High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Daniel Morgan was a private investigator who was murdered in Sydenham, south east London, in March 1987. He was said to have been close to exposing important police corruption. His death was the subject of several failed police inquiries and in 2011 was at the centre of allegations concerning the suspect conduct of News of the World journalists. Morgan`s unsolved murder has been described as a reminder of the old London police culture of corruption and unaccountability.