What Cops Found on His Phone Sent Chills… The Disturbing Case of Morgan Fox

A woman headed out for her night shift, but she never made it there. At first, detectives had almost nothing to work with, but then, little by little, they started uncovering one disturbing clue after another until the truth finally came out. And when it did, the whole case stopped feeling like a normal investigation and started feeling like a real-life horror movie.

Morgan Fox was born on August 22nd, 1991, in Ohio. When she was still a kid, her parents divorced, and she stayed with her mom along with four brothers and sisters. Later, her mother remarried, a man who already had seven children of his own. So, overnight, Morgan found herself in a huge blended family of 12 kids.

 And by all accounts, it was a close-knit one. At 21, Morgan became a mom herself. She had a daughter, but the relationship with the child’s father didn’t last, and she ended up raising her on her own. Over the next few years, Morgan did whatever it took to make ends meet, working different jobs, sometimes juggling multiple shifts at once, just to make sure her daughter had everything she needed.

 Eventually, she landed a job at a FedEx warehouse. She worked hard, moved up the ranks, and was later promoted to a management position. That’s also where she met Jason. He was a single dad, too, raising a daughter on his own. They started dating, and a few months later, decided to move in together. They rented a house in a small town called North Canton, not far from Morgan’s job, and began building a life as a blended family.

 Two parents, two kids, with big plans for the future. On the morning of October 28th, 2020, Morgan woke up early, just like she always did on workdays. She was scheduled for a night shift, and she and her mom had a little routine. Her mom would call her in the morning just to make sure Morgan was awake and hadn’t slept through her alarm. That morning was no different.

 They talked briefly, said their goodbyes, then Morgan told her mom she needed to get going. About 5 hours later, around 6:30 a.m., a 911 call came in from Jason. He asked for both police and paramedics to be sent out. When the dispatchers asked what was going on, Jason said, “I’m pretty sure my girlfriend is dead.

” Jason explained that he’d woken up like usual and started getting ready for work. At that point, he wasn’t working at FedEx anymore, and his shift didn’t start until about 5 hours after Morgan’s. But as he was getting ready, something immediately felt off. Morgan’s car was still parked right outside the house, even though she should have left for her shift a long time ago.

 So, Jason stepped outside to check out what was going on. And that’s when he saw her. Morgan was slumped in the front seat. There was a lot of blood, and she wasn’t moving. Jason said he knew right away she was gone. The dispatcher asked if he tried to give her first aid, but Jason said there was no point.

 He couldn’t find a pulse, and her body was really cold. When paramedics arrived, all they could do was officially pronounce Morgan dead. And right away, detectives started working the scene. They spotted multiple bullet holes on the passenger side of the car, and after examining Morgan’s body, they determined at least one bullet had struck her in the head.

Then, across the street from the house, police noticed something else. In the grass on the opposite side, there were fresh, deep tire tracks. It looked like someone may have pulled up there and waited, then sped off right after the shots were fired, leaving those marks behind. But there was a problem.

 It had been raining overnight, so there was no real way to take clean casts of the tracks for comparison later. Detectives also knew they were fighting the clock. Whoever did this likely drove off immediately, and the crime probably happened around 2:00 a.m. Since then, rain had been coming down for hours. So even if the shooter had left fingerprints or DNA on the car, or anywhere nearby, there was a good chance it had already been washed away.

Later, the medical examiner confirmed that Morgan died from two gunshot wounds to the head. But even with that, investigators still had basically nothing to work with. No clear leads, no solid physical evidence that pointed to a specific person. And to detectives, the whole situation just felt not right. Once they heard Jason’s story, one question immediately jumped out.

 How do you not hear gunshots when your girlfriend is shot right outside your home? Practically under your windows. Then, there was Jason’s demeanor. During questioning, he came across almost too calm for someone who had just found his girlfriend brutally murdered. And it wasn’t just the interview, it was the 911 call, too.

 His voice stayed controlled and steady without much emotion. But one of the strangest details was what happened right there at the scene. Jason walked outside to Morgan’s car without shoes, and while paramedics and police were working, he just stood there barefoot the entire time. When asked him to come down to the station, he agreed, but then said he wanted to grab a pair of socks from the bedroom first.

 Detectives told him his home was now an active crime scene, so he couldn’t go back in by himself. Still, they said he could grab the socks with an officer watching. And that’s when Jason suddenly backed off. He said, “Never mind.” and went to the station still barefoot. Jason also handed over his phone, and that opened up another uncomfortable detail.

 In his messages with Morgan, detectives found a conversation from a few weeks earlier where the two of them had gotten into a fight. At some point during that argument, Morgan had hit him, and Jason’s texts after that were intense. He wrote that he’d never forgive her for it, and that he didn’t love her anymore. When detectives confronted him with that, Jason insisted the fight had only lasted a couple of days, and that they’d already made up a long time ago.

 And to be fair, their later messages did seem to support that. After the blowup, the conversation goes back to normal, like nothing ever happened. So, even though the whole thing felt suspicious, police still didn’t have anything concrete tying Jason to the murder. But they kept digging anyway. Officers went door-to-door talking to neighbors, hoping someone’s security camera might have caught a car, a person, anything moving through the area that night.

But they came up empty. And then, there was one last detail that really bothered detectives. They found out that nobody had heard gunshots, not even the closest neighbors, even the houses right nearby. That didn’t make any sense because Morgan was shot right outside. Based on everything detectives had so far, they started leaning toward one main idea.

This didn’t feel random. Whoever did this likely had a personal reason. A robbery was basically ruled out right away because Morgan’s car still had cash and other valuables inside, including her phone. Investigators wanted to pull data from it to get a clearer picture of her life in the days leading up to her death.

But, there was a problem. The charging port was broken. So, instead of doing a quick download, they were stuck going through the phone manually, which takes a lot more time. While they were waiting on anything useful to come back, detectives started interviewing the people closest to Morgan, trying to figure out if she had enemies or if there was anyone who might have had a reason to want her gone.

And that’s when they learned something that immediately stood out. Apparently, Morgan had been dealing with a long, ugly conflict at work. And it had been getting worse. According to her family, a few male co-workers had been acting completely out of line. They’d make crude comments, hit on her relentlessly, straight-up offer something intimate, just non-stop disrespectful behavior.

Morgan tried reporting them to HR, but nothing changed. If anything, it seemed like it backfired. After one of her complaints, Morgan ended up getting written up herself for a dress code violation. And just a few weeks before she was murdered, things crossed another line. The same co-workers allegedly grabbed Morgan’s phone when she wasn’t looking, unlocked it, and started going through everything.

 Her messages, her photos, private conversations, all of it. When Morgan found out, she was furious. She went back to HR again, but once more, the guys didn’t face any real consequences. So, Morgan decided she was done playing nice. She planned to take it above HR, straight to higher management. And she had other women at work backing her up.

They were going to file a joint complaint about what had been happening. And Morgan had already drafted the email. But she never got the chance to send it. Detectives started asking themselves a pretty unsettling question. Could those guys have killed her just to make sure that complaint never went anywhere? Because it wasn’t just about losing their jobs.

 If Morgan escalated it, and especially if she went to police, not only over the stolen phone, but over accessing her private information, that could have meant pretty serious charges. As they dug deeper into the whole workplace situation, investigators learned something else. Morgan got her phone back from a co-worker named Jason McDermott.

 There was actually surveillance footage that clearly showed Jason handing her the phone. So, police brought him in for questioning. But Jason said the story wasn’t as simple as it looked on camera. According to him, he and Morgan were actually close friends. And that day, he found out a few co-workers had taken her phone. Jason said he went over, took it back from them, and noticed they were already scrolling through her gallery.

He claimed they found intimate semi-nude photos of Morgan. And here’s the part that mattered. When Jason gave the phone back, Morgan realized he’d seen those pictures, too. So, she was pissed. Still, Jason insisted it didn’t ruin their friendship, and that Morgan eventually moved on from it. Then, detectives asked him what he thought about Morgan’s boyfriend, whether he believed he could have been involved.

Jason said he didn’t buy that at all. In his words, the boyfriend genuinely loved Morgan and Jason didn’t see him as the kind of person who could do something like this. So at this point, detectives were still basically empty-handed. They kept talking to people at Morgan’s job and more than one coworker told them the same thing. Jason was clearly into her.

Moreover, according to what they’d seen, Morgan stopped talking to him after the phone incident and basically ended the friendship. That didn’t match Jason’s version at all. When detectives pressed him to explain what their relationship really was, Jason insisted that he loved her. But not like that. He said it was more of a deep, close friend kind of love.

But the way he answered and the way he tried to frame it felt off to investigators. So they started looking at him more closely. They pulled location data from his phone and it showed something that seemed to help him. Around the time Morgan was killed, his phone was sitting at his house and it didn’t start moving until later when he left for his early shift.

 He got to the FedEx facility at around 3:00 a.m. and coworkers said he was acting totally normal. Nothing weird, no obvious anxiety. So, detectives started to hesitate on Jason and kept digging. They brought in the two other guys who’d been involved in taking Morgan’s phone. During those interviews, they learned something else.

One of them also had feelings for Morgan. He’d even admitted it to her at some point and she shut him down, straight up, saying she wasn’t interested. But in the end, police confirmed both men had alibis for the time of the murder. So they had to cross them off the list. And where the case narrowed down again.

At that point, detectives were left staring at two names. Morgan’s boyfriend and Jason. While techs worked through Morgan’s phone, investigators went line by line through her messages with both of them. And with her boyfriend, the texts made it look like the fight from a few weeks earlier really was over. That they’d made up and life just kept going.

But the messages with Jason raised a lot more questions. He kept messaging her non-stop trying to see her, trying to set up a one-on-one hangout for pretty much any reason. It didn’t feel friendly. It felt like a crush she just wasn’t returning. And then it got even more telling. After the whole phone incident, Morgan’s tone toward him shifted completely.

Before, she was friendly, warm, normal. After that, she barely responded at all. Jason kept sending message after message apologizing, trying to explain himself, trying to pull her back into the conversation. But Morgan just wasn’t answering. A few weeks after the phone incident and just 4 days before Morgan was killed, she drove across the state to visit family.

And while she was there, Jason suddenly texted her. How’s Columbus? Morgan froze because here’s the thing, she hadn’t told anyone at work about that trip. So she wrote back basically like, how do you even know I’m in Columbus? And after that, she blocked his number. As detectives started digging into Jason’s background, they found even more red flags.

Apparently, months earlier, another woman at work had filed a complaint about him saying he would blow up her phone with messages, act overly pushy, and she even believed he’d been following her. But according to what police learned, nothing came of it. Then, detectives spoke to Morgan’s family, and they described a few moments involving Jason that were honestly hard to listen to.

One of them happened just a few days after the murder. Jason and a couple co-workers set up a memorial right outside Morgan’s home without telling her family first. And when Morgan’s mom showed up with her granddaughter, she was already uncomfortable with the whole thing. But it got worse, fast. Jason immediately walked over, got into the car with Morgan’s daughter, handed her a stuffed animal, and started going on about how beautiful she was, how he didn’t want her to ever forget him.

Things like that. Morgan’s mom was shocked. She tried to get him out of the car, but he basically ignored her until another co-worker stepped in and physically pulled him away. And apparently, that wasn’t the first time he’d given the family a really bad feeling. Months before the murder, Morgan threw a big birthday party for her daughter.

Family and friends were there, and even a few co-workers showed up, too, including Jason. During the event, Morgan’s mom noticed something that stuck with her. She said Jason was acting pretty weird. He was introducing himself to people using only his first name, and never explaining who he was to Morgan. And remember, Morgan’s boyfriend’s name was also Jason.

 So, her mom started wondering if this was deliberate, like he was trying to blur the lines and let people assume he was the boyfriend. And then, there was the social media post. After Morgan died, Jason posted this long, emotional message about how special their relationship was, how close they were, and how much she had changed his life.

To Morgan’s family, this didn’t feel like a normal tribute from a co-worker or even a friend. It felt like he was trying to own a connection Morgan clearly didn’t have with him. None of this lined up with what Jason had been telling police. So, detectives started seriously questioning how honest he’d been. They asked him to hand over his phone, and he agreed.

First, they went through his messages, and what they found was quite telling. After the stolen phone incident, Jason had been texting pretty much everyone at work, basically begging them to help him get back on Morgan’s good side. He kept complaining that she wouldn’t talk to him anymore, and he was trying to recruit co-workers to act as his in-between.

Detectives open his camera roll, and that’s where things got really unsettling. They found hundreds of photos and videos of Morgan, pulled straight from her social media. And that alone is creepy, sure, but it didn’t stop there. Mixed in with those were videos Jason had recorded himself. Most of them were at work, and it looked like he was holding his phone with the camera running, filming Morgan in secret, trying to keep it casual, like she wouldn’t notice.

When detectives dug even deeper, they found Jason’s Skype account, and realized he’d been talking to another man on there. And in those conversations, Jason was claiming he was dating Morgan, and he was sending that guy photos and videos of her as proof. After that, detectives were starting to feel like Jason was overwhelmingly the most likely person behind Morgan’s murder.

But even with all of this, they still didn’t have the one thing they needed. Hard evidence tying him to the shooting. What they did have now though was proof that Jason was basically obsessed with Morgan and that completely contradicted the version of himself he tried to sell police. So investigators went back through everything again looking for anything they might have missed.

 And that’s when their attention returned to those deep tire tracks across the street from Morgan’s house. They were convinced those tracks belonged to the killer. But with the rain that night, they hadn’t even been able to get partial casts. Still, police didn’t just drop the tire track lead. They measured the marks, then compared the width and spacing to Jason’s vehicle.

And it matched. The tire width and the distance between the wheels lined up with his car. To be clear, that wasn’t exactly a smoking gun. It was barely even a circumstantial clue. But it gave detectives a direction and they started digging. Because if someone had spun out like that in wet grass, the underside of the car should have been caked in mud.

And yet Jason’s car was spotless. So investigators pulled footage from local car washes and it didn’t take long before they found something interesting. On one of the cameras, they spotted Jason. And what made it stand out was the timing. It had been raining basically all day, but right after his shift ended, he still went to a car wash near his workplace.

He used the automatic wash. And then when the cycle got to the wheels and undercarriage, he backed up and drove under the water stream a second time like he really wanted to make sure the bottom of the car got rinsed off. It was highly suspicious, but still didn’t prove anything. So, detectives went back to the biggest problem in the case, Jason’s alibi.

His phone’s location data said he was at home when Morgan was killed. But, detectives knew that didn’t necessarily mean he was home. He could have just left his phone there on purpose to create an alibi. That’s when they started pulling footage from dozens of street cameras along the routes between Jason’s house and Morgan’s neighborhood.

They ended up watching hundreds of hours of video, and eventually it paid off. Jason’s car showed up on one of the cameras heading toward Morgan’s home. And then, about 40 minutes later, it appeared again, this time driving back the other way. All of this was happening while his phone was located at his house.

It was enough to finally get a warrant to search his car. Detectives brought in dogs trained to detect explosives because that kind of training can also pick up traces of gunpowder residue. And it worked. The dogs alerted on the inside of the driver’s door. That lined up perfectly with what investigators had been thinking.

The shooter likely fired from inside the vehicle without ever stepping out. And that wasn’t the end of it. Jason didn’t own a gun, but his dad did. His father actually kept a pretty sizable collection at home, everything from handguns to rifles. Detectives went to speak with him, and he agreed to let them look through it.

In that collection, they found a revolver in the same caliber as the bullets that killed Morgan. Now, ballistic testing couldn’t say with 100% certainty that this was the exact weapon used, but the match in caliber was still hard to ignore. Then, Jason’s parents mentioned something else. Something that immediately raised eyebrows.

They said Jason had stopped by their house just a few hours after the murder. And that was unusual because he didn’t visit them very often. Detectives started to wonder, what if he’d taken that revolver during an earlier visit without anyone noticing? And then, quietly brought it back right after the shooting.

When police asked Jason why he’d gone over there, he said he was just dropping off a belated birthday gift for his mom. Only problem was, her birthday had been 3 months earlier. Detectives knew they still didn’t have that one single piece of evidence you can point to and say, “Case closed.” But taken together, the picture was pretty clear to them.

So, exactly 1 week after Morgan was killed, they arrested Jason, and the case headed to court. The prosecution’s theory was that Jason had become obsessed with Morgan. He wanted her to be with him, but she didn’t feel the same. And it sounds like, in his own head, he’d been clinging to this fantasy that maybe, eventually, she’d come around.

But after the phone incident, when Morgan got angry, cut him off, and blocked his number, Jason may have finally realized the door was closed for good. And that’s where prosecutors said it turned deadly. Their argument was basically, Jason decided that if Morgan wasn’t going to be with him, then she shouldn’t get to live her life without him.

Period. So, he allegedly took a gun from his father’s collection ahead of time, drove to her house in the middle of the night, and waited. He knew her work schedule. He knew when she’d be leaving. So, he parked across the street and watched. And when Morgan came outside and got into her car, prosecutors said Jason pulled up, fired two shots, and then drove straight back home.

Jason’s defense attorney tried to shift the blame onto Morgan’s boyfriend instead, arguing that the relationship had been rocky and that he’d been holding onto resentment after the incident where Morgan hit him. But, the defense couldn’t back that up with anything solid. And in the end, the jury found Jason guilty.

Before the sentence was handed down, Morgan’s family gave victim impact statements, speaking directly to the man who took her life. One of those statements came from Morgan’s 8-year-old daughter. She wrote it herself, and then stood up in court reading it straight to Jason. >> I wish she could see me graduate from high school.

 I wish she could see me get married. You made it so she can’t do any of these. I thought monsters weren’t real, but you proved me wrong. You hurt so many people. You hurt me and the people I love. You ruined your own life because of how much of a bad person you are. In the end, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, and there was nothing his attorney could do to change that.

 But, Morgan’s family didn’t stop there. They filed a lawsuit against FedEx, arguing that the company failed to take meaningful action against Jason, even though a few women had complained about him. Morgan’s mom said she blamed the company, too, because if management had handled those complaints the way they should have, her daughter might still be alive.

Eventually, FedEx agreed to a settlement and paid the family $4 million. Half of that Half of that money was placed into a trust for Morgan’s daughter. So, it would be there for her when she got older. Share your thoughts on this story in the comment section and don’t forget to press the like button if you enjoyed my video. Thank you for watching.