The professionalism on which victims depend – what happens when it fails?

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In a statement that was about as condescending as could be the contracted pathologist
intimated that in order for Morgan to be killed
with Amitriptyline she would have had to be subdued by
her assailant. And there were no signs of her being subdued
so – it did not happen. Excuse me, but of all the boatloads
of crap floating around in the explanations of Morgan’s stalking,
and murder that never was – this has to take a prize. A few days
ago I wrote about the Jessica Ridgeway murder, and dismemberment,
and her accused/admitted assailant who now awaits his trial.
He also admitted to an attack on a female jogger. The
jogger reported that the attack began with an attempt to put a rag
that smelled of chemicals over her mouth. A rag that smelled
of chemicals, remember that because it’s an important clue. It is
now rumored / released information that the alleged assailant
admits to going on the internet and finding out how to make
chloroform and then attempting to use it to subdue the female
jogger before he did whatever vile acts he contemplated next. I
also seem to remember a quite notorious case in Florida recently in
which the accused killer, found not guilty, frequented a house
where a computer had been used to research chloroform, including –
allegedly – instructions on how to make it. I have never done
the same, but it does not seem to be all that hard and sort of
commonplace these days. If a seventeen year old youth in
Colorado was able to do it, then could Morgan’s nineteen year old
suspect have been able to? Or Brooke Harris, his girlfriend /
not girlfriend, could she have done it? I mean go on a
computer and research how to make Chloroform. So to complete this
loop I have a question, and an anger, and an observation, all at
the same time. How can the forensic pathologist
condescendingly imply that Morgan was not subdued when:

  1. She had a bruise on her forehead.
  2. Blood on the edge of her lips
  3. She was not given any test that would have indicated the presence of
    CHLOROFORM, which does seem to be popular these days.

If you were a professional, concerned with the truth,
concerned with apprehending criminals, wouldn’t this be ruled out
before you carried through on threats to the victim’s mother, a
victim herself, and changed Morgan’s manner of death from natural
to suicide?  Especially because she was a felony stalking
victim?  Is it just me or is there a very obvious
possibility being overlooked by those hired to look?  I really
just want people to do their jobs, assemble the facts and arrive at
the truth, not just for Morgan but for every other victim. When you
did not even test for chloroform at a time that it’s being sloshed
on rags and being used to subdue victims and attempt to subdue
victims across the country then, sorry, you did not do your
job. And to sit back and tell me that Morgan could not have
been subdued is a farce.  I believe my daughter deserved
better than. I believe in Colorado, the Victims Rights Act
demands more than that.  When the female jogger was attacked and an
attempt to put a rag that smelled of chemicals over her mouth was
made, I have to ask, do you think she was tested for the
presence of CHLOROFORM?  How many other reasons could there be
for an attacker to try to cover your mouth with a rag that smells
of chemicals?  My wild guess would be that none of them are
good and if Chloroform is not the only chemical, then that is just
my lack of expertise showing and if there are others then test for
those too. Because when a victim is successfully subdued by their
attacker the result is most likely going to be very bad.
Victims are taught at a young age to kick and scream, do
anything you can to get away. But what about caught in your
sleep, with a rag sloshed in chloroform placed over you mouth,
before you have a chance to react, perhaps a thumb placed on your
forehead to keep you still for that few seconds until you go under,
one bruise, that’s all.

11 thoughts on “The professionalism on which victims depend – what happens when it fails?

  1. I agree. Did you see the movie Slum Dog Millionaire? Remember the scene where a young boy trusts a man who was very good to him, so he gets on a table as requested without a thought. The man then places a rag over his face and pours acid into his eyes. When he came to he was blind so that he could be a beggar in the streets for this evil man. Criminals have become so much more sophisticated because of the Internet and movies. Especially when there is a suspicious death (unexplainable, suicide, drug overdose), it seems like there should be a standard protocol required by law to test for certain substances such as chloraform to rule out foul play. But, there doesn’t seem to be a standard.

    • The sad thing is that in Colorado, there ARE protocols in place regarding the circumstances Morgan’s case falls under… they were just blatantly ignored & explained away in circles… time just keeps passing & those responsible for this atrocity (& Lord knows what else!) hope that it will all just fade away in time… Toni’s mission to shine Morgan’s brilliant light on the truth will not be in vain, the time is coming! 😀

      • Wow. Well, when there are protocols in place for suspicious death and they aren’t followed, then what law governs that? There should be a law that says if you don’t follow the prescribed legal protocols for suspicious death then you are committing a criminal act punishable by law. What are the protocols? I’m curious. When someone has experienced unrelenting stalking, and then dies suddenly and unexpectedly by suspicious reasons, it should be first considered a homocide and investigated as such. What does the protocol say? Could you post a source that describes it? Thanks.

        • Great point I will look through all the research i have and will post it as soon as possible – I think this is extremely important!

      • Thanks Lisa Marie, I agree the time is coming, I see it, and I feel it, and the “others” can too, that is why they are going crazy out in Internet land. And in fact a forensic physiologist has confided in me that he can tell it is very transparent to him by their reactions to which parts of Morgan’s story is really hitting close to home with those people, and I believe him. 🙂

    • No unfortunately I don’t think there is, but I could be wrong. There are so many things that I know now that I didn’t know a year ago about State laws that have been put in place that if followed might have saved Morgan…why weren’t they followed and why when a 20 year old that had a felony stalking detective attached to her and she died under what they called “suspicious circumstances” so she needed an autopsy why wouldn’t you have a list of things to test for? I asked that question of the forensic pathologist that did Morgan’s autopsy and he said there isn’t enough money in the budget to test for all these different things, but they managed to test for cocaine (not in her blood), marijuana (not in her blood), alcohol (not in her blood), etc. to come up with an answer (died of natural causes and then 8 1/2 months later change it to suicide (after finding multiple date rape drugs in her stomach) sounds reasonable…don’t think so. So i think a standard would be called for and I agree.

  2. Is it possible that behind closed doors the heat came down on the coroner to change the death certificate back to undetermined? Is this why he wants the test results sent back to him, so that he can save face?

    • That would make sense, but I really only care about the death certificate reflecting the truth, so whatever it takes is fine with me, it’s just sad that they didn’t test for these things in the beginning since they put “death under suspicious circumstances”. To try to save money for the County at that time by not running tests that you should run for “death under suspicious circumstances” is just too beyond belief to me.

  3. Well I’m hoping and praying the Coroner changes it to reflect “Homicide”

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