This is far more than just a fair question, it is an assessment that has to be made because your safety will ultimately depend on knowing. Morgan’s stalker was reputed to have problems at school, and be more of a loner than “a group player”. These are both common traits of stalkers, even serial killers, and while they are great to know, let’s focus on just “smarts”.
Her stalker had hunting “smarts” a trophy hunter for many years. Bow hunting deer, a Buck, 5X5 at 288 yards with one shot. Wild boar, Alligator, not a little one, 12 – 15 feet I believe. Wall to wall in my bedroom, most other bedrooms too, I certainly would not want to tangle with that, Steve either. This along with many other “kills”.
This hunting “smarts” portends of great concealment skills, the ability to avoid detection, while detecting the prey at the same time. Cornering it, stalking it, tracking it, anything needed for one clean shot.
Steve knows some avid bow hunters, and they tell stories of remaining motionless for hours as the prey approaches. Just part of the kill, being able to conceal yourself, and then to remain motionless behind a stand of bushes, or inside a stand of bushes, or even somewhere up in a tree. Does anyone really wonder how Morgan’s stalker managed to avoid the Sheriffs so completely? Really? It was child’s play for a young man with his hunting smarts.
Steve and I had no idea this is what we were dealing with. That knowledge could have been put to use to protect Morgan, but it was not. The Sheriffs were at the house a few times to “stake out” Morgan’s stalker. One of the few times we watched a deputy on a video camera for around a half hour. Amazing how well the light from a cell phone pierces the night when someone is texting. And the glow in the dark Sheriff’s logo on the back of the uniform – really is that concealment? Sincerely I hope the goal was not to hide out in our yard, but then why else would you stand there for a half hour? I have not found a supplemental report on the “stake out” yet so I guess I have to guess what he was doing out there. And of course I must also wonder if it was one of the fifty times the Sheriff’s were at our house, and did not see a sign of a stalker.
Morgan’s stalker had high skills of concealment without doubt. But that was at night. Morgan saw him, many times, during the day. Why do those reports seem to not be showing up anywhere? If it was during the day does that make him not a criminal. a felon, because that is what seems to have happened, at least so far it has.
Keenan’s boss at work gave him high praise, as an employee and a person. Mere weeks later he was in cuffs along main street Glenwood Springs after selling a trove of treasure at a “cash for gold store”, turned out to be stolen. During his arrest for that a trunk of drugs was found in his car, all prepackaged for sale, along with a scale, and other drug paraphernalia. All this right after high praise from his boss at work, and even though Morgan had told her felony stalking detective that she had heard that her stalker was a drug dealer. I have been told that his boss is an Uncle, after I included that fact in a post I was corrected that he was an Uncle by marriage. Whichever, by marriage or not, would this give him incentive to exaggerate for his young nephew? I also wonder if Mogan’s detective, Detective Glassmire knew all this. Actually I know he did not know about the arrest in Glenwood, because I was the one who told him months after it happened.
Using friends is smart, not just any friends either, friends that will help you out of a scrape with the law, cover for you, that is true criminal friend smarts. Keenan managed to move in right down the street during the stalking, living with his new girlfriend, Brooke Harris. She covered for him, wouldn’t let the Sheriffs in to talk with him. The Deputies heard loud noises in the house, and asked about them at the front door, but Brooke said he was sleeping. Christine Harris, Brooke’s mom spread rumors around the neighborhood to help cover up Keenan’s actions. And Jim Harris, Brooke’s dad, admits to knowing Keenan was thought to be the stalker by the Sheriffs and let him stay at his house. That all exhibits people smarts to me. How to use them, get them to cover for you, etc.
More than once an investigator we have talked with has told Steve and I that a nineteen year old is not capable of all this, even part of it, there was an adult involved. Austin Sigg, the prime suspect in the Jessica Ridgeway murder, and dismemberment is reputed to be 17 years old. A perplexing question, are the investigators who suggest a nineteen year old is not capable of carrying out a murder with the sophistication of Morgan’s murder right or was there an adult involved too?
For Austin Sigg, this is not the only crime he is suspected of. On May 28, 2012, a 22-year-old woman fought off a stranger who grabbed her from behind, and put a rag over her mouth. She told police the rag smelled of chemicals. There was NO TEST conducted to see if a rag containing chemicals was placed over Morgan’s mouth on the night she was killed. Just speaking hypothetically if a seventeen year old is allegedly capable of this wouldn’t the prime suspect in Morgan’s case, a nineteen year old, be capable? Or would adult help be needed? I truly wonder.
Another most important fact from the Jessica Ridgeway case is that Austin Sigg is reported to have confessed the crime to his mother, and then she reported the crime to the police – part of the solution, not part of the problem. Has Keenan said anything to anyone, and are these individuals “clamming up”? In the world of criminal smarts I would think that nothing would be told to anyone, although I have heard that he has bragged about the crime to others.
But then if his mother did know anything would she report it to the authorities? She denies he ever had behavioral issues in grade school, the perfect student. Why does nobody else in his class that I have spoken with agree with that statement? If she won’t admit that he got into fights in grade school I doubt she is reporting anything. Keenan plea-bargained his most recent arrest in Glenwood Springs – which, as it has been explained to me, means he admitted to some things, and others were dropped. He was never “cleared” of anything as his mother would like the world to believe.
Cleared of all charges, never mentioned as a suspect in Sheriff’s reports, never had any problems in grade school, sound asleep – can’t be woken up for a talk with Sheriff’s Deputies. See how this all works? Unless you are part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Very disturbing how easy it is to lie, mothers covering for sons, girlfriends covering for their boyfriends, mother’s of girlfriends cooking up stories, fathers of girlfriends sliping-up and admitting who the stalker was. Yet nobody ever calls the authorities to report anything. That is criminal smarts to surround yourself with people like that – don’t you think?
And to ignore that your stalker is smart – that is tombstone mentality – which I am embarrassed to admit that Steve and I had. Please don’t allow yourselves to underestimate your stalker, his criminal intelligence will be inscribed in everything he does, pay attention to it.
