When you mentioned Danny Casolaro, my jaw dropped to the floor. Before his death he was also working on the Inslaw case and the Iran-Contra affair. His death is also one huge rabbit hole
@@ahabcolerchat9404 the inslaw case was about the Inslaw corporation accusing the US Government of stealing the Inslaw corporations software called "Promis" using it for stuff like spying on foreign governments and even murder. He was also investigating the October surprise theory that alleged Iran deliberately deliberately held back the hostages during the Iran hostage crisis so Reagan could win the election. The Iran-Contra deal was about selling weapons to Iran during an embargo that the US had put on Iran. They used these funds to fund the Contra rebels who would overthrow the revolutionary government in Nicaragua. I suggest diving more into this because this rabbit hole makes the Mariana trench look like your outdoor swimming pool.
Something really loopy went down in that reporter's hotel room. He didn't put up a fight. He was tortured. 12 slash marks accross forearms? That's too many for a fight unless he was Bruce Lee fighting the 3 Stooges. . Removal of fingernails is a common form of persuasion once used by agencies. But since the Vietnam war , professionals know that torture doesn't really produce desirable results.... There are more effective ways to get information from a captive. None of it makes sense. Unless, those professionals wanted to look like amateurs...or thugs. Shots to the back of head....a signature? Maybe....more likely a matter of convenience. Plastic handcuffs.... The FBI... Green eyes. Why tell your dad you've hidden a secret letter if there's no letter? The theories floated here don't make sense. None of it makes sense. What the hell happened?!! Can't be solved by internet investigators without reviewing evidence.
The Ecclesiastes verse is about wickedness in high places, leading to speculation that he was working with the government, and that maybe one of his superiors ratted him out for money.
yeah, people don't shoot themselves in the back of the head. Besides the fact that it's rather uncomfortable to get your hand there, it's also more common to do it from the front or the side. And those FBI agents that visited the family later weren't FBI agents at all. Quickly flashing the badge to prevent the wife from seeing any inconsistencies and then searching the house without search warrant or any other document that suggested they have something important to take.
What about Theory 4, where Don Devereux is the killer in all 3 instances? Don't you find it weird that he's continuously inserted himself into the charles morgan case? And that there was an attempted failed hit on him exactly once with no follow up attempt despite him presumably having very sensitive information? And that Danny Casolaro turns up dead when he tries meeting Don Devereux as an informant? Either Don himself is the killer/involved with the killer, or the killer(s) were keeping close tabs on him, but somehow not interested enough in him to try killing him again when they'd have had the chance during the Casolaro incident.
It couldve been wiped. It also could have been utilized by a professional wearing gloves. Quite a few ways to handle a gun and not leave prints. I do, however, agree with your assertion. He absolutely did not kll himself. Not a single piece of evidence exists that points to a legitimate amount of accuracy to that theory.
Unless there was someone helping him. Someone that he paid. I thought maybe he did it himself and made it look like someone did it in order to collect on life insurance. But I hadn't thought about the fingerprints.
Good point. ANd shoot himself in back of head. Sure....I call bs like the REBECCA ZAHAU case where she tied up her hands and feet, wrapped a rope *tied to a bed* around her neck and jumped off the second floor of the mansion in San Diego.
There's something very frustrating about authorities ruling a death as suicide when it obviously wasn't suicide. There was this one guy whose decapitated head was found with two bullet holes in it, and the body was located miles away from the head, and no gun could be recovered. The coroner still said it was suicide, and his family was like: _"Really?"_
@@DB8ed Sorry for the late reply, I recall intending to answer and thought I already had. The victim's name was Adolph Ruth, an adventurer who set out to locate the semi-mythical Lost Dutchman's gold mine in 1931. Supposedly people who try to find the lost mine tend to turn up dead with their heads cut off. I learned about it from a video by Bedtime Stories titled "There's Something In The Mountains."
@@RelativelyBest its all good! better late than never haha. Damn that sucks though. Makes ME wanna go out and search for this mine but fully document and record my entire trip and also go armed to the teeth.
If a hallucinogen was painted onto the back of his throat it most definitely would enter his bloodstream. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard... There's no way it could have been avoided
Agreed. Maybe they *did* paint something onto his throat (fluoride paint exists, for example) and told him a fabrication to get to stfu. My main ideas behind the "painting his throat" detail are: 1. He was lying and keeping quiet because he knew the house was bugged. 2. He was made to believe it was true through coercion. Not everyone is an expert in human physiology, and panic can muddle the brain. 3. Someone made up this particular detail. Someone who would benefit from this story... 4. It was the truth. Maybe he *was* given a hallucinogenic substance and it made him, you know, hallucinate. He could have misunderstood due to his altered mental state. Without having gone to the hospital to have testing done, it would have been impossible to tell if he'd been administered any drugs.
I almost spit my drink when I heard the name "Danny Casolaro", I never tough he would be somehow connected with this. His case and the "Octotpus Conspiracy" is a really fascinating rabbit hole, and was also covered on the show Unsolved Mysteries.
It gets into some dark shit. Some back doors to spy on allies. Stolen software to build the back door programs into. A potential witness came forward. He was found with a large amount of cocaine which discredited him. There were the murders in 1981 of Fred Alvarez at Cabazon Arms in Indio California. Maloney laundering through Indian casinos. Navy secret weapons program. Wackenhut security. Danny Casolaro uncovered a great deal but, they definitely killed him. The whole DOJ was and still remains “captured”.
I'm amazed that despite being possibly targetted for assassinations, Don Devereux appears to be still pursuing his investigation works. The guy is either the protagonist of all the homicide cases he worked on, or he's that reoccuring supporting character in a series of slasher movies who managed to survive all installments and ultimately got his own spinoff.
One of his big investigations was the murder of a journalist called Don Bolles who helped uncover land fraud schemes by pushing legislation to get rid of “blind trusts” like the ones mentioned in the video, so it seems like it’s not even his first rodeo!
He is targeted for years but tangentially related people get killed. The whole story sounds like a mix of assumptions, nonsense, facts, stretches, imagination and legend.
Yup. If he had worn a glove to shoot himself, the glove would still be in his hand. If he did not wear a glove, there would still be fingerprints on the gun. There were neither glove nor fingerprints found. The coroner just concluded it that way perhaps to sweep the murder under the rags.
@@tensuranikki3529 even if he didn't used gloves and let's say, he protected his hands to not leave fingerprints, gunpowder will be remaining in his hand or wrist. But there's no way someone can shoot itself in the back of the neck. Unless you're a contortionist, I don't see how.
@@Mtz2604 just stretch your arm back.... The gun doesnt have to be right side up to be fired... also, you dont have to keep your head facing forward... its even easier when you look to the side so i think its fully possible, and he did have gunpowder on his left hand. but i also dont think he took his own, dont get me wrong on that one lol. Edit, i misread it, but back of the neck is even easier tbf lol
@@Mtz2604 lol yes! Its becoming increasingly more rare for people to know about top cat, i always love it when people do😂 top cat ftw and down with officer dibble!
@@no_peace I'd agree wit you except, what about the other people involved? The "green eye" chick, seemingly privy to his death beforehand. Also, the fake FBI agents that searched their house. Maybe he was delusional, but regardless, some tangible REAL strange things also went on surrounding his death.
He didn't. There was no first kidnapping. He claimed his "captors" took him to Phoenix yet several witnesses who knew him well placed him in Tucson the entire time...he even showed up at his own business.
My thought on the Ecclesiastes is that on the Bible at his home he used something that can only be seen either using a black light or some other means to read a hidden message. Thanks lazy for the hours of entertaining videos I enjoy while working
I'm not sure if it had particular significance to him or his family, the fact his wife has a bible to hand to look it up indicates that they might have been a religious family. It could have been a way to convince his wife that the message was from him. The money clipped in to his clothing leads me to believe it might have been a very clever way to make sure that even if he changed his identity and lived a whole other life his body could be identified should he ever be found dead. It's such a specific and memorable message that should ever any member of his family or friend group (or even us) hear it at any point everyone would know it was related to him. They could remove his fingerprints, his teeth, or do any number of other things in an attempt to make him unrecognisable - it's fairly likely they would miss, or even simply not think to care about some money being on his person though. Random bible graffiti is about as inconspicuous as one could be with that too. He could be a skeleton discovered in a forest in thirty years time and the instant that phrase was publicised he could be identified.
@@SNMG7664 but if that part is so important, I would expect them to have it show up more often. Like have that part on a picture somewhere, or as their wedding oath, or something like that. I mean, even Fallout 3 did that. The same bible passage that is mention in the beginning is instrumental to finish it. There needs to be some level of meaning. Unless of cause it is exclusively related to his death.
The whole "painted his throat with a hallucinogen" thing is sus to me; that is not how drugs or throats work. Anything that would be absorbed by the stomach would also be absorbed by the esophagus eventually. And the only "hallucinogen" that would make you go "irreparably insane" would be something from the deleriant class like scopolamine (which isn't a hallucinogen, but definitely has a long and storied history with cartels and alphabet Bois alike)... But again, that doesn't explain why he couldn't talk. That whole first part of the story makes me think he was just lying about everything.
There’s also the plastic handcuffs he showed up wearing after he “escaped”. Who would use plastic handcuffs? Sounds like he was suffering through some serious paranoid delusions.
Yeah, the mafia doesn't work in mysterious ways. In other real cases with the mafia, they are pretty black and white about it. If anything, I'm more suspicious of Don Deverow, the reporter.
I agree, However I think it would only work with non fiction as fiction often requires the narrator to adopt different voices for characters. Any true crime would be awesome. Even better if it was a book Lazy wrote so we'd support him in 2 ways at once!
Absolutely batshit case, but I always wondered about the statement that the hallucinogenic painted in his throat would kill him if he ingested it... if it was painted in his throat, he surely would have ingested it just by the act of swallowing or absorption through the capillaries there. I wonder if they (whoever 'they' were) told him this as they painted his throat with something innocuous to scare him. If the whole abduction thing was all invented (which I don't think it was), then was it something he just made up?
If someone had been tortured for 3 days, they're not exactly in a normal frame of mind. They could've just as easily brushed water along his throat and told him this and he'd have likely believed it.
Guy got tied up into some shady dealings and paid the price. "green eyes' was definitely his mistress who got tied up into this but felt bad about him / for his family.
@@munkustrap2 Yeah, under normal circumstances I would agree. But if she was just a mistress, why would she call the wife and the police? And why would she reference the Ephesians passage? I don’t know. You guys are probably right. The whole thing is just super weird.
He was most likely into S and M, got high on drugs, hallucinated with whoever he was getting high with, they both freaked out and were nuts, and that is that.
I think he was both. He started out as a money launderer for the mafia and was recruited as an informant by the FBI but since there were shadow CIA agents in cahoots with the major families in Arizona at the time they had access to the FBI files and found out Chuck. They though they could scare him at first but then when he became a paranoid mess they decided to just end him and make it a confused scene by planting strange items in his car and around the murder scene just to mess with the cops. For anyone who grew up watching Unsolved Mysteries we all know that police in the 70's and 80's had an obsession with tagging every strange death as a suicide just so they didn't have to investigate it.
??? Seriously? Its far more likely that the police investigating were compromised. Not a matter of convenience or laziness. Esp in such important matters like high crimes and treason.
My mind definitely went to a mix of agencies, they seem to stumble over each other in certain cases. From mafia launderer to FBI informant (probably using threat of criminal charges), to running afoul of CIA assets in the mob. I think he knew that shadowy people WAY above his pay grade were involved, and this made telling people impossible.
If you're aware of certain trade craft fundamentals you'll notice several clues. Green Eyes is usually code for a female with brown eyes who is a CI or double agent hence eyes = 2 and green = go (verified). Same with the 2 dollar bill, in the UK its a £2 coin or a slightly torn £20 note separating the 2 and 0. As for the murder with the wrong hand, that's a call sign, same with tie colours on auto erotic asphyxiation and the likes. If you can access pictures of the actual crime scene I guarantee you'll know which side did the job whether it be organised crime or organised espionage. Also the passage has a numerical significance rather than the passage itself. My money is on another agent working for the crime side (as if either aren't criminals) AND spy side who had to maintain cover at ALL costs to maintain their position within a specific role, so a bad double agent rather than a good double agent if that makes sense. Also the bathtub "suicide" is a classic especially in a hotel, I'd need more info on that. As for the journalists neighbour, these people don't get common details wrong, it's likely an awful coincidence. EDIT: Danny Costalaro was also investigating Iran Contra, FBI, CIA and mob ties and making serious links, he was on the hitlist before this.
11:52 On the one hand, can't blame Ruth for being intimidated by two men showing up claiming to be FBI...on the other hand if they're legit they should not only let you see the IDs but should have other paperwork to go with them...then again it could just be I watch too much tv/youtube
First rule of fake it till you make it: just do everything with confidence and speed, and most people will assume you're either who you say you are or don't want repercussions if they confront you and are wrong.
@@bennygerow Exactly. Theres a few stories I can think of where a guy just wore a worker's uniform and a hard hat while carrying a clipboard and no one questioned him going in, or going out with a fucking refrigerator. lmao
The risk is, if you push them and they aren't legit, well...Edit: I'd be the one to push them, make them lay out their ID's so I can view them thoroughly, and probably get fucked up or killed for not accepting their ruse. 😆
@@Sick_Boy exactly my thoughts. Even if she was highly skeptical, her life and her children’s lives would be in danger if she put up resistance. And at that point she was probably paranoid to probe too deeply. I really don’t blame her at all.
So Charles just so happens to free himself from the capture of probably the worst kind of people in the world, has a backup story on why he can not verbally defend his elaborate story, handcuffs still dangling from his wrists and then decides to stay at his home for 2 months and nothing happens? Nobody shows up at the place and arranges a hit? They wait two months in which Charles could reveal information? I don't buy it.
I think he was a government spy/ secret agent. "They" possibly could've given him a warning or something of the sort. Maybe Chuck had in his possession some very damning evidence that may have incriminated some powerful people that the government and/or mob wanted back, but he decided to evade them as best he could, which IF he was a spy or something that would be su!c!de. Idk this whole case is absolutely 🍌's Unless I do a deep dive on this case I couldn't really say for certain as to when,where, why and how everything happened and even then it's probably good and buried by the FBI, CIA, the Mob, etc by now. 🤷♀️ Maybe the truth will come out someday... Rest in peace, Chuck. 🕊️🪦🙏🥀
@@LynnAgain83 But why wouldn't Chuck immediately order bis family to pack their bags and flee to some motel with them? Why would he feel safe enough at home so that not parking his car in the driveway would already cut it?
@@NobodysSon That’s what I was thinking until all that stuff about Green Eyes. Unless she was enabling his delusions for whatever reason, I don’t know why she would insert herself into the investigation, or why she called his wife with that clue before he was found.
There's nothing mentioned about him after 2000. If you search him up its just a rugby player. However there's nothing about his death on his website so I guess there's that.
Damn! I don't know why I keep doing this to myself. Unsolved mysteries are a burden, they get my mind racing for answers & clues that I never figure out! Sigh, thanks lazy, happy new year in advance & also to all of you guys. Mad love from South Africa 🇿🇦
Personally, I believe the hitman took the opportunity to gain a double pay day from the one hit on Chuck like Lazy said. It makes the most sense to me...especially when one can get paid twice for the same job. $180-200K was a lot of money back then.
Remember watching this one on unsolved mysteries years ago. It really sucks because poor Charles got ended, and no one likely will ever know exactly why. Because of the govt involvement. A mystery since 77 and likely always will remain. I do agree though that they likely wanted to kill devereaux and ended up getting Johnston (who i think looks a fair bit like Devereaux).
The question becomes this: why did someone want Devereaux dead badly enough they'd have a hit put on him, but no so badly as to literally never try a 2nd time after the first one got botched? Unless the first one wasn't botched and Devereaux was the killer trying to create a fake defense for himself.
i just dont think a clearly well organised crime syndicate, or the government or cia or fbi, would have botched something so badly as to murder the wrong man, because they have the same car. number plates are never the same. hundreds of people have the same car. i just dont buy that that was a botched attempt on deveroux's life. maybe a warning, even then, would people as sophisticated as this have wanted the extra collateral? more heat. much more efficient, and direct ways to warn people.
Devereux was just the reporter. His only connection to the case is writing about it. Why would he kill someone? It makes more sense that it was a case of mistaken identity or a warning to him.
Damn, I wonder what Devereaux is up to these days. If I were him, I'd be living like a hermit in the woods, sleeping with a gun at my bedside and a security system around my property.
@@DonDraperism To be fair, if he was the target of an attempted hit, and dudes started dying around him, probably make anyone paranoid. Justifiably so. Especially when the government says a guy shot himself in the BACK OF THE HEAD....Cause totally. I fail to even understand how one could manage that.
@@NeiasaurusCreations It's not unheard of to find suicide victims to shoot themselves in the back of the head. Also was it more on the right, the left? The only information we have about this case are true crime websites. I posted a lot of information but Lazy took it down. For instance, go to Don Devereux's website. Many of his articles on different subjects are speculative and conspiracy theories. I like Lazy as he puts up good stuff, but I don't see a big mystery here, Lots of conjecture with little or no evidence.
@@DonDraperism I don't think lazy took it down. UA-cam has an auto censor on comments. If you link stuff there's a good chance youtube will remove it. If you use certain terms, words, phrases youtube will remove it. Trust me, I know. I often have to find creative ways to skirt the bounds of what youtube will ALLOW you to comment. I'd suggest using numbers and signs to stand in for letters, and refining through trial an error the exact reason it got removed by youtube. Also that's what theories are though. Just theories. They're rarely 'proven' and often have little evidence. If they had enough evidence it wouldn't be a theory, it'd be a fact, wouldn't it? But again, I don't exactly believe shooting yourself in the back of the head is a suicide thing. In your mouth? Maybe the side of your head. But the back? It'd take a lot of effort, and be super easy to mess up. But there's also evidence that a second person was there, and then there's greeneyes. There's a lot that doesn't support suicide. Like who wears a bullet proof vest out of FEAR of dying, then commits suicide? I'm left with more questions then answers. But I can feel confident in saying that it wasn't a suicide. There's simply too much "odd" things that don't line up.
I just thought of something when you mentioned the professional cleaning crew coming in and cleaning up the crime scene - it seems like that would be a lucrative, though illicit, enterprise/business - professionally cleaning crime scenes and erasing evidence for criminals. Like maybe ex law enforcement, ex forensics people, etc. I know it's kind of dark but it seems like that would exist in some capacity - and maybe it does for like the mob/cartel/etc. Kind of like Mr. Wolf on Pulp Fiction but solely focused on the cleaning.
Damn, first of all, thank you Lazy for another interesting very well put together video. This case is already mysterious enough as it is but the fact it actually ties in with Danny Casolaro somewhat turns it into a MASSIVE ass rabbit hole.
Going back to the 70s, there is the truly shocking murder of Phoenix journalist Don Bolles. His murder continues to haunt Arizona 50 years later. Nobody was ever prosecuted for his murder. He was also investigating the Arizona Mafia. One day he got into his car in the parking garage of his work. He turned on the ignition and the car exploded. His assassin didn't quite do his job properly. Bolles's legs were blown off. He survived for eleven days before dying. The Mob has long been embedded in the sand of the Arizona desert. Rest in peace, Don. You have not been forgotten and it is likely you will be remembered a 100 years from now as a gutsy journalist who pursued, persisted and ultimately died honing your craft without fear or favour.
He escaped right. Hid car bc they would look for him. So he goes home around his children. Of course that's where they would look first. He walked his girls outside to school. Still went to "work". Sorry I think he faked it all.
What about the fake FBI agents rooting through their house? And the female caller that knew he was in trouble beforehand? Those were real things, so something weird was up, even if he was delusional.
All you said doesn't add up to "he faked it" do you have other ideas then "hid his car" which also was trashed later by other people than Chuck. Explain why this is your theory.
@@karenamyx2205 Just wanted to add that Green eyes is the only verifiable thing to have happened, the FBI dudes could've very well been made up from his wife end if we were to be very technical about things.
I found one more suspicious information about this case - on 2 different sites (Reddit and comment section on Unsolved), two apparently different people stated that at least some of the names on the 2 dollar bill belonged to the law enforcement officers from southern Arizona
it's Arizona tho there's lots of Hispanics throughout the south western US but they do have lots of common spanish surnames like Hernandez, Gutierrez, Ramirez, Vasquez, Mendez, Mendoza, palacios etc. and those names listed on the bill weren't all that common so it could have some clarity.
My conclusion is that Chuck was an infiltrated agent who was in charge of the finance side of a cartel or criminals. Meanwhile being infiltrated he found out people of power were in cahoots with the cartel/ criminal and a lot of money was in play. After reporting this to his superiors they decided they couldn't take down the cartel w/o heavily implicating this person of power. He knew too much and therefore his superiors probably confronted the person of power with this knowledge and they agreed to keep it quite but Chuck did not agree and he knew too much that they decided to get a hitman. All in all, he couldn't ask for help to neither side. He didn't have the cartel's or the authorities' support so he was F'd and that is why they killed him in such an elaborate way.
Yeah, I agree with this. I think this is a pretty standard covert operation situation like the CIA-Contra cocaine trafficking affair and a government middle-man/agent became a nuisance.
Sounds about right. Also, I believe all the weird evidence on his body and the car were probably just placed to confuse and mislead everyone. „Green eyes“ might have actually been the hit(wo)man, further misleading the wife and non-corrupt authorities with her phone calls
would make sense in a Hollywood movie. You sure have to cut out all the strange stuff as usual in Hollywood movies like: how could he flee in the first place and get straight back home instead to police? If it was someone who wanted him dead - why didn't they do it right again but after such a long time where he could have told everything 10 times? Plus why would they even bother to intimidate him if they already had him and he would be way more silent if he was dead? Why would they use a phantasy drug that doesn't exists on him? Why would they even use any drug if they wanted to intimidate him? Why would they use his own gun? Why are all the strange infos are coming from a guy who is balls deep into conspiracy theories? You can basically do this endlessly, it just reeks like a big pile of bs.
@@herrschmidt5477 He fled the first time around because he probably got intimidated by a colleague involved. I mean it would make sense they would give him the opportunity to just keep quiet but I am sure he showed signs that he wasn't going to keep quiet about what he saw and they got rid of him.
@@bericaescobar6738 mjeah but contrary to movies you don't simply flee if some guys got you at a point where they have you strapped to a chair or whatever and torture you.
Yay! Thanks for covering one of my favorite cases! Sasabe (pronounced more or less like SASS-uh-bee), the little town the map led to, is just down the road from me a ways. It's a hub for both illegal drug smuggling and illegal people smuggling. I've always felt that Morgan was somehow involved with drug smuggling and ran afoul of those folks.
What is Arizona like? I've always wanted to go there. I live on Vancouver Island. If anyone is wondering it is heavenly here.......snowpeaked mountains and lush green forests of pine. Lots of salmon fishing too.
Considering how quickly the police were quick to label the case a suicide, you have to wonder if they were trying to cover up the case. There may have been a cover up by a third party, considering how Mr. Deveraux's associates got killed in the aftermath. I find it hard to believe this was an elaborate ruse on Chuck's part to prevent suicide.
Cops are just lazy most the time and it’s not trying to cover it up it’s just trying to close a case and move on helps their numbers and saves them time and money
I have a theory about ecclesiastes 12. The book of ecclesiastes was written by king solomon and was likely some of the last things he wrote before his death. King Solomon was incredibly wealthy and had many women, but had come to realize that none of it was worth it;he had lived a life of sin and was goig to die shortly. Ecclesiastes 12 is the final cry of remorse for all the poor descisions made in the pursuit of money. If theory 3 is correct, charles may have had the intention of completely turning away from his life of crime, surrendering the money, and leaving the promises of riches and glory behind for his own family and safety. This plan didn't work, however. Ecclesiastes 12 is the final lament of a king who earned riches, but lost honour, integrity, and if you believe in the judeo/christian law, his own hope and faith in the afterlife in the process. All is vanity
great theory, the ecclesiastes quote was one of the most puzzling parts of this case to me. i feel like this is definitely the way he intended for the bible verse to be interpreted.
Some clarifications and a theory: The names written in alphabetical order are: ACEVEDO BEJARANO CAJERO DUARTE ENCINAS FUENTE GRADILLA The two dollar bill shown in Lazy’s video is not the real one. The actual bill says “ECCLESTIATES 12” as well, but there were in fact two arrows on the real bill, pointing at the serial number. Since the arrows are slightly curved it COULD be interpreted as verse 2 and 3 should switch places, and verse 3 and 8 should change position too. However, since we in reality don’t know if it is a cryptogram, or not, we can’t jump to any conclusions. On the backside of the dollar bill there was a crudely drawn map that mentions Robles Junction, close to Tucson Arizona in the north and a small town called Sásabe on the Mexican side of the border in the south, both known for drug trafficking. The junction where South Sasabe Road (286) meets Arivaca (Sasabe) Road (that Morgan misspelled as “Arivaza”) was encircled. It’s close to Buenas Aires National Wildlife Refuge that also is mentioned on the bill. Oddly enough it also says “Baboqunari” at the bottom of the dollar bill. The only thing that I can find online referring to “Baboqunari” in Arizona is an unified school district which seems to be adult education for agriculture, if I’ve understood it correctly. Six signers of the Declaration of Independence are numbered on the backside of the dollar bill too (not seven as Unsolved Mysteries claimed ) in the following order: 1. John Hancock, Massachusetts 2. Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania 3. Thomas Jefferson, Virginia 4. Robert R. Livingston, New York 5. Roger Sherman, Connecticut 6. John Adams, Massachusetts There is a possibility that the entire plot was a ruse to trick Ruth and the girls because Morgan felt guilty and wanted to pretend to be a hero that desperately needed to flee. “Green Eyes” may very well have been Chuck’s mistress who was in on the plan. However, she may have had a change of heart, or Morgan was trying to dump her too, and she decided to kill him and take all of the money that Morgan had made from the money laundry scheme. It’s in fact a way more plausible explanation than the fantastic story Morgan presented. The two men ransacking Morgan’s house could have been associates to “Green Eyes” for all we know. She may have known were Morgan hid the letter, and was afraid that she would be named, implicated and exposed. It’s not very unlikely that she had hooked up with the mobsters by then, if she hadn’t been with them all along. If there was a contract on him there wouldn’t be any point paying off the hit man, since he probably would have killed Morgan anyway and doubled his profit. Or the mobsters would have hired a new killer. Regardless, it doesn’t make any sense. And how on earth could Morgan possibly have known who the hit man was? It’s not exactly common practice for hit men to present themselves in advance. If the “hit man” in fact wasn’t “Green Eyes”, that is. It’s not very unlikely that “Green Eyes” in fact was employed by the mafia, to keep a close watch on Morgan. He had a lot of sensitive information about billion dollar transactions. If a femme fatale suddenly appeared in Morgan’s suburban midlife crises, it’s quite possible that he would have taken the bait. Especially since he probably came into position of a considerable amount of money himself. The whole story about the “hallucinogenic drug” and the “kidnapping” sounds like pulp fiction to me. If Morgan’s throat indeed had been “painted with a hallucinogenic drug that could drive him irrevocably insane or destroy his nervous system and kill him”, and yet he refused to go to the hospital, then it’s just plain silly. But then again, we only have Ruth’s word on any of this. There’s something very fishy about Morgan’s story. I think there’s a way simpler explanation. Cherchez la femme. Edit: “Green Eyes” may of course be murdered too. She could for instance be Coconino County Doe (found in 1980), or simply haven’t been discovered yet.
This is the craziest story I’ve heard in a LONG time. And it all took place 20 miles from my home. The borderlands in many places are pretty dangerous and nobody goes out there alone or unarmed.
Working from home, 3rd cup of coffee… Just realized how many times I’ve listened to a video, at the end I say in synch with Lazy “the best things happen…in the dark” in an overdramatized voice…
Sunglasses = Eye for an Eye Tooth in hankerchief = Tooth for a tooth Money in the underwear(laundry) = Money Laundering Honestly this guy’s has been playing with fire his entire career and formed colleagues that you do not want to be seen with..
Bizarre story. Theory #3 is the most logical. Was he an undercover agent or a criminal? Probably both but not an agent a confidential informant. I think he wanted out but he was caught between two forces. The first kidnapping story sounds like something he made up. It's silly and hokey. I'm no bible scholar so i looked some commentary on the ecclesiastes verses. It's about growing old and enjoying the gifts you've been given in life but don't forget about your creator.
Worst thing someone can do is to not tell everyone the secret! If you have information that people are willing to kill you for, shout it out from rooftops! Tell strangers. Tell friends. Tell family. Tell the clerk at the checkout line. Tell the Uber driver. Tell the Grubhub delivery person. Tell other parents at the PTA meeting. Tell the school janitor. Tell your psychiatrist. Tell the nurse. Tell everybody!!
Exactly what I would do. I would think a bit on how to tell as many people as possible in a short timeframe, so that if I'm being followed they don't just end me after the first person I tell it to
Noice, another case covered by Unsolved Mysteries! I love seeing creepy stories I used to watch with my grandma in the 90s still being investigated lol.
I'm kinda intrigued by this! how did you/your grandma find out about this in the 90s? Was it all in books? And do you think any revelations to the case have been made since then?
I thought Danny Casolaro looked familiar but I couldn't place why. Then another commenter mentioned the Inslaw case and it clicked. Either a weird coincidence, or this case is even bigger than originally believed
Man I didn't know lazy masquerade was still making content, this video is great. One thing that really stood out to me, when "green eyes" called Ruth, she called her "Ruthie" like she had some kind of personal connection with her? Not sure what it could mean but it was super intriguing
i wonder if she knew chuck quite well and had heard him refer to ruth as ruthie, and knew that calling her that would come across friendly in a very scary time for ruth. being ruth, after my husband had been abducted, come back, told me he cant tell me whats going on, and then dissappeared again.... i dont know how id respond to a stranger on the phone, unless they made a very friendly first impression.
If Morgan had a large life insurance policy with a payout exclusion for suicide or something similar, I find the lengths Morgan went to in order to develop a narrative pointing to homicide completely viable. Unfortunately for Morgan, it seems to have failed.
This is exactly what I came to. The whole wearing a bulletproof vest while getting shot in the head seems like he’s trying hard to steer police away from suicide. People do crazy things when they are in a extreme stressful state that.
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There's a flower that can kill you if eaten and can also make you permenantly insane. It's a hallucingen and locals would eat it to high without realising the effects. It's considered a drug. I watched a doco on it from years ago. If I find it I'll post the link. I don't think that was what he was given though. He probably didn't know much about psychoactive substances and believed what they said under acute stress and trumua. Or maybe it was a mixed/laced with anther drug. Ether way, how do you keep it in the back of your throat? That whole part was weird. I didn't understand that at all
@@butterflychild2797 I think you're thinking of datura or scopolamine. Neither of these substances would make sense in this scenario, nor would they kill you, unless a large dose was used. He was simply lying.
the residue was on his left hand possibly because he was shooting the gun out the car as he was driving. Who ever shot him, from behind, then cleaned all the finger prints off the weapon before tossing it. The sun glasses were likely bought from a gas station nearby, maybe "green eyes" wanted to cover her eyes, so that people wouldn't witness a lady with green eyes accompany him.
Jesus… He was 39 in that pic?!? He looks 50 easy! I am 2 yrs older than him! People really looked older back in the day despite having much younger calendar ages… Wow…
What rules out suicide for me, s no prints on the gun. You can't shoot yourself and then wipe the gun before you die. Same thing happened with Kurt Cobain's "suicide".
You really should do a video about Danny or Don. When I was researching Danny Casolaro Don did answer emails and Michael riconosciuto was recently released from prison
Every so often when watching these cases, you hear something so strange that it boggles the mind and you feel like turning off to try and compute what you just heard..... "Chuck was... 39".. WTF?!?!
What a very intriguing case. I don't think that Chuck took his own life. There are so many things in this case that makes me think that there was a huge cover up and that they wanted to silence everyone involved. Wish everyone a Happy New Year 🥳🥳🥳
Glad we all freaked out when Danny was mentioned! The Octopus is such a great book and a crazy story all its own. Somehow he is connected to this too? So. Much. Mistrust.
Theory 3 definitely seems most likely. The "FBI agents" probably didn't even know about the letter (it doesn't seem likely that Chuck would mention something that would lead directly to his family, but I guess he could have mentioned it to Green Eyes, who maybe betrayed him?). Those agents were definitely looking for the duplicate files and, most likely, didn't find them. I don't think they'd be so keen on killing everyone investigating it if they had found them. Maybe they never killed Devereux bc they were hoping he'd find the files? Maybe they killed Johnston not as a mistake, but as a threat to him? Ah well, as with anything connected to organized crime, we'll most likely never know. Very interesting video!
Look this is gonna sound like one huge stretch but isn’t it weird how the writer’s body was found with 12 slashes when the dollar referenced Ecclesiastes 12?
I've lived in Tucson. I can promise you that all Chuck needed to do was pick a good spot in the desert and make sure the directions to that spot were given precisely to trusted people. He could have easily sealed that letter in something to protect it, buried it a meter deep, easily covered it up. No way anyone else could have a hope of finding it. Like how Kissing Kate did in the movie HOLES.
Possible 4th theory: Chuck was playing both sides, he was in deep with the mob and acted as an agent for the feds feeding information to both sides then one side found out what he was doing and took him out.
Can’t wait for a new content from you, I’m a fairly recent subscriber, but really enjoy your videos. Also, I too have read people who eat darkness. It is a truly fantastic. As someone who is blind services like audible are invaluable to me.
So a criminal or government organization supposedly killed a man, and to silence a reporter who brought attention to the case, they killed 2 other people. With that kind of body count, there's NO WAY they would leave the reporter alive. Sounds like a psychotic break/delusion followed by suicide. Paying a woman to call his wife and say he's okay wouldn't be difficult. Anything after that sounds like a lie from either the reporter or the wife to keep the case in the public eye. Either for fame, or to force the police to keep looking into the death.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who noticed that the names on the $2 bill all began with A,B,C,D,E,F,G... and I can only assume the bible passage was the key to a cipher. Maybe the cipher was on the lost note
The 2 dollar bill does seem to have names that would be part of a cartel. The plastic handcuffs are the weird thing to me. The wire ties would work fine.
Man I love hearing these right before sleep. You’re such a good story tell brother! You paint pictures in my mind. Thanks you!! Keep on doing you! ROLL TIDE!
What should rule out theory #1 is that Morgan would've had to wipe any fingerprints off his gun or take off/get rid of his gloves... after he shot himself in the back of the head. It wouldn't shock me at all if this case was merely a part of a broader story connected to PROMISE/Danny Casolaro and Mena. edit* - should've waited to watch the whole thing
Reminds me of the case of Bella, they didn't know if she was a spy or what her past was, and assumed something similar. I don't think she's been identified to this day.
Can’t they exhume her body for dna and they compare her dna with spy lady they think she could be relatives try tried that with dna from skull cap and the bloodily couch remains that the Russian government has to prove if hitler actually toke his own life in his bunker with his girlfriend but hitler and his girlfriend relatives refuse to give dna
Hey Lazy Legion, best wishes for the New Year! I have some big projects and videos planned, so keep those peepers peeled
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When you mentioned Danny Casolaro, my jaw dropped to the floor. Before his death he was also working on the Inslaw case and the Iran-Contra affair. His death is also one huge rabbit hole
It’s a rabbit hole that goes deep and connects to other deep rabbit holes. This case has a real “spooky” vibe, if you catch my drift
Information on demand
@@78deathface one could almost say it glows.
@@ahabcolerchat9404 the inslaw case was about the Inslaw corporation accusing the US Government of stealing the Inslaw corporations software called "Promis" using it for stuff like spying on foreign governments and even murder.
He was also investigating the October surprise theory that alleged Iran deliberately deliberately held back the hostages during the Iran hostage crisis so Reagan could win the election.
The Iran-Contra deal was about selling weapons to Iran during an embargo that the US had put on Iran. They used these funds to fund the Contra rebels who would overthrow the revolutionary government in Nicaragua.
I suggest diving more into this because this rabbit hole makes the Mariana trench look like your outdoor swimming pool.
Something really loopy went down in that reporter's hotel room. He didn't put up a fight. He was tortured. 12 slash marks accross forearms? That's too many for a fight unless he was Bruce Lee fighting the 3 Stooges. . Removal of fingernails is a common form of persuasion once used by agencies. But since the Vietnam war , professionals know that torture doesn't really produce desirable results.... There are more effective ways to get information from a captive. None of it makes sense. Unless, those professionals wanted to look like amateurs...or thugs. Shots to the back of head....a signature? Maybe....more likely a matter of convenience. Plastic handcuffs.... The FBI... Green eyes. Why tell your dad you've hidden a secret letter if there's no letter? The theories floated here don't make sense. None of it makes sense. What the hell happened?!! Can't be solved by internet investigators without reviewing evidence.
Thank you. I'm a 6 year viewer of your channel. I'm looking forward for another awesome year! Thank you Lazy!
This promo for Ozark Season 4 is wild
I’m late with this but I gotta say I love the new intro!!! Badass man!
The Ecclesiastes verse is about wickedness in high places, leading to speculation that he was working with the government, and that maybe one of his superiors ratted him out for money.
yeah, people don't shoot themselves in the back of the head.
Besides the fact that it's rather uncomfortable to get your hand there, it's also more common to do it from the front or the side.
And those FBI agents that visited the family later weren't FBI agents at all. Quickly flashing the badge to prevent the wife from seeing any inconsistencies and then searching the house without search warrant or any other document that suggested they have something important to take.
What about Theory 4, where Don Devereux is the killer in all 3 instances?
Don't you find it weird that he's continuously inserted himself into the charles morgan case? And that there was an attempted failed hit on him exactly once with no follow up attempt despite him presumably having very sensitive information? And that Danny Casolaro turns up dead when he tries meeting Don Devereux as an informant?
Either Don himself is the killer/involved with the killer, or the killer(s) were keeping close tabs on him, but somehow not interested enough in him to try killing him again when they'd have had the chance during the Casolaro incident.
Another perfectly done video.
I liked a your best channel, Lazy!
We know he didn't kill himself because the gun had no fingerprints on it. Kinda hard for him to wipe the gun clean after he'd shot his own brains out.
It couldve been wiped. It also could have been utilized by a professional wearing gloves. Quite a few ways to handle a gun and not leave prints.
I do, however, agree with your assertion. He absolutely did not kll himself. Not a single piece of evidence exists that points to a legitimate amount of accuracy to that theory.
In the back of his head no less 🙄
Unless there was someone helping him. Someone that he paid. I thought maybe he did it himself and made it look like someone did it in order to collect on life insurance. But I hadn't thought about the fingerprints.
Same thing with Kurt Cobain. The shell was found in the wrong place too.
Good point. ANd shoot himself in back of head. Sure....I call bs like the REBECCA ZAHAU case where she tied up her hands and feet, wrapped a rope *tied to a bed* around her neck and jumped off the second floor of the mansion in San Diego.
There's something very frustrating about authorities ruling a death as suicide when it obviously wasn't suicide. There was this one guy whose decapitated head was found with two bullet holes in it, and the body was located miles away from the head, and no gun could be recovered. The coroner still said it was suicide, and his family was like: _"Really?"_
what case was that?
Sadly there are lots of cases ruled suicide that very obviously weren't.
It's an unfortunate reality that "when you screw up, you cover up"
Probably a friend of the Clinton's.
@@DB8ed Sorry for the late reply, I recall intending to answer and thought I already had.
The victim's name was Adolph Ruth, an adventurer who set out to locate the semi-mythical Lost Dutchman's gold mine in 1931. Supposedly people who try to find the lost mine tend to turn up dead with their heads cut off. I learned about it from a video by Bedtime Stories titled "There's Something In The Mountains."
@@RelativelyBest its all good! better late than never haha.
Damn that sucks though. Makes ME wanna go out and search for this mine but fully document and record my entire trip and also go armed to the teeth.
If a hallucinogen was painted onto the back of his throat it most definitely would enter his bloodstream. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard... There's no way it could have been avoided
Agreed. Maybe they *did* paint something onto his throat (fluoride paint exists, for example) and told him a fabrication to get to stfu.
My main ideas behind the "painting his throat" detail are:
1. He was lying and keeping quiet because he knew the house was bugged.
2. He was made to believe it was true through coercion. Not everyone is an expert in human physiology, and panic can muddle the brain.
3. Someone made up this particular detail. Someone who would benefit from this story...
4. It was the truth. Maybe he *was* given a hallucinogenic substance and it made him, you know, hallucinate. He could have misunderstood due to his altered mental state. Without having gone to the hospital to have testing done, it would have been impossible to tell if he'd been administered any drugs.
@@KimdraStBiryukova or its an elaborate suicide. Chuck was a big fan of spy novels
Inside his throat
@@darvon906 BS
Could be also be paranoia
I almost spit my drink when I heard the name "Danny Casolaro", I never tough he would be somehow connected with this. His case and the "Octotpus Conspiracy" is a really fascinating rabbit hole, and was also covered on the show Unsolved Mysteries.
I will now have to follow up with this story. Thanks for sharing this info. Very fascinating.
@@smassey6848 - it's a hell of a story. Check it out.
It gets into some dark shit. Some back doors to spy on allies. Stolen software to build the back door programs into. A potential witness came forward. He was found with a large amount of cocaine which discredited him. There were the murders in 1981 of Fred Alvarez at Cabazon Arms in Indio California. Maloney laundering through Indian casinos. Navy secret weapons program. Wackenhut security. Danny Casolaro uncovered a great deal but, they definitely killed him. The whole DOJ was and still remains “captured”.
@@smassey6848 Start by checking out the episode 21 of season 5 of Unsolved Mysteries, is available for free here on UA-cam.
@@BreadHart Thank you so much. I didn't know the eps were here in yt and also didn't know which one to look for
I've been listening to your stories for 5+ years and still enjoy every video!
Ditto
Me too i remember when he didnt have 10k subs
Me too! (Happy New Year Lazy) :)
Me too
Same here!
I'm amazed that despite being possibly targetted for assassinations, Don Devereux appears to be still pursuing his investigation works. The guy is either the protagonist of all the homicide cases he worked on, or he's that reoccuring supporting character in a series of slasher movies who managed to survive all installments and ultimately got his own spinoff.
One of his big investigations was the murder of a journalist called Don Bolles who helped uncover land fraud schemes by pushing legislation to get rid of “blind trusts” like the ones mentioned in the video, so it seems like it’s not even his first rodeo!
FINALLY, a galaxy brain moment.
Or he is the killer
@@kalay5651 this is real galaxy brain moment
He is targeted for years but tangentially related people get killed. The whole story sounds like a mix of assumptions, nonsense, facts, stretches, imagination and legend.
All I can say is I definitely don't think this was suicide. And there's too many collateral deaths to be coincidence. Very intriguing mystery!
Yup. If he had worn a glove to shoot himself, the glove would still be in his hand.
If he did not wear a glove, there would still be fingerprints on the gun.
There were neither glove nor fingerprints found. The coroner just concluded it that way perhaps to sweep the murder under the rags.
@@tensuranikki3529 even if he didn't used gloves and let's say, he protected his hands to not leave fingerprints, gunpowder will be remaining in his hand or wrist.
But there's no way someone can shoot itself in the back of the neck. Unless you're a contortionist, I don't see how.
@@Mtz2604 just stretch your arm back.... The gun doesnt have to be right side up to be fired... also, you dont have to keep your head facing forward... its even easier when you look to the side so i think its fully possible, and he did have gunpowder on his left hand. but i also dont think he took his own, dont get me wrong on that one lol.
Edit, i misread it, but back of the neck is even easier tbf lol
@@topcat5233 no worries, btw love your profile name and picture. Top Cat is one of my favorites.
@@Mtz2604 lol yes! Its becoming increasingly more rare for people to know about top cat, i always love it when people do😂 top cat ftw and down with officer dibble!
It’s strange how he “managed to escape” his “captors” in the first place.
It all sounds like a delusion
Or folie a deux
@@no_peace I'd agree wit you except, what about the other people involved? The "green eye" chick, seemingly privy to his death beforehand. Also, the fake FBI agents that searched their house.
Maybe he was delusional, but regardless, some tangible REAL strange things also went on surrounding his death.
He didn't. There was no first kidnapping. He claimed his "captors" took him to Phoenix yet several witnesses who knew him well placed him in Tucson the entire time...he even showed up at his own business.
@@alternatesportshistory3605 how do you know that?
Lazy is literally the last of the og scary true story youtubers from 5 years ago that I still watch on a regular basis.
Mr nightmare?
@@TheSellars12 nah, don't really mess with his stuff anymore though I know he's still uploading
Was corpse husband one of them?
@@assasainscreed786 yup, him and also urmaker
Be Busta?
My thought on the Ecclesiastes is that on the Bible at his home he used something that can only be seen either using a black light or some other means to read a hidden message. Thanks lazy for the hours of entertaining videos I enjoy while working
I'm not sure if it had particular significance to him or his family, the fact his wife has a bible to hand to look it up indicates that they might have been a religious family. It could have been a way to convince his wife that the message was from him. The money clipped in to his clothing leads me to believe it might have been a very clever way to make sure that even if he changed his identity and lived a whole other life his body could be identified should he ever be found dead.
It's such a specific and memorable message that should ever any member of his family or friend group (or even us) hear it at any point everyone would know it was related to him. They could remove his fingerprints, his teeth, or do any number of other things in an attempt to make him unrecognisable - it's fairly likely they would miss, or even simply not think to care about some money being on his person though. Random bible graffiti is about as inconspicuous as one could be with that too. He could be a skeleton discovered in a forest in thirty years time and the instant that phrase was publicised he could be identified.
@@SNMG7664 I mean the Bible is such a common book that it wouldn't be a safe assumption tbh
@@SNMG7664 but if that part is so important, I would expect them to have it show up more often. Like have that part on a picture somewhere, or as their wedding oath, or something like that. I mean, even Fallout 3 did that. The same bible passage that is mention in the beginning is instrumental to finish it.
There needs to be some level of meaning. Unless of cause it is exclusively related to his death.
100% sounds like the place where the "confession letter" was hidden
This is easily one of the most wtf cases I've ever heard.
The whole "painted his throat with a hallucinogen" thing is sus to me; that is not how drugs or throats work.
Anything that would be absorbed by the stomach would also be absorbed by the esophagus eventually. And the only "hallucinogen" that would make you go "irreparably insane" would be something from the deleriant class like scopolamine (which isn't a hallucinogen, but definitely has a long and storied history with cartels and alphabet Bois alike)... But again, that doesn't explain why he couldn't talk.
That whole first part of the story makes me think he was just lying about everything.
Yep. I think he just didn't want to speak out loud fearing his house was bugged.
There’s also the plastic handcuffs he showed up wearing after he “escaped”. Who would use plastic handcuffs? Sounds like he was suffering through some serious paranoid delusions.
Seriously! Thank you. I’m glad I’m not the only one who was pretty suspect of that.
Or the wife did it.
Yeah, the mafia doesn't work in mysterious ways. In other real cases with the mafia, they are pretty black and white about it. If anything, I'm more suspicious of Don Deverow, the reporter.
Lazy, you should actually narrate some audio books. I’m 100% serious. We’d all be into those.
True this. I would be willing to buy them
I agree, However I think it would only work with non fiction as fiction often requires the narrator to adopt different voices for characters. Any true crime would be awesome. Even better if it was a book Lazy wrote so we'd support him in 2 ways at once!
@@strengthful6058 Dude, we are a collective fanbase
@@strengthful6058 Thats was very unnessessary thing to complain lol. Most of hes fanbase would listen audiobooks he narrate
@@kekerosberg1654 yes we are 🙌🏼
Absolutely batshit case, but I always wondered about the statement that the hallucinogenic painted in his throat would kill him if he ingested it... if it was painted in his throat, he surely would have ingested it just by the act of swallowing or absorption through the capillaries there. I wonder if they (whoever 'they' were) told him this as they painted his throat with something innocuous to scare him.
If the whole abduction thing was all invented (which I don't think it was), then was it something he just made up?
If someone had been tortured for 3 days, they're not exactly in a normal frame of mind. They could've just as easily brushed water along his throat and told him this and he'd have likely believed it.
Guy got tied up into some shady dealings and paid the price.
"green eyes' was definitely his mistress who got tied up into this but felt bad about him / for his family.
Why do you think she was his mistress?
The fact they were both at a motel together would be a good indicator.
@@munkustrap2 Yeah, under normal circumstances I would agree. But if she was just a mistress, why would she call the wife and the police? And why would she reference the Ephesians passage?
I don’t know. You guys are probably right. The whole thing is just super weird.
He was most likely into S and M, got high on drugs, hallucinated with whoever he was getting high with, they both freaked out and were nuts, and that is that.
@@missvida6251 S and M?
I think he was both. He started out as a money launderer for the mafia and was recruited as an informant by the FBI but since there were shadow CIA agents in cahoots with the major families in Arizona at the time they had access to the FBI files and found out Chuck. They though they could scare him at first but then when he became a paranoid mess they decided to just end him and make it a confused scene by planting strange items in his car and around the murder scene just to mess with the cops. For anyone who grew up watching Unsolved Mysteries we all know that police in the 70's and 80's had an obsession with tagging every strange death as a suicide just so they didn't have to investigate it.
??? Seriously? Its far more likely that the police investigating were compromised. Not a matter of convenience or laziness. Esp in such important matters like high crimes and treason.
My mind definitely went to a mix of agencies, they seem to stumble over each other in certain cases. From mafia launderer to FBI informant (probably using threat of criminal charges), to running afoul of CIA assets in the mob. I think he knew that shadowy people WAY above his pay grade were involved, and this made telling people impossible.
If you're aware of certain trade craft fundamentals you'll notice several clues. Green Eyes is usually code for a female with brown eyes who is a CI or double agent hence eyes = 2 and green = go (verified). Same with the 2 dollar bill, in the UK its a £2 coin or a slightly torn £20 note separating the 2 and 0. As for the murder with the wrong hand, that's a call sign, same with tie colours on auto erotic asphyxiation and the likes. If you can access pictures of the actual crime scene I guarantee you'll know which side did the job whether it be organised crime or organised espionage. Also the passage has a numerical significance rather than the passage itself. My money is on another agent working for the crime side (as if either aren't criminals) AND spy side who had to maintain cover at ALL costs to maintain their position within a specific role, so a bad double agent rather than a good double agent if that makes sense. Also the bathtub "suicide" is a classic especially in a hotel, I'd need more info on that. As for the journalists neighbour, these people don't get common details wrong, it's likely an awful coincidence.
EDIT: Danny Costalaro was also investigating Iran Contra, FBI, CIA and mob ties and making serious links, he was on the hitlist before this.
This is the only comment that makes sense
Just out of interest, how does the slightly torn £20 work now that the notes in the UK are plastic?
11:52 On the one hand, can't blame Ruth for being intimidated by two men showing up claiming to be FBI...on the other hand if they're legit they should not only let you see the IDs but should have other paperwork to go with them...then again it could just be I watch too much tv/youtube
First rule of fake it till you make it: just do everything with confidence and speed, and most people will assume you're either who you say you are or don't want repercussions if they confront you and are wrong.
@@bennygerow Exactly. Theres a few stories I can think of where a guy just wore a worker's uniform and a hard hat while carrying a clipboard and no one questioned him going in, or going out with a fucking refrigerator. lmao
The risk is, if you push them and they aren't legit, well...Edit: I'd be the one to push them, make them lay out their ID's so I can view them thoroughly, and probably get fucked up or killed for not accepting their ruse. 😆
@@bennygerow This is exactly what espionage agents and LEOs do undercover. It's the main skill for survival and success.
@@Sick_Boy exactly my thoughts. Even if she was highly skeptical, her life and her children’s lives would be in danger if she put up resistance. And at that point she was probably paranoid to probe too deeply. I really don’t blame her at all.
So Charles just so happens to free himself from the capture of probably the worst kind of people in the world, has a backup story on why he can not verbally defend his elaborate story, handcuffs still dangling from his wrists and then decides to stay at his home for 2 months and nothing happens? Nobody shows up at the place and arranges a hit? They wait two months in which Charles could reveal information?
I don't buy it.
Seems like paranoid delusion or something of that sort.
I think he was a government spy/ secret agent. "They" possibly could've given him a warning or something of the sort. Maybe Chuck had in his possession some very damning evidence that may have incriminated some powerful people that the government and/or mob wanted back, but he decided to evade them as best he could, which IF he was a spy or something that would be su!c!de.
Idk this whole case is absolutely 🍌's
Unless I do a deep dive on this case
I couldn't really say for certain as to when,where, why and how everything happened and even then it's probably good and buried by the FBI, CIA, the Mob, etc by now. 🤷♀️
Maybe the truth will come out someday...
Rest in peace, Chuck.
🕊️🪦🙏🥀
@@LynnAgain83 But why wouldn't Chuck immediately order bis family to pack their bags and flee to some motel with them? Why would he feel safe enough at home so that not parking his car in the driveway would already cut it?
OG Jussie Smollett.
@@NobodysSon That’s what I was thinking until all that stuff about Green Eyes. Unless she was enabling his delusions for whatever reason, I don’t know why she would insert herself into the investigation, or why she called his wife with that clue before he was found.
Looks like Don Devereux is the sole survivor in this case. Or is he?😳
I’d like an update on him.
And the 2 daughters
There's nothing mentioned about him after 2000. If you search him up its just a rugby player. However there's nothing about his death on his website so I guess there's that.
@amanda hoffman
Why do you want to know?
Are you looking for him?
Are you green eyes?😉
@@corvid714 He had four daughters.
@@Alfietgardiner wtf have you been googleing? He has a website with his name lol
Damn! I don't know why I keep doing this to myself. Unsolved mysteries are a burden, they get my mind racing for answers & clues that I never figure out! Sigh, thanks lazy, happy new year in advance & also to all of you guys. Mad love from South Africa 🇿🇦
Yes! I've been hoping Papa lazy would cover the Charles Morgan case! Brings me back to Robert Stack era Unsolved Mysteries.
The nostalgia...
I spent hours watching that show with my aunt when I was a kid.
the atempted reboot sucks.
Won't lie, I would totally watch an Unsolved Mysteries show hosted by LazyMasquerade.
Serial you look like the crazy homeless killer
Personally, I believe the hitman took the opportunity to gain a double pay day from the one hit on Chuck like Lazy said. It makes the most sense to me...especially when one can get paid twice for the same job. $180-200K was a lot of money back then.
Remember watching this one on unsolved mysteries years ago. It really sucks because poor Charles got ended, and no one likely will ever know exactly why. Because of the govt involvement. A mystery since 77 and likely always will remain. I do agree though that they likely wanted to kill devereaux and ended up getting Johnston (who i think looks a fair bit like Devereaux).
The question becomes this: why did someone want Devereaux dead badly enough they'd have a hit put on him, but no so badly as to literally never try a 2nd time after the first one got botched?
Unless the first one wasn't botched and Devereaux was the killer trying to create a fake defense for himself.
i just dont think a clearly well organised crime syndicate, or the government or cia or fbi, would have botched something so badly as to murder the wrong man, because they have the same car. number plates are never the same. hundreds of people have the same car. i just dont buy that that was a botched attempt on deveroux's life. maybe a warning, even then, would people as sophisticated as this have wanted the extra collateral? more heat. much more efficient, and direct ways to warn people.
Devereux was just the reporter. His only connection to the case is writing about it. Why would he kill someone? It makes more sense that it was a case of mistaken identity or a warning to him.
@@mikeg8276 you misunderstood. That’s exactly what i was saying
@@EphemeralProductions My bad, wasn’t replying to you, but the first comment. I just didn’t tag the dude.
I was expecting Devereux to have his brakes tampered with or to commit “suicide” at some point, wonder if he’s still with us. What a story!
I found his website. Looks like he’s still going strong!
I found his website. Looks like he’s still going strong!
Damn, I wonder what Devereaux is up to these days. If I were him, I'd be living like a hermit in the woods, sleeping with a gun at my bedside and a security system around my property.
@rapheALtoid I legit thought of this
Go to his website. He sees conspiracies and schemes in much of what he writes.
@@DonDraperism To be fair, if he was the target of an attempted hit, and dudes started dying around him, probably make anyone paranoid. Justifiably so. Especially when the government says a guy shot himself in the BACK OF THE HEAD....Cause totally. I fail to even understand how one could manage that.
@@NeiasaurusCreations It's not unheard of to find suicide victims to shoot themselves in the back of the head. Also was it more on the right, the left? The only information we have about this case are true crime websites. I posted a lot of information but Lazy took it down. For instance, go to Don Devereux's website. Many of his articles on different subjects are speculative and conspiracy theories. I like Lazy as he puts up good stuff, but I don't see a big mystery here, Lots of conjecture with little or no evidence.
@@DonDraperism I don't think lazy took it down. UA-cam has an auto censor on comments. If you link stuff there's a good chance youtube will remove it. If you use certain terms, words, phrases youtube will remove it. Trust me, I know. I often have to find creative ways to skirt the bounds of what youtube will ALLOW you to comment. I'd suggest using numbers and signs to stand in for letters, and refining through trial an error the exact reason it got removed by youtube.
Also that's what theories are though. Just theories. They're rarely 'proven' and often have little evidence. If they had enough evidence it wouldn't be a theory, it'd be a fact, wouldn't it?
But again, I don't exactly believe shooting yourself in the back of the head is a suicide thing. In your mouth? Maybe the side of your head. But the back? It'd take a lot of effort, and be super easy to mess up. But there's also evidence that a second person was there, and then there's greeneyes. There's a lot that doesn't support suicide. Like who wears a bullet proof vest out of FEAR of dying, then commits suicide? I'm left with more questions then answers. But I can feel confident in saying that it wasn't a suicide. There's simply too much "odd" things that don't line up.
The only "downside" of this amazing channel is that he doesn't post very often, already saw all videos 😅
There was a lot of shady things happening here. Makes me wonder if this will ever be solved.
Hell no
I just thought of something when you mentioned the professional cleaning crew coming in and cleaning up the crime scene - it seems like that would be a lucrative, though illicit, enterprise/business - professionally cleaning crime scenes and erasing evidence for criminals. Like maybe ex law enforcement, ex forensics people, etc. I know it's kind of dark but it seems like that would exist in some capacity - and maybe it does for like the mob/cartel/etc. Kind of like Mr. Wolf on Pulp Fiction but solely focused on the cleaning.
Just like that crew of clean-up people John Wick called in first film where there were assassins coming to his home.
You’re thinking is “spot on”
In my experience a gallon or 5 of petrol along with a wind up spark thrower cleanes up well enough & is fun to watch
U're always a great company to have while working on my projects. U never disappoint.
What projects do you work on?
You typed out an entire sentence, yet two instances of "y - o" was where you drew the line?
@@garyowens7454 😁
Learn to speak English
Damn, first of all, thank you Lazy for another interesting very well put together video.
This case is already mysterious enough as it is but the fact it actually ties in with Danny Casolaro somewhat turns it into a MASSIVE ass rabbit hole.
Yess...the rabbit hole just got extra wide!
Going back to the 70s, there is the truly shocking murder of Phoenix journalist Don Bolles. His murder continues to haunt Arizona 50 years later. Nobody was ever prosecuted for his murder. He was also investigating the Arizona Mafia. One day he got into his car in the parking garage of his work. He turned on the ignition and the car exploded. His assassin didn't quite do his job properly. Bolles's legs were blown off. He survived for eleven days before dying. The Mob has long been embedded in the sand of the Arizona desert. Rest in peace, Don. You have not been forgotten and it is likely you will be remembered a 100 years from now as a gutsy journalist who pursued, persisted and ultimately died honing your craft without fear or favour.
He escaped right. Hid car bc they would look for him. So he goes home around his children. Of course that's where they would look first. He walked his girls outside to school. Still went to "work". Sorry I think he faked it all.
What about the fake FBI agents rooting through their house? And the female caller that knew he was in trouble beforehand?
Those were real things, so something weird was up, even if he was delusional.
All you said doesn't add up to "he faked it" do you have other ideas then "hid his car" which also was trashed later by other people than Chuck. Explain why this is your theory.
@@karenamyx2205 Just wanted to add that Green eyes is the only verifiable thing to have happened, the FBI dudes could've very well been made up from his wife end if we were to be very technical about things.
Definitely suspicious. Sounds like a very frightening situation. He was involved somehow. I hope the journalist is safe.
Really? I feel like that journalist is involved.
@@hallmark1 interesting 🤔. Possible.
These real-life cases make me so sad :( I feel so terrible for the families and victims :(
This case is additionally so scary and weird!
Michaela--..Agree..
I found one more suspicious information about this case - on 2 different sites (Reddit and comment section on Unsolved), two apparently different people stated that at least some of the names on the 2 dollar bill belonged to the law enforcement officers from southern Arizona
he was soon to whistleblow on dirty cops maybe?
it's Arizona tho there's lots of Hispanics throughout the south western US but they do have lots of common spanish surnames like Hernandez, Gutierrez, Ramirez, Vasquez, Mendez, Mendoza, palacios etc. and those names listed on the bill weren't all that common so it could have some clarity.
My conclusion is that Chuck was an infiltrated agent who was in charge of the finance side of a cartel or criminals. Meanwhile being infiltrated he found out people of power were in cahoots with the cartel/ criminal and a lot of money was in play. After reporting this to his superiors they decided they couldn't take down the cartel w/o heavily implicating this person of power. He knew too much and therefore his superiors probably confronted the person of power with this knowledge and they agreed to keep it quite but Chuck did not agree and he knew too much that they decided to get a hitman. All in all, he couldn't ask for help to neither side. He didn't have the cartel's or the authorities' support so he was F'd and that is why they killed him in such an elaborate way.
Yeah, I agree with this. I think this is a pretty standard covert operation situation like the CIA-Contra cocaine trafficking affair and a government middle-man/agent became a nuisance.
Sounds about right. Also, I believe all the weird evidence on his body and the car were probably just placed to confuse and mislead everyone. „Green eyes“ might have actually been the hit(wo)man, further misleading the wife and non-corrupt authorities with her phone calls
would make sense in a Hollywood movie. You sure have to cut out all the strange stuff as usual in Hollywood movies like: how could he flee in the first place and get straight back home instead to police? If it was someone who wanted him dead - why didn't they do it right again but after such a long time where he could have told everything 10 times? Plus why would they even bother to intimidate him if they already had him and he would be way more silent if he was dead? Why would they use a phantasy drug that doesn't exists on him? Why would they even use any drug if they wanted to intimidate him? Why would they use his own gun? Why are all the strange infos are coming from a guy who is balls deep into conspiracy theories? You can basically do this endlessly, it just reeks like a big pile of bs.
@@herrschmidt5477 He fled the first time around because he probably got intimidated by a colleague involved. I mean it would make sense they would give him the opportunity to just keep quiet but I am sure he showed signs that he wasn't going to keep quiet about what he saw and they got rid of him.
@@bericaescobar6738 mjeah but contrary to movies you don't simply flee if some guys got you at a point where they have you strapped to a chair or whatever and torture you.
Yay! Thanks for covering one of my favorite cases! Sasabe (pronounced more or less like SASS-uh-bee), the little town the map led to, is just down the road from me a ways. It's a hub for both illegal drug smuggling and illegal people smuggling. I've always felt that Morgan was somehow involved with drug smuggling and ran afoul of those folks.
What is Arizona like? I've always wanted to go there. I live on Vancouver Island. If anyone is wondering it is heavenly here.......snowpeaked mountains and lush green forests of pine. Lots of salmon fishing too.
Considering how quickly the police were quick to label the case a suicide, you have to wonder if they were trying to cover up the case. There may have been a cover up by a third party, considering how Mr. Deveraux's associates got killed in the aftermath.
I find it hard to believe this was an elaborate ruse on Chuck's part to prevent suicide.
Cops are just lazy most the time and it’s not trying to cover it up it’s just trying to close a case and move on helps their numbers and saves them time and money
I have a theory about ecclesiastes 12. The book of ecclesiastes was written by king solomon and was likely some of the last things he wrote before his death. King Solomon was incredibly wealthy and had many women, but had come to realize that none of it was worth it;he had lived a life of sin and was goig to die shortly. Ecclesiastes 12 is the final cry of remorse for all the poor descisions made in the pursuit of money. If theory 3 is correct, charles may have had the intention of completely turning away from his life of crime, surrendering the money, and leaving the promises of riches and glory behind for his own family and safety. This plan didn't work, however. Ecclesiastes 12 is the final lament of a king who earned riches, but lost honour, integrity, and if you believe in the judeo/christian law, his own hope and faith in the afterlife in the process. All is vanity
great theory, the ecclesiastes quote was one of the most puzzling parts of this case to me. i feel like this is definitely the way he intended for the bible verse to be interpreted.
Some clarifications and a theory:
The names written in alphabetical order are:
ACEVEDO
BEJARANO
CAJERO
DUARTE
ENCINAS
FUENTE
GRADILLA
The two dollar bill shown in Lazy’s video is not the real one. The actual bill says “ECCLESTIATES 12” as well, but there were in fact two arrows on the real bill, pointing at the serial number.
Since the arrows are slightly curved it COULD be interpreted as verse 2 and 3 should switch places, and verse 3 and 8 should change position too. However, since we in reality don’t know if it is a cryptogram, or not, we can’t jump to any conclusions.
On the backside of the dollar bill there was a crudely drawn map that mentions Robles Junction, close to Tucson Arizona in the north and a small town called Sásabe on the Mexican side of the border in the south, both known for drug trafficking. The junction where South Sasabe Road (286) meets Arivaca (Sasabe) Road (that Morgan misspelled as “Arivaza”) was encircled. It’s close to Buenas Aires National Wildlife Refuge that also is mentioned on the bill.
Oddly enough it also says “Baboqunari” at the bottom of the dollar bill. The only thing that I can find online referring to “Baboqunari” in Arizona is an unified school district which seems to be adult education for agriculture, if I’ve understood it correctly.
Six signers of the Declaration of Independence are numbered on the backside of the dollar bill too (not seven as Unsolved Mysteries claimed ) in the following order:
1. John Hancock, Massachusetts
2. Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania
3. Thomas Jefferson, Virginia
4. Robert R. Livingston, New York
5. Roger Sherman, Connecticut
6. John Adams, Massachusetts
There is a possibility that the entire plot was a ruse to trick Ruth and the girls because Morgan felt guilty and wanted to pretend to be a hero that desperately needed to flee.
“Green Eyes” may very well have been Chuck’s mistress who was in on the plan. However, she may have had a change of heart, or Morgan was trying to dump her too, and she decided to kill him and take all of the money that Morgan had made from the money laundry scheme.
It’s in fact a way more plausible explanation than the fantastic story Morgan presented.
The two men ransacking Morgan’s house could have been associates to “Green Eyes” for all we know. She may have known were Morgan hid the letter, and was afraid that she would be named, implicated and exposed. It’s not very unlikely that she had hooked up with the mobsters by then, if she hadn’t been with them all along.
If there was a contract on him there wouldn’t be any point paying off the hit man, since he probably would have killed Morgan anyway and doubled his profit. Or the mobsters would have hired a new killer. Regardless, it doesn’t make any sense. And how on earth could Morgan possibly have known who the hit man was? It’s not exactly common practice for hit men to present themselves in advance.
If the “hit man” in fact wasn’t “Green Eyes”, that is.
It’s not very unlikely that “Green Eyes” in fact was employed by the mafia, to keep a close watch on Morgan. He had a lot of sensitive information about billion dollar transactions.
If a femme fatale suddenly appeared in Morgan’s suburban midlife crises, it’s quite possible that he would have taken the bait. Especially since he probably came into position of a considerable amount of money himself.
The whole story about the “hallucinogenic drug” and the “kidnapping” sounds like pulp fiction to me. If Morgan’s throat indeed had been “painted with a hallucinogenic drug that could drive him irrevocably insane or destroy his nervous system and kill him”, and yet he refused to go to the hospital, then it’s just plain silly. But then again, we only have Ruth’s word on any of this.
There’s something very fishy about Morgan’s story.
I think there’s a way simpler explanation.
Cherchez la femme.
Edit: “Green Eyes” may of course be murdered too. She could for instance be Coconino County Doe (found in 1980), or simply haven’t been discovered yet.
Most plausible explanation I've seen yet...
@@JTA1961 Thank you.
New video! Cheers! I can be 20 minutes late for work, no problem.
This is the craziest story I’ve heard in a LONG time. And it all took place 20 miles from my home. The borderlands in many places are pretty dangerous and nobody goes out there alone or unarmed.
Working from home, 3rd cup of coffee…
Just realized how many times I’ve listened to a video, at the end I say in synch with Lazy “the best things happen…in the dark” in an overdramatized voice…
Sunglasses = Eye for an Eye
Tooth in hankerchief = Tooth for a tooth
Money in the underwear(laundry) = Money Laundering
Honestly this guy’s has been playing with fire his entire career and formed colleagues that you do not want to be seen with..
Jesus Christ talk about reaching for something that isn't there.
Bizarre story. Theory #3 is the most logical. Was he an undercover agent or a criminal? Probably both but not an agent a confidential informant. I think he wanted out but he was caught between two forces. The first kidnapping story sounds like something he made up. It's silly and hokey.
I'm no bible scholar so i looked some commentary on the ecclesiastes verses. It's about growing old and enjoying the gifts you've been given in life but don't forget about your creator.
Have not finished yet, but it seems likely, very likely that he was an informant into Deep!
Yeah I thought the first kidnapping sounded strange also.
The most unbelievable part of this case is that the man in that photo was only 39.
And the second guy in only 35.
😃
Sort of 'no country for old men' in the way money was involved, trafficking and desert murder.
Was he ripping off
The Mexican Cartel?
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Why did the green eyed woman say Ruthie on the phone and not Ruth.
Worst thing someone can do is to not tell everyone the secret! If you have information that people are willing to kill you for, shout it out from rooftops! Tell strangers. Tell friends. Tell family. Tell the clerk at the checkout line. Tell the Uber driver. Tell the Grubhub delivery person. Tell other parents at the PTA meeting. Tell the school janitor. Tell your psychiatrist. Tell the nurse. Tell everybody!!
Exactly what I would do. I would think a bit on how to tell as many people as possible in a short timeframe, so that if I'm being followed they don't just end me after the first person I tell it to
If there was a secret in this case, it’s probably that there was another woman involved in Chuck’s life.
after years of being a mystery fan i’ve heard this one a thousand times but i’ll watch it again to hear it told by father lazy 😌
I didn't know Danny Casolaro was connected to any of this? Wasn't he investigating some government crime syndicate?
Noice, another case covered by Unsolved Mysteries! I love seeing creepy stories I used to watch with my grandma in the 90s still being investigated lol.
I'm kinda intrigued by this! how did you/your grandma find out about this in the 90s? Was it all in books? And do you think any revelations to the case have been made since then?
Perfect timing. I’m in bed sick, wondering what I am going to listen to. Thanks Lazy!
Hope you get better Amanda.
Hope you get better soon
I thought Danny Casolaro looked familiar but I couldn't place why. Then another commenter mentioned the Inslaw case and it clicked. Either a weird coincidence, or this case is even bigger than originally believed
Oh, i thought Lazy's last video was the last of this year! Thanks for uploading another!
Man I didn't know lazy masquerade was still making content, this video is great.
One thing that really stood out to me, when "green eyes" called Ruth, she called her "Ruthie" like she had some kind of personal connection with her? Not sure what it could mean but it was super intriguing
i wonder if she knew chuck quite well and had heard him refer to ruth as ruthie, and knew that calling her that would come across friendly in a very scary time for ruth. being ruth, after my husband had been abducted, come back, told me he cant tell me whats going on, and then dissappeared again.... i dont know how id respond to a stranger on the phone, unless they made a very friendly first impression.
If Morgan had a large life insurance policy with a payout exclusion for suicide or something similar, I find the lengths Morgan went to in order to develop a narrative pointing to homicide completely viable. Unfortunately for Morgan, it seems to have failed.
This is exactly what I came to. The whole wearing a bulletproof vest while getting shot in the head seems like he’s trying hard to steer police away from suicide. People do crazy things when they are in a extreme stressful state that.
@@SaltyChipoh My god dude how was his finger prints not on the gun then?
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Ah yes, the old hallucinogen that drives you crazy or kills you if ingested. What's that called again?
There's a flower that can kill you if eaten and can also make you permenantly insane. It's a hallucingen and locals would eat it to high without realising the effects. It's considered a drug. I watched a doco on it from years ago. If I find it I'll post the link. I don't think that was what he was given though. He probably didn't know much about psychoactive substances and believed what they said under acute stress and trumua. Or maybe it was a mixed/laced with anther drug. Ether way, how do you keep it in the back of your throat? That whole part was weird. I didn't understand that at all
@@butterflychild2797 I think you're thinking of datura or scopolamine. Neither of these substances would make sense in this scenario, nor would they kill you, unless a large dose was used. He was simply lying.
@@butterflychild2797 white oleander?
the residue was on his left hand possibly because he was shooting the gun out the car as he was driving. Who ever shot him, from behind, then cleaned all the finger prints off the weapon before tossing it.
The sun glasses were likely bought from a gas station nearby, maybe "green eyes" wanted to cover her eyes, so that people wouldn't witness a lady with green eyes accompany him.
I've never clicked on a notification so fast 😂😂 happy new year lazy! Hope its as awesome as you are!
Keep it on your pants man lol
Jesus… He was 39 in that pic?!? He looks 50 easy! I am 2 yrs older than him! People really looked older back in the day despite having much younger calendar ages… Wow…
I would just like to point out that it is standard practice to disavow agents if something happens to them.
How does a person shoot himself in the BACK of the head AND not leave any fingerprints on the gun? I don't buy that.
Jeez, if you want a divorce, just ask for it. Seriously, I like #3, though I'm wondering why, after the 1st incident, he didn't go on the run.
What rules out suicide for me, s no prints on the gun. You can't shoot yourself and then wipe the gun before you die. Same thing happened with Kurt Cobain's "suicide".
Holy shit this story had me gripping the edge of my seat.
You really should do a video about Danny or Don. When I was researching Danny Casolaro Don did answer emails and Michael riconosciuto was recently released from prison
The biggest problem with your videos are I can't get enough of them
Every so often when watching these cases, you hear something so strange that it boggles the mind and you feel like turning off to try and compute what you just heard..... "Chuck was... 39".. WTF?!?!
Same thought here! I though I misheard it, and he was actually 49...somehow people in the seventies looked older. 😅
@@cartonneexpress9265 yup, I dunno why but people in the old days looked much, much older than they actually were.
What a very intriguing case. I don't think that Chuck took his own life. There are so many things in this case that makes me think that there was a huge cover up and that they wanted to silence everyone involved.
Wish everyone a Happy New Year 🥳🥳🥳
Glad we all freaked out when Danny was mentioned! The Octopus is such a great book and a crazy story all its own. Somehow he is connected to this too? So. Much. Mistrust.
Theory 3 definitely seems most likely. The "FBI agents" probably didn't even know about the letter (it doesn't seem likely that Chuck would mention something that would lead directly to his family, but I guess he could have mentioned it to Green Eyes, who maybe betrayed him?). Those agents were definitely looking for the duplicate files and, most likely, didn't find them. I don't think they'd be so keen on killing everyone investigating it if they had found them. Maybe they never killed Devereux bc they were hoping he'd find the files? Maybe they killed Johnston not as a mistake, but as a threat to him? Ah well, as with anything connected to organized crime, we'll most likely never know. Very interesting video!
Look this is gonna sound like one huge stretch but isn’t it weird how the writer’s body was found with 12 slashes when the dollar referenced Ecclesiastes 12?
Can't wait for what's in store in the new year! Been listening to your content for the last few months and I wish I had started sooner! 😄
I've lived in Tucson. I can promise you that all Chuck needed to do was pick a good spot in the desert and make sure the directions to that spot were given precisely to trusted people. He could have easily sealed that letter in something to protect it, buried it a meter deep, easily covered it up. No way anyone else could have a hope of finding it. Like how Kissing Kate did in the movie HOLES.
True, although you never know when some blasted new development is going to suddenly sprout in the most unexpected of places
When you're under surveillance you'd never do that out of sight
When you're in fear for your life being alone in the middle of nowhere is a bad idea
Possible 4th theory: Chuck was playing both sides, he was in deep with the mob and acted as an agent for the feds feeding information to both sides then one side found out what he was doing and took him out.
I like your theory. Makes a lot of sense.
Not the mob, the cartel
Can’t wait for a new content from you, I’m a fairly recent subscriber, but really enjoy your videos. Also, I too have read people who eat darkness. It is a truly fantastic. As someone who is blind services like audible are invaluable to me.
Another interesting podcast, love listening to your stories. I hope you & your family had a wonderful Christmas and have a fantastic New Year.
So a criminal or government organization supposedly killed a man, and to silence a reporter who brought attention to the case, they killed 2 other people. With that kind of body count, there's NO WAY they would leave the reporter alive.
Sounds like a psychotic break/delusion followed by suicide. Paying a woman to call his wife and say he's okay wouldn't be difficult. Anything after that sounds like a lie from either the reporter or the wife to keep the case in the public eye. Either for fame, or to force the police to keep looking into the death.
Thanks Lazy, I love your narrations. Keep the stories coming. This was a good one.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who noticed that the names on the $2 bill all began with A,B,C,D,E,F,G... and I can only assume the bible passage was the key to a cipher. Maybe the cipher was on the lost note
The 2 dollar bill does seem to have names that would be part of a cartel. The plastic handcuffs are the weird thing to me. The wire ties would work fine.
Man I love hearing these right before sleep. You’re such a good story tell brother! You paint pictures in my mind. Thanks you!! Keep on doing you! ROLL TIDE!
😱 shockingly interesting story, may the victims rest in peace, 🙏 wishing you a spooky happy New year, great video thanks 🖤
What should rule out theory #1 is that Morgan would've had to wipe any fingerprints off his gun or take off/get rid of his gloves...
after he shot himself in the back of the head.
It wouldn't shock me at all if this case was merely a part of a broader story connected to PROMISE/Danny Casolaro and Mena.
edit* - should've waited to watch the whole thing
He looked far older than 39.
He looked 50+.
Reminds me of the case of Bella, they didn't know if she was a spy or what her past was, and assumed something similar. I don't think she's been identified to this day.
bella down the wych elm?
Can’t they exhume her body for dna and they compare her dna with spy lady they think she could be relatives try tried that with dna from skull cap and the bloodily couch remains that the Russian government has to prove if hitler actually toke his own life in his bunker with his girlfriend but hitler and his girlfriend relatives refuse to give dna
I feel like Chuck and his mystery is the inspiration for the series Ozark.
That a good show? Always thought about watching it.
@@karenamyx2205 it is soo good
I feel bad for his daughters. Hope they do well today.