The GPS Led Her to Death: The Palo Prieto Trap

The GPS Led Her to Death: The Palo Prieto Trap

Published: July 15, 2026

Duration: 24:55

The GPS Led Her to Death: The Palo Prieto Trap

A cold Garmin kept recalculating for twenty-two hours on a truck where a sixty-two-year-old night-shift bookkeeper lay dead and her wallet untouched; the unit was routed to a town she had never visited. How did a device programmed at 5:47 a.m. become the mechanism of a deliberate trap that ended Monica Morgan's life?

In this episode, we walk through the timeline from the Palo Prieto Travel Center parking lot to the dead-end in Twentynine Palms, showing how routine, access, and a single keypad entry point toward...