Two articles detailing the death of Charles C. "Chuck" Morgan, the Arizona escrow agent believed to have been murdered by an organized crime syndicate in 1977. Unsolved Mysteries profiled Morgan's case in February, 1990
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The first article dates from 1990 and contains several details not mentioned on UM including some of Chuck's associates at the time of his death who may or may not have been involved in the events leading to his death. Of interest is that UM received more calls relating to the Morgan segment than any other case previously aired up until that point. Unfortunately UM never updated the case in any fashion beyond the segment on the murder of Doug Johnston:

http://cochise.az.gov/uploadedFiles/Treasurer/WillcoxMurder.pdf
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The second article dates from this past March and includes the sad news that Chuck's wife Ruth passed away in 2006. However, their children are still actively searching for their father's killer. I must say it always struck me as odd as to how passive Ruth Morgan was in the events surrounding her husband's life. She never pressed him for information on his activities in the months following his first abduction and also never bothered to ask the alleged FBI Agents who entered her home for identification or a search warrant:

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_e84a1034-c078-5a43-81a1-e602f52eda02.html

The $2 dollar bill with the "clues" is so strange. In the first article, it says that some of those clues were Masonic. Was that part left out of the UM segment? I don't know anything about that, so I can't get anywhere near decoding what he had written and what it all means.

It also says that a piece of tooth from his mouth was found wrapped in a handkerchief and left inside his car. That makes me wonder if someone punched Morgan or hit him in the mouth with something before he was shot.

For years, I didn't understand the part about that woman saying she'd met Morgan in a motel and he told her some secrets or something. It made me think that he was just fooling around and the woman's husband killed him in a rage. I had almost discounted the entire story because of that. But the article says he was hiding out and moving from motel to motel, not shacking up with some woman.

Anyway, back to the money clues:

Ecclesiastes 12 verses 1-8 (Kinda interesting that Morgan's wife calls this book "Ecclesiastics" and the UM site quotes her mispronunciation.) This clue was given in a phone call, by a woman, to Morgan's wife. It was also written on the $2 bill.

There were 7 names or words, alphabetically arranged from A to G, on the back of the bill. I think the names were Acevedo, Bejarano, Catero, Duarte, Encinas, Fuente, and Guadillas (?).

On the back of the bill, the signers of the declaration of independence are pointed to or indicated in some way. Not sure what that was, only a small portion of the bill is shown on the website.

I don't recall them saying this in the segment, but Buenos Aires is written on the back. They mentioned a map and the names of local US and Mexican drug smuggling cities, thinking that some kind of trafficking was involved.

Any ideas on what you all think the clues mean? Anyone decoded any of the message?

Oh, and the second article says that there were no fingerprints found on the .357 that was used to shoot Morgan. It was found lying near him. That makes it just about impossible for it to be a suicide.

The $2 dollar bill with the "clues" is so strange. In the first article, it says that some of those clues were Masonic. Was that part left out of the UM segment? I don't know anything about that, so I can't get anywhere near decoding what he had written and what it all means.

It also says that a piece of tooth from his mouth was found wrapped in a handkerchief and left inside his car. That makes me wonder if someone punched Morgan or hit him in the mouth with something before he was shot.

For years, I didn't understand the part about that woman saying she'd met Morgan in a motel and he told her some secrets or something. It made me think that he was just fooling around and the woman's husband killed him in a rage. I had almost discounted the entire story because of that. But the article says he was hiding out and moving from motel to motel, not shacking up with some woman.

Anyway, back to the money clues:

Ecclesiastes 12 verses 1-8 (Kinda interesting that Morgan's wife calls this book "Ecclesiastics" and the UM site quotes her mispronunciation.) This clue was given in a phone call, by a woman, to Morgan's wife. It was also written on the $2 bill.

There were 7 names or words, alphabetically arranged from A to G, on the back of the bill. I think the names were Acevedo, Bejarano, Catero, Duarte, Encinas, Fuente, and Guadillas (?).

On the back of the bill, the signers of the declaration of independence are pointed to or indicated in some way. Not sure what that was, only a small portion of the bill is shown on the website.

I don't recall them saying this in the segment, but Buenos Aires is written on the back. They mentioned a map and the names of local US and Mexican drug smuggling cities, thinking that some kind of trafficking was involved.

Any ideas on what you all think the clues mean? Anyone decoded any of the message?

Well one thing you should know about this case is there is some information that "Lifetime" (and maybe even "Spike"/I've never seen the Spike version) decided to leave out.

They alleged that Morgan may have gotten swept up in the turbulent times in Arizona at the time and become involved in organized crime specifically the trafficking of narcotics. The named one of the potential organized crime syndicates that Morgan may have been involved in, which ties into what Don Devereux mentioned about "getting too close to the flame". At this point Stack also makes mention of the murder of another Arizona man: Don Bolles

There were also certain lines from the The Ecclesiastes 12 verses 1-8 highlighted by UM as possibly having some significance in regards to Chuck Morgan's fate:

men are afraid of heights
and of dangers in the streets...
Remember him—before the silver cord is severed,
or the golden bowl is broken;
the dust returns to the ground it came from,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

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What do you guys make of Mr. Morgan's claim that his throat had been painted with an hallucinogenic drug that could cause him to either go insane or could kill him?

Apparently, because of this throat painting, he couldn't speak or eat properly. UM says his wife gave him drinking water with an eye dropper for a week.

If this really happened, (during the three days that he was first missing), what could have been used to do this and why would they do it? Did kidnappers just lie to him to scare him or was a substance really used on him?

Two months after his first disappearance, Chuck visited his father and told him that if anything ever happened to him, there was a letter describing, among other things, who was involved and why this was all happening. He went missing that very day.

His wife said that she never found the letter he was talking about.

After Chuck Morgan's death, two men claiming to be FBI agents searched his home. UM says they were looking for something they never found, but how do they know they never found it?

If the thing they were looking for was the "whodunnit" letter that Mr. Morgan told his father about, that item could be concealed in a pocket when the "agents" left the house and Ruth Morgan would have never known that they had taken it. In fact, if they took a small amount of papers of any kind, such as the suspected document that holds the key to understanding the clues on the $2 bill, they could have easily hidden that in their pockets. If they were carrying briefcases, they could have removed entire files from the house without being detected.