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MISSING MORGAN AND BLOWING OFF STEAM – JUST A LITTLE…

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STEVE AND I WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT MORGAN’S HORRIFIC STALKING AND MURDER – AND YES, UNITL AN INVESTIGATION IS LAUNCHED WE ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT CAN CONTINUE TO CONDUCT AN OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION – AND YES, IT’S HORRIBLE FOR US!

WE JUST REALIZED THAT A SIMPLE QUESTION HAS NEVER BEEN ANSWERED AND PERHAPS YOU CAN HELP, BECAUSE I THINK I AM MISSING SOMETHING HERE – IF THE GARFIELD COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT HAS SELF ADMITTEDLY RESPONDED TO OVER 50 CALLS AT OUR RESIDENCE, AND NEVER SAW ANY SIGN OF A STALKER –

DESPITE NUMEROUS CRYSTAL CLEAR SHOE PRINTS IN CAREFULLY WATERED AND RAKED SOIL AROUND OUR HOUSE, WILDLIFE CAMERA PHOTOS, VIDEO SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE, EYE WITNESS TESTIMONY, TESTIMONY ABOUT REPEATED ATTEMPTS TO OPEN OUR FRONT DOOR THROUGH A NUMERIC KEYPAD, METAL CLEARLY CRACKED IN THE GUTTER OVER MORGAN’S WINDOW (BY AS OF YET UNDETERMINED FORCES), THE TESTIMONY OF OUR NEIGHBORS CONCERNING THE BIZARRE BEHAVIOR OF MORGAN’S STALKING SUSPECT(S), ET CETERA, ET CETERA –

THEN HOW DO WE HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT THIS SAME SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT CAN BE REALISTICALLY EXPECTED TO RESPOND TO A 911 CALL ON THE MORNING MORGAN WAS FOUND DEAD AND THINK SOMETHING NEFARIOUS MIGHT HAVE OCCURRED?   OF COURSE THEY COULDN’T, THE STALKER EASILY ELUDED EVERY EFFORT THEY EVER PUT FORTH TO CATCH HIM; SO OF COURSE ON THE MORNING MORGAN WAS FOUND DEAD –

HER BODY FILLED WITH A DATE RAPE COCKTAIL (LETHAL MANY, MANY TIMES OVER), ALL OF HER VALUABLE JEWELRY MISSING, 3 OF HER NAILS TORN, AN UNIDENTIFIED SUBSTANCE ON HER CHEST (VISIBLE ONLY UNDER THE CRIME SCENE LIGHTING), A SUSPICIOUS RED BRUISE ON HER FOREHEAD, BLOOD IN HER MOUTH. OF COURSE THE GARFIELD COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT WOULD BE TOTALLY INCAPABLE OF PUTTING 2 + 2  TOGETHER AND REACHING THE UNBELIEVABLE ASSUMPTION THAT HER STALKER COULD HAVE ESCALATED TO MURDER.  THAT THE UPCOMING EXECUTION OF A SUBPOENA UPON CITY MARKET, EL JEBEL THE FOLLOWING TUESDAY TO TURN OVER ALL THE SUSPECTS WORKING HOURS, WHICH THE DETECTIVE WAS CONFIDENT, ONCE OVERLAID WITH THE TIMELINE OF STALKING WOULD BE COMPELLING EVIDENCE TO FINALLY MAKE AN ARREST OF HER STALKER.  A FACT THAT MORGAN WAS SO EXCITED ABOUT SHE SHARED WITH HER DOCTOR, DURING HER OFFICE VISIT, 36 HOURS BEFORE HER DEATH.  OF COURSE THE GARFIELD COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT WOULD WANT TO BELIEVE THIS WAS ALL COMPLETELY UNRELATED. MERE COINCIDENCE!

THE SAME GARFIELD SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT WHICH OCCUPIED THE HOUSE MORGAN WAS KILLED IN THAT MORNING TO PROCESS THE SCENE – IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF COLORADO REVISED STATUTES PERTAINING STRICTLY TO MEDICO LEGAL INVESTIGATION OF DEATH SCENES IN THE STATE OF COLORADO!  AND SUPERVISED BY AN INDIVIDUAL EITHER FROM THE FARNUM HOLT FUNERAL HOME OR A CHIEF DEPUTY CORONER FROM THE GARFIELD COUNTIES CORONERS OFFICE…OR MAYBE EVEN BOTH?!?  AND OF COURSE ALSO PRESENT IN VIOLATION OF COLORADO REVISED STATUTES PERTAINING SPECIFICALLY TO DEPUTY CORONERS.

OF COURSE I AM MISSING SOMETHING…THE TRUTH

 

September 30, 2011 – Day 60 of Morgan’s stalking – How is he doing this? All of this?

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Before any of us leave the house this morning a friend in the neighborhood is walking her dog at 5:15 am and sees Keenan drive into the cul-de-sac, and pull into Brooke’s dad’s driveway, where he is living with Brooke & her father James Harris. Based on a feeling, our friend stops and watches him sitting in his car. Keenan is aware he is being watched by our neighbor and a standoff of sorts ensues with neither of them willing to make a move for a long while. Finally Keenan gets out of his car, and goes directly to the rear door of his car and opens it. He pulls out what is described to me as a “range bag” and goes directly into the house with it. Our friend explains to us that the bag is used to transport pistols, ammunition and related gear to a shooting range, hence the name range bag. There is concern, and this information is passed on to me, and I agree that it should go right to the detectives.

I felt that if there were ever a confrontation, knowledge of the existence of this bag could be important. The next day I told Detective Rob and he agrees completely and is very thankful this information has been passed on. He says that in any situation the knowledge of the existence of firearms is very important in order to respond correctly and safely. He encourages me to pass along any additional information, and wonders if I have an accurate description for the bag. I do not and I give him the neighbors phone number who has a willingness and desire to speak with him about this, and other incidents that have been whiteness Detective Rob thanks me for the number and says he will call soon as he can. But as one thing led to another, he never did call to speak with this individual.

Just before 5:55 am, it is still dark out, and Morgan is awakened by a loud scraping noise on her windows. Morgan alerts us with the panic button and Steve is immediately running down the hall to her room, and once he found out what had happened, he goes outside with a mag light in hand and goes directly around to her windows. Steve does not see anything there and continues through the back and over the berm, checking in both directions for any movement. But he does not see anything.

I go out the front door also, locking the door behind me, and out into the street. I check the neighborhood in all directions and the only light on in any of the houses is the front room at Brookes’s dad’s house. We were still not sure what that room might be, but that the light was on and that Keenan’s car was in the driveway was recorded in our book. It would be much later in the day before we learned of the incident in Brooke’s dad’s driveway at 5:15 am.

Steve has circled all around the neighborhood and returned to the house and we were standing in the kitchen, certain we had just missed him by inches. I tell Steve that while he was gone Morgan came out to tell me that her lights outside her window went on and off when he passed by on his way out to the berm, and then a while after that it happened again and at first she thought it was her father coming back by her room, but then heard me talking to him on the phone so she knew it was not him.

This sent Steve back out the front door and out into the street to see exactly what I had – Keenan’s car in the driveway, the light on in the front room, and the rest of the neighborhood still sleeping. He came back in and joined me in the kitchen again. It was not a minute before Morgan came out of her room to tell us that it had just happened again with the lights outside.

Steve and I poured mugs of coffee and sat in front of the monitor replaying the cameras for Morgan’s window over and over. No animals, just the light going on, then off, then Steve running by, and the light detecting his motion, going off, then coming on again for apparently nothing. No animals, was written in our notes for the morning by Steve three times, darker each time, and underlined the third time.

We all had busy days ahead and that was the end of a busy morning. Morgan was babysitting in Aspen until late and my meeting that evening was over before expected and at 7:20 pm I texted her “Got out early. I’m comin’ home now”. A half minute later Morgan answered, “OK”.

Steve was already home looking at the video when I arrived, searching for an answer he had yet to find. He told me that he had decided he would move the cameras, not to a different place, just rotated a little. Every day he would go outside and go to each camera and maybe move that one or maybe not. That way no matter if someone was watching or not a spot that was safe for the stalker the day before would not be safe anymore.

Morgan was finished babysitting before expected and was home just before 8:30 pm. She was in her room and winding down when there was a loud noise at 10:41 pm. She didn’t know what it was. It was not her windows, it could have been in the garage and Steve went to check. Nothing. Trying to explain the noise the best Morgan could do was call it the house, but it was too loud to be the house.

Steve and I sat out on the couch and watched our favorite series at the time with the volume tuned all the way off. Two episodes before we were feeling like whatever it was it was over. I checked in on Morgan and she was sleeping. Her puppy Wylah, lifted an ear without moving, and looked at me.

Today it is September 28, 2012 Today the lawyers are in as much indecision and disbelief at what has happened as we were a year ago – especially on that day. Our notes speak loudly, not by the words, but by the darkness and underlining therein. Back then we could not for the life of us figure out what was going on. Today we now know someone was on the roof, and it makes perfect sense. We had no idea during the stalking how the stalker could be tripping the motion lights, but not getting caught on camera – after Morgan’s murder we knew…he was on our roof!  How else could someone have done what they did that day – lying, sitting, hiding, and watching from up on the roof, simple. The noise at 10:41 pm, could that have been someone jumping from high up on the ridge of the roof to a lower spot with the resounding boom that would cause perhaps? And ask me again if “law enforcement,” was ever up there after, to like search for clues, you know they were not before you ask. Just as surely as you know that Morgan was murdered, by a date rape cocktail, her body moved into a different position and “staged,” and that her jewelry stolen – – and now all Steve and I have to do is prove it, piece of cake. . .right?

Click here to read about the 61st day of Morgan’s stalking https://morgansstalking.com/?p=1501

September 29, 2011 – Day 59 of Morgan’s Stalking – What kind of help do we really need?

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Morgan has no school today.  She takes her time in the morning and then heads into Glenwood Springs early in the day.  She shops and meets with friends and tries to have a day to herself.  This is why she minimizes what is going on when she talks to her friends.  She wants to drive away and feel like it is not happening.  What sane person would not?  If all of her friends were constantly asking her about her stalker it would be her entire life, and she wanted to maintain Morgan time – time that was hers and not invaded by her stalker.  I am not saying she didn’t tell her friends what was happening – they knew and were worried, it’s just that she didn’t want her stalker invading her entire life…even though that is exactly what happens.

Steve has another new plan and it involves recording the status of the neighborhood when Morgan comes home, in addition to all other events.  He is dedicated to give this new detective enough information so that an end is reached. He has recorded this information for today, and wants me to forward it to the detective.

Morgan got home at 8:30 pm – Steve did a drive of the neighborhood, and Keenan’s car was not in Brooke’s dad’s driveway.  We all go to sleep, and starting at 11:00 pm Morgan’s motion lights go on and off at least 5 times.  That motion light going off has recently always been precipitated by the MBR rear motion light going off (or on really).  Five times this morning and four the evening:

  •  9/29    23        34        MBR Rear Light
  •  9/29    23        22        MBR Rear Light
  •  9/29    23        14        MBR Rear Light
  •  9/29    23        14        MBR Rear Light
  •  9/29    4          39        MBR Rear Light
  •  9/29    4          7          MBR Rear Light
  •  9/29    3          31        MBR Rear Light
  •  9/29    1          33        MBR Rear Light
  •  9/29    1          32        MBR Rear Light

She does not hear noise, but at this point the lights put her into the “ready” mode, waiting for a tap or a BANG that may never come.

We tell Morgan that with the detective on board we must really strive to give him the best information we can.  The sheriffs will work this out, and then it will be over.

Morgan is very animate that the detectives do not start from zero with suspects and then we go through another 2 month process again.  She is certain it is Keenan and will report every little incident, as long as they agree to investigate every little incident.

the storm is about to end

Morgan wants the storm to be over

Morgan is also very distraught, she feels that they, the detectives, have no idea what she is living through and are treating it like it is some “ding, dong. ditch” game when it is anything but that. She wants the detectives to come and spend a night in her room so they can experience first hand just what is really going on.  Of course there is the chance that they will somehow know it is not really Morgan in the room and lay off for the evening.  But Morgan is confident that if we do this correctly her stalker will not know, and something really constructive will happen.

Steve and I agree to bring this idea up with the detective right away and we also are alarmed by the spike in motion detectors going off. Our week or so of quiet that came with the new video system is gone – replaced by a concentrated series of alarms going off in specific areas and at specific times.

We have only to corral him into a pattern and then turn the detectives loose on him.  Steve and I explain to Morgan that this is our short term goal.  She must be vigilant, stay safe and report the slightest thing.  This is how we will catch him.  Morgan is in agreement and will do just that.

I also call an old acquaintance who owns a security company and he is sympathetic to what is going on.  He is willing to cut us a deal, but a case like this requires four men overnight, for however many nights it will take. At $90 an hour, per man we are looking at $3,600 per night to cover us, a few nights and it is over $10,000.  We can not afford that much, so I tell him we have just gotten two detectives, and they have plans for two stakeouts.  We will see how those go first and then decide about bringing him in.

(Police reports later show the “suspect” was not working this evening.  On 9.29.2011 he worked from 1:00 am – 6:05 am & then from 6:32 am – 9:47 am… so he was free this evening to continue his torment)

Today is now September 27, 2012 and all of a sudden things that just came into view are important.  Who will I support in the next election?  Morgan was so excited when she was old enough to vote, and took it very seriously.  Looking over all the information, and then asking me who we were going to vote for – I told her that it was really important for her to decide on her own who she thought would do the best job…of course Morgan said, “I was planning on that Mom, I was just wondering who you were leaning towards voting for.”  That was then and this is now.

The question of who to vote for now takes on special meaning for me this year.  It is simple, someone with common sense and integrity, who understands that stalking is a serious crime, the most underreported and insidious threat to our communities.  Someone who wants to work with the citizens of this County – not just to make their own decisions and forget about the people they are supposed to represent.  Steve and I will just have to ask ourselves who would Morgan have thought was best, who cared, and would care about protecting her from her stalker.  The news crews are priming for round two of what really happened to Morgan Ingram, and we are so thankful for that.  Oh, and a TV series wonders if they should come here to film, or we should go to Los Angeles, that’s easy.  Come to where it is beautiful, then film…just don’t die while you’re here, our coroner is questionable at best.

Daddy missed you so much today Morgan, Wylah was on the lookout constantly too.  We feel you, and want to do the best we can for you!!!  And yes, I keep breathing, although there are times I wish I wasn’t – I wish I could be with you.

Click here to read about the 60th day of Morgan’s stalking https://morgansstalking.com/?p=1482

September 26, 2011 – Day 56 of Morgan’s stalking – we meet our detective

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After her classes, Morgan came home and just hung out and rested.  I worked and waited to meet our detective at 4:00 pm.  Steve came home early from work, and we laid out our array of papers for the meeting.

The detective called and he was running late, I told him we were all home and ready anytime, so that was fine.  Just before 5:00 pm we met, it was 56 days into Morgan’s stalking, and now it was officially a felony stalking case.  We hadn’t called the sheriffs on day one of the stalking, so it was actually more like around 52 days since the first call to the Garfield sheriffs, but they knew when it had first started.  The detective didn’t have the case number with him, but said he would get that to us once he got back to his office and looked it up.

We went over our records, showed him the cameras and the systems in place to protect Morgan.  He told us that not many people went to such lengths, and we could certainly file a claim, a compensation claim with the victim’s rights coordinator, and get reimbursed for at least part of what we were spending on all of our stuff.  That was nice to hear as it was a considerable expense so far, but we never did.  We were more hopeful about putting an end to all of this, and there had not been one in sight up until now, we all discussed exactly where this case was at this moment in time.

The detective had obviously talked with some of the deputies who had become our “regulars” on the case so far. He said Garfield County had a protocol of shifting the officers around to different areas of the county on a regular basis, and we did not have a group of the same two or three deputies, over time, I wouldn’t be surprised if we had met all of the patrol deputies eventually in the entire department.  He knew that the deputies so far had zeroed in on one person, but he said he was going to be revisiting everything and would, “go where the evidence led him.”  It was too late to cast any of the footprints or fingerprints, and at that time none of our pictures were clear enough to identify one exact person, so it could take a while.

Morgan explained the usual events, and how she had been followed, and was not certain when it had really began, but knew that since August 2 it had been pretty constant.  The detective asked her for suspects, and Morgan had one name for him, Keenan Vanginkel, we added a few more to the list, but those names we thought might be helping the stalker, and not actually the stalker.  She was downplaying her fear, and how upset she would get, so I felt I had to encourage her to tell the detective how she really felt as this was happening – that helped.  Morgan had built up a wall to what was going on, and when she let that down she instantly started to tear up, and almost cry, as she explained how she felt about what had been happening.  Morgan never liked to be thought of as weak, and it was uncomfortable to watch her struggle, but it had to come out.  I wondered if the detective was seeing the same thing I was.

After he left, Morgan could not get out of the house fast enough.  She was upset that she had shown a little weakness, and was now going to see her friends in Carbondale, where she could pretend everything was normal.  Steve and I talked about the meeting, and were not sure what to make of it, it was not what I had expected, but then I had nothing to compare it with either.

Steve texted Morgan at 7:35 pm, “Just left for dinner. Text me when you gonna come home cuz mom left her phone at home.”  Morgan answered, “Will do. :). “ Later, at 8:40 pm Steve texted again “We are home.”  Morgan came home at 10:00 pm and went to bed.  She didn’t say anything about the detective or her stalker.

In a replay of the last few nights, the motion detector went off at 10:43 pm, and I waited for another rock on Morgan’s window.  That did not happen, but I had heard noise outside our room, when Steve went to look, he didn’t find anything out of the ordinary, and we went to sleep.

(Police reports later show the “suspect” was not working this evening.  On 9.26.2011 he worked from 8:30 am – 12:59 pm & then from 1:30 pm – 5:27 pm)

Almost 2 years after Morgan’s murder we finally received the police reports (see this one supplemental below) – his date is incorrect – he called us on Sunday the 25th, but he did not meet with us until Monday the 26th:

Supplement Report #5 2011-20197

Print Date/Time: 10/01/2012 11:29 October 3, 2011

Garfield County Sheriff’s Office
ORI Number: CO0230000

A few weeks ago, I was advised of this case. It was further requested that I contact the victim family and consider putting up sheriff’s office issued wildlife cameras in an attempt to capture photos of the suspect(s).

On September 25, 2011, I met with the Ingrams at their home located at 62 Corral Dr. Carbondale, CO. We went over the case history. The Ingrams explained to me that the suspect(s) began to harass them in the first part of August 2011. Since then they have had a continuance presence by the suspect(s).

Activity will include small rocks being thrown at the house, scratching of the windows, and a known presence in their yard. The Ingrams have installed motion sensor lighting and wildlife cameras of their own.

On a regular basis, motion detectors will go off and the lights will turn on. Further evidence of suspect(s) activity will include shoe prints in a dirt area along the house. In one instance, outlined in Deputy Locklear’s previously submitted supplemental report, the Ingrams captured a photo of the suspect using one of their wildlife cameras. Deputy Locklear obtained the photo and submitted it into evidence. The photo depicts a male person but is not clear enough to show identity.

I requested that the Ingrams document every suspicious activity so that a log could be generated. Furthermore, I advised that the documentation would support a subsequent criminal prosecution.

I then took a tour of the home so I could learn the floor plan of the home. I also walked the exterior of the home. I then installed two wildlife cameras on the north side of the home. This area between the Ingram’s and the neighbor’s house is near where a lot of the activity is occurring. It is also the location of Morgan Ingram’s bedroom.

Click here to read about the 57th day of Morgan’s stalking https://morgansstalking.com/?p=1401

How under reported is the problem of stalking, and what can we do about it?

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As I write a blog called Morgan’s stalking it should come as no great surprise that I come in contact with victims of stalking – before this I would have never known this was such a hugely under reported crime.  Before Morgan was stalked, and murdered, yes absolutely and very shockingly murdered, Steve and I really did not know very much about stalking.  It was a word that had meaning, but in that far away sense, never to cross our universe.

Now it is different for me, the victims of stalking mean more than I can explain.  I have this drive now that compels me not want what happened to Morgan to happen to anyone else.  Is that such a bad thing?  I will never believe that it is, and I know that the solution starts with the truth.

First comes a change that must happen for all of us.  In a 2009 study by the Bureau of Justice on stalking in the United States, over 60% of stalking victims never reported the crime, I believe that, and suspect that today it is not very different.  Yet that is a number that has to change, drastically.

How does this happen?  Again, with the truth – stalking is a crime under the laws of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the federal government.  Research it and read it, assume your stalker has already done the same.  Also, research the victim’s rights laws in your state, know them and expect them to be upheld.  I have no doubt that our stalker already knew all about the laws he was breaking, how else could he have done it so well?

Next, after you contact law enforcement, ask yourself a simple question.  Are they being reactionary?  Are they reacting to your calls about another stalking incident, or is there a plan of prevention being put in place?  If it is just reaction, don’t be surprised, that is the way law enforcement is taught.  Crime occurs – react.  Until every agency in the country has a protocol to step forward and seek to prevent your stalkers next step, instead of sitting back, and reacting – the stalkers have been given the upper hand.  And, unfortunately for us all, that is the situation that I believe far too many of us are saddled with today.  This is why education, as well as a change in existing protocols needs to be implemented.

Do I think for one second that our detective wanted to see Morgan end up dead, no of course not.  He has children of his own that he loves dearly, he was devastated the day Morgan was found.  For me to be frustrated that he came to our door without any of the right tools, when I thought he had all the answers is to be expected.  No matter what I am ever told, I doubt I will ever, as a mother, fully forgive myself for allowing my daughter to be murdered, and Steve feels exactly the same way.  It does not help, we know this, but if that is how we feel, don’t expect us to let anyone else off easy.

In what may be a very unscientific conclusion, all of the many victims that have contacted me, with the exception of two, feel that they are receiving the cold shoulder from law enforcement.  Do not be surprised if this is how you feel.  Two had their stalkers arrested, after proactively using cameras that were able to snap photographic evidence of their stalker – their LE agencies confronted their stalkers, as they had obvious proof, and the stalkers confessed. This is so wonderful – but trust me it doesn’t always happen like that.

I received some very good counsel from a very wise individual today, and it has helped me very much.  And let me share part of it with you, if you even think you may have a stalker, seek help, early and often.  Because if you keep silent and do not, then it is just you against your stalker, and what more could your stalker ask for?

Please – the time is now – Take Stalking Seriously!