… and remember, if you have a stalker, you are never really safe!

When I started to wake up this morning I was just coming out of a dream…it seemed so real.  Morgan was standing in front of a big chalkboard, like in a school room.  She was holding a long white pointer, and pointing it at the chalkboard.  On the chalkboard,in big white print, was something written, and under that was a list of numbers and jobs to be done, which were listed next to each number.  Morgan was turned smiling at me as she pointed to the list.  Then she showed me a person, a male figure on a skateboard, slowly skating down a gentle hill towards a beautiful clear blue pond.  I know water stands for change – does this mean this person on the skateboard is heading towards change?  The list on the chalkboard that she is pointing to means to me that she knows her father and I are going through our list of what has to be done in her case, and she is happy we are making so much progress…is this wishful thinking or does Morgan know something I don’t know?  Wouldn’t surprise me! 

I had to go to the doctor in Glenwood Springs today for a procedure, and did not want to leave Morgan at home alone, so she went with me, but she decided to stay in the car (with the doors locked) to get some rest, as she has not been sleeping well because of the stalker.  At 10:10 am I texted Morgan, “Still waiting for the doctor – how’s it going in the car?”  Morgan said, “Good.  Just laying down.”  I finally came out and we drove together back home.

After getting home I went back to work in my home office and Morgan took a shower and crashed out on the couch to watch a movie while her puppy slept at her feet on the wood floor.  She was knitting and watching the movie, and the day seemed warm and quiet.  Later that afternoon Morgan decided to go and hangout with friends, while Steve and I went to do errands after work.  She had her laptop and phone with her.  When Steve got home he and I went to do our errands.  At 5:26 pm I sent a text to Morgan, “Should I text you when we get home?  We might not be home till 7:30 or 8 and I don’t want you to go home until we’re there”  Morgan wrote back, “Yeah, thanks!”  I wrote her back again at 5:57 pm, “Is that way too long for you to stay?  We could come home sooner.”  She wrote back, “Nah, that’s totally fine.”  6:44 pm sent Morgan another text, “On our way home from Glenwood Springs and will stop at Carbondale City Market for milk and text you when home.”  Morgan wrote back, “K. :)”  7:18 pm I sent Morgan a text, “Out of the store and on our way home Let you know when we get there.”  Morgan wrote back, “Haha alrighty.  Thanks :)”  7:31 pm I sent Morgan a text saying, “We’re home – I’ll wait out front for you.”  Morgan wrote back, “ Oh Mom…”  I wrote back to Morgan, “I know I’m adorable – you don’t have to say it.”

I sent Morgan a Facebook “Poke :)” Morgan sent me a FB message, “You are too cute!”  Steve and I had purchased a camera system at Costco tonight, but it doesn’t seem to work well – looks like we will have to return it.

I sent Morgan a Facebook text “Poke back again, but this time with hot gooey peanut nutter cookies.”  Tonight, while Morgan was sleeping in my closet something was thrown at the closet window, which is 10 feet above the ground.  Morgan came out of the closet to tell me that “he” knows she is in the closet, and now he’s throwing rocks at that window to scare her.  She is extremely distraught, angry and doesn’t know what to do.  Steve is now getting upset with me, because he knows how loud I talk and feels that a person outside trying to listen to what we are saying could hear me through our bedroom windows, which are being kept open till we are ready to go to sleep in order to let the cool night air in.  Steve said, “Of course her stalker knows she is in the closet – you said good night to her while she was in there and even said,”Are you sure you’re OK in the closet Morgan?”  I guess I was still thinking while in our own house people shouldn’t be trying to overhear us, but that was very stupid thinking of course, this predator was watching and listening to everything – and we were anything but safe in our own home.

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This morning I woke up and called the Carbondale Police Department – they told me because of the location of our address (we live in Garfield County, not the city of Carbondale), this is a case for the Garfield Sheriff’s Department.  I now call the Sheriff’s dispatch line and explain what has happened.  They send out an officer – Sheriff’s Officer E. V. arrives and speaks with us – he writes on his business card, case # 11-18615 and hands it to me when he arrives.   He looks around the outside of the house and points out footprints under the windows, under the office bathroom window (where Morgan showered) & right up against the outside wall, where Morgan’s bedroom and bathroom windows are!   It was very upsetting to see those prints pushed right up against the house, putting the stalkers face as close as possible to her bedroom window, as though his/her nose was pushed against the glass.  How long had he been standing there watching her?

The officer explains to me, after he called his office, that he is not allowed to take castings of the footprints at this point, or gather any evidence, as it is not yet a felony stalking case, only a misdemeanor trespassing case (according to Colorado law), so Morgan’s dad takes pictures of the prints himself.  The officer tells us about a case the previous summer on Ponderosa Drive (right down the road from us in the Blue Creek Subdivision, right off County Road 100 – we are in the Aspen Equestrian Estates subdivision right behind the Aspen Equestrian Ranch, which faces County Road 100) where there were approximately 4 or 5 separate incident reports of someone tapping on windows last summer.  The last incident was of a girl/woman that heard noises and then heard a trash can fall over, so she ran out of the front door (thinking she might see a bear), but instead saw a white male in a hoodie staring at her, she ran back into the house and called 911. The officers (canine unit) were close by, and had their tracking dog with them.  They tracked the suspect all the way back to the Carbondale Mini Storage parking lot on County Road 100, where the dog lost the scent…the perp probably went through the irrigation ditch or the river to elude the dog.  The sheriff said they did get a good description from the girl/woman.  Morgan went on her computer minutes after the officer left.  Her computer shows she pulled up a map of the area of the Blue Creek Subdivision that the officer was talking about.  Morgan always researched everything – it was so painful after her death for Steve to see what she screen-captured on the different days of her stalking.  She was a strong, intelligent and determined young woman.  At this time we thought the officer would write up a report, as the Colorado law states law enforcement should do, but years later this was one of most incidents of stalking that were called in, but there was no report, other than he was at our house and it was listed as a suspicious event…no details, no notes…why?  So please remember, if you are ever in a situation of stalking, always ask to be provided with a copy of each report, of each and every incident that the officers respond to, along with getting their cards.

* We would love to hear a first hand account of what happened in the Blue Creek Subdivision the summer of 2010 – if any of you know anything about those incidents please contact us using our tip line on this website, or email or call us…this would be extremely helpful as we feel that Morgan’s stalker could very well be a serial stalker.

When this case eventually became a felony stalking case, many, many weeks later, and a detective was assigned to Morgan’s case, we asked him – can you find out if the description of the stalker they had in Blue Creek fits the M.O. of what is happening here?  We were told by two of the first sheriff’s patrol officers that the tapping on windows (the summer of 2010) stopped after the dog tracking incident at the end of last summer, at the same time it also became cold out – we were told that maybe this is a seasonal stalker?  So later on, after we asked the detective if he could find out if any of our suspects were living around the Blue Creek subdivision last summer, or maybe the person drove past this area (maybe for work or for some other reason), but the detective said he checked and so no reports about those incidents!!!

Morgan goes to stay at a friends house, while her dad and I go to Eagle later that afternoon.  At 4:48 pm I sent Morgan a text message, “How’s it going?  Still in Eagle”  5:03 pm Morgan texts back, “Just chillin‘ will you call when your’e coming through?”  I text back at 5:45 pm, “will do”  At this point we need to keep in touch with Morgan to make sure she is never home alone without one of us there with her.  She is scared, so she is very cooperative for a 19-year-old girl, who is usually never afraid of anything.  She texts me back again at 7:10 pm, “Thanks!”  At 7:53 pm I text Morgan, “On our way from Glenwood to pick you up – I’ll text you when we get there.  Should we go where we dropped you off?”  Morgan texted back, “text me when you’re out front?”  I wrote back, “OK”  and and couple of minutes later I said, “Come out.”  

Morgan’s dad installed the outdoor motion alarm after we got home. That evening it was quiet, Morgan was still sleeping in her my closet and showering in our master bathroom – she heard no tapping – Steve and I walked around our house before going to bed, to look for anything suspicious, and I noticed the folding red chair that had been behind our next door neighbors house (the one I had pointed out to the officer earlier in the day), was gone.  This chair had looked strangely out of place earlier in the day, when I noticed it.  It was now sitting on their deck (it was in the grass just off the deck), I had never seen that chair there before, and it was facing our house, and hidden behind a big pine tree.  The chair had been there earlier today when the sheriff’s officer was here.  We told the officer our neighbors had not been at their house this month.  Could the stalker have been sitting in the chair and listening to us through our open bedroom windows, while we discussed what we should do about this situation? You could definitely hear our voices, through our bedroom windows, especially since my voice carries, and we had the windows, in the rooms we were in, open in the evenings and closing them before we went to sleep, due to the hot temperatures during the day…we wanted to cool down the house in the evenings.  Tomorrow night Morgan’s dad really does believe the stalker has been listening to us through our open bedroom windows that were on either side of our bed  – but we realized we could no longer lie in bed with our windows open and talk…we no longer had privacy…we were now all targets.  On tomorrow’s blog you will see why.

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