for her phone,

00:24:15it was just told to her

00:24:17that a group of guys

00:24:18had the phone,

00:24:20kind of like phone tag.

00:24:21Like, I don't have it,

00:24:22they have it.

00:24:22I don't have it,

00:24:23they have it.

00:24:24She finally found her phone

00:24:25in the hands of a co-worker

00:24:27she considered a friend,

00:24:29and it was unlocked.

00:24:32Morgan could tell

00:24:33someone had gone through it.

00:24:36In tears,

00:24:37she went to Michelle.

00:24:38What was on the phone

00:24:39that made her so concerned?

00:24:41She had said that

00:24:42they had looked at her

00:24:42personal phone

00:24:43and private pictures.

00:24:46Right, and she felt

00:24:47violated by that.

00:24:48She definitely felt violated.

00:24:50Morgan told Michelle

00:24:51she had complained

00:24:52to management,

00:24:53but almost two weeks

00:24:54had gone by

00:24:55and she hadn't heard

00:24:56a response.

00:24:58What Morgan did hear

00:24:59was that she had violated

00:25:02the FedEx dress code.

00:25:05She was given a form

00:25:06of the dress code

00:25:08so that she could be told

00:25:09she should be wearing khakis

00:25:11instead of leggings,

00:25:12and it seemed

00:25:14disgusting to me

00:25:15that she's asking

00:25:16for some resolution

00:25:18and she's instead

00:25:19getting reprimanded.

00:25:20She stuck up for herself

00:25:22and she said

00:25:23the dress code policy

00:25:24also says

00:25:25no ball caps

00:25:27and all of the male managers

00:25:29wear hats.

00:25:30So that dress code

00:25:31was enforced for women

00:25:32but not for men?

00:25:34Apparently.

00:25:36Michelle was an administrator

00:25:37who sometimes advised employees

00:25:40on workplace issues.

00:25:42She had heard enough.

00:25:44On Morgan's behalf,

00:25:45she sent an email

00:25:47to FedEx's off-site

00:25:48human resources department.

00:25:50I explained about the phone,

00:25:53how nothing had been done.

00:25:54I explained the dress code incident

00:25:58where she's not

00:25:59to wear leggings and...

00:26:00Anything come of that?

00:26:02No.

00:26:03No.

00:26:04And she would ask me

00:26:06day to day,

00:26:07have you heard anything?

00:26:08Morgan would ask you.

00:26:09And I, yeah,

00:26:10and I said,

00:26:11have you heard anything?

00:26:12And she didn't hear

00:26:14anything either.

00:26:16As we know,

00:26:17Morgan Fox

00:26:18was not one

00:26:19to back down.

00:26:21She wrote her own email

00:26:23to HR

00:26:24after talking

00:26:25with Michelle

00:26:25one last time.

00:26:27We had talked

00:26:28on the phone

00:26:29that evening

00:26:30and I said,

00:26:32I think that

00:26:33HR needs to hear

00:26:34from you personally

00:26:35instead of getting

00:26:36the email from me.

00:26:38Morgan hit send

00:26:39around 11 p.m.

00:26:41At 7.50 a.m.

00:26:43the next day,

00:26:44HR responded,

00:26:46asking to talk.

00:26:48Except by that time,

00:26:50Morgan Fox

00:26:51had been murdered

00:26:52in her driveway.

00:26:54Were you thinking

00:26:55it was someone

00:26:55from FedEx?

00:26:56I'm thinking,

00:26:57well,

00:26:57who would have done that?

00:26:59I was like,

00:26:59would somebody

00:27:00have taken her life?

00:27:02Like,

00:27:02would somebody

00:27:03get that upset

00:27:04over her complaint

00:27:05and really do that?

00:27:08Investigators

00:27:08were wondering

00:27:09the exact same thing.

00:27:11And suddenly,

00:27:13they had a warehouse

00:27:14full of people

00:27:15to talk with.

00:27:16So I'm going to ask you

00:27:17a very direct question,

00:27:18did you shoot her

00:27:19in the back of that?

00:27:33After Morgan's murder,

00:27:35her Aunt Chris

00:27:35arrived in Canton.

00:27:38Morgan's mom,

00:27:39Cindy,

00:27:39was waiting for her

00:27:40in the front yard.

00:27:41When I get there

00:27:43and I get out of the car

00:27:45and she just crumbles

00:27:46and starts crying,

00:27:49Cindy never cried.

00:27:51So,

00:27:52it was really hard.

00:27:55Cora drove in, too,

00:27:57trying to prepare herself

00:27:59for what was coming.

00:28:01I've never lost anybody

00:28:02besides grandparents,

00:28:03so I also,

00:28:04you know,

00:28:05was like,

00:28:05I have to be strong.

00:28:06I'm going to keep,

00:28:07keep it together.

00:28:09She failed to do that

00:28:10when she took Morgan's daughter

00:28:12to the house

00:28:13to pick up some clothes.

00:28:15The lunch Morgan

00:28:17had packed for work

00:28:18was still lying there

00:28:19on the pavement.

00:28:20I remember pulling up

00:28:22to the house

00:28:23and seeing the water bottle

00:28:25and the pot pie

00:28:26still in the driveway

00:28:28and knowing that,

00:28:30you know,

00:28:3036 hours ago

00:28:32Morgan was still alive

00:28:33and standing right

00:28:34in that same spot

00:28:36and dropping those items

00:28:38because she was shot dead

00:28:39is something

00:28:41that I literally see

00:28:42in my sleep.

00:28:42It is something

00:28:43that sticks with me forever

00:28:45and I hate it.

00:28:48At the sheriff's office,

00:28:50investigators now focused

00:28:52on the FedEx workforce

00:28:53of which Morgan

00:28:55had been part.

00:28:56In her complaint

00:28:58to Human Resources,

00:28:59she had named

00:29:00several co-workers.

00:29:02One of them

00:29:03was the guy Morgan found

00:29:05holding her phone,

00:29:07Jason McDermott.

00:29:08When we first started

00:29:11looking at Jason McDermott,

00:29:12we did some social media searches

00:29:14and we observed

00:29:17his profile picture

00:29:19was him posing with a cat.

00:29:21We looked at each other

00:29:23and we were like,

00:29:24this isn't our guy.

00:29:26Single guys with cats.

00:29:28Single men with cats

00:29:29don't commit murder.

00:29:30Cat lover or not,

00:29:32they had to look into him.

00:29:35Jason McDermott

00:29:36was also buddies

00:29:37with Mickey Watkins.

00:29:39He'd helped her

00:29:39get the hang of the job.

00:29:41What made you guys

00:29:42close friends?

00:29:44Jason was a really good trainer.

00:29:45He knew how to be helpful

00:29:48and keep you going

00:29:50pretty much throughout the day

00:29:51and he had the same interests

00:29:53as me.

00:29:54I wasn't a gamer

00:29:55but my son was.

00:29:57So he could tell me stuff

00:29:58about video games

00:29:59and that made me

00:30:00a better, cooler mom

00:30:01to my son.

00:30:03Jason,

00:30:04hello.

00:30:04We ended up meeting

00:30:05with him

00:30:08and he was very quiet,

00:30:11calm,

00:30:14almost nerdy.

00:30:17He was very helpful.

00:30:19How did this nerdy cat owner

00:30:21describe his relationship

00:30:22with Morgan?

00:30:23As best friends.

00:30:26He said that they talked

00:30:27to each other quite often

00:30:29which we verified

00:30:30through their text messages

00:30:32to one another.

00:30:33You guys get along good

00:30:34at work?

00:30:35We were friends

00:30:36before she was the manager.

00:30:37Basically when one of us

00:30:38was having a bad day

00:30:38at Brownlee,

00:30:39we were the person

00:30:39that we would go to

00:30:40and vent about that type

00:30:41of stuff.

00:30:42She's been having issues

00:30:43on the morning shifts

00:30:43with a lot of people

00:30:44so she was venting

00:30:45to me about that.

00:30:46So I'm going to take you

00:30:47to an incident

00:30:48that happened

00:30:49a couple weeks ago.

00:30:50This phone incident

00:30:51and I know you already

00:30:52know what I'm talking about.

00:30:53I need to talk about this,

00:30:53I guess.

00:30:54Well, we have to talk about it.

00:30:56I'm aware.

00:30:57Jason explained

00:30:58what happened.

00:30:59He said he wasn't the one

00:31:01who originally

00:31:02took her phone.

00:31:03Jason said he found it

00:31:05in the hands

00:31:05of a co-worker

00:31:06and got upset

00:31:08when he realized

00:31:09it was unlocked.

00:31:10So the screen was open,

00:31:11I saw her

00:31:12was open

00:31:15so I was obviously

00:31:16unhappy about that

00:31:17immediately.

00:31:18Then, instead of

00:31:19just returning it

00:31:20to Morgan,

00:31:22Jason admitted

00:31:22he did something stupid.

00:31:24Upon taking it

00:31:25back up to my workstation,

00:31:26I let my emotions

00:31:28get the better of me.

00:31:29I made the dumbest

00:31:29big of sitting there

00:31:30like, alright,

00:31:31I want to know

00:31:31what the hell

00:31:32he was looking at.

00:31:33So I turned on her phone

00:31:34and I regrettably

00:31:35looked through

00:31:36a few of her files.

00:31:37I saw one

00:31:38where she was

00:31:39in her brown underwear

00:31:40and I was like,

00:31:40as soon as I saw that,

00:31:41I clicked out of it

00:31:43because that wasn't

00:31:44our relationship.

00:31:45I panicked,

00:31:46closed everything

00:31:47on the phone,

00:31:47gave it back to her

00:31:48and then I told her,

00:31:49hey, I found it like that.

00:31:51Later, when he saw

00:31:52how upset Morgan was,

00:31:54he says his conscience

00:31:56got the better of him.

00:31:57I admitted to her

00:31:58what I did

00:31:58and she obviously

00:31:59wasn't happy about it

00:32:00but I can't blame her

00:32:01for that either.

00:32:02FedEx management

00:32:03did speak with Jason.

00:32:05They told him

00:32:06to respect the privacy

00:32:07of others

00:32:07and that he would

00:32:08be fired

00:32:09if it happened again.

00:32:11Jason tried to apologize

00:32:13but Morgan

00:32:14wasn't getting over it.

00:32:16She blocked him

00:32:17on social media.

00:32:18His story believable?

00:32:20Yeah, his story

00:32:20to us did make sense.

00:32:23Still, the detective

00:32:24probed a little more

00:32:26into their relationship.

00:32:27Did you ever want

00:32:29something romantically

00:32:30with her?

00:32:30No.

00:32:31You didn't?

00:32:32No.

00:32:32Do you have a girlfriend?

00:32:33Currently, no.

00:32:34You don't?

00:32:35No.

00:32:35He did say

00:32:36he had his eyes

00:32:37on someone else.

00:32:38There's another girl

00:32:40that I'm interested in.

00:32:40There's another girl

00:32:41that you've been talking to.

00:32:42The name of Mickey.

00:32:44You've already met Mickey.

00:32:45When he was being interrogated,

00:32:47Jason told police

00:32:48that he was interested in you.

00:32:50Do you ever get

00:32:51any sense of that?

00:32:52I did get sense of that.

00:32:54I actually sent him

00:32:55a long text message

00:32:56and told him

00:32:57I'm not interested in that.

00:32:59Then, the detective

00:33:00got to the point.

00:33:01So I'm going to ask you

00:33:02a very direct question.

00:33:03Did you shoot her

00:33:04in the back of that?

00:33:04No.

00:33:06So your phone

00:33:07that you have,

00:33:08is that phone

00:33:09going to show you

00:33:10at all

00:33:10at Morgan's house

00:33:11last night?

00:33:12No.

00:33:13It's not?

00:33:14No.

00:33:16Where were you

00:33:16last night?

00:33:18At home.

00:33:18He stated

00:33:19that he was at home

00:33:20and he had never

00:33:22left home that evening

00:33:23and he also

00:33:25had to get up

00:33:27for work

00:33:28at approximately

00:33:292.30 a.m.

00:33:31and he drove

00:33:31straight to work.

00:33:32Does he willingly

00:33:33give you his cell phone?

00:33:35Jason did willingly

00:33:36give us his cell phone

00:33:38to look through.

00:33:39Which sort of

00:33:40by itself

00:33:41kind of says a lot.

00:33:42Correct.

00:33:43And sure enough,

00:33:44his alibi

00:33:45checked out.

00:33:46You checked

00:33:47his cell phone

00:33:48tracking data.

00:33:49We did check

00:33:50his cell phone data

00:33:51and it showed

00:33:52that it never

00:33:53left his residence.

00:33:55There's nothing

00:33:56like a good alibi

00:33:57to take you

00:33:57off the board.

00:33:59At the same time,

00:34:00Jason had a hunch

00:34:02as to who

00:34:03the killer might be.

00:34:05Who was the first

00:34:06thing that

00:34:06popped in your mind?

00:34:08Colin.

00:34:09He was one

00:34:10of the other guys

00:34:11Morgan thought

00:34:12might have swiped

00:34:13her phone.

00:34:14Why?

00:34:15Jealousy.

00:34:16Colin wanted her.

00:34:17Okay.

00:34:17Big time.

00:34:31In the aftermath

00:34:32of Morgan Fox's

00:34:34death,

00:34:34the FedEx facility

00:34:36where she had

00:34:37worked and succeeded

00:34:38became where

00:34:40investigators hoped

00:34:41to do the same.

00:34:43Suddenly,

00:34:44your workplace

00:34:45has turned upside down.

00:34:47And is in the middle

00:34:48of a murder investigation.

00:34:50Yes.

00:34:50Anybody getting

00:34:51any work done

00:34:51that week?

00:34:52Everyone's expected

00:34:53to, but no,

00:34:55it's really

00:34:56uncomfortable.

00:34:57For me,

00:34:58I was scared.

00:35:00I was afraid

00:35:02that maybe

00:35:03there would be

00:35:04retaliation against me.

00:35:06Just because

00:35:06of you helping

00:35:08Morgan out?

00:35:09Just because

00:35:09I had known

00:35:11what was going on.

00:35:12On top of that,

00:35:14Michelle thought

00:35:15her bosses

00:35:16were angry

00:35:16at her

00:35:17for not doing

00:35:19more.

00:35:20Three of them

00:35:21took me into

00:35:21the conference room

00:35:23and started grilling

00:35:24me about

00:35:25what's going on.

00:35:26And I said,

00:35:27I don't know.

00:35:28I told them

00:35:29the situation

00:35:30from my perspective

00:35:31of she came to me,

00:35:33she was upset,

00:35:35nobody was doing

00:35:35anything about

00:35:36the situation

00:35:37with her phone,

00:35:38I don't know

00:35:40what's happened,

00:35:42but...

00:35:43but she's dead.

00:35:44But she's dead.

00:35:47And I felt

00:35:48that they were

00:35:49blaming me,

00:35:50that they kept

00:35:51questioning me.

00:35:52And I told them

00:35:53that I reached out

00:35:53to HR

00:35:54and nothing

00:35:55had happened.

00:35:57So what?

00:35:58Why are you

00:35:59pointing the finger

00:36:00at me?

00:36:01Like, it's my fault.

00:36:02You have any theory

00:36:03of your own

00:36:04about what had happened?

00:36:05Did you think

00:36:06it was connected

00:36:06to FedEx?

00:36:07Yeah, I knew

00:36:08there was a connection

00:36:09to FedEx,

00:36:10but I, um,

00:36:12my mind was open

00:36:13to many different people.

00:36:17Mickey Watkins

00:36:18says the warehouse gossip

00:36:20revolved around

00:36:21one name.

00:36:22What were people

00:36:23at work saying

00:36:24about who the killer

00:36:25might be?

00:36:26They all thought

00:36:27it was Colin.

00:36:29Colin is Colin

00:36:30McCauley,

00:36:31Morgan's manager,

00:36:32and one of the people

00:36:33she thought

00:36:34might have taken

00:36:35her phone.

00:36:36Mickey says

00:36:37it was not exactly

00:36:38a FedEx secret

00:36:40that he had a crush

00:36:41on Morgan.

00:36:43She was a very

00:36:43pretty girl,

00:36:44long blonde hair.

00:36:46If we were back

00:36:46in high school,

00:36:47she was the head

00:36:48cheerleader

00:36:48that everybody

00:36:49wanted to get with.

00:36:50And she was kind

00:36:51on top of it.

00:36:52So he had it bad

00:36:54for her.

00:36:54He really wanted

00:36:55to date her.

00:36:56That was Colin.

00:36:57Yes.

00:36:58He tried,

00:37:00and it just

00:37:00was like,

00:37:01no, I don't,

00:37:02I don't want that.

00:37:03I have a boyfriend.

00:37:04Jason McDermott

00:37:05also told

00:37:06the sheriff's office

00:37:07all about Colin.

00:37:09Who was the first

00:37:09name that popped

00:37:10in your mind

00:37:10when I said

00:37:11somebody shot her

00:37:12in the back of the head?

00:37:13Colin.

00:37:14Why?

00:37:15Jealousy.

00:37:17Way back when,

00:37:18before she started

00:37:19dating Jason Skarnickia,

00:37:21her boyfriend,

00:37:23Colin wanted her.

00:37:25Okay.

00:37:25Big time.

00:37:26Okay.

00:37:26And he's obviously

00:37:27ever since been

00:37:28very upset

00:37:29that Jason won.

00:37:31Adding to the

00:37:32speculation.

00:37:33Mickey says

00:37:34she didn't see

00:37:35Colin for a couple

00:37:36of days after

00:37:37Morgan was killed.

00:37:39At some point

00:37:40he comes back in.

00:37:41Yes.

00:37:41But he's different.

00:37:43Definitely different.

00:37:44He came back

00:37:44and he looked

00:37:46depressed.

00:37:46And he always

00:37:47had his,

00:37:48like,

00:37:48had like a snow cap

00:37:49on,

00:37:50like a hat.

00:37:51And then he'd

00:37:51have his hood up

00:37:52over it.

00:37:52And he wasn't

00:37:54talking to anybody.

00:37:55He wasn't doing

00:37:56what he normally did.

00:37:57He just looked,

00:37:58I'm here,

00:37:59I'm just going

00:37:59to work

00:38:00and that's it

00:38:00and be monotone.

00:38:02Investigators

00:38:03sat down

00:38:04with Colin

00:38:04for an interview.

00:38:05It was not

00:38:07videotaped.

00:38:08Colin was

00:38:09Morgan's

00:38:10direct manager.

00:38:11He was.

00:38:12Detective

00:38:12Brian Johnson

00:38:13assisted with

00:38:14the investigation.

00:38:15Also one of

00:38:16the people

00:38:17she suspected

00:38:18of taking

00:38:18her phone.

00:38:19Correct.

00:38:20He was.

00:38:21And he also

00:38:22pretty clearly

00:38:23at one time

00:38:23had a significant

00:38:24crush on her.

00:38:25He did.

00:38:26And that was

00:38:27clear in messages

00:38:28between him

00:38:29and Morgan

00:38:29as well.

00:38:30One thing

00:38:31he did tell us

00:38:32during his interview

00:38:33was that

00:38:33once he found

00:38:34out that

00:38:35Morgan was

00:38:36moving in

00:38:37with Jason

00:38:38Skarnecchia

00:38:38and it was

00:38:39serious,

00:38:40that he

00:38:41apologized to

00:38:42her and

00:38:43wasn't going

00:38:44to try and

00:38:44pursue a

00:38:45relationship

00:38:45with her.

00:38:46Colin also

00:38:47denied ever

00:38:49taking Morgan's

00:38:50phone.

00:38:50Colin did

00:38:51tell her

00:38:51that her phone

00:38:52was on one

00:38:53of the work

00:38:53stations.

00:38:54He said

00:38:55he moved it.

00:38:56That's all I

00:38:56did.

00:38:57He never went

00:38:57through it.

00:38:58And there

00:38:58was no video

00:38:59to show him

00:39:00taking her phone

00:39:01or browsing

00:39:02through it

00:39:03that we got

00:39:03from FedEx.

00:39:04Anything in

00:39:05Colin's phone

00:39:06or text messages

00:39:07that made you

00:39:07think his story

00:39:08wasn't the same

00:39:09one you were

00:39:10being given?

00:39:11There was nothing

00:39:13surrounding Colin

00:39:14that would give

00:39:14us any indication

00:39:15that he was

00:39:17involved in this.

00:39:18He had messages

00:39:18with her

00:39:19that consisted

00:39:20of maybe

00:39:21going out

00:39:22for drinks

00:39:22or going

00:39:23out as friends.

00:39:24Once he learned

00:39:25about Jason

00:39:26Skarnecchia

00:39:26that turned

00:39:27strictly

00:39:28to work

00:39:29related

00:39:30conversations.

00:39:32All of that

00:39:33seemed to clear

00:39:34Colin McAuley.

00:39:36There was

00:39:37another FedEx

00:39:38manager

00:39:39to talk with.

00:39:40We would get

00:39:41together

00:39:41and have some

00:39:41drinks.

00:39:42It wasn't like

00:39:43her and I

00:39:43were dating.

00:39:44He was not

00:39:45happy being

00:39:45questioned

00:39:46about Morgan's

00:39:47death.

00:40:01After Morgan

00:40:02Fox's murder

00:40:03her sister

00:40:04Cora and

00:40:05mom Cindy

00:40:05had to make

00:40:06arrangements.

00:40:07That's a very

00:40:09sterile word

00:40:10for planning

00:40:10someone's funeral.

00:40:12Cindy said

00:40:13we need to

00:40:14pick out

00:40:14what she's

00:40:15going to

00:40:16get buried

00:40:17in.

00:40:17I should

00:40:17not be

00:40:18picking out

00:40:19the outfit

00:40:20that my

00:40:21sister

00:40:22for her

00:40:23funeral.

00:40:23That shouldn't

00:40:24be happening.

00:40:25It was the

00:40:26fall of 2020,

00:40:27the middle

00:40:28of the

00:40:28COVID pandemic.

00:40:29A difficult

00:40:30time for a

00:40:31lot of

00:40:32families to

00:40:32gather,

00:40:33even harder

00:40:34to mourn.

00:40:36It's the

00:40:36six feet

00:40:37rule.

00:40:38It's that

00:40:38we're only

00:40:39allowed in

00:40:39there for

00:40:4020 minutes.

00:40:40It's that

00:40:41people aren't

00:40:41supposed to

00:40:42be gathering.

00:40:42The service

00:40:43was open

00:40:44casket.

00:40:45What I saw

00:40:46in that

00:40:46casket is

00:40:47also something

00:40:48that I can

00:40:48never unsee.

00:40:49Her hair

00:40:50still had

00:40:51blood in it

00:40:52and her mom

00:40:53showed me

00:40:53that.

00:40:54I'll never

00:40:55forget that.

00:40:56And you're

00:40:57still thinking

00:40:57about it?

00:40:58Mm-hmm.

00:40:59Yeah.

00:40:59It breaks

00:41:00my heart.

00:41:01Morgan's

00:41:02eight-year-old

00:41:02daughter,

00:41:03Emmy,

00:41:03was there

00:41:04and she

00:41:05carried

00:41:05something with

00:41:06her.

00:41:07Emmy and

00:41:08her mom

00:41:09played a game

00:41:10pretending like

00:41:11they would be

00:41:11sleeping in

00:41:12the Vicks

00:41:14vapo sticks.

00:41:15They would

00:41:15put it under

00:41:16their noses

00:41:17and pretend

00:41:18like, you

00:41:18know,

00:41:18Emmy would

00:41:19wake her

00:41:20up.

00:41:20And Emmy

00:41:21took it

00:41:22with her

00:41:23to the

00:41:23funeral home

00:41:25because she

00:41:26thought if

00:41:26she would

00:41:28wave that

00:41:29under her

00:41:29nose,

00:41:29she'd

00:41:30wake up.

00:41:32It was

00:41:32a heartbreaking

00:41:33moment.

00:41:34And with

00:41:35Morgan's killer

00:41:36still at large,

00:41:37there was also

00:41:38an undercurrent of

00:41:39fear at the

00:41:40funeral.

00:41:41To know that

00:41:42the person

00:41:42responsible is

00:41:43still walking

00:41:43the streets,

00:41:44you're not

00:41:44sleeping,

00:41:45you're wondering

00:41:46how, who,

00:41:47where are

00:41:48they?

00:41:48And why?

00:41:49And why?

00:41:51Detectives were

00:41:52working to answer

00:41:53those questions

00:41:54and they received

00:41:55a significant

00:41:56tip.

00:41:57A person that

00:41:58wanted to remain

00:41:59anonymous claimed

00:42:00they worked at

00:42:01FedEx and there

00:42:02were some rumors

00:42:03about Morgan Fox

00:42:05and David

00:42:06DiNarda having

00:42:06an affair.

00:42:07This person was

00:42:08claiming that

00:42:09that affair was

00:42:10the cause of

00:42:12David DiNarda's

00:42:12recent divorce.

00:42:13David DiNarda

00:42:14was another

00:42:15manager at

00:42:16FedEx.

00:42:17Detective Johnson

00:42:18tracked him down

00:42:19at his sister's

00:42:20house, where

00:42:21DiNarda had been

00:42:22staying since his

00:42:23divorce.

00:42:24He's not happy

00:42:25to see you.

00:42:26Right.

00:42:26He was not

00:42:26happy with

00:42:29being questioned

00:42:30about Morgan's

00:42:31death.

00:42:31He was especially

00:42:33not happy about

00:42:34us taking his

00:42:35cell phone,

00:42:35especially his

00:42:36FedEx phone.

00:42:37My name's

00:42:37Sergeant Kennedy,

00:42:40Detective Kennedy

00:42:41conducted the

00:42:42interview and he

00:42:43did not pull his

00:42:44punches.

00:42:45I don't care

00:42:46what's on your

00:42:46phone, other than

00:42:48the fact of

00:42:48whether or not

00:42:49you were having

00:42:50conversations, had

00:42:51some type of

00:42:52relationship with

00:42:53Morgan going on.

00:42:54What I'd like to

00:42:55do is get a

00:42:55consent from you

00:42:57to go through

00:42:58your phone.

00:42:59We have a little

00:42:59machine.

00:43:00It got wiped

00:43:01two days ago.

00:43:03You wiped it

00:43:04two days ago?

00:43:04I was at my

00:43:06girlfriend's house

00:43:07and my phone

00:43:08popped up and

00:43:09said, your

00:43:10fingerprint sensor

00:43:11doesn't work,

00:43:11type in your

00:43:12code.

00:43:12I did it three

00:43:13times and it

00:43:13said erasing

00:43:14phone.

00:43:14My phone

00:43:15told me.

00:43:15We ended up

00:43:16finding that

00:43:17there was

00:43:17information and

00:43:18data that had

00:43:19been cleared

00:43:20off of it.

00:43:21Suspicious?

00:43:22Uh, yeah.

00:43:24Except,

00:43:25Denarda offered

00:43:26an alibi.

00:43:27Where did he say

00:43:28that he was when

00:43:29Morgan was killed?

00:43:30He actually had

00:43:31been having

00:43:32dinner with some

00:43:33family members

00:43:33and then went

00:43:34to bed.

00:43:35I mean,

00:43:35almost everybody's

00:43:37alibi is going to

00:43:38be, I was in

00:43:38bed, right?

00:43:40Yes, at that

00:43:40time of night.

00:43:41There was a

00:43:42glitch in

00:43:43Denarda's alibi.

00:43:44He said his

00:43:46girlfriend was

00:43:47also at the

00:43:48dinner.

00:43:49Except,

00:43:50his sister told

00:43:51detectives he

00:43:53didn't have a

00:43:53girlfriend.

00:43:54Why would your

00:43:55sister say she

00:43:56has no idea about

00:43:57you having a

00:43:57girlfriend?

00:43:58My sister?

00:44:00That's what I'm

00:44:01being told.

00:44:01Does your sister

00:44:02know that you

00:44:02guys are dating

00:44:03or would she

00:44:03just consider her

00:44:04a friend?

00:44:05No, she knows.

00:44:08To Detective

00:44:09Kennedy, David

00:44:10Denarda's story

00:44:11was not passing

00:44:12the smell test,

00:44:13the credibility

00:44:14test, or the

00:44:16alibi test.

00:44:18So he asked

00:44:19some very direct

00:44:20questions.

00:44:21You've never

00:44:22had sex with her?

00:44:23No.

00:44:24Have you ever

00:44:24attempted to have

00:44:25sex?

00:44:25No.

00:44:26Have you ever

00:44:26talked to her

00:44:27about having sex?

00:44:28No.

00:44:28Absolutely not.

00:44:28never come on

00:44:29to you about

00:44:29having sex?

00:44:30No.

00:44:30There was

00:44:31nothing intimate.

00:44:32There was

00:44:33nothing sexual.

00:44:35Last year,

00:44:36her and I hung

00:44:36out a couple

00:44:37times after work.

00:44:37We would get

00:44:38together and have

00:44:39some drinks.

00:44:39It wasn't like

00:44:40her and I were

00:44:41dating.

00:44:42Denarda stuck

00:44:43to his story

00:44:43about the night

00:44:44of the murder,

00:44:45saying he slept

00:44:46at his sister's,

00:44:48heading to bed

00:44:49at 1145.

00:44:50Did you ever

00:44:51leave your sister's

00:44:52house after

00:44:531145 last night?

00:44:55No.

00:44:55Did you shoot

00:44:57Morgan Potts?

00:44:58No.

00:45:00Would you have

00:45:00a reason to

00:45:01shoot Morgan Potts?

00:45:01No.

00:45:02She had nothing

00:45:03to do with her

00:45:04divorce?

00:45:04Nothing.

00:45:05Morgan was my

00:45:06friend.

00:45:07A follow-up

00:45:08investigation tracked

00:45:09with everything

00:45:10Denarda said.

00:45:12That included his

00:45:13company phone,

00:45:14which was wiped

00:45:15clean by FedEx

00:45:17and had nothing

00:45:18to do with Morgan.

00:45:20Detectives also

00:45:21confirmed he did

00:45:22have dinner with

00:45:23his girlfriend at

00:45:24his sister's house

00:45:25on the night of

00:45:26the murder and

00:45:27did not leave until

00:45:28the following morning.

00:45:30They believed his

00:45:31sister did not want

00:45:32to mention her

00:45:33brother had a

00:45:34girlfriend so soon

00:45:36after getting

00:45:36divorced.

00:45:37Does he being

00:45:38honest?

00:45:39Does everything line

00:45:40up with what he's

00:45:41telling us?

00:45:41And I think it did.

00:45:44One by one,

00:45:45Morgan's coworkers

00:45:46sat down for

00:45:47unpleasant questions

00:45:48about their

00:45:50relationship with

00:45:51her and where

00:45:52where they were

00:45:52when she was killed.

00:45:54None were happy

00:45:55about the experience

00:45:56and one of them

00:45:57was lying.

00:46:00Detectives narrowed

00:46:02their focus.

00:46:03He tried to play

00:46:04the hero with

00:46:04Morgan.

00:46:05Clearly that was

00:46:06all a lie.

00:46:19It was Halloween

00:46:20night, three days

00:46:22after Morgan Fox's

00:46:23murder, and this

00:46:24year, real life

00:46:26was more scary

00:46:27than anything a

00:46:28pagan ritual

00:46:29could generate.

00:46:31A young mom was

00:46:32dead, her killer

00:46:34was on the loose,

00:46:35and Morgan was

00:46:36being remembered

00:46:37at a candlelight

00:46:38vigil organized by

00:46:40her FedEx

00:46:41friends Mickey

00:46:41Watkins and

00:46:43Jason McDermott.

00:46:45Morgan's daughter

00:46:46Emilia was there,

00:46:47dressed in a

00:46:48trick-or-treat

00:46:49fox costume.

00:46:50Her daughter

00:46:51ran to the

00:46:53side of my

00:46:53Yukon where

00:46:54Jason was,

00:46:55and they're

00:46:57hugging each

00:46:57other, and

00:46:58he's telling

00:46:59her, like,

00:47:00I'm so proud of

00:47:01you, you still

00:47:02did the fox

00:47:03costume, and

00:47:04your mommy

00:47:05would love to

00:47:06see that.

00:47:07About 50 people

00:47:08attended, mostly

00:47:09coworkers, sharing

00:47:11their memories.

00:47:12Sad occasion or

00:47:13happy occasion?

00:47:15Both.

00:47:17It was, people

00:47:18laughed about the

00:47:19things that she

00:47:19did at work, she

00:47:21would hide behind

00:47:21boxes.

00:47:22She'd jump out

00:47:23and scare you.

00:47:24She'd jump out

00:47:24and scare you,

00:47:25that was her

00:47:25thing.

00:47:26It was just, I'm

00:47:27gonna wake you up

00:47:27in the best way

00:47:28possible, or she'd

00:47:30just come up and

00:47:30make funny comments

00:47:31to you, or she'd

00:47:33come up and help

00:47:33you.

00:47:34So people talked

00:47:34about those moments,

00:47:36and in those

00:47:36moments, we could

00:47:37be happy.

00:47:38But then it came

00:47:39down to that

00:47:39realization that

00:47:40we're staring at

00:47:41a cross with her

00:47:42name on it, there's

00:47:43candles.

00:47:44And she's not

00:47:45coming out the

00:47:46door.

00:47:47Jason McDermott

00:47:48later posted a

00:47:49long, loving

00:47:50tribute to

00:47:51Morgan on

00:47:52Facebook.

00:47:53He wrote,

00:47:55It's so strange

00:47:56not having you

00:47:57around to talk

00:47:57to, and this

00:47:58has left a

00:47:59giant hole in

00:48:00my heart.

00:48:01You have left

00:48:02a lasting impact

00:48:03on all of our

00:48:03lives, and you

00:48:05will never be

00:48:05forgotten.

00:48:07Rest easy,

00:48:08Morgan.

00:48:08The Facebook

00:48:09post rubbed me

00:48:11for sure the

00:48:12wrong way.

00:48:12I'm like, there's

00:48:13just no way.

00:48:13I don't even

00:48:14know this guy.

00:48:15Because it was

00:48:15too familiar.

00:48:16Yeah, like it

00:48:17was just like...

00:48:18Because it sounded

00:48:19like it came from

00:48:20her boyfriend.

00:48:21It sounded like

00:48:21her boyfriend,

00:48:22her best friend,

00:48:23somebody that's

00:48:23known her forever,

00:48:24to say that you

00:48:25are the light of

00:48:25my life.

00:48:26There's no way.

00:48:28There was

00:48:28something else

00:48:29Cora had heard

00:48:30about Jason

00:48:30McDermott that

00:48:31bothered her.

00:48:32It happened less

00:48:33than three months

00:48:34before the murder,

00:48:35during Amelia's

00:48:36birthday party at

00:48:37Morgan's house.

00:48:39When people

00:48:40there mistook

00:48:41Jason McDermott

00:48:42for Morgan's

00:48:43actual boyfriend,

00:48:44Jason Skarnecchia,

00:48:47McDermott did not

00:48:48correct them.

00:48:49In fact, he

00:48:51totally went with

00:48:52it.

00:48:52So it was like he

00:48:54was the Jason,

00:48:55like Morgan's

00:48:55boyfriend, Jason.

00:48:56And he was

00:48:57following Morgan

00:48:58throughout the

00:48:58house.

00:48:59Like he lives

00:48:59there?

00:49:00Yes.

00:49:00And not the

00:49:01other Jason?

00:49:01Absolutely.

00:49:02He introduced

00:49:03himself to my

00:49:05grandma and said,

00:49:06you know, hi

00:49:06grandma, I'm

00:49:07Jason, and he

00:49:08just totally

00:49:09played a role

00:49:10that wasn't

00:49:11there to be

00:49:12played.

00:49:13It was Jason

00:49:14McDermott's

00:49:14behavior and

00:49:15the purple

00:49:16prose in that

00:49:17Facebook message

00:49:18that also made

00:49:19Detective Kennedy

00:49:20lean forward in

00:49:22the saddle.

00:49:23Jason McDermott

00:49:24kept inserting

00:49:25himself to the

00:49:27front of that

00:49:28investigation,

00:49:29including the

00:49:30Facebook post

00:49:31that was kind

00:49:33of dramatic

00:49:34and to us

00:49:35was over the

00:49:37top.

00:49:38Detectives took

00:49:39a closer look

00:49:40at Jason

00:49:41McDermott.

00:49:42FedEx

00:49:42cooperated with

00:49:43you in this

00:49:44investigation.

00:49:45They did.

00:49:46They gave us

00:49:47everything that

00:49:47we asked for.

00:49:48That included

00:49:49security camera

00:49:50footage from the

00:49:51FedEx sorting

00:49:52facility.

00:49:53What are we

00:49:53looking at here?

00:49:54So we were

00:49:55able to get

00:49:55some videos

00:49:56from FedEx

00:49:57of Jason

00:49:58McDermott

00:49:58arriving to

00:49:59work the

00:50:00morning of

00:50:01the homicide.

00:50:02Anything unusual

00:50:03about him on

00:50:04camera that day?

00:50:05No, he walked

00:50:07in normal,

00:50:08clocked in

00:50:08normal, and

00:50:09it lined up

00:50:10with what he

00:50:11told us during

00:50:11his first

00:50:12interview.

00:50:12When I look

00:50:13at Jason, I

00:50:13don't see

00:50:14somebody who

00:50:14looks particularly

00:50:15worried.

00:50:16No, he's not

00:50:16distraught or

00:50:17anything in

00:50:18these videos.

00:50:18He walks in,

00:50:19it looks typical

00:50:20like it would

00:50:21be any other

00:50:21day to him.

00:50:22The sheriff's

00:50:23office got

00:50:24other videos

00:50:24from FedEx,

00:50:26including some

00:50:27from the day

00:50:28Morgan's phone

00:50:28went missing.

00:50:29And what those

00:50:30showed was a

00:50:32game-changer.

00:50:32And in here,

00:50:34you're able

00:50:34to see Jason

00:50:35working on

00:50:36the line here.

00:50:38That's not

00:50:38his phone

00:50:39in his hand

00:50:40there.

00:50:40That's not

00:50:41his phone?

00:50:41That's Morgan's.

00:50:43Jason had

00:50:44admitted looking

00:50:45at Morgan's phone,

00:50:46but said it was

00:50:47just for a moment.

00:50:48The video shows

00:50:50him studying it

00:50:51like it's the

00:50:52Sports Illustrated

00:50:53swimsuit issue.

00:50:55He has

00:50:56Morgan's phone,

00:50:57and on

00:50:57different clips,

00:50:58he's going

00:50:59through it.

00:51:00So right here,

00:51:00he's going

00:51:01through it.

00:51:01He's pretty

00:51:01clearly looking

00:51:02very carefully

00:51:03at her phone.

00:51:04He is,

00:51:04and you'll

00:51:05also see

00:51:06throughout here,

00:51:07he's looking

00:51:08back, making

00:51:09sure nobody's

00:51:10watching him.

00:51:12Morgan approached

00:51:12Jason and asked

00:51:13about her phone.

00:51:15That's when

00:51:15he handed it

00:51:16over.

00:51:17Little did she

00:51:18know he was

00:51:18hiding behind

00:51:19boxes looking

00:51:19at it.

00:51:20His story is,

00:51:21I was just

00:51:21trying to get

00:51:22your phone back.

00:51:22I was not

00:51:23snooping.

00:51:24But that's

00:51:24clearly not true

00:51:25from this video.

00:51:26Obviously,

00:51:26video shows that

00:51:28that's completely

00:51:29untrue.

00:51:31He tried to

00:51:31play the hero

00:51:32with Morgan.

00:51:33Clearly,

00:51:33that was all

00:51:34a lie.

00:51:35He had her

00:51:36phone for almost

00:51:36an hour.

00:51:38Jason had given

00:51:38detectives his phone

00:51:40without hesitation.

00:51:41What they found on

00:51:42it absolutely

00:51:43made them pause

00:51:45and think

00:51:45about his

00:51:47relationship

00:51:47with Morgan.

00:51:48This guy wanted

00:51:50way more than

00:51:51just a friendship,

00:51:51and he was

00:51:53very infatuated

00:51:55with Morgan.

00:51:56There were times

00:51:57where he would

00:51:58obsessively send

00:52:00three, four,

00:52:01five texts

00:52:01in a row

00:52:02with no response

00:52:04from Morgan.

00:52:05So he's

00:52:07pestering her.

00:52:08He won't

00:52:09leave her alone.

00:52:10It appears

00:52:11that the relationship

00:52:12is more one-sided

00:52:14and that she's

00:52:15being nice to him

00:52:16as a friend

00:52:17and a co-worker.

00:52:19It was not

00:52:20a great look

00:52:21for Jason,

00:52:21but Mickey Watkins,

00:52:23who knew him

00:52:23very well,

00:52:24thought there was

00:52:25simply no way

00:52:26he played

00:52:27any role

00:52:27in Morgan's death.

00:52:29You did not

00:52:30doubt him?

00:52:30Mm-mm.

00:52:31Nope.

00:52:32Not one bit.

00:52:33That's my best friend.

00:52:35And we would

00:52:36talk for hours.

00:52:37He asked you

00:52:37about yourself.

00:52:38It wasn't just

00:52:39all about him.

00:52:41For detectives,

00:52:42this investigation

00:52:43was becoming

00:52:44all about him.

00:52:46They needed

00:52:47to have another

00:52:47conversation

00:52:48with Jason McDermott.

00:52:50This is a

00:52:51homicide investigation.

00:52:53This is as real

00:52:53as it gets.

00:53:08The cell phone

00:53:09belonging to

00:53:10Jason McDermott

00:53:11started off

00:53:12as his alibi,

00:53:13proving he was

00:53:14at his home

00:53:15at the time

00:53:16of Morgan's murder.

00:53:17When detectives

00:53:18looked at what

00:53:19was on that phone,

00:53:21it raised a lot

00:53:22of questions.

00:53:24So they brought

00:53:25Jason back

00:53:26for a second interview

00:53:28later that same day.

00:53:30Detective Kennedy

00:53:31set the tone

00:53:32immediately.

00:53:34There's some things

00:53:35that I am going to

00:53:35confront you on.

00:53:37Okay.

00:53:37Okay, point blank.

00:53:38Because there's a lot of

00:53:39that you left out

00:53:40with me earlier.

00:53:41In his first interview,

00:53:43Jason said he never

00:53:45wanted anything more

00:53:46than friendship

00:53:47with Morgan.

00:53:48His phone suggested

00:53:50something else.

00:53:52So, just from

00:53:53looking through you

00:53:54guys' text messages,

00:53:55I 100% believe

00:53:57that you're on

00:53:57Web of Tart.

00:53:58100% believe that.

00:54:00There's an infatuation

00:54:01there going on

00:54:02on your end.

00:54:04Maybe not

00:54:05necessarily her end.

00:54:07I never saw it

00:54:08as such.

00:54:08Kennedy had already

00:54:10pressed Jason

00:54:10about the true nature

00:54:11of his feelings

00:54:12for Morgan.

00:54:13This time,

00:54:14he pushed even harder.

00:54:15You ever had sex

00:54:16with her before?

00:54:18A long while ago,

00:54:19yes.

00:54:20Okay.

00:54:21This is not the time

00:54:22to be lying about

00:54:23this thing.

00:54:24This is a homicide

00:54:25investigation.

00:54:25This is as real

00:54:26as it gets.

00:54:27I know.

00:54:28You only had sex

00:54:28one time with her?

00:54:30Yes.

00:54:30Jason said

00:54:31sex with Morgan

00:54:32was, quote,

00:54:33fun, unquote.

00:54:35But not really

00:54:36a big deal.

00:54:38Hooking up,

00:54:38he said,

00:54:39was kind of his thing.

00:54:41I have a few

00:54:41friends with benefits,

00:54:42yes.

00:54:42Okay.

00:54:43Jason said

00:54:44once Morgan

00:54:45started dating

00:54:46Jason Skarnickia,

00:54:47he had no issues

00:54:48with returning

00:54:49to the friend zone

00:54:50with her.

00:54:52Once you are not

00:54:52single,

00:54:53I'm not doing

00:54:54anything with you.

00:54:55That's always

00:54:55been my rule

00:54:56and that always

00:54:56will be my rule.

00:54:57Detective Kennedy

00:54:58wasn't buying

00:54:59any of it

00:55:00and came to believe

00:55:01Jason and Morgan

00:55:03were never intimate.

00:55:04That it was

00:55:05just his fantasy.

00:55:07I don't believe

00:55:08it ever happened.

00:55:09I'm guessing

00:55:10that after that

00:55:10second interview

00:55:11you're no longer

00:55:12thinking that

00:55:12this is a harmless

00:55:13guy.

00:55:14The course

00:55:15of the second

00:55:16interview changed

00:55:17because all flags

00:55:20that we were

00:55:20getting raised

00:55:21were all pointing

00:55:23towards Jason

00:55:24McDermott.

00:55:24You search

00:55:25Jason McDermott's

00:55:26apartment?

00:55:28Correct.

00:55:29And his car?

00:55:30Correct.

00:55:31Jason's apartment

00:55:33was clean.

00:55:34His Ford Focus

00:55:35contained the whiff

00:55:37of a clue.

00:55:39They wanted me

00:55:39to check it

00:55:40with my dog.

00:55:41Michael Green

00:55:42was the sergeant

00:55:43in charge

00:55:43of the canine unit.

00:55:45He brought in

00:55:46Judge,

00:55:47a police dog

00:55:48trained to sniff

00:55:49out explosives.

00:55:50He runs right up

00:55:51to the driver's

00:55:52side door.

00:55:53He then slowly

00:55:54moved down

00:55:54to right where

00:55:55the molding is

00:55:56in between the seat

00:55:58and the floorboards

00:55:59and as soon as

00:56:00he put his nose

00:56:00on that,

00:56:01he then sat,

00:56:02which is his alert.

00:56:03Green says

00:56:04his canine partner

00:56:05was signaling

00:56:06the presence

00:56:07of gunshot residue.

00:56:09Did Jason

00:56:10McDermott own a gun?

00:56:11He did not.

00:56:13His father

00:56:13owned several firearms.

00:56:15Jason's dad

00:56:16kept his guns

00:56:17in a basement cabinet.

00:56:19Four of them

00:56:20were .22s,

00:56:22the same type

00:56:22of weapon

00:56:23used to kill

00:56:24Morgan.

00:56:25Would Jason

00:56:26McDermott have

00:56:27access to that?

00:56:28He would

00:56:28because the key

00:56:29was just a couple

00:56:30feet away

00:56:31in a drawer.

00:56:32Jason McDermott

00:56:32went to their house

00:56:34the day before

00:56:37Morgan was killed

00:56:38and then he also

00:56:40went the day of

00:56:42she was killed

00:56:43in the afternoon.

00:56:45Guns from that

00:56:46cabinet were tested

00:56:48and one came back

00:56:49as a possible match

00:56:50for that stray bullet

00:56:51found in Morgan's car.

00:56:54The lab could not

00:56:55say for sure.

00:56:56because that slug

00:56:58was too badly damaged.

00:57:00Undeterred,

00:57:01investigators looked

00:57:02at Jason's movements

00:57:04before and after

00:57:05Morgan's murder.

00:57:07One of the things

00:57:08that Jason McDermott

00:57:09had told me

00:57:10was that he had

00:57:11stopped at a local

00:57:12gas station

00:57:13on his way

00:57:14to his parents' house.

00:57:17It happened

00:57:18after Jason

00:57:19finished his shift

00:57:20on the day

00:57:20Morgan was killed.

00:57:22Investigators were

00:57:23able to get security

00:57:24video from that

00:57:26gas station

00:57:26and what they saw

00:57:28became an enormous

00:57:29piece of their case.

00:57:31Jason was washing

00:57:33his car.

00:57:35It's very unusual

00:57:36that someone

00:57:37takes their car

00:57:38through a car wash

00:57:39on a day

00:57:40that was pouring rain.

00:57:43Oh, it was raining

00:57:43that day?

00:57:44It was raining

00:57:44that morning.

00:57:46Remember the tire tracks

00:57:48and the mud found

00:57:49on the fence

00:57:49at the crime scene.

00:57:51It wasn't a leap

00:57:52for detectives

00:57:53to think Jason's car

00:57:54left those tracks

00:57:55and got splattered

00:57:57in mud.

00:57:58Maybe his stop

00:57:59at the car wash

00:57:59was to get rid

00:58:01of that evidence.

00:58:02He actually pulled up

00:58:04to the point

00:58:05where it washes

00:58:06the underneath

00:58:06of your car,

00:58:08backed up,

00:58:09and then went

00:58:09through that portion

00:58:10again,

00:58:11and then ran

00:58:11through the entire

00:58:12car wash.

00:58:13So he made sure

00:58:14that the undercarriage

00:58:15of his car

00:58:15was washed twice.

00:58:16Yes, that was a big

00:58:17indicator to us

00:58:19that we were

00:58:20on the right track

00:58:21with that guy.

00:58:22And they were

00:58:23about to find

00:58:24someone with her

00:58:25own frightening story

00:58:27about Jason McDermott.

00:58:29It's really nerve-wracking.

00:58:31I'm just living my life,

00:58:32and it's like, boom,

00:58:33I look over my shoulder,

00:58:34there you are,

00:58:35like, hello.

00:58:50Mickey Watkins was doing

00:58:52her best to comfort

00:58:53her friend and co-worker,

00:58:55Jason McDermott.

00:58:57You spent a lot of time

00:58:58with Jason in those days

00:58:59after Morgan was killed.

00:59:01Yes.

00:59:01How was he doing?

00:59:03He wasn't doing good

00:59:04at all.

00:59:05He wasn't eating.

00:59:07He was, however,

00:59:09says Mickey,

00:59:10pondering some creepy questions.

00:59:12At one point,

00:59:14Jason wants to know

00:59:15what a .22 will do

00:59:17if you fire it

00:59:18into someone's head.

00:59:19He asked me about

00:59:21a .22,

00:59:22a .9,

00:59:22and a .45.

00:59:23The difference

00:59:24between the wounds

00:59:26caused by those

00:59:27three kinds of guns.

00:59:29Yeah.

00:59:30She says he was

00:59:31also curious

00:59:32about traffic cameras

00:59:34near Morgan's house.

00:59:36Were they running

00:59:37all the time,

00:59:37or was it just

00:59:38when you were, like,

00:59:39committing a criminal

00:59:40infraction?

00:59:40Like, you're speeding

00:59:41or you blow the light.

00:59:43And I was like,

00:59:43I don't know.

00:59:45Still,

00:59:46Mickey was certain

00:59:47he had nothing to do

00:59:48with Morgan's murder.

00:59:51That changed

00:59:51the day she was

00:59:52on the phone with Jason

00:59:54at the exact moment

00:59:56detectives paid him a visit.

00:59:59Hey, Jason.

01:00:00How's it going?

01:00:01It's going all right.

01:00:02You can hear this.

01:00:03I can hear everything

01:00:04that's going on.

01:00:05I just wanted to give you this.

01:00:06What is that?

01:00:07Another search warrant.

01:00:08So what we're going to do,

01:00:09we're going to collect

01:00:10your DNA.

01:00:11Oh, okay.

01:00:12That's fine.

01:00:13Mickey, who had taken

01:00:14classes in criminology,

01:00:16knew what that meant.

01:00:18Panic rushed over my body

01:00:20because I'm like,

01:00:21if they have a warrant,

01:00:23they have probable cause.

01:00:25It was like one push happened

01:00:27and every single red flag

01:00:29came out.

01:00:30Like, oh, my God,

01:00:31this is what happened.

01:00:32He did it.

01:00:35That afternoon,

01:00:36Mickey cut off

01:00:37all communication

01:00:38with Jason.

01:00:40And I was terrified

01:00:41to do that

01:00:41because the last time

01:00:43somebody blocked him

01:00:44or didn't talk to him anymore,

01:00:46they ended up dead.

01:00:48So I went home

01:00:51and I sat with a gun

01:00:52in my living room

01:00:54and waited to see

01:00:55if he was going to show up.

01:00:56All night?

01:00:57All night.

01:00:58I did not sleep.

01:00:59For detectives,

01:01:01one giant obstacle

01:01:03remained.

01:01:04An alibi

01:01:05that has gotten

01:01:06thousands of suspects

01:01:08off the hook

01:01:09ever since

01:01:10the digital age began.

01:01:12In modern

01:01:13criminal investigations,

01:01:15your phone's location

01:01:17is nearly always assumed

01:01:19to be where you are.

01:01:20And Jason's phone

01:01:22was definitely

01:01:22at his apartment

01:01:23at the time

01:01:25of the murder.

01:01:25Okay.

01:01:27So,

01:01:28what about Jason's car?

01:01:30We started just looking

01:01:32at traffic cameras

01:01:34going to and from

01:01:35Morgan's house.

01:01:37Investigators scrolled

01:01:39frame by frame

01:01:40through hours of video.

01:01:42And then,

01:01:43there it was.

01:01:45We did see a vehicle

01:01:47that we believed

01:01:49was Jason McDermott's vehicle.

01:01:51Same kind of vehicle,

01:01:52same color.

01:01:53Correct.

01:01:54On the cameras,

01:01:55you can see

01:01:55a bent-up front

01:01:57license plate.

01:01:58You can also see

01:01:59two objects

01:02:01on his dash

01:02:02and hanging from his mirror.

01:02:03And those are consistent

01:02:04with Jason's car?

01:02:05They are.

01:02:06And it's the right time.

01:02:07It's exactly

01:02:08the right time

01:02:09that puts

01:02:10someone there

01:02:11at the time

01:02:12of Morgan's murder.

01:02:14For prosecutors,

01:02:15it told a story.

01:02:17Jason McDermott's car

01:02:18on the way

01:02:19to Morgan's house

01:02:20in the minutes

01:02:21before her death.

01:02:23A week after

01:02:24Morgan Fox's murder,

01:02:26the sheriff's office

01:02:28arrested Jason McDermott

01:02:29for committing it.

01:02:31And I remember

01:02:32feeling just so much relief.

01:02:35Like,

01:02:35there's no good to this.

01:02:37Nothing's going to

01:02:37make it better,

01:02:38but knowing that

01:02:39he can't hurt Emmy

01:02:40was a huge relief for me.

01:02:43That relief

01:02:44would soon be mixed

01:02:45with another emotion,

01:02:47anger.

01:02:49because in the days

01:02:50after the arrest,

01:02:52Morgan's sister

01:02:53found something.

01:02:54I saw a post

01:02:56on Morgan's wall

01:02:58from another girl

01:03:00that says,

01:03:02I'm sorry

01:03:02this happened to you.

01:03:03I'm sorry

01:03:04he couldn't control

01:03:06his obsession with you

01:03:08like he could with me.

01:03:10And I remember

01:03:10screenshotting this post

01:03:12and calling my stepmom

01:03:13and like,

01:03:14you need to call this girl.

01:03:16This girl knows something.

01:03:17That girl

01:03:19is Sienna Clements.

01:03:20The story she told

01:03:22would reveal

01:03:23that Morgan Fox

01:03:24was not the first woman

01:03:25at FedEx

01:03:26to attract

01:03:27way too much

01:03:29of Jason McDermott's

01:03:31attention.

01:03:31I just remember him

01:03:33being that weird kid

01:03:34in the back of the class

01:03:35in my eyes.

01:03:36Okay?

01:03:36Like,

01:03:37I feel bad for him.

01:03:39Sienna was 19

01:03:40when she started

01:03:41working at the FedEx

01:03:42warehouse

01:03:43and met Jason.

01:03:44So I was just like,

01:03:46let me go be a friend.

01:03:48Around that time,

01:03:49Sienna was caught

01:03:50driving while impaired.

01:03:52She had to attend

01:03:53court-mandated

01:03:54counseling sessions

01:03:55and her license

01:03:56was suspended.

01:03:58She says Jason

01:03:59stepped in.

01:04:00And he started

01:04:01giving you rides to work?

01:04:02Yes.

01:04:03And mind you,

01:04:03he lived 30 minutes away.

01:04:05So this was like

01:04:06an inconvenience for him?

01:04:07Yes.

01:04:08But he was still doing it?

01:04:09Yes.

01:04:10Eventually,

01:04:10Sienna started getting rides

01:04:12from one of her neighbors.

01:04:14How'd Jason react to that?

01:04:15That's where things

01:04:16got weird.

01:04:17He started blowing

01:04:19my phone up

01:04:20all throughout the day.

01:04:21What are you doing

01:04:22on all of my socials?

01:04:24Sienna blocked Jason

01:04:26on social media

01:04:27and asked him

01:04:28to leave her alone.

01:04:30She says he did not.

01:04:33It's really nerve-wracking.

01:04:35I'm just living my life

01:04:36and it's like,

01:04:37boom,

01:04:37I look over my shoulder,

01:04:38there you are,

01:04:38like,

01:04:39hello.

01:04:41And ominously,

01:04:42at one of her

01:04:43counseling sessions,

01:04:45she looked out the window

01:04:46and there was Jason McDermott

01:04:49in his Ford Focus.

01:04:50And I instantly,

01:04:52like,

01:04:53Gina,

01:04:53my counselor,

01:04:54I was like,

01:04:55I'm freaking out.

01:04:56Like,

01:04:57I told him to leave me alone.

01:04:58So she goes,

01:04:59you stay inside.

01:05:00And so she goes back out there

01:05:02and he finally drives off.

01:05:03She goes,

01:05:03I had to threaten

01:05:04the cops on him.

01:05:06Sienna let co-workers

01:05:07know what was going on

01:05:08and when Jason bothered

01:05:10her at work,

01:05:11she would yell

01:05:12and curse him out.

01:05:13Did you talk

01:05:14to your manager

01:05:15at FedEx?

01:05:15I spoke to

01:05:16several supervisors

01:05:18at FedEx

01:05:18about the situation.

01:05:19And each time

01:05:20you would say,

01:05:22Jason is

01:05:24bothering me.

01:05:25Yes.

01:05:26Following me.

01:05:27Yes.

01:05:27Calling me.

01:05:28Yes.

01:05:28Won't stop.

01:05:30And their response

01:05:31was what?

01:05:32Their response

01:05:33was more so

01:05:34taking me away

01:05:35from where he might

01:05:36be working

01:05:36in the building

01:05:37or tell me

01:05:38to not even

01:05:39go around him.

01:05:40Their solution

01:05:41to this was

01:05:41you stay away

01:05:42from him.

01:05:42Yes.

01:05:43Sienna says

01:05:44Jason continued

01:05:45to harass her.

01:05:47And one morning

01:05:48her emotions

01:05:49reached a boiling point.

01:05:51He came by

01:05:52just bugging me

01:05:53and I immediately

01:05:54got flustered

01:05:55and I went straight

01:05:56up to the supervisor,

01:05:57the main one.

01:05:58And I was like,

01:05:59he's bothering me again.

01:06:00I don't want to get

01:06:01in trouble

01:06:02for my language

01:06:02and my behavior

01:06:03for lashing out on him.

01:06:05But like,

01:06:06what do you want me to do?

01:06:07He keeps bothering me.

01:06:08And it's just more so,

01:06:10it felt like I was

01:06:11just getting shrugged off

01:06:12and shrugged off.

01:06:13A FedEx manager

01:06:14did speak with Jason

01:06:16and told him

01:06:16to stop

01:06:17all communication

01:06:18with Sienna.

01:06:20Sienna says

01:06:21Jason ignored

01:06:22the directive

01:06:22from FedEx

01:06:23to leave her alone.

01:06:25What finally happened?

01:06:27I was just,

01:06:28remember having

01:06:28a really rough day

01:06:29at FedEx

01:06:30and I kind of

01:06:32got angry

01:06:33just because

01:06:34I was honestly

01:06:35over just stimulated

01:06:36with the job

01:06:37in general.

01:06:39And yeah,

01:06:40they let me go

01:06:41that day.

01:06:42Sienna

01:06:43was fired.

01:06:44What did FedEx tell you

01:06:46about why you were

01:06:46being let go?

01:06:47My behavioral issues.

01:06:49Your behavioral issues?

01:06:51Yes.

01:06:51Because I was the one

01:06:53yelling and cussing

01:06:54and screaming.

01:06:56But that was also

01:06:57after months

01:06:58of being harassed

01:06:59and not heard

01:07:00and tension

01:07:01just being built up.

01:07:03Jason, however,

01:07:04still had a job.

01:07:06Two and a half months later,

01:07:08Morgan Fox

01:07:09was shot dead.

01:07:10When Morgan died,

01:07:12you think to yourself

01:07:12that could have been me?

01:07:13Yes, many times.

01:07:15Sienna did see Jason

01:07:17one more time.

01:07:18It was at

01:07:20the candlelight vigil

01:07:21for Morgan.

01:07:22He had found me

01:07:23afterwards

01:07:24and came up to me

01:07:25and apologized

01:07:25for everything

01:07:26he's ever done to me.

01:07:28And I was like,

01:07:30well, how are you doing?

01:07:31Are you okay?

01:07:32I know you were

01:07:33really close to Morgan.

01:07:34And when I tell you

01:07:35this man dropped down

01:07:36on his knees

01:07:37and started bawling,

01:07:40like, just,

01:07:41it was nothing

01:07:42I've never seen before.

01:07:44The chills it sent down

01:07:45my body was just unreal.

01:07:48When Morgan's family

01:07:50heard about

01:07:50what happened to Sienna,

01:07:52they were outraged.

01:07:54Why didn't FedEx

01:07:55handle Jason McDermott

01:07:56with the first person

01:07:58the first time,

01:07:59you know?

01:08:00Or Morgan the first time

01:08:01or the second time?

01:08:03Why were there,

01:08:03why are all these things

01:08:04still happening

01:08:05and nothing being done?

01:08:06Why didn't FedEx

01:08:07protect her?

01:08:08Yeah.

01:08:10Now, the family

01:08:11hoped for some measure

01:08:12of justice

01:08:13at the trial.

01:08:15That's also where

01:08:16they learned

01:08:16the true depth

01:08:17of Jason McDermott's

01:08:19obsession.

01:08:20He was recording

01:08:21her behind

01:08:22during the whole conversation.

01:08:3729-year-old Jason McDermott

01:08:40was behind bars,

01:08:41about to go on trial

01:08:43for the murder

01:08:44of Morgan Fox.

01:08:45One by one,

01:08:47investigators had cleared

01:08:49all the other

01:08:50potential suspects,

01:08:51Colin McAuley,

01:08:53David DiNarda,

01:08:54and Morgan's boyfriend,

01:08:56Jason Skarnackia.

01:08:57Jason McDermott

01:08:58pleaded not guilty,

01:09:00and Morgan's family

01:09:01knew a circumstantial case

01:09:03might be a tough sell

01:09:05to a jury.

01:09:06No DNA?

01:09:07No video

01:09:09of him committing

01:09:10the crime?

01:09:11Mm-hmm.

01:09:12Were you worried?

01:09:13Leading up to the trial,

01:09:15it was nerve-wracking.

01:09:16I was scared.

01:09:18You know,

01:09:18I didn't know

01:09:19what to expect.

01:09:21Prosecutor Dennis Barr

01:09:22tried the case.

01:09:24What picture

01:09:25did you paint

01:09:26of Jason McDermott

01:09:27in that trial?

01:09:28We painted a picture

01:09:29of Jason

01:09:30as an obsessed individual,

01:09:32somebody who was

01:09:34seeking

01:09:35in every way,

01:09:37shape, and form

01:09:37a romantic relationship

01:09:39with some

01:09:40female individual.

01:09:42Barr says

01:09:43the true magnitude

01:09:44of that obsession

01:09:45became clear

01:09:46when investigators

01:09:48did a deeper dive

01:09:49on Jason's phone.

01:09:51We found on his phone

01:09:53close to 100 pictures

01:09:54that he had taken off

01:09:56of Morgan's Instagram

01:09:58without her knowledge.

01:10:00We found Snapchat videos

01:10:02that he had taken

01:10:03off her phone

01:10:04without her knowledge.

01:10:05Detectives also found

01:10:07images of Morgan

01:10:08that Jason

01:10:09had recorded secretly.

01:10:11Some of those

01:10:12were at the facility,

01:10:14and one of those videos

01:10:16actually was at her house,

01:10:18and he was recording

01:10:19her behind

01:10:20during the whole conversation.

01:10:22The prosecutor says

01:10:24it was Jason's obsession

01:10:26that drove him

01:10:27to look through

01:10:28Morgan's phone.

01:10:29That was

01:10:30the straw

01:10:32that broke

01:10:32the camel's back

01:10:33for Morgan.

01:10:33She sent him a text,

01:10:34I don't ever want

01:10:35to talk to you again.

01:10:37Barr told the jury

01:10:38Morgan's rejection

01:10:39and withdrawal

01:10:40of her friendship

01:10:42pushed Jason

01:10:43from obsession

01:10:44to homicide.

01:10:46His co-workers said

01:10:48Jason went into

01:10:49this downward spiral.

01:10:50He looked like

01:10:51he wasn't showering.

01:10:52His hair was just a mess.

01:10:53The clothes

01:10:54didn't seem like

01:10:55they were washed.

01:10:57Around this time,

01:10:59Jason texted

01:11:00a co-worker,

01:11:01I haven't been

01:11:02this bad in years.

01:11:03I feel like

01:11:04I'm constantly

01:11:05holding on

01:11:06by a thread.

01:11:08Over the next

01:11:09couple of weeks,

01:11:09he attempted

01:11:10to reconcile

01:11:11with Morgan

01:11:12via text.

01:11:13He even wrote

01:11:14her a letter.

01:11:15You are easily

01:11:17one of the greatest

01:11:18friends I've ever had,

01:11:19and I hope someday

01:11:20we can start to fix

01:11:21this rift I've created

01:11:23with this mistake.

01:11:25It didn't work.

01:11:27Morgan kept

01:11:28her distance.

01:11:29If the prosecution's

01:11:30right, that's when

01:11:31he starts thinking,

01:11:32I'm going to kill her.

01:11:34Yeah, I think

01:11:35it is a true definition

01:11:36of if I can't have her,

01:11:37nobody can.

01:11:39On the 27th of October,

01:11:41Prosecutor Barr

01:11:42says Jason put

01:11:44a carefully orchestrated

01:11:45plan into action.

01:11:47He says Jason grabbed

01:11:49a .22 caliber revolver

01:11:50at his parents' house,

01:11:52set his phone alarm

01:11:53for 1.20 a.m.,

01:11:56then left his apartment

01:11:57without his cell phone,

01:12:00deliberately off the grid.

01:12:02That suggests

01:12:03a murderer

01:12:04who has thought ahead

01:12:05to what your investigation

01:12:06is going to be.

01:12:07It definitely shows

01:12:08pre-planning,

01:12:10and how am I going to

01:12:13fool the police

01:12:14once this happens?

01:12:17Barr says Jason

01:12:18then drove to

01:12:19Morgan's house.

01:12:20When she left for work,

01:12:22he ambushed her

01:12:23from behind,

01:12:24and in his rush to leave,

01:12:26left those tire tracks.

01:12:29Then Jason drove

01:12:30back to his apartment.

01:12:32By 2.59 a.m.,

01:12:34he was ready to start

01:12:35his shift at FedEx,

01:12:37a murderer

01:12:38with a minute to spare.

01:12:40When he comes into work,

01:12:42he's all happy

01:12:43and chipper.

01:12:44He was clean-shaven,

01:12:46his hair was brushed back,

01:12:47he had clean clothes on,

01:12:49and he was smiling.

01:12:51He'd gotten control

01:12:52of whatever was going on.

01:12:54For the first time

01:12:55in like four weeks.

01:12:56All that remained

01:12:58for Jason

01:12:58was to play

01:12:59the grieving friend.

01:13:01Barr left the jury

01:13:02with one final piece

01:13:04of evidence,

01:13:05a detail he noticed

01:13:06in that car wash video.

01:13:08Barr says

01:13:10after Jason

01:13:10washed his car,

01:13:12he did something

01:13:13only the killer

01:13:14would know to do.

01:13:16He walks around

01:13:17his car,

01:13:18and as he's going up

01:13:19to the passenger side,

01:13:20he looks down

01:13:21at the right front

01:13:23quarter panel.

01:13:24Which could be him

01:13:25checking to see

01:13:26whether the mud

01:13:27that came from

01:13:28parking next to

01:13:29Morgan's house

01:13:30was washed off.

01:13:32It absolutely is him

01:13:33looking to see

01:13:35if the mud

01:13:35has been washed off.

01:13:37Now it was up

01:13:38to defense attorney

01:13:39Ty Graham

01:13:40to convince the jury.

01:13:41Jason was far

01:13:43too meek

01:13:44to murder.

01:13:45He was a young man

01:13:47just trying to figure

01:13:48life out.

01:13:48Not menacing,

01:13:50not threatening,

01:13:51didn't come across

01:13:52as a danger to society.

01:13:54Jason was very much

01:13:55so into

01:13:56things like Pokemon

01:13:58cards and Pokemon Go.

01:14:00Very much so

01:14:01into fictional stories.

01:14:03Enjoyed reading.

01:14:06Graham argued

01:14:07the case was

01:14:08completely circumstantial,

01:14:10like those

01:14:10traffic camera images.

01:14:13There was no proof

01:14:14that that was

01:14:14Jason's vehicle.

01:14:16There was not a reading

01:14:17from a license plate.

01:14:19And Graham said

01:14:20the prosecution

01:14:21was never able

01:14:22to definitively match

01:14:23the bullet found

01:14:24at the scene

01:14:25with their supposed

01:14:27murder weapon.

01:14:28The bullet was unique

01:14:29in how it was coded.

01:14:31None of those bullets

01:14:32were found in Jason's

01:14:33father's parents' home.

01:14:35Graham suggested

01:14:36the sheriff's department

01:14:37may have arrested

01:14:39the wrong Jason.

01:14:41Graham pointed

01:14:42to that fight

01:14:43Morgan had

01:14:44with her live-in

01:14:45boyfriend Jason Skarnecchia

01:14:47two weeks

01:14:48before she was killed.

01:14:49There were

01:14:50some pretty nasty

01:14:51things said

01:14:52by both Miss Fox

01:14:54and Mr. Skarnecchia,

01:14:56Jason Skarnecchia.

01:14:57The prosecutor's response,

01:14:59by the day Morgan

01:15:00was killed,

01:15:01they were doing fine.

01:15:03Jason had texted her

01:15:04when he woke up,

01:15:05morning, babe.

01:15:06Hope your shift's

01:15:06going well.

01:15:07Love you.

01:15:08The jury never heard

01:15:10Jason McDermott

01:15:11tell his side of the story,

01:15:13but he did have plenty

01:15:15to say

01:15:16to me.

01:15:18Let me guess.

01:15:19This is all a big mistake.

01:15:27There's always more to the story.

01:15:30To go behind the scenes

01:15:31of tonight's episode,

01:15:32listen to our

01:15:33Talking Dateline series

01:15:34with Andrea and Josh,

01:15:36available Wednesday.

01:15:45During the five-day trial,

01:15:47the jury never heard

01:15:48from Jason McDermott

01:15:49because he didn't

01:15:50take the stand.

01:15:51He did share his story

01:15:53with me.

01:15:54Let me guess.

01:15:56This is all a big mistake.

01:15:58You'd be correct.

01:16:01Did you kill Morgan Fox?

01:16:02I did not.

01:16:03Were you obsessed with her?

01:16:05I was not, no.

01:16:06You certainly seem to be

01:16:08from everything we know.

01:16:11What makes you ask that?

01:16:13You wouldn't leave her alone.

01:16:15You texted her

01:16:18dozens of times,

01:16:19hundreds of times.

01:16:20You had hundreds of photos

01:16:22of her on your phone.

01:16:23That all says obsession.

01:16:26All right.

01:16:27I can explain the majority

01:16:28of that right there.

01:16:30One, yes,

01:16:31I did save a lot of pictures

01:16:32from social media

01:16:33and stuff like that,

01:16:34which I admit

01:16:35was inappropriate behavior

01:16:37on my end.

01:16:37As for the texting things,

01:16:39like, yes,

01:16:39I realized there were

01:16:40a lot of unanswered text messages

01:16:41between the two of us.

01:16:43The main reason for that

01:16:44was she was always

01:16:45notoriously bad

01:16:46at responding to text messages.

01:16:48The police theory is

01:16:49when Morgan cut you off,

01:16:50you couldn't take it.

01:16:51You were angry.

01:16:52You were crushed

01:16:53because you were so obsessed

01:16:55with her and attached to her.

01:16:56and you solved that problem

01:16:58by killing her.

01:16:59No, I was never angry

01:17:00at her.

01:17:01Like, what did I have

01:17:02to be angry at her about?

01:17:02She did nothing wrong.

01:17:04I was the one that screwed up,

01:17:05not her.

01:17:07Jason seemed to have

01:17:08an answer for everything,

01:17:10including his prior fascination

01:17:12with Sienna.

01:17:14She was someone

01:17:14who I was close friends with

01:17:16and me and her

01:17:17had a bad falling out.

01:17:19Like, things were

01:17:19said and done on both sides.

01:17:21Like, did you stalk her?

01:17:23I did not.

01:17:24That was a stupid

01:17:25misunderstanding

01:17:26that happened one day.

01:17:27It's so coincidental

01:17:28that the guy

01:17:29that sort of

01:17:30wouldn't leave her alone

01:17:31and was constantly

01:17:32talking to her

01:17:33and bothering her at work

01:17:34also shows up

01:17:35at her counseling session.

01:17:36I think that's

01:17:37what she was reacting to.

01:17:38I was stopping at that place

01:17:39well before she was ever

01:17:40forced to go to

01:17:41that counseling thing.

01:17:42Like, you can check my phone.

01:17:43I lived by there.

01:17:45As for the prosecution theory

01:17:47about how he planned

01:17:48and carried out

01:17:49Morgan's murder,

01:17:50you didn't borrow a gun

01:17:52from your dad

01:17:52and then return it?

01:17:53No.

01:17:54The only person

01:17:54that was ever allowed

01:17:55to handle his guns

01:17:56at his house was him.

01:17:57Nobody, not even my mother,

01:17:58was allowed to know

01:17:59where the key was.

01:17:59Where were you

01:18:00when Morgan was killed?

01:18:01I was in my apartment.

01:18:04And you never left?

01:18:05Not until I went to work.

01:18:06What made you want

01:18:07to wash your car that day?

01:18:09Just the fact that

01:18:10I was going into

01:18:10my parents' house

01:18:11and I said my mom's

01:18:12always on my butt

01:18:13for not cleaning my car.

01:18:15You weren't washing mud

01:18:16off your car

01:18:16that came from being

01:18:17at Morgan's house?

01:18:18No.

01:18:19Jason also says

01:18:20that Mickey's stories

01:18:21about him are not true.

01:18:23The worst thing he did,

01:18:25he says,

01:18:26was to look at Morgan's phone

01:18:28and then lie about it.

01:18:30I shouldn't have

01:18:31and that was that.

01:18:32But like I said,

01:18:33we went a couple weeks

01:18:34without talking.

01:18:35But then after that,

01:18:36like I said,

01:18:36we were talking again

01:18:37and everything was fine.

01:18:39Obviously,

01:18:40like we were still working

01:18:40on repairing things,

01:18:41but...

01:18:42So you're unjustly accused?

01:18:44Correct.

01:18:45You've got to be like

01:18:45the unluckiest guy in America

01:18:47if you're telling the truth.

01:18:49Right?

01:18:49I mean...

01:18:50I don't want to...

01:18:50Everybody else is lying

01:18:52or making something up

01:18:53and you're the only one

01:18:53telling the truth.

01:18:55I never said everybody

01:18:56was lying or anything like that.

01:18:58That was Jason's story.

01:19:00I didn't do it.

01:19:01It wasn't me.

01:19:02Morgan and I

01:19:03were just pals.

01:19:05And I'm not

01:19:06an obsessed stalker.

01:19:09Now a jury

01:19:10would decide his fate.

01:19:11After less than a day

01:19:13of deliberation,

01:19:14they reached a verdict.

01:19:16Guilty.

01:19:18The hugest sigh of relief.

01:19:20All I cared about

01:19:21was Amelia.

01:19:22I really was worried

01:19:23about Amelia.

01:19:24And now she's safe.

01:19:25And now I know

01:19:26that he could not hurt her.

01:19:28And it was

01:19:29eight-year-old Amelia

01:19:30who gave the most surprising

01:19:32and most heartbreaking

01:19:33statement at Jason's sentencing

01:19:35while he and Morgan's

01:19:37family listened.

01:19:38I thought monsters

01:19:39weren't real

01:19:40but you proved me wrong.

01:19:42You hurt so many people.

01:19:44You hurt me

01:19:45and the people I love.

01:19:47You ruined your own life

01:19:49because of how much

01:19:51of a bad person you are.

01:19:54Jason McDermott

01:19:55was sentenced

01:19:55to life in prison

01:19:57with no possibility

01:19:59of parole.

01:20:00That guilty verdict,

01:20:02it doesn't turn back

01:20:03the clock.

01:20:04No.

01:20:04But it's better

01:20:05than nothing sometimes.

01:20:06Yes.

01:20:06He got

01:20:08what he deserved.

01:20:11However,

01:20:12this family's search

01:20:14for justice

01:20:15was not over.

01:20:17As brutal

01:20:18as it is

01:20:19to lose Morgan,

01:20:22to hear

01:20:23that there were

01:20:24warning signs

01:20:25from the man

01:20:27convicted of killing her

01:20:28has got to be

01:20:29even tougher.

01:20:29Yes.

01:20:31It is.

01:20:33Hearing that just,

01:20:35it makes me furious

01:20:37because it could have been prevented.

01:20:40Might have saved Morgan's life.

01:20:41Yes.

01:20:42One year to the day

01:20:44of her murder,

01:20:45her family and friends

01:20:46held a protest

01:20:47outside the FedEx facility

01:20:49where Morgan had worked.

01:20:51The company eventually agreed

01:20:53to pay the family

01:20:54$4 million.

01:20:56Other details

01:20:57of the settlement

01:20:57are confidential.

01:20:59I mean,

01:21:00interesting that,

01:21:01you know,

01:21:02Morgan spent her life

01:21:03sort of sticking up

01:21:04for other people.

01:21:05nobody was there for her.

01:21:06And then when the time

01:21:07came for somebody

01:21:08to stick up for her,

01:21:09they weren't there.

01:21:10We reached out to FedEx

01:21:13asking them to comment

01:21:14on the culture

01:21:15at their North Canton facility,

01:21:17the story told by Sienna,

01:21:19and the complaints

01:21:21made by Morgan.

01:21:22Their reply,

01:21:24our thoughts remain

01:21:25with the family and friends

01:21:27of Morgan Fox.

01:21:29In her memory,

01:21:31the family has created

01:21:33the Morgan Ashley Fox Foundation.

01:21:35What's the mission there?

01:21:37To help other people

01:21:39like other children

01:21:41who've lost a parent

01:21:43due to violence.

01:21:45That's a good cause.

01:21:47The Foundation also encourages

01:21:50people to do a Morgan

01:21:52once a month

01:21:53on her birth date.

01:21:55On the 22nd of every month,

01:21:57we do a Morgan,

01:21:58which is just a random

01:22:00act of kindness.

01:22:01It could be, you know,

01:22:02telling somebody

01:22:03she looks nice today

01:22:03or paying for the meal

01:22:05of the person behind you.

01:22:07Paying it forward,

01:22:09Morgan Fox's legacy.

01:22:11Someone whose kindness

01:22:13and compassion

01:22:13inspires those

01:22:15she left behind.

01:22:17She was funny.

01:22:19She lived life.

01:22:20She was honest.

01:22:22When she loved you,

01:22:23she loved you.

01:22:24She cared for her family.

01:22:25Everybody wants a Morgan

01:22:26in their life.

01:22:31That's all for now.

01:22:33I'm Lester Holt.

01:22:34Thanks for joining us.

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