At 2:45 pm Morgan sent her dad a text saying, “Just parked we’ll take Rover to the wedding.” We had been driving two separate cars and wanted to drive only one to Redstone.  Morgan is with us all day – we all go back to Avalanche Ranch to Cody & Kendra’s wedding in Redstone.  We have a really good time at the wedding, and so did Morgan.

This evening, after arriving home, Morgan and I watched a movie while Steve went out and adjusted all of the detectors around the house. Steve is calling it our perimeter defense. We are now up to a combination of 14 motion sensors that sound alarms or turn on lights. When he is done he tells us that he arranged every sensor into two levels of protection, first we will be alerted if anything larger than a small dog is approaching, and again as they are within 15 feet of the house. He is confident you can not get within 50 feet of Morgan’s windows without setting off multiple sensors. We go over a plan to go out the front and rear doors if anything should happen, armed with mag lights and pepper spray.  He thinks Morgan should stay in our closet, and we won’t mention that she is in there out loud, then we can manipulate the lights in Morgan’s room to make it seem like she is sleeping in her room. Steve sneaks outside later dressed in black, and approaches all of the houses in the neighborhood one by one, verifying who is home and who is not. He takes pictures of unusual cars on his phone, so we can share the information with the sheriffs patrol officers later if anything happens tonight. We all want this to end, and we won’t mind at all if the stalker just stops, but we all agree that we really want to catch him. We know without anyone saying a word that if we do not catch him he will either continue terrorizing Morgan, or follow her wherever she goes, or just move on to happier hunting grounds – we would all rather end it here and now. We have no desire to just pass our misery on to the next person.

That night the lights scanning far away go off, but none of the sensors close to the house ever go off. We are optimistically thinking we are gaining ground in this bizarre battle we are waging. Morgan’s new semester is starting, and she can’t do a stalker and college at the same time, so we are hopeful. But we are wrong..

Click here to read about the 20th day of Morgan’s stalking https://morgansstalking.com/?p=694

Colorado
HB 1114, known as “Vonnie’s Law,” amends the stalking statute penalty by fixing the bail for the crime of stalking and mandating that a protection order be issued against the offender. It also requires that when the stalking is committed in connection with a violation of a court order, any sentence imposed shall be served consecutively and not concurrently. If a protection order has been issued, the court must require the defendant to acknowledge the protection order as a condition of any bond for his or her release. Moreover, in stalking cases, the prosecuting attorney must notify the alleged victim, the complainant, and the protected person of the order if they are not present at the time the protection order is issued. The prosecuting attorney may also request a hearing before the court to modify the terms of a protection order. Effective May 22, 2012.

This was updated on the stalking resource page of the National Center for Victims of Crimes www.victimsofcrime.org  The bill is named after a woman who was stalked by her neighbor for years before he killed her outside her Leadville home.  This new law will make stalking as serious a crime as domestic violence. Once the law was signed, a defendant will have to go before a judge before they’re released from jail, and a restraining order will automatically be issued for a victim.

In my opinion I know that protection orders, or what they refer to as restraining orders in most cases do not do a lot for the victim, it is just a piece of paper when you get down to it.  Most stalkers see it as something to get angry about, and they actually can become more violent.  Don’t get me wrong any of the laws that try to give victims some sort of hope are good, but I think we need to get some seriously strong laws against stalkers – take our lives back and stop giving the criminals more rights then the victims.

Please read Morgan’s stalking from the beginning. My niece should be here today. This type of terrorism must stop.

How about we wage a war on the Stalker’s. They know who they are!  Stay informed, aware and proavtive.

picture of Morgan giving the “thumbs up”