A little over a year after Morgan Kay Harris was killed after her boyfriend allegedly locked her and her dog in a burning Murray storage unit, the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office announced the man will not face charges in her death.
On Friday, District Attorney Sim Gill shared the results of his office’s investigation into the Feb. 18, 2023, death of Harris, saying evidence did not point to her boyfriend, Alexander Paul Wardell, setting fire to the storage unit with his girlfriend locked inside and that the cause of the fire is undetermined.
Gill went on to say that an investigation, which cost $100,000, could not determine the cause of Harris’ death.
“With the current evidence before, this office cannot in good conscience file charges against Mr. Wardell,” said Gill.
Wardell was immediately arrested following the incident for negligent homicide and kidnapping, but had never been charged in Harris’s death. He has been serving a prison sentence on multiple domestic violence-related charges unrelated to his ex-girlfriend.
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