8.16.2011 – Today was Morgan’s birthday – she turned 20. This morning when she woke up, I asked her if she would like french toast, or eggs-in-a-hole, for her birthday breakfast (2 of her favorites).  She giggles and decided on french toast, but says she wants her daddy’s french toast.  Morgan loves his french toast. Steve is more than happy to cook that for her.  When she was a little girl he used to like making her pancakes in the shape of mickey mouse, dogs or fairies, she would always get so excited when he was creating special one-of-a-kind pancakes for her.

Today was a quiet day.  Morgan texted me at 6:57 pm and said, “Hey.  My phone’s broken again.  I am leaving right now so I’ll be a tick late.  Sorry.”

This afternoon we ordered thick, lined, velvet curtains for the back of our house, for both back sliding glass doors, so the stalker cannot see into our house from behind.  All of our windows have had window treatments on them except for the two big sliding glass doors on the back of the house.  We had never before worried about those glass doors, as no one should be behind our house, it’s just our yard, and a grass berm with trees on it.  No other houses to look in from, no one would have any reason to walk through our yard to pass by them.  But now we feel like those doors create a fishbowl effect – a stalker could see in from the back of our house from this very angle.

This evening Steve went outside, dressed all in black and sat in a bush on the berm behind our house that divided us from the Aspen Equestrian Ranch, where our horse is boarded. He wanted to think like the stalker, and observe our house for hours – he told me that he felt like a peeping tom, like he was violating our neighbors privacy, and from the berm, behind our house in the dark, he was able to see directly into the back of our house, living room, kitchen and all the way down the hall to the front door.  But, if I were in our house at night, and someone (like the stalker) was standing on the berm watching, I would never notice him.  He was right, I looked out, knowing right where he was out there on the berm, and couldn’t see him.  I hope we get the curtains delivered ASAP! I start to get that creepy tingling feeling again that shoots up my spine, and crawls over my scalp – here goes my intuition again…my internal gut feeling that danger is just outside our home.

When Steve came back in, well after midnight, we discussed what he saw while out on the berm, he said between our house and our next door neighbor Rhonda’s house he had observed a little red pinpoint light, at about head height that had moved to the left out of sight.  So I went into my office in the front of the house, with the lights off, and tried to peek from behind the curtain to across the street, it was pitch black out, so I couldn’t really see much of anything.  At the same time Steve went out the back door of our house to see, if he walks from the back of the house to the front of the house, starting on the left side of our house, if he can flush out the source of the red light.  As he did this I did saw a little pin point of a red light, directly across the street (at head height) move to the right, disappear, then reappear further to the right again in front of another house, and then disappear again.  It was as though it had seen Steve coming up the side of our house and was backing slowly away, it was so creepy to know this was probably him (the stalker), right there, I was filled with anger at him. I wanted to run outside and run this guy down…but this is just what he wanted.  (He was taunting us, and knew he could run faster and not get caught.  If we had been able to see him, and tried to chase him, he would have been even more excited).  No one in our neighborhood had fences that divided the houses – there was nothing to impede anyones access to come and go between or around any of the houses. The subdivision lacked enough street lights, so it was a dark neighborhood.  When Steve came back in the house we discussed the light and looked up night vision glasses/googles on the Internet, and sure enough, this light that we saw could have matched that, or it he could have been aiming laser sight from a gun.  Either way we were now hopeful that we are getting closer to figuring this out, we probably needed more people, but the stalker came at different times, 11:00 pm, 2 am, 4 am whatever time he wanted. Would we all stay up all night, for as many days as it took?  At least we are learning where our weak points are while trying to protect our daughter, but at this point it seems like we are learning those weak points a little too slowly.  There is someone I know that does security in Aspen, and I will call him in the morning to see if he has any suggestions for us.  We can’t afford to hire him to do surveillance for us, so anything like that we will have to do ourselves, or ask assistance from family or friends, I would just like to have some great suggestions on how to handle this situation.

Now in the present, August 15, 2012 – this is one of the big things we would like to see changed in the future – we would like to see safe houses across the United States for girls, for anyone that may find themselves in this situation.  Most likely they can not afford to just disappear for a while, especially if they have animals/pets, so if we could have something like that set up, then at least in our case, Morgan might have been able to go there with her puppy, and be safe for a while, until her stalker had been identified and arrested.  These stalkers will harm or kill their victim’s animals, just to get back at their victims, so these safe houses must accommodate the animals, as well as the victim.  This suggestion came to me through another woman who had been a victim years ago, and had to move all her animals, some of them horses, and herself to a safe place immediately one fateful night.  Fortunately she was able to do it, and was safe herself, unfortunately her animals were scattered all over Colorado for quite a while until she could get them back with her.  She is trying to get involved now in setting up a safe house in this part of Colorado that can accommodate a victim and their animals.  She is an amazing example of resilience!

Click here to read about the 15th day of Morgan’s stalking & her 20th birthday 🙁 https://morgansstalking.com/?p=599