Daubs murder-suicide: Morgan Daub went crazy as she was brought up in 'uptight Christian home', says friend
YORK, PENNSYLVANIA: A friend of Morgan Daub, who reportedly died in a murder-suicide pact with her parents, has shared several astonishing details about her and claimed that the horrendous step was the result of her upbringing in an "uptight Christian household." The 26-year-old woman’s body was found alongside her father, James A Daub, 62, and mother, Deborah A Daub, 59, in their home’s backyard in West Manchester Township on January 25.
Several letters and handwritten notes found from the scene led investigators to believe that there was no foul play involved and that they all died willfully. Now, as per The Christian Post, Morgan’s childhood friend, identified only as Samantha, spoke with YouTube personality Molly Golightly and told her, “She grew up in a very uptight Christian household. …. Her family life, according to CPS, was perfect, but the amount of control her parents had over her was crazy.
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“She wasn’t allowed to go out with friends. She wasn’t allowed any social media. Anything fun that she liked to do she was only allowed to do it with supervision. It was kinda like she was a prisoner in her own home.”
‘Not shocked that she went crazy’
The friend continued, “Honestly, I’m not shocked that she went crazy. When I was a kid she was completely normal, other than her controlling parents, and I feel like she snapped. I feel like, maybe a few months ago, I think she developed paranoia because she was reciting numbers in her video and that’s a sign of paranoia and schizophrenia so she probably had schizophrenia. She did need help. I would 100 percent say that she did need help.”
Before dying, Morgan had reportedly told her mother of her extreme wish because “she was having auditory hallucinations which were not getting any better.” Detective Timothy Fink revealed that in her letter, “Deborah wrote that she didn’t want her daughter to pass on alone, so she had decided to end her life with her. The letter written by James indicated that they had told him their plan, and he decided that he didn’t want to live without them.” The officer then concluded that though “we may never know with certainty exactly who fired each shot,” it was a pre-planned and mutual thing.
‘She had a weird family’
But Samantha believes that Morgan’s parents led her to that destructive point. She reportedly said, “I remember at one point they would go door-to-door to try to convert people to Christianity too. It was interesting. She had a weird family.”
The friend also addressed the speculation that Morgan was trans as she noted, “Morgan has always been a female but she at one point did express to me that she didn’t feel like a woman. She felt like she was born in the wrong body. She liked sports. She liked playing basketball and as soon as she confided in her parents how she felt they punished her, took away her basketball, and berated her with Bible verses and stuff.”
“She wasn’t even allowed to have boyfriends because of her parents’ upbringing with her. She wasn’t allowed to drive,” before mentioning a boy who Morgan used to like. Samantha disclosed, “She told me that she liked him and I offered to walk her over to his house because everybody in that neighborhood knows everybody. And her parents didn’t like that. When we walked back with the guy, she was told to basically just go into the house. They were like really stern about it and after that, we didn’t really talk much because of her parents.”
