Key Takeaways

• Morgan and Rodney Metzer started the 79+1 Mezters’ Charities Inc. to help other needy kids through local churches.
• Rodney began exhibiting intense, angry outbursts to the point where Morgan had to hide in a closet with their children to feel safe.
• The traumatic incident left Morgan and her twin‘s lives shattered.

Morgan and Rodney Metzer’s journey into parenthood began with an overwhelming heartbreak.

In 2011, their firstborn son Kevin passed away shortly after birth due to severe heart defects, despite undergoing his first of a planned three heart surgeries.

Though devastated, the young couple carried on, starting the 79+1 Mezters’ Charities Inc. to help other kids in need through local churches.

Their charity work represented support during tough times, but more turmoil lay ahead.

Morgan and Rodney went on to have twins a year after losing Kevin.

What should have been a joyous new chapter descended into a chilling tale of betrayal and violence within their family.

According to reports, Rodney began exhibiting intense, angry outbursts to the point where Morgan had to hide in a closet with their children to feel safe.

He also allegedly engaged in gaslighting behavior, manipulating Morgan into doubting her reality for years.

The fractures in their relationship proved irreparable, and Morgan filed for divorce after a decade of enduring Rodney’s troubling behavior.

Though separated, Rodney continued pleading to reconcile, even resorting to faking a cancer diagnosis to gain her sympathy and access to her home. The worst was yet to come.

On New Year’s Day 2021, Morgan awoke to a terrifying home invasion, beaten, choked, and zip-tied by a distorted-voice intruder.

In a shocking twist, investigators determined Rodney had planned the entire attack himself in a complicated plot to harm his ex-wife.

Rodney’s online searches revealed his sinister preparations, including phrases like “how long to choke someone unconscious.”

Prosecutors also found videos he had secretly taken of Morgan and evidence he copied her text messages.

Rodney ultimately pleaded guilty and received a 70-year sentence, 25 years to be served in prison.

The traumatic incident left Morgan and her twin children’s lives shattered after they had already endured the loss of their firstborn son, Kevin.

Though the charity emerged from immense grief, the horrors the Metzer kids have endured at the hands of one meant to protect them will be an almost impossible burden to overcome.

One can only hope that Morgan and her twins can find healing and rebuild the loving family they deserve after such profound loss and betrayal.

In Case You Didn’t Know

• Based on the real-life trauma endured by Morgan Mezter at the hands of her estranged husband Rodney, a heart-wrenching film titled “Gaslit by My Husband: The Morgan Mezter Story” has been developed.
• The film Gaslit by My Husband: The Morgan Mezter Story was released on June 9, 2024.
• Honoring his late brother, Kevin Charles Metzer, Rodney named his first child Kevin.