Chuck Morgan: The Man With Too Many Secrets

The Chuck Morgan case is a labyrinth of coded notes, alleged government ties, and unexplained fear. When the Arizona escrow officer vanished—and later turned up dead—investigators uncovered secrets no one could fully explain.

This Tales of the Twisted true crime podcast episode blends bizarre real stories, dark history, and unexplained crime mysteries to unravel a case involving coded notes, espionage claims, organized crime, and a mysterious woman known only as “Green Eyes.”

Morgan predicted his own murder. He left behind cryptic documents. His wife claimed he had been helping the government. The evidence pointed in multiple directions—none of them simple, none of them safe.

Did Morgan uncover something he wasn’t supposed to? And who wanted him silenced?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is tales of the twisted true stories of the strange, weird, bizarre,
and eerie, and the following story has all of that
and so much more. A man dies, but the story
obviously doesn't end there, because, in a case unlike almost

(00:26):
any other American true crime history, the victim solves his
own murder. This is the chilling, completely improbable, and deeply
unsettling story of Charles Morgan, the man who solved his
own murder. He knew he was going to die, not

(00:50):
in a vague, superstitious way, not in a muttered I
have a bad feeling about this sort of way. He knew,
with decision, detail and certainty, that someone wanted him dead,
and he knew exactly who it was. The man's name

(01:12):
was Charles Chuck Morgan, a successful escirl officer living in Tucson, Arizona.
He's a man with no known enemies, no criminal history.
He was a family man, a husband and a father
of four, and yet he vanished. On March twenty second,

(01:37):
nineteen seventy seven, Chuck left home to take his daughters
to school, and he never returned. For three days, his
family heard nothing. Then one night, out of the blue,
he stumbled through the front door, disheveled, terrified, and on

(01:59):
a to speak. His wife said, he rushed inside, locked
every door, pulled the blinds, and wrote a message on
a notepad quote unquote. They took my voice with a chemical.
He claimed he'd been kidnapped by people he couldn't name,

(02:20):
and that he had been forced to ingest something that
wouldn't allow him to speak for days. But there was
something even stranger than his disappearance. He refused to call
the police. Instead, he moved through the house, checking windows,
peering through peep holes, and insisting that his families lives

(02:45):
were in danger. He wrote another message, I know too much?
But uh what did he mean? What could an escirl
officer possibly know that put him in the crosshairs of killers.
Over the next several days, Chuck regained his voice, but

(03:08):
the fear didn't let go. He started wearing a bulletproof vest.
He had a weapon in his car. He told his
wife that if anything ever happened to him, she should
look for a briefcase. Inside it, he claimed were documents
that would explain everything, but those documents were never found. Then,

(03:32):
just nine days after he returned, Chuck disappeared again. On
June eighteenth, nineteen seventy seven, police received a call a
body had been found in the desert, laying face up
beside his own car. Yep, it was Chuck. He had
been shot in the back of the head a single

(03:54):
bullet a three point fifty seven magnum point blank range.
Near his body was a pair of sunglasses that didn't
belong to him. In his pocket was a piece of
paper with directions, directions written in his own handwriting that
led directly to the location where he was found. Police

(04:18):
initially concluded it was suicide. Yep, suicide, despite the bullet
wound being behind his head, despite no gunpowder residue on
his hands, and despite the angle being nearly impossible for
self infliction, and despite the fact that no gun was

(04:40):
found at the scene. But the story only gets stranger.
Inside his car, investigators found weapons, a bag filled with ammunition,
several sets of handcuffs, a fake policeman's badge, and, disturbingly,

(05:01):
a note written in Chuck's handwriting. The note referenced Freemason's
Bible verses and a list of people he believed were
after him, and at the bottom, one chilling line quote
the one who will kill me, is standing behind me.

(05:24):
The writing was dated before his death. It was as
if Chuck Morgan knew the exact moment his life would end,
but the strangest clue still to come. And I know
what you're thinking. You're thinking, this just sounds like the
rantings of a madman. He's gone psychotic. But that's not

(05:47):
the case. Weeks after Chuck's death, a woman calling herself
green Eyes phoned the Morgue. She claimed she had been
with Chuck the night before he died. She said Chuck
had shown her a piece of paper, a confession, a
prediction describing who wanted him dead and why. He had

(06:09):
told her that, quote unquote, I've done the best I
can to solve my own murder. Police traced the call
and it led nowhere, and green Eyes, Yeah. She was
never identified. In the months after his death, an investigation
revealed what Chuck had been so afraid of. He had

(06:32):
been working quietly, secretly with state investigators, not as an officer,
not as an agent, but as a whistleblower. Chuck Morgan
had been handling escro transactions for high level organized crime.

(06:53):
We're talking land deals, fraudulent property transfers, money laundering multi
million dollar schemes across Arizona and Mexico. He wasn't a criminal,
but he was surrounded by them and the documents he
claimed that would explain everything they were concerning, enough that,

(07:16):
according to his wife, state officials later admitted that if
Chuck knew what we think he knew, he never should
have been left alone. But to this day, no one
has been charged. In the case of Charles Chuck Morgan
remains open, his murder unresolved except by the man himself,

(07:42):
because he left behind a trail of clues, diagrams, predictions,
coded notes that point to a conspiracy deeper than anyone imagined,
a conspiracy he sensed closing in, and though his killer
has never been named in court, the victim made sure

(08:07):
that the truth didn't die with him. Chuck Morgan remains
in one of the strangest, most haunting true stories of
all time. It's the man who solved his own murder,
but technically didn't. You've been listening to tales of the
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