Morgan loved yogurt and stuck by her favorites
I am woken at 1:45 by our dog Tessi. She has started to bark at the front door. She barks occasionally, but snores loudly far more often. I feel that if Tessi is barking it is something. She has not woken Steve up yet so I leave him to his dreams, and go to the front door. Tessi is upset about something outside, and we peer out through the little beveled glass rectangles together for the longest time.
If I am standing here watching we are all safe. I quietly look in on Morgan, and she is sleeping soundly. I return to the door, and sit on the floor with Tessi, and look out into the darkness. Nothing is moving, and one porch light is on across the street. Of course our yard is lit up like a used car lot.
I finally say goodnight to our newf and go back to bed. Almost on cue the motion detector light right outside our bedroom goes on. It stays on for a minute and then goes off. I tell myself that when it goes off again I will wake Steve, but it never does.
I write to myself the next morning a question. How will we know when this is really over? Just one sentence, because I know it has to be over at some point in time, and we will have to go back to normal. So I’m wondering how we will know that has happened. Last night I was up for an hour or two because Tessi barked. A year ago I would have just told her to be quiet.
That afternoon Steve tells me, with no warning, that he has been thinking about the idea of putting trip strings, tied between the trees in our yard, and has found a black nylon “ballistic” cord sold nearby that should be invisible at night. He has found a store where he can pick up four spools. Steve is wondering if we can actually do this as we can’t leave it up, and will have to string it after dark, and remove it before sunrise. We decide we will figure that part out later, and set off to pick up the cord.
At 8:50 pm I text Morgan, “On your way home yet?” icon of a red car “It’s almost 10.” Morgan answers, “Yeah. I’ll leave right now.” A happy face blowing a kiss I answer, “Great, I’ll watch for you.”
We have just added an array of little icons to our phones to add to texts, and Morgan uses them in every message, so I am trying to add a few here, and there also. And in case you did not notice I really did text Morgan just before nine, and told her it was almost ten. She did not notice until the next morning. We are all so tired, even after four days of quiet, which has me wondering what was different now.
Click here to read about the 42nd day of Morgan’s stalking https://morgansstalking.com/?p=1096
I started reading Morgan’s story a few days ago and just can’t believe something like this can happen! Reading yesterdays post, my blood was boiling. It’s seems true that sometimes criminals have more rights than victims! And you would think with all of the technology we have now that sharing information between departments would be easier. I can tell you are such a dedicated mom, and you are brave to share your family’s story. My prayers are that everything will come to light and that you feel God’s comfort.
We do feel God’s comfort, and we finally do know our path for our own journey on this earth…we will never give up.
All three of our kids grew up in this valley and we were never worried about them taking the bus back and forth into Aspen, or walking down to the river by themselves to paint or meditate, but now we realize that this valley is still beautiful, and full of wonderful and kind people, but evil does exist and unless things change how can we protect the ones we love? Thank you so much for all your prayers – we so greatly appreciate them.
Thanks so much for your comment. It does seem crazy that at this time with all the technology we have that law enforcement agencies can’t share information easily – maybe it is a budgetary issue, but if it keeps crime down wouldn’t that save money? Just saying…
I do not know anything about hunting devices but when you mentioned sitting by your front door and as soon as you got back in bed the light went off by your room, the first thing that came to mind was did this guy have heat sensing goggles? Now I don’t know anything about them, if they can even penitrate through walls but I just find it crazy he seemed to always be where you all were in the house.
It was very weird and we wondered how as well.
He could have easily had a listening device planted in the house somewhere. Since curtains were not up all the way high for a time, he probably used a telescope type wand with a mirror attached at the end to view inside the house. Morgan deserves for her family to have answers. God Bless you I’m sure Morgan gives you hugs every day.
….Nutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages tormentor, never the tormented……….Elie Wiesel
The only way I can think that the stalker would know what room you are in when, is if he had thermal/heat sensors?
I am so sorry for your loss and hope you will someday see justice served.
Meg, unfortunately we had a lot of windows in that house, sometimes this is a great thing. When you have a -take your pick here – peeping tom, gang stalking, group bully situation, no windows is best. When Steve and I went outside our house in October, after we had covered most of our views, any light inside led to shadows on the room anyone was in. It was really a law enforcement thing. Get rid of the trespasser outside.