This is a Dexter Fan Fiction story made up by me for this forum.
I own nothing of anything Dexter.
All names, places, etc. are fictional. This story is post season four.
Article 1 – 'Rita Morgan's Tragic Death'
Miami Daily Herald Newspaper article, written by reporter Mike RePort, 12/22/09
"Rita Morgan's Tragic Death"
My name is Mike RePort and I work for the Miami Daily Herald Newspaper. I am a reporter. I work the crime scene beat and the human interest beat. The two overlap so often it's actually difficult to separate them so I have stopped trying. I prefer to do both to bring stories of interest to you, the reader, about our community and its inhabitants. Truth is stranger than fiction, believe me, it's true!
I've been following several of our larger and stranger stories for about four years now and believe I have discovered a common thread. Dexter Morgan, a MMPD forensics Blood Spatter Analyst. These are my opinions about the information made available to me through my own investigations, my confidential informants, and my own intuitive instincts, a.k.a., my gut.
This is my story about how I came to be drawn to Dexter Morgan as a person of interest and my articles through the last four years that have been reproduced here for the benefit of the reader as well as my 'documentation trail' to show you the journey as it unfolded.
My qualifications to write this story are no different than any of you that have had a question with seemingly no answer. Curiosity, persistence, and a yearning for the truth that only gets satisfied with that one single answer that "fits". My journey was not planned or orchestrated by a local travel agency. This journey has been the product of many unrelated stories, or so I first thought, that one day fell into a single giant puzzle, still with many missing pieces, that to my amazement had been staring me in the face for years as an unrecognizable pattern of related events concerning human tragedy and the consequences.
The common thread? The enlightenment? The key that unlocked my previously skewed perception to see the bigger picture? Rita Morgan. To be clear it was her death that brought all of this together for this reporter to ask two questions. What happened and why?
What happened gives us the who, what, when, and where. The 'why' is the million dollar question.
I believe the 'why' is her husband, Dexter Morgan. He is also the 'who' but as this story unfolds you will come to appreciate that he is also the catalyst to explain the 'why. By writing this story through my articles I am placing everything that I know out in plain view for not only you the reader but the MMPD and of course, Dexter Morgan. You will see that I am placing my own life in danger to answer the questions that I have asked myself. But, I would hope that by being so public about my findings that I may actually be safe because as you have read above, I have named my own potential executioner, if my journey has led me down the right path to its own truthful if not at least debatable ending. You read that correctly and yes it is shocking!
Let the journey begin. The articles will not be in chronological order but presented in such a fashion to convey the facts as best they can be, in my humble opinion. My next few articles will start this series with the lead-in theme, "Rita Morgan's Tragic Death", followed by the final chapter in Rita Morgan's life, her funeral. Her story is not over with that chapter because as I mentioned earlier these articles are a story about human tragedy and the consequences. Rita Morgan's untimely and horrific death does have consequences and to that end, I, Mike RePort, will continue my series of articles where the facts have led me.
I will use the words of Dexter Morgan to illustrate the irony of my articles. His comment was made in response to a detective concerning the Trinity Killer during the MMPD's investigation; paraphrasing here, "This is a little hard to believe that this is the same guy that never made a mistake in 30 years." Dexter Morgan's reply was, "I'm sure he made mistakes. We just weren't looking."
Well, Mr. Dexter Morgan, we are looking now.
Article 1 – 'Rita Morgan's Tragic Death'