Am I telling of facts, or am I an accuser, there is a difference, isn’t there? While the tag of “accuser” has been hurled at me as if it is the most egregious transgression one can make, I know it is not true at all. If my statements were false they may slander, they may even endanger, and I want to address this idea, and I also want to share a quote from the publisher who started the Aspen Daily News many years ago – “if you don’t want it printed, don’t let it happen” The City of Aspen, Colorado lived under this statement for decades, and still does today.
But stepping back a little, first a crime is committed, a woman is raped, beaten, and she sees her rapist, perhaps even picks him from a lineup, law enforcement is really on it. She knows who did it. But there has not been a trial yet. And this woman who was raped, beaten, and saw her rapist names him. Yes, she tells one person, or tells a thousand that she knows who did it and she knows his name. Does she slander him? No, he raped and beat her, and all she does is say the name of the man she knows to have done this atrocity to her.
In this world of justice would you rather a man capable of such a crime to be named to warn others, or is it PC to stick with a vague description, but no name? The criminal has rights, yes indeed. The criminal’s rights begin to end right when he commits a crime. The right to be free before he is tried is not even guaranteed. He will be incarcerated unless he is granted bail, as he awaits trial. Sometimes he is allowed bail, sometimes he isn’t. His name is put in the news before trial, people tell other people about him before he goes to trial, his name is everywhere before he is determined to be guilty, or not guilty, and this is fact.
Morgan saw her stalker (not just his car, but also his face), while she was being stalked, at an intersection, at least four times. She saw him, and reported him by name (this is while there was a felony stalking case open to help her, and catch the suspect). And just so you know it was not just any meeting, he managed to be exactly in the middle of the intersection turning left to go down valley at the exact same time she was turning left to go up valley. Try it sometime…pick out a random car at a busy intersection and attempt to make a left turn at exactly the same time so you can come eye to eye with the driver of that random car as you pass in the middle of the intersection. I couldn’t do it. There are cars in front of you that mess with your timing, if they don’t turn you can’t either. The random car you are trying to meet up with has cars in front of it. Some drivers are more aggressive than others. I never came close. The driver would have had to pull over (and there is a perfect spot for it) and wait until he saw your car coming down the hill, across the highway, and then he could have timed it perfectly.
Keenan did this as part of Morgan’s stalking consecutively, and he would then engage in a cold threatening stare that Morgan said severely frightened her, causing extreme stress which would not pass in seconds, or minutes. Morgan would still be shaking when she got home, angry and scared, and I would hold her for the longest time. And these weren’t the only times she actually saw him and reported it.
Trying to calm a person that has been scared very badly is never easy, when it is your daughter there is another hurt that permeates, the wish to thrash out, the mothering instinct that says you have to protect your child.
Morgan named him based upon a positive identification, with certainty, to classmates, instructors, friends, her parents, Deputies, and Detectives.
Why do you think Keenan Van Ginkel was named so many times in the Sheriff’s reports? That is in the ‘REAL’ Sheriffs reports, and even they are far from correct, and complete. But that too will come another day.
And is this why she was killed? Was Morgan murdered days before she was to give video testimony before the Detectives? Is the state of law in Garfield County really such that if you murder your victim days before they give their testimony on camera about you, then there was no crime? Seems to be exactly what happened in this case. Wouldn’t you be furious? Wouldn’t you want to give a voice to your murdered child who can no longer speak out?
And just to keep a perfect record, kind of like our murder rate here in Garfield County, do you know that none of these friends, instructors, classmates were ever interviewed during Morgan’s Stalking? Not even a phone call. They have spoken to me and can not understand why the Detective would not have taken their statement. Why? And after her death none of them including us, Steve and I, her parents were ever interviewed about actual eyewitness sightings of her stalker. “We follow the facts and see where they lead us”. Which part of that got left out of the investigation of Morgan’s Stalking and death? Sometimes I feel like all of it did.
