Chapter 1: What happened to Morgan Fox in 2020?
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Chapter 2: What were the circumstances surrounding Morgan's death?
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Chapter 3: How did workplace dynamics contribute to Morgan's situation?
And today we are talking Dateline and we're talking about Josh's episode Breaking Point. So Josh Mankiewicz, hello. Hello. If you haven't watched the episode yet, you can find it right below this one or stream it now on Peacock. So go there and do that. And when you come back, we'll have more from Josh's interview with the man convicted of killing Morgan Fox.
And later we'll answer some of your questions from social media. Okay, Josh, before we dive into this episode, just give us a quick summary of this episode.
Sure. This happened back in late 2020 in North Canton, Ohio.
Chapter 4: What evidence did investigators find against the suspect?
And, you know, a young woman did not show up for her shift at a FedEx warehouse sorting facility, which was unlike her. She was 29 years old. Name was Morgan Fox. She got up in the middle of the night to go to work. She worked the early shift and she'd been shot dead immediately. as she was getting into her car in the driveway. Now, nothing was stolen. This wasn't a robbery.
This was very clearly an attempt to stalk and kill her. And so the Stark County Sheriff's Office began investigating whether she had any enemies.
Chapter 5: What was revealed in the exclusive interview with the killer?
And this is the story of that investigation and sort of how it played out and how it got to the end.
Coincidentally, right before I started watching your episode yesterday, I was driving to the Memphis airport and I see FedEx plane after FedEx plane after FedEx plane. And I'm like, I looked it up. I didn't even realize Memphis is the hub, the FedEx hub, even though your story's in Ohio. But it was kind of strange given the fact that
I was just about to watch your story when I was just inundated with FedEx airplanes.
Right. Yeah, I mean, it's a, you know, they've got those sorting facilities all over the country. And it's, you know, this is not a... we have no information that whatever this issue was at the North Canton facility, that it was anything more than particular to that facility.
Chapter 6: How did Morgan's daughter impact the court proceedings?
But the, the atmosphere at that facility was likened to a frat house, to a boys club, a place where women felt uncomfortable and sort of a lot of Morgan Fox's problems began when she got promoted from the line to manager. And, uh,
There was a sort of a campaign of, you know, I don't know whether you'd call it harassment or bullying, but it was a campaign of making her life just a little bit more difficult. I mean, not only were there a couple of guys there hitting on her. I'm not talking about that. but like they would take her chair and hide it, you know, her workstation chair. That's not good.
You know, they would take her clipboard, which, you know, she needed to do her job.
So, you know, Josh, right out of the gate, Yeah, yeah.
Chapter 7: What insights do the hosts share about victim impact statements?
Stuff is going to happen, for better or worse. Stuff's going to happen. You put a bunch of people in. You add some pressure. You have everybody working together on what's supposed to be a common goal. And they're going to rate each other. They're going to date each other. They're going to hate each other. That is sort of human nature that some of that's going to happen.
I will just say to you, Josh, on a side note, working at Dateline –
Chapter 8: What questions did listeners have about the case?
You and Keith, I've been here almost, what, like 14 years now. You and Keith welcomed me with open arms. And you really are the best colleagues. So we're very lucky that we work in an environment at Dateline that is really just a wonderful place to be.
And that's always been, you know, I've been in this business more than 50 years now. And, yeah. Really? Yeah, it's 50. You don't look it, Josh. I know. Well, it's 50 Earth years, not the kind of, yeah, not the way other people measure them. Yeah. And over that time, Dateline is without question the best place I've worked in terms of the harmony among the staff members.
But I'm glad that you said that and thank you. See, it's funny. I just remember Keith stealing your chair and clipboard. But okay, maybe I'm remembering wrong.
Yeah, that did not happen, Mr. Funny Guy. So, you know, one of the things that was said about Jason, the boyfriend, right, about Morgan's boyfriend, was that he didn't sound right or he didn't sound frantic enough or whatever. It's funny because I kind of disagree. To me, he sort of sounded like somebody in shock, right?
Right. Well, I think we now know that's exactly what he was. When the sheriff's office, you know, first listened to that 911 call, they thought, and, you know, I mean, this is true. 911 calls get evaluated just like, you know, the homicide investigator is always very judgmental of what that first 911 call sounds like. Does it sound right? Does it sound forced? Is it staged?
And so they were looking at that pretty closely. And they thought Jason Skarnacki had sounded too flat. But yeah, I think you're right. I think he was just stunned.
Yeah. And who wouldn't be, right?
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and, you know, not only that, not only did the sheriff's office listen to that 911 call and think the boyfriend doesn't sound frantic enough, they also, on their first interview with Jason McDermott, thought, this is this, like, little rabid-y guy who owns a cat. This is not our murderer. And they were wrong both ways. Yeah.
Right. And I actually quoted you here in my notes. Single guys with cats don't commit murder.
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