Christopher Morris’s nude body was found stuffed inside a dishwasher

 Christopher Morris’s nude body was found stuffed inside a dishwasher. He had allegedly been tortured, and sexually assaulted and his lifeless body went through a cleaning cycle in the dishwasher, potentially to destroy evidence. His father found him after coming home from work at 2:00 p.m.

11-year-old Christopher Aaron Morris died under mysterious circumstances in Wichita Falls, Texas on September 25, 2000.

Warning: Details of his death are disturbing and graphic for anyone who is sensitive to such information. Also, some details about his death are from unverified accounts from family relatives - other parts of details is scattered in a mire of speculation. Either his death wasn’t covered in the media at the time or the media coverage vanished over the years (a claim spun on Reddit). Both scenarios cannot be verified.

Christopher and his sister were Army brats who lived with their dad in military housing on Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls. He was a kid who played football, loved his sister, Ashley, loved Power Rangers, and enjoyed playing with Legos. Nothing prepared the family for the horror of September 25, 2000. That day, Christopher’s nude body was found stuffed inside a dishwasher. He had allegedly been tortured, and sexually assaulted and his lifeless body went through a cleaning cycle in the dishwasher, potentially to destroy evidence. His father made the grizzly discovery after coming home from work at 2:00 p.m. It was typical for Christopher to greet him excitedly after work every day but when he wasn’t there, he began searching the house. When approaching Christopher’s room, he discovered dish racks on his bed. When he made it to the dishwasher, Christopher’s clothes were stacked next to it.

Authorities didn’t waste time accusing him of the crime once they arrived. Nothing appeared to have come of this after their questioning of him concluded. Since then, Christopher’s once high-profile case went cold and all interest in finding his killer faded after his death was ruled undetermined.

In October 2021, the Catch My Killer podcast featured Christopher’s case and interviewed his sister, Ashley. Though she states she doesn’t know much about her brother’s case, she did clear up that he wasn’t sexually assaulted or tortured as he didn’t have bruising according to her reading of the police report at the time. Into the episode, they talk about two other suspects - a dishwasher repairman and a teenager who knew details about Christopher’s death that wasn’t released publicly - and the theory of his death being an accident with his friends or someone else locking him in the dishwasher and turning it on for a cleaning cycle (Ashley states this was the kind of dishwasher that had to be latched closed to be turned on). Over the years, she gets frustrated and saddened by the many online comments that say Christopher never existed due to the lack of information on his case.