April Marie Morganroth, known by her alias Marie Hamilton, now faces her 21st charge in Laramie County. According to a recent article by Wyofile, investigators allege she forged a doctor’s letter during an effort to enroll her child in Laramie County School District 1 and obtain special education services. According to the piece, investigators obtained lease agreements from July 2025 and February 2026 indicating that Morganroth and her family lived in Chugwater during that period.
The new charges raise more questions about Morganroth’s behavior: what exactly was represented on Morganroth’s 2025 application to serve on a City of Cheyenne advisory board? Did that application itself contain inaccurate information submitted for a public appointment?
The Open Range Record has provided extensive reporting on the arrest and charging of April Marie Morganroth.
Additionally, we compared her public claims side by side each other showing how Morganroth's public persona changed over time.
What the application said
On April 15, 2025, Morganroth, using the name Hamilton-Morganroth, applied to serve on Cheyenne’s Mayor’s Council for People with Disabilities under the name A. Marie Hamilton-Morganroth. On that application, she listed both her home and mailing address as 7013 Bonneville Place, Cheyenne, and stated that she had six years of Cheyenne residency.
She also listed “BA/MA Journalism & Media/Constitutional Law @ ASU.” She said she was currently finishing a JD in SpEd Law/Disability with UW, and claimed more than 15 special education/disabilities certifications as a special education advocate with UpLift Wyo.
Morganroth was appointed, and the council’s June 12, 2025 meeting minutes show a Marie Hamilton-Morganroth present, with all 12 members in attendance that day. In response to an inquiry by The Open Range Record, council secretary Kristina Richardson said Hamilton-Morganroth was no longer on the board. The reason was that under the council’s bylaws, three consecutive absences trigger the removal of a board member.
Where the timeline starts to break down
The residency claim does not line up cleanly with Morganroth’s other public statements. In a Platte County Record-Times newsroom biography, she said she “moved back to Wyoming in 2021” with her husband and three sons. On the face of those two records, that timeline does not add up. A 2021 move would amount to roughly four years in Wyoming by April 2025, not six years in Cheyenne.
The phrase “moved back” raises its own question. That same Platte County biography described her childhood as split between Arizona school years and Wyoming summers and school breaks. It described deep family ties to Wyoming, but it did not clearly establish an earlier adult residence in Wyoming that would make “moved back” easy to verify from the public record.
The larger newsroom trail only adds to uncertainty. She was publicly introduced at the Sidney Sun-Telegraph in Nebraska in April 2023. By 2025 she was at the Platte County Record-Times, and by late 2025 she was operating the Wyoming Sentinel out of Chugwater.
The newest reporting says lease documents place her and her family in Chugwater by July 2025. That does not, by itself, prove the April 2025 Cheyenne address was false. But it does raise a legitimate question about whether the board application presented an accurate picture of her residence and timeline.
What this means
The information was not simply put forth on a puffed-up biography or a casual social media post. It was a public application for a public position. If the information on that application was inaccurate, then this could be another public document in which false information was submitted to obtain credibility or appointment.
It is yet to be proven that every statement on the application is definitely falise. People move, addresses change, and timelines can be messy. But the mismatch between the six-year Cheyenne residency claim, the 2021 “moved back to Wyoming” statement, the unclear prior Wyoming residence, the later Chugwater lease documents, and the removal from the board after repeated absences is enough to warrant scrutiny.
The narrower question is now plain: did Morganroth provide inaccurate information on a public document for a public appointment? This is a question grounded in the record itself.
The Open Range Record will update this story as more information becomes available.