Ashley Morgan’s family claims her sister forged her late grandmother’s signature to sell their Deer Park home and evict her uncle

DEER PARK, Texas (KTRK) – Deer Park police accuse a Baytown woman of using forged documents to claim ownership of her deceased grandmother’s home and evict her uncle.

Ashley Morgan’s sister, Katie Simpson, was the first to alert police to the alleged crimes.

ONLY ON ABC13Eyewitness News met with Katie and her husband Chris Simpson outside the modest Deer Park home where her grandmother lived for 40 years but which is owned by another family.

Simpson said the house was left to her uncle in her grandmother’s will, who moved in after her death.

Then, one day in 2021, she discovered something strange outside the house.

“We saw a ‘For Sale’ sign outside. We thought our uncle had somehow gotten help selling the house,” Katie Simpson recalls.

However, it turned out that this was not the case.

“We looked online and found some documents that showed my sister forged my grandmother’s signature,” said Katie Simpson.

The Simpsons called the title company, but it didn’t work.

“I called everyone involved with the title company when this happened to tell them, ‘Don’t keep doing this. It could backfire on you because she’s selling a stolen house,'” Chris Simpson said. “They went through with it anyway and wrote her a check.”

Then the Simpsons called the Deer Park police.

“This doesn’t happen very often,” said Deer Park Police Lt. Chris Brown, recalling how the investigation began. “She changed the dates. She changed certain pages in the will to identify her as the heir. (She) was able to get the court’s approval and sell the house and forge other documents to make this possible.”

In 2023, Deer Park police charged Morgan. After she posted bail, family members claimed she began doing the same thing, but this time to people who were not her relatives. According to court documents, investigators believe she forged documents and purchased several mobile homes in northwest Houston and a property in Baytown.

Last week, Morgan was arrested and charged with additional crimes. Authorities also charged another woman.

Katie Simpson said sellers have resold her grandmother’s house twice and the family won’t get it back. But she continues to speak out.

“I want justice to be done on my grandmother’s behalf and I’ve been fighting for it for two years. And in those two years she’s done this to countless other people. I don’t even know how many people she’s done this to,” said Katie Simpson. She also spoke out because she believes there are other victims. She wants to encourage them to call the police.

ABC13 spoke by phone with Morgan’s defense attorney, who confirmed three charges stemming from allegations that she stole three different items of property, but had no further comment.

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