Friday, August 26, 2011 – the 25th day of Morgan’s stalking

At 5:09 am I send a text to Morgan, “Are you awake?”  She didn’t answer me – I had been woken up, from some sound, so I got out of bed and did my rounds inside the house to make sure everything was OK.  It has been hard to understand why our big dog, Tessi (she is a 160 lb. Newfoundland, a Landseer), has never reacted to any of the noises that the stalker has made.  The only time she barks or goes crazy is if she actually hears someone knock on the front door – which the stalker does not do.  Morgan’s puppy is too young and has never barked or growled yet.  We had a little Lhasa Apso (only 14 lbs) that was the best watchdog ever, but after 16 years she died just 2 weeks before Morgan’s stalking started.  She was a great watchdog, as far as alerting us to any sounds of people outside the house, before we ever knew they were there.  I can’t find a reason for the noise, and none of the detectors have gone off, so I assume we are OK.

At 8:09 am Morgan received a text from her friend Tyler, “Got my computer.  Skype date ASAP”  Morgan texted him back, “Yessss!”  Tyler said to Morgan, “When are you Skypable?”  She said, “Ummm now?  Haha.  Whenever.”  Tyler wrote back, “Now!!!”  Morgan said, Yay!  What’s your sn?  Or is it under your real name?”  Tyler wrote back, “it’s _______.”  Morgan said, “You have been added.”

The day was quiet and at 7:00 pm Sheriff Deputy G. Choinkowski came over to speak to Morgan, Steve and myself, he was very thorough with Morgan, asking about past boyfriends, recent acquaintances, someone that might have ever shown anger toward her.  Then we were shown a page of instructions and a photo line up of people, one of us at a time.  None of us recognized any of them.  He knew about  the window tapping incidents in Blue Creek the past summer, and then he wondered if we had heard about a person who was exposing himself to women on the new RAFTA bike trail along the Roaring Fork River, just down the road from us.  They had a picture of him, but still did not have a positive ID. None of us had heard about him either.  I was shocked!  Why haven’t I heard about any of this stuff before? It’s not like I never read the news.

There are not many people in a five mile radius of our house, a few hundred perhaps, and it seemed like we were having a few too many incidents in what we had always thought was a nice quiet, and safe place.  We weren’t ignoring any problems that existed here, we just weren’t hearing about them. Steve wanted to know more about these deviant people that had not yet been arrested, so he could add them to the suspect list.

The deputy walked the entire block with us, and Steve pointed out what he knew so far.  He had been taking really good notes about the vehicular activity whenever there was the slightest stalker issue, between that, and yesterdays sighting on the porch we had narrowed down our list.  The officer took down license plate numbers off some of the vehicles that were on our most suspicious list. We also had a list of houses that the stalker could be in, also the empty houses that could be used for hiding.  As summer was winding down the seasonal houses were emptying, almost a third of our street had empty homes.  This all gave the deputy things to check out, and he was going to get back with us once he had done just that.

Steve’s brother was vacationing with his family in Steamboat Springs and we finalized plans to go there for a couple of days after the deputy had left – we needed to get away for a night of peace and quiet.

Morgan received a text from an old friend at 1:23 am that said, “You awake crazy lady?”  Morgan texted back at 4:10 am, “Now I am?” 🙁

Morgan is excited about going to Steamboat Springs tomorrow, so Steve and I are very happy about that…we can’t wait to have a quiet weekend! Look below for the ‘suspects’ work hours as well as the sheriff’s supplemental report.

Click here to read about the 26th & 27th days of Morgan’s stalking https://morgansstalking.com/?p=821

THE START OF MANY THINGS WE DID WRONG IN MORGAN’S STALKING CASE

How did her stalker always know right when Morgan came home?  He always started his tapping and banging on her window within 15 minutes of her arriving at her house.  This is a very important question as the Sheriff’s Patrol Officers later on believed it had to be someone in our neighborhood that could see her coming home.  The Sheriff’s suggested that we not speak to our neighbors about what was happening, in order to give them a better chance of catching this stalker off-guard if he was in our neighborhood…the problem with this tactic is that if more people in your neighborhood know, the more eyes you have watching out for you, it makes it harder on the criminal to sneak around, and it is easier to catch the criminal, but we did not know at the time so we took the Patrol Officer’s suggestion and tried to keep it quiet for the time being.  

A little later on when we captured the first picture of the stalker and there were Sheriff’s Patrol Officers parked all around our house not all the neighbors could be kept in the dark any longer.  One of them just stormed up our driveway and demanded to know what was going on.  He also stopped and spoke with one of the officers.  So a couple of them did find out, which was good because right after that happened  we came the closest (in my opinion) to catching the stalker…but you will read about that on August 29th.


Saturday, August 6, 2011 – the 5th day of Morgan’s stalking

In the morning, during breakfast, Morgan reminded us to check the windows outside her room to see if anything could be rubbing up against them. The three of us all went to go look outside and to our surprise realize nothing, not a branch or anything, could be tapping on the windows, so now we are all very concerned…Morgan said she will let us know if it happens again.  She was pretty upset and decides to go hang out with friends until later around 10:00 pm.

This same evening tapping occurred again after Morgan returned in the evening within 15 minutes of her coming home and going to bed.  Her dad and I go running outside trying to catch this person, but we saw nothing.  We must be getting slow or there are just too many trees, bushes and shadows to hide in.  We start to brainstorm to try and come up with a plan that will work in order to catch this person.

Click here to read about the 6th day of Morgan’s stalking https://morgansstalking.com/?p=475

August 4 – 5, 2011 – 3rd and 4th days of Morgan’s Stalking

2:00 pm Morgan goes to get her teeth cleaned in Basalt.  She comes home and helps give our big dog a bath.  Leaves to go take photos.  Tonight is 1st Friday in Carbondale.  Majid is doing a live painting, and Marble Fest starts tonight as well.

At 11:04 pm I sent a text Morgan and said, “M – it’s 11 pm are you on your way home?  Ry and Leesa are taking Dad’s truck tomorrow morning, and the Rover is the only car we will have.  Morgan answered, “I’m just leaving actually”  I texted her back, “OK see you soon, love you.”

Morgan heard tapping on her bedroom windows within 15 minutes of her getting home that evening, and turning off her lights – she  is now getting very worried, she feels like there is someone outside her window in the dark just watching for her, angry that she is turning off her lights, trying to get her attention or scare her, she shivers and still tries to convince herself that branches or something else is potentially rubbing up against her bedroom windows.  She finally tells me (her mom) about this on Friday night – we don’t recall any bushes or trees being close enough to Morgan’s bathroom or bedroom windows to cause the noise.  I tell Morgan first thing in the morning, when it’s light out, we will go check to see if there is anything that could be causing the tapping.  Little did we know on this night what tomorrow we would discover.

Click here to read about the 5th day of Morgan’s stalking https://morgansstalking.com/?p=445