Morgan came home in the morning, and we filled her in on everything that happened the night before. She tells us that she is determined not to let this person terrorize her anymore. She is going to cover her upper windows, and sleep in her own room. We are very worried about her safety, and she proceeds to cut up some thick flannel sheets and tack them to her wall, just above her upper bedroom windows, and they cover not only those windows, but the windows below that already have blinds over them.
Steve decides that after all of the intensity of the last nights events we need to get away for the day. Morgan, Steve and I take a road trip to Silverthorne, shopping at the Factory stores there. Once again we try not to talk about the stalking, but it is on our minds and in our conversations all day. I am trying to be positive, and look at recent developments as movement toward the end of this nightmare.
Then our neighbor Elliott calls me about a most interesting phone call that he has received. First he wants to know if Morgan has disappeared, or gone missing. I tell him at that very moment she was right there with us, and ask him what is going on now! Elliott explains that Brooke’s mom (Christina Harris) had called him. Brooke’s mom, and Brooke’s dad originally lived together in a house on Corral Drive, and I assumed they were still married, even though Brooke’s dad had moved a few houses down, and lived now in a rental house with his daughter Brooke, and her boyfriend Keenan, but I really don’t know for sure if Christina and James Harris are still married. He said Christina asked Brooke why the sheriffs had come to her door last night. According to what Elliott had been told, Brooke explained to her mother that since she is an old friend of Morgan’s (she had never been a friend of Morgan’s, Morgan just knew of her through other friends) they wanted to ask her if she knew where Morgan was, because Morgan has gone missing the night before. What a lie Brooke was now telling her parents…she knew Morgan was not missing and she knew the sheriffs had been trying to speak with Keenan, but she refused to let them in the house.
This became a disturbing pattern throughout the stalking. So many times after the sheriff’s left our house Brooke’s mom had a story about what was going on, and it was quite different from what was really going on. Much later when a detective was assigned to this case, it became a felony stalking, and we had a case number, the detective interviewed Brooke’s mom, and Christina about these false rumors, and he told me that Brooke had told him she heard these “rumors” from her mother, and Brooke’s mom Christina told him that she heard it from her daughter, Brooke. And he laughed as he told me the story and said, “Boy, you think they could at least get their story straight.” I did not think this was a laughing matter!
Do all investigators just leave it at that ???
That night we had a few motion detector beeps and motion lights tripped, but we did not respond at all. It was obvious to me that the stalker was enjoying all the attention. The more we called the sheriffs, and the more we came running from the house with bigger, and bigger flashlights, the more the stalker escalated his behavior.
On Labor Day (the 5th) Steve was cutting back bushes and trees around the house and I was dragging branches to a pile out front. We talked about just clear cutting everything all the way around the house, and in the yard. Leave nothing, but grass, but we decided not to do that.
Morgan was going to visit friends, and left with her puppy in the car. She was smiling and happy, Steve and I talked about what a brave young woman she was, how she was holding her head high, and proudly taking her life back. We went inside the house for water before returning to cutting everything back. As I was walking out the front door the motion alarm on the side yard (on Ken’s side) was chirping, Steve was down the hall behind me at the time. I looked out the front door, and a young man was running really fast up our driveway between the cars. I think it could be Keenan, but I am not sure, I have never met him in person before. He sees me, and immediately turns and takes off running for Rhonda’s house next door. But she is cleaning out her garage, so he has to turn up our other side yard, and head for the berm. I yell to Steve that he is coming up the side yard just as the motion detector for that side starts to beep.
Steve immediately went to the window, saw nothing and ran out the back door and still saw nothing. He wasn’t sure which way to give chase, and decided on Brooke’s dad’s house, so he ran down there and didn’t find anyone outside so he doubled back out front and we spent the next fifteen minutes talking on our phones, while searching the neighborhood for him. I finally say to Steve, crazy as this sounds we are going to ignore him, giving him attention is exactly what he wants us to do, and we are not doing it.
On the way back home a neighbor came up to me, and said that something very strange had just been witnessed. Brooke, and Keenan had raced up the street in his new car. Then it looked like they were arguing, then they pulled into her driveway, then more arguing, then with tires chirping, they pulled out of the driveway, then this went on a few more times before, doors slamming, they went in their house. I was perplexed by the story in view of what had just happened, and went to tell Steve. I called Morgan on the way, and told her the story, then Morgan told me what had happened earlier that made sense of it all…
Morgan said she had driven by Brooke, and Keenan on the way out of the subdivision, and Keenan had slowed down as they passed. So she stared right at them and smiled, she wanted him to know she was not taking it anymore. Morgan said Keenan looked down as he drove by, and would not make eye contact with her. But Brooke defiantly stared back at Morgan. Morgan guesses that she touched off a little tiff.
I called the sheriff’s department and told a patrol deputy what had happened, but that he didn’t need to come over. I told him about our new plan to ignore, but he had to return a jump drive to us anyway, so he would stop by to take the report.
Steve has a new thermal imaging scope on loan from a very good friend in law enforcement. That evening he goes outside and spends a lot of time with it, getting accustomed to how it works. It is otherwise a quiet night.
Click here to read about the 36th day of Morgan’s stalking https://morgansstalking.com/?p=1020
Today it is also Labor Day, but it is now 2012, Keenan’s parents write me over, and over to say Keenan has been fingerprinted, had his tennis shoes fingerprinted (not sure how you do that, but okay) and been proven innocent. But I know from the detective that none of that is true. They are very passionate in defending their son, and I suspect they have been doing so for a long time – probably his whole life. A reporter who’s had his ego a little bruised is calling everyone in my family for an interview, they are a little reluctant after they saw how badly he had twisted my words in a story just the other day. And a budding young Psychologist back east has shared with me that she is writing her thesis paper for her doctorate about what happened to Morgan and wants to interview me, and has made many calls to the Garfield Sheriffs, and was told each time, a prepared statement about how I am just a grieving mother who can’t let go of her daughter’s death.
So please. Perhaps I am not telling the story with enough emphasis, but this is Morgan’s blog, it is about Morgan’s stalking, and I write it because she is not here to write it herself. Everything is the truth. It is meant to empower people who are being stalked. She was such a brave young woman, who was forced to go through incredible, horrific fear, and stress for the last four months of her life. This is why when her death was found to be natural causes Steve said to call her doctor at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, and see if she can meet with us, we wanted her opinion. She did schedule a meeting with us, and we had a long talk with the pathologist here before we went, we went with open minds, not knowing what to expect. Nobody was more surprised than me when she told us she had gone back through all of Morgan’s records, and reviewed her Postmortem Examination Report and was convinced, with no doubt in her mind, that the Coroner here has it all wrong! She said this is a homicide, it needs to be investigated, there needs to be more tests run. They are not testing for the right things. She offers to call him for us, doctor to doctor and straighten this out. She feels we have been through enough already. She adds that If it’s a funding problem, she will contact the Governor of Colorado, this needs to be corrected.
Do you see the truth here? She was volunteering her own time, and believe me she is a very, very, busy woman. A true hero. She was volunteering her time to help correct a situation where people were killed by their stalker, then were found to have died of natural causes, their killers never brought to justice. Well, Garfield County’s best slammed the door right in her face. So she talked to one of the foremost authorities on heart arrhythmia, a professor, scientist and doctor at UC San Francisco Children’s hospital, he volunteered to come here and testify if need be, but yes you certainly can be “scared to death” and he said a few tests will indicate if that could have happened to Morgan, and they need to be done. Our pathologist here would not talk to him. He’s suddenly not willing to talk to any more of “our doctors,” we are wasting his time, and he sent Steve an email that death by arrhythmia is not possible without an underlying cause. We are told this is just not true. Just in the last few months you may have read about an arsonist in California that was successfully prosecuted for the murder of 5 people who died of heart attacks due to the stress of the fire he set on their life. Google it if you haven’t heard of this case, or even try the phrase “Homicide by Fright”. Don’t just take the word of a grieving mother who can not let go, search out the truth yourself, I have.
Our pathologist here told me he would only talk to another pathologist. So we talked to one. He’s been a little busy dealing with the Aurora Batman Theatre murders that are so absolutely heartbreaking. But his findings on Morgan’s case not only greatly differ from “Natural Causes” he also found something else. She had a very, very large amount of a prescription drug Amitriptyline, many times the amount needed to kill her. Our pathologist here has been telling us all along the amount she had was “insignificant” and it’s been a sticking point because she didn’t even take Amitriptyline. She did long in the past, a small dose as a prophylaxis for headaches, NOT FOR DEPRESSION. Morgan worked hard to not need pills in her life – that is the truth.
Our pathologist here was on the phone with me after our trip to Los Angeles, and honestly said, Morgan was taking Amitriptyline for her Porphyria, and it builds up in your system, that is why her numbers were so high. I was shocked! I asked him if he was sure he was talking about Morgan. She didn’t have Porphyria, she did not take Amitriptyline, she did not have a prescription, and we have all of her pharmacy records for the last three years. We have been over all of this, why is it still an issue?
Why are people always trying to cover up the truth about things? Why can’t people help each other find the truth instead? Don’t they realize that true evil can only exist when good people do nothing about it? Sorry I just went on a rant, but we are talking about true evil to stalk, terrorize, and take someone’s life…it’s no joke, it’s extremely serious. If this stalker had only stalked, and terrorized our daughter, and our family for four months, and she had just died in her bed from her heart giving out because of fright (which didn’t happen, but could have, and certainly could have been a component in her death), or like in other cases I have heard about in the news, if she had taken her life, because she couldn’t take it anymore (which didn’t happen, but I’m sure certain people would like to believe that) then the law still reads, and has been held up in court that the person responsible for terrorizing that person to death is responsible for murder. I don’t think most people understand that point of law, I didn’t. And all those who now try to cover up and protect this person are also responsible under the law. But don’t take the word of a grieving mother who can’t let go, read this article and then decide for yourself. Our pathologist here maintains it is not possible.
Click here to read about the 36th day of Morgan’s stalking https://morgansstalking.com/?p=1020
Homicide by fright: the intersection of cardiology and criminal law.
Authors
Flannery FT, et al. Show all
Am J Cardiol. 2010 Jan 1;105(1):136-8. Epub 2009 Nov 14.
Affiliation
Department of Legal Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Silver Spring, MD, USA. [email protected]
Abstract
The prevailing lay wisdom associates emotional stress with sudden death, and recent medical reports have linked massive catecholamine surges with demonstrable cardiac dysfunction that can be either reversible or fatal. This association does not strictly prove causality, and the question remains open for additional scientific investigation. From the legal viewpoint, however, the issue has been resolved, and case law clearly holds that sudden emotional stress can cause death. More significantly, case law also holds that if the sudden emotional stress is caused by criminal conduct, the resulting death of a victim of the criminal conduct can be prosecuted as homicide. Cardiologists are often called to testify in such circumstances. In the present study, we have reviewed 8 legal cases that are the basis of current opinions in these matters. These legal principles can be summarized as follows: emotional stress is sufficient, and physical abuse is not required for conviction; a time-lapse between the induction of emotional stress and death does not necessarily mitigate the charge of homicide; the criminal act must be the proximate cause of the victim’s death; however, the accused does not always need to be physically present to commit the crime. In conclusion, although the pathophysiology of sudden death associated with massive emotional stress has not been fully elucidated from a scientific viewpoint, in the legal system, the association can be causative and can be the basis for a criminal prosecution. Cardiologists may be called on to provide expert opinions in the prosecution of these cases.
PMID 20102906 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
You are a wonderful advocate for your daughter. Keep fighting! The truth will come out.
I bet the person(s) responsible, reads this daily. I hope they are scared! If anything, karma will get you!
Thank you so much – I feel like there are people, and spirits around us helping to nudge us on all the time, and your comment helps a lot…hugs!
First off I want to say how much I admire you and your husband for writing this blog. I am truly sorry for your loss, my heart goes out to your entire family. My wife told me about this last weekend while I was traveling and have been reading everyday since. As a resident of Carbondale and a father, I am completely disgusted and angry towards the GarCo Sheriffs office and I shared my feelings with them today in an email. I doubt I will get a response, but know I am telling everyone I can about this as well as using Twitter and Facebook to share the blog. I know you are sincere in your desire to help other potential victims. Much respect.
Your help is so greatly appreciated it…thank you from the bottom of my heart. With all the people around the world (and I do mean around the world now – people have been sharing this with their friends everywhere) I know that changes will be made. People that have children want to make this a better world, and I know it will happen! Thanks again Steve and I really love hearing things like this.
My heart hurts so deeply for your family. I have lived in the RFV on and off for my entire life. It is absolutely shocking and appalling to me that this occurred and so many people are just now hearing about it or even worse, are still unaware.
I am so sorry that you and your husband have had to come to this point to finally bring attention to the terror that Morgan and your family endured leading up to her death. I can’t even imagine the pain that you go through on daily basis recounting the horrible details that led up to to the loss of such an innocent and beautiful life. Your strength and courage are overwhelming.
I am most sorry that the people intended to protect your daughter and family have allowed her death to be labeled as a suicide and have turned a blind eye to what so clearly is a monster at large in our community, responsible for the loss of a young woman’s life.
RFV residents have showed me, in so many situations, a great sense of community, love, support and compassion. As I share this story with others, it is overwhelming to me, the outrage the community feels for your family and how this case has been handled.
I hope that you feel the embrace of the community at this time, and that you feel all of the love and support that surrounds you. I hope that Garfield County and the coroner/pathologist start to feel the outrage that their reactions to these events have caused and feel the pressure to take accountability for their mistakes in this case and finally start to look for the answers that Morgan and your family deserved from the begining.
I will continue to share your story and i will continue to believe that somehow, justice will prevail. There are no words to express my condolences to you and your husband or describe my admiration for you both.
Thank you so very much!
Steve and I have to believe that justice will prevail, that laws will change, that law enforcement protocol will change, so victims have a better chance at a safer conclusion, or we would have to give up our belief in humanity, and I would never want that to happen…we do believe these changes will be made, because we believe that people like you and I will keep pushing until they are.
Your voice is being heard, I guarantee it, and so are all the others – Morgan knows we are all joined together in making this happen…not just Steve and I, but it will take everyone to do this, it is about everyone out there helping.
Thanks again – your comment made my heart melt, as we have been in this valley off and on (mostly on) since the mid 70’s and this is not what this valley is about at all. Most people that live here are really great, caring people.
I believe every word of Morgan’s story that I have read on this blog. Stay true to yourself Toni, even when you feel like no one will understand or believe you. All that really matters in this life that we live is the truth. You are an amazing mother, stay strong. Justice will be served.
Thank you so much – we are staying strong together. 🙂
When the young man was running through the drive, did you see his face!?
So sorry – that is one thing I can’t release at this time…I wish I could.
After reading your last post I couldn’t believe that he was right there! Had a feeling that you would have said if you did see his face but understand that you can only release so much at this time!
Praying for you and your family! Spreading the word!
Hearing of your families horror story has changed my life already!
Stay strong
Melissa
Thank you, thank you, thank you, I so appreciate it. Steve and I constantly keep reminding each other, on a daily basis, not to get angry, and to only come from the truth if we want things to change in this world.
I read your blogs every day and feel also that the person responsible reads them as well. I pray every night that they will catch the one or ones responsible but if they are not caught in this life they will certainly have to answer for their sins when their time comes, or answer to Morgan.
I know you’re right – I believe the person responsible is reading this blog, and I hope the biggest thing they get out of it is the fact that Steve and I will NEVER give up, and if anything ever happens to us, there are now so many people that will pick up the banner to continue on in order to get justice and change the laws so the victims have more protection!
Toni & Steve, Hopefully if he is reading it, he also knows that he will immediately be a suspect in so many minds, because of his affiliation (whatever that relationship was, neighbor, ranch hand, emo troublemaking kid) with your family in the past. He won’t have the anonymity to ever do this again in THIS Valley. 😉
Valerie
Valerie I do believe you are correct in what you say. There are too many good people in THIS valley that won’t take it. Thanks for believing 🙂
My heart goes out to you! Don’t stop fighting!
We never will – thanks for your support!
As I mentioned before, I saw your link on my daughter’s facebook page earlier tonight. I started reading then and it is now almost 2:30 am. I have shared the link to this blog, as well as the “news” article on my page, and will send it personally and post it on all of my friends walls tomorrow. I live in carbondale and I am the single mother of two teen daughters. One of them (and I, myself) personally know some of the kids metioned in your blog. Here is the message I posted on my daughters page under your link to this blog:
“please read this from beginning to end, and continue to follow it. You need access to this information, the warnings and the tragedy which resulted from this family’s ordeal. You KNOW several of the people involved. PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND ASK THEM TO READ IT ALSO. not because it names names which may or may not be guilty, but because you ALL need to be aware, educated and even afraid. Please put this at the top of your daily reading list. I Love you more than life itself and I don’t think I could survive what this mother has survived and tell the story so poignantly and with such purpose. I cherish you and like her, I would do anything ANYthing to keep you and your sister safe. ♥ ♥ ♥”
Toni and Steve, PLEASE SET UP A FUND TO HELP WITH YOUR EXPENSES TO HIRE THE PEOPLE WHO CAN HELP SOLVE THIS HORRIBLE CRIME! With the ball rolling at high speed now, we, your neighbors, friends, readers, and mostly supporters can help defray some of those costs if you give us a means to do so. I know I am not the only one who would deposit whatever I could tomorrow if you set up an account for this purpose.
Supporters: PLEASE WRITE TO THE VALLEY’S NEWSPAPERS AND SHERRIFS DEPARTMENT AND CORONER AND TELL THEM WE WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS!!! We must insist on being heard, right alongside Morgan’s grieving family. Your story is riveting, and I hope when it is all over, you will write a book, or allow someone else to do so, as it is a story that should be told. Then you can set up a fund to help other victims, build safehouses, or whatever feels right in your heart to honor Morgan’s memory and the trauma and pain that you all suffered at the hands of this monster. ALL of the kids in this valley know eachother, or know of eachother. If this was a young man, he is still out there circulating among some group of young people, and yes, may already be terrorizing another child. If it is an older man, who knows how crafty and elusive he may be, and how long he may have been at this “game.” Either way, he needs to be identified and caught. I admire you for telling your story, for going to such great lengths to try to protect your daughter, and for your strength in the aftermath of such a horrific experience. I am signing this post “anonymous” because I have stated that we do know some of the younger people mentioned, but I stand firmly behind you and beside you and will continue to share, and encourage others to do so, as well.
Lovingly,
Anonymous
Thank you so much for your wonderful comment. I am so happy you shared it with your family and I can just hear in your words that you love your children as much as we loved Morgan and I would never want you to have to go through what we are going through and will continue to go through for the rest of our lives until we get to see Morgan again.
We have set up a Morgan Ingram Benefit Fund at Alpine Bank, with a mailing address that goes to the PO Box in Snomwmass, as well as an online donation button that people can donate through Pay Pal right online. The donate button is at the bottom of every blog and at the top of the page – also one of the top buttons on the front page of the website as well. Thank you for asking.
As far as your last statement about writing to everyone that we will not stand for this I applaud you! If everyone stands up and let’s their voice be heard then the changes in this valley, this state, this country will be made – I promise you. The voice of the people really is powerful…I had forgotten about that for such a very long time. I remember discussing it with Morgan about 2 years ago and she is the one that reminded me that people that are not apathetic and really want to make changes can and in this new world we live in social media and the Internet are huge tools. Well I guess I am learning that Morgan was right.
Right now there is a documentary in the works, a book in the works – this story will be heard if it takes my last breathe in order to do just that! I want to make sure other families do not have to go through this and that these monsters can not just have the green light to use our beautiful valley as their own happy hunting ground.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart! My whole family thanks you.
I was up until almost three am, slept with my youngest and could not sleep until close to 6am. I thought about how many nights like that you and Steve must have had. I’ve cried since I began reading. PLEASE, just in case not everyone reads all of the comments in your blog, and misses the (duh) “donate” icons which I asked you about, include a statement about this in your blog, commenting that you have been asked by supporters who want to help to do so, as I somehow missed it entirely,not surprising given how riveting the story is and the fact that I was reading it open mouthed with tears streaming down my face. Feel free to reference my comment if you like, but please inlcude this information about HOW we can help (if you have addresses for the Coroner, Sherriff and Newspapers include those as well). Just do a little post on “how you can help,” perhaps? Regardless, I am here, I am an administrative wizard, full time student and not working, so if there is anything a stranger can do, I happily volunteer my services. I believe my son graduated a year ahead of Morgan at Aspen High (technically my step son). Like I said, its a very small Valley, we are all connected, and there is nowhere to hide once we all know who did this horrible thing to your baby, and your family.
Lovingly,
Anonymous
I’m so glad you brought you brought up the letter writing! We can start a campaign and send it to every official and news agency. Someone could write the letter and post a link, or people can write their own. There is strength in numbers! WE ARE ALL WITH YOU AND WE BELIEVE YOU! I worked on one last spring about the epidemic of missing persons. It was very successful in many areas.
Your strength and courage is inspiring. I’ve been riveted to this blog. I feel your loss and pain with every word.
Please let us know if you would like to do the letter writing campaign. I know everyone reading here would write an email. We can blow up their in boxes!!
JUSTICE FOR MORGAN!
I have made a One of a Kind dress for my boutique that I am auctioning off on my facebook page. It’s called “Justice for Morgan”, It ends Sunday night, and 100% of the proceeds will be sent to Toni and Steve to help in anyway. Here is the link…
https://www.facebook.com/lovetayboutique?ref=hl#!/media/set/?set=a.422674544457164.96016.336679589723327&type=1
Please “share” on your facebook, so we can get as much as we can.
Thank you,
Donnalee
Donnalee the dress is so amazing – but then again so are you! Words just can’t express the gratitude we have towards you for doing something like this! Thank you so much!
No problem at all…it’s the least I can do! I hope we raise lots of money for morgans fund and awareness to other vicitms.
Keep the faith that the one responsible will be found. I, too, lost someone through murder and found myself in the midst of a suicide ruling. It’s not fair, particularly when the responsible person is walking free. It chews at your soul, you know? I pray your family finds peace and the killer is swiftly brought to justice. God bless!
I am so sorry for your loss…I have heard so many of these kinds of stories now from people that read this, and it is so heartbreaking. We just want justice like you, and we want the right person caught , laws and protocols changed so others don’t need to go through what our family and your family are going through. I send you lot’s of healing love. Thank you for telling your story.
Keep fighting the good fight. Justice will be done, God will be the final judge.
I know that to be true – thanks!
Do you know what I love about my inlaws and this blog……it is SO accurate because they keep track of EVERYTHING, they write everything down….if something fishy happens or someone does something to them, they will take note. I kid with their son sometimes….your parents have a file on me, I know it, he say’s yeah, with a smile, wouldn’t doubt it…..so if anyone is doubting this or the strength of her parents….or how they “remember” it all a year later….believe me….they wrote it down! One time Toni brought me over left overs, and she used a label maker to say Green beans lol….clearly they were green beans 🙂 Toni and Steve are so amazing, and if any parent can get this done, they WILL. They are my dynamic duo….We love you so much, and thank you everyone for your support! Xo
Leesa – that made me cry happy tears 🙂
One more thing….trying to be a little light hearted at the moment ….Remember Sarah Palin??? She was proud to be a hockey mom….Hockey moms ARE different….that is a lot of money, a lot of time, a lot of waking up early, travel….you must be VERY dedicated to do it….Sarah Palin said it was a pittbull with lipstick on….I would have to agree….and not only are Hockey Mom’s ALL pretty great….they classify themsleves into A…B…or C mom’s…crazy right? Toni is an A TEAM mom…pittbull with lipstick according to another mom who wanted to be Vice president…..We believe in you SO much Toni….we worry about you….but we know you CAN do this…..and we know you are doing it for all the right reason’s and out of love….it is no wonder you have had 3 AMAZING children…I know no matter how long I live, or how many people I meet, I will NEVER meet three more amazing people…..
Thank you Leesa…the only problem with us A team Hockey moms is we are always exhausted. Thanks for all your support!
Any more word in what the “second opinion” coroner found??
I already know the answer but the official answer on official letterhead will be in hand on Monday
Do you guys still have beautiful Wylah? I imagine it would be so hard to see that puppy with out her beautiful mom right by her side.
Speaking of Karma from one of the first comments, after someone posted a link to the facebook page I found B.. and looked through her pictures seeing that she had a tattoo all the way down her back of the word KARMA. All I could think while reading that was “yeah Karma is a bitch and maybe one day with your little girl, Layla, you might have to endure what Morgan’s parents went through because of you and your friends.” This story truly is breaking my heart and has put me in tears numerous times. Don’t give up hope. I KNOW that you will find justice for your beautiful daughter!
B.. is also flipping the bird with both hands in that picture. Flipping Karma off, maybe? Classy…
Where the justice system fails, the universe does not…
I agree, but have not given up just yet on the justice system 🙂
While i absolutely empathize for you and your family, I have spent the last day reading up on Morgan’s story and watching the Dr. Phil interview. I must say, that while I too believe that she was murdered, and that the justice system has failed you, you need to be clear when talking about the details of your daughter’s medical history and the coroner’s report. You have claimed multiple times that Morgan did not take Amitriptyline, but then you say that she was on it a year and a half before her death. While I am sure that you are right in regards to her not having killed herself, this lack of attention to detail may make your story seem confused and false to investigators and other readers. You did the same thing on the Dr. Phil show, both about the Amitriptyline and about recreational drugs and he pointed it out to you. Just be aware of this, as you are already facing such immense hurdles. As someone who believes your daughter was unjustly killed, I want to make sure that you don’t hurt your chances at finding justice for Morgan.
Thank you so much for your input – I agree with you, and will attempt in this new year to tighten up the facts. Last year was truly hard, trying to get out the facts, and being so distraught with the pain of losing Morgan at the same time. You are correct that if we are to get this case re-opened, which we will, we need to push away the emotion when we work on it, and get the information out in a concise and understandable format.
I’m not a doctor~but I am a chronic pain/depression patient. I have SCORES of prescription drugs here on my table that I take daily…amitriptyline being one of them and it would be the very LAST medicine I would reach for to end my life! I don’t think my months supply would do it!
In addition,even if I had enough for an overdose, wouldn’t my body (anyone’s of course) reject it… as in vomiting? I would have to take some, wait, take some more, wait…it would have to be gradual to prevent this natural defense from “foiling” a plan for an overdose. Therefore upon my autopsy, there would be signs of undigested pills/capsules and none were found in Morgan.
Again, I’m not a doctor…just an average patient that clearly knows more than the coroner who did Morgan’s autopsy. I hope he has since been fired!
You are so right about the Amitriptyline – two different experts, that deal exclusively in Pharmaceuticals, said they did not see how Morgan could have gotten to blood levels that high without vomiting long before. I did not know about the vomiting associated with Ami until they mentioned it, and you are the first non-doctor to bring it up. There has not been one doctor that we have conferred with that has said she could have done this herself, in liquid or pill form, unless she was given a heavy duty anti-nausea medication along with it, and that absolutely did not happen. So this is just one of “another” of the “way too many” unanswerable questions surrounding Morgan’s death, which is why I have said since the beginning of this blog that she was murdered. And the evidence has only continued to pile up since then. Our big concern now is not enough evidence, it’s enough admissible evidence, which is why we have had to hire a well known defense attorney to assist us in that process. Thank you so much for your comment and if you think of anything else please let me know – comments like yours originally led us down many fruitful roads.