In the early morning, before sunrise, we had rocks on the windows again so I called the sheriff’s dispatch to report it – just the other day when a sheriff was here, he went with me next door to the neighbor’s house, and found the back master bedroom door unlocked – this whole thing is so very unnerving.
So far after 23 days – this case has still not turned in to a felony stalking case (it will become one, but hasn’t yet), Morgan is still sleeping in our closet, and now her back is killing her. Steve and I are hyper-vigilant of every noise, every inconsistency, and leery of every person in the neighborhood.
It has been suggested to us by the patrol officers that we shouldn’t discuss what is going on with our neighbors, the reasoning was not to tip off the stalker, who they think is one of our neighbors. This goes against everything my intuition is telling me. I feel very strongly that if everyone in the whole area knew what was going on then there would be more eyes and ears helping us. We have been in this valley since the 70’s and I know how protective families are of each other… now things may have changed a bit, but I think this stalker could have already been caught if we had just told everyone, taken out an ad, even put up posters all around the neighborhood, anything except keeping silent about this. I just didn’t see how silence was going to help, and I regret it even more now, but I was too trusting, and I really believed that law enforcement had more knowledge and experience with this than we did. So we always followed their advice.
Then it occurred to me that of course the neighbors had to know something was going on – they could see Garfield County sheriff department vehicles coming and going all the time in our small neighborhood. Before this I could count on one hand how many times I had seen a deputy vehicle here – in six years – no wonder we were getting strange stares from people. They just hadn’t decided to ask about it yet.
Now the lock on one of our back sliding glass doors was suddenly broken, and we couldn’t lock the door anymore. This was on the door we usually used to go in and out of…the other sliding glass door we hardly ever used. Steve immediately went to the hardware store in the morning and bought a new lockset and replaced the broken lock. Is this just a coincidence that we have now had to replace two locks? To this very day we are not sure if it was just a coincidence, but how often do you have two locks broken in the same week on your house?
None of us had a very good night of sleep last night, or tonight – and were definitely not expecting what we would see between 4:45 – 5:00 am on the 25th!
Morgan ordered her books for the next semester, she’s waited until the last second again, and I have to pay extra to get them in time – how I wish I could be paying extra right now to get her books in time . . . miss you so much honey, I wish I was paying for classes, books, school supplies, all of it again this year, because that would mean you were still here with us.
Click here to read about the 24th day of Morgan’s stalking https://morgansstalking.com/?p=765
I have been reading your blog all day … I’m so hooked on your story and I so hope you find out all the information you need. I work in a Correctional facility a.k.a a prison (for males) and I know that while we were going through training the instructors kept telling us to not be consistent in the way we did things in the institution … change things up .. like walk a different way when you did your walks or at different times because the offends watched you and got to know your routine (change up your routine) because that is usually when they did things they weren’t suppose to. I can’t help but think maybe that you used that one door more than the other that maybe this guy knew your routine .. Maybe he watched to see what you did. I so hope you find a way to get this guy before another girl ends up in the same situation.
How do locks even break? I am not a home owner. Did it look smashed? Was something stuck in it? Did it leave the door opened? That is really frightening.
2 locks were broken – the front door lock Steve thought was due to over-use, a lot of steel powder, things worn through, and it wouldn’t stay locked so that one we are not really so sure about what happened but Steve replaced it with a touch pad lock (highly recommended and heavy duty) but the brutal truth is that if you have a stalker, out in the bushes at night with a hunting scope you are not secure at all – he can see the numbers light up when pushed. However, the back sliding door lock (we had 2 sliding back doors) had a lock that Steve was highly suspicious that someone was trying to muscle it open because screws and mounts were just snapped off – and the real problem was the later discovery of a lock on the corner door that was mounted on backwards and could have been removed from the outside with simple tools. Steve was heavily admonished for not noticing sooner – it was a door we never used, and Steve had just never noticed this deficiency before. He felt so horrible when we discovered it, and I say how could the Sheriff’s department, with upwards of 6 Officers at our house the morning we found Morgan’s body, and claim in their reports that they made precautionary investigative sweeps around our house never have noticed this deficiency in the lock.
How come all the times the Sheriff’s were out at the house never have noticed the deficiency in this lock – on multiple occasions the Deputies and the Detective went around our house (during the stalking) and looked at our windows and doors and commented they looked very secure.
And last but not least on the morning Morgan’s body was found how on God’s green earth could our felony stalking Detective Glassmire look us in the face and say there was no sign of forced entry? Is he that incompetent? Or is there some ulterior motive…because I’m starting to think the ladder. Do you need to have a broken window or a smashed door in order for law enforcement to believe someone entered your home?
Hi Toni,
My house was broken into in July of 2012. I lived alone at the time and I had spent the night at a friends house, When I left the night before, I had made sure that all the doors s and windows were locked, when I left, my neighbors across the street were all outside on their porch. When I got home at about 8 the next morning, I noticed that my front door was open slightly and every light in the house was on, upstairs and downstairs. The first thing that I noticed when I walked in was that my laptop was gone. The house was turned upside down and they even stole a 2 liter of Pepsi. They poured Kolton plaid all over my kitchen floor.
Upstairs they had stolen my jewelry and left my jewelry box on my bed. They stole my cameras, jewelry, blank checks, my laptop, and a rifle. They stole anything of value that they could find, but most of all they stole my peace of mind. I called the police and they wouldn’t even take fingerprints. My point in telling what happened to me is that there were no visible point of entry, no broken windows, or doors. I still have no idea how they got in.
I was not going to let them chase me out of my home, so I stay d here every night by myself. I was scared but I knew it was what I had to do. They never did find out who broke in and I never got any of my things back. I have had nightmares about coming home and the door being open and walking In and my things being gone again.
I believe that my neighbors across the street or someone they knew might have been the one who broke in but I don’t know.
Oh Charlotte – I am so sorry! How horrible…I have heard over and over in so many news reports, police reports, you name it, that there were no visible sign of breaking and entering, even though things were stolen, people murdered, children kidnapped (a baby in a crib in his parents bedroom was taken while they slept and they have still never found him 30+ years later – no sign of breaking and entering – no noise heard – and there were 2 other children’s rooms the kidnapper had to walk past!) in so many cases for years, but people that have never had it happen to them can’t seem to understand HOW that can happen. Like you just said – it has and it does happen.
Your neighbors might know – someone knew you weren’t going to be home.