This Pregnant 17-Year-Old Disappeared A Decade Ago And Now The Hunt Is On To Find Her Body After A Man Pleaded Guilty To Her Murder
St. Petersburg, Florida. It was July 25th, 2012, and 17-year-old Morgan Martin was pregnant with a little girl.
Just after the clock struck midnight that evening, Morgan let her family know that she was going to step out of the house to see the father of her unborn baby; 24-year-old Jacobee Flowers.
When Morgan was nowhere to be found the following morning, her mom Leah called the police to report her as missing.
“The initial investigation was unable to locate Morgan, but detectives focused on 24-year old Flowers,” the St. Petersburg Police Department explained in a statement.
“Flowers denied any knowledge of Morgan’s whereabouts and minimized his relationship with Morgan. He denied fathering her unborn child.”
“Investigators sought out any other potential persons who might be connected to Morgan’s disappearance. Everything continued to point toward Flowers as the only person of interest.”
“After several months of investigation and searches, Morgan was not found and the case grew cold.”
3 years after Morgan’s disappearance, a Cold Case Unit was formed at the St. Petersburg Police Department, and her case was one of the main focuses of the new unit.
St. Petersburg Police Department; pictured above is Morgan
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Detectives spent more than a year circling back to interview witnesses again. They also uncovered brand new witnesses they had never spoken to before, and took another look at evidence gathered in Morgan’s case.
After filing 10 court orders, 21 subpoenas, 9 search warrants, and traveling across Alabama and Florida, detectives were able to chase down new leads.
These new leads led right back to Jacobee, the alleged father of Morgan’s unborn baby.
In June of 2016, Jacobee was indicted for the first-degree murder of Morgan, even though she was still nowhere to be found.
“Our investigation shows that Jacobee Flowers planned Morgan’s murder and disposed of her body,” the St. Petersburg Police Department said at the time.
Jacobee recently pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in connection to Morgan’s case, and as part of a plea deal he accepted earlier this month, he has to help authorities locate Morgan’s body in order to get a reduced sentence.
Although it’s now been a decade since Morgan disappeared, her remains and those of her unborn baby have still yet to be recovered.
Authorities have most recently scoured the state of Alabama looking for her, due to information provided to them by Jacobee, but Morgan and her baby remain missing to this day.
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