What To Do If You’re Being Stalked

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REMEMBER, STALKING CAN BE LETHAL. IT’S DANGEROUS AND CRIMINAL IN ALL 50 STATES IN THE US

  • 📒 Document every incident – see link below for sample log
  • 📸 Save screenshots & messages
  • Tell the people you trust – more eyes and ears seeing and hearing about what is happening to you. Do not be embarrassed or ashamed (it is not your imagination, and you did nothing to bring this on); others need to know and help watch out for you, including neighbors and co-workers
  • Trust your instincts – your instincts are more accurate than your logical thoughts when it involves a stalker
  • Consider keeping pepper spray or some other protection on you at all times, and don’t hesitate to use it if confronted
  • The use of other safety measures should be implemented, like cameras, motion alarms, etc.
  • 👮 Report to police/law enforcement every single incident, with date, time, what happened, and how it made you feel. Your fear is real and needs to be noted for law enforcement to understand the impact and take your case seriously
  • 🧳 Keep a go-bag ready
  • 🐾 Make a safety plan for yourself and your pets

Click here for a link from SPARC for Documentation Logs & Victims’ Handbooks in many different languages: https://www.stalkingawareness.org/documentation-log/

The Case Book Files Podcast Coming Soon…

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I am so excited about the new True Crime Podcast called The Case Book Files that is coming soon.

Here is the video of the Denver7 news show that aired on TV last week. Click on the link below and listen if you can.

Robert Wells, a friend and colleague of mine, talks about the case of his brother, Sid Wells, and the murder that has never received justice. Sid’s case will be the first one highlighted on this coming podcast.

Sid was a journalism student at the University of Colorado Boulder when he was shot and killed in his own home. At the time, he was engaged to Shauna Redford, Robert Redford’s daughter.

This was another case out of Colorado that was not handled correctly, and the suspect was released and disappeared into the night, never to be found. When listening to the following news show, you will start to understand why the Case Book Files podcast will be critical to solving these cold cases.

It is not just another podcast to raise awareness; it is a podcast to help solve cold cases. Please click on the link below to listen to this newscast.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pQEXBwWPTpo

SPARC – Stalking can be an Extension of Power & Control…

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Stalking frequently co-occurs with domestic/dating violence, and on average, current or former intimate partner stalkers are the most dangerous stalking offenders. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) — a vital time to examine and amplify the ways stalking and intimate partner violence overlap and intersect. Watch and share our short awareness video to get started!

Stalking can be an extension of power and control in domestic/dating relationships and is often an indicator of escalating violence. Stalking can occur before, during, and/or after a relationship, and identifying and responding to stalking is critical for enhancing victim/survivor safety and offender accountability.

Visit our website to learn more about identifying stalking behaviors, safety planning with victims and survivors, and working to hold intimate partner stalking offenders accountable at www.StalkingAwareness.org.

Stalker’s Attorneys…Worried About Their Client’s “Criminal Exposure”

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Important things to know about your stalker:

~ YOUR STALKER WILL LIE ~

Sounds deceptively simple, doesn’t it? Of course he or she would lie; they are committing a crime in all 50 states in the U.S.  I am now a Victim’s Advocate –  I work with stalking victims, and not once, while suspects are being investigated, have I ever heard the stalker admit that he/she was stalking the victim. Actually, quite the opposite – they make up all kinds of reasons why they are not stalking the victim. I did hear once about a stalker confessing, after being shown by law enforcement that they had strong evidence against him…and if he would just walk away and leave his victim alone, they would not take criminal action against him…talk to any expert on stalking, and you will hear that this is NOT an effective stalking protocol.

The detective assigned to my daughter, Morgan’s felony stalking case (who is now the coroner of Garfield County), Detective Rob Glassmire, told us, “When a suspect lies to us (i.e., the sheriffs), there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.”  Wow, sounds like law enforcement’s hands would be permanently tied if all detectives thought like that.

In Morgan’s case, obviously there was never an admission by the stalkers. Quite the opposite. As the first anniversary of her murder approached, Keenan’s lawyer (Keenan Vanginkel, who is listed as the “Suspect” on all the police reports) would not let him go on national TV because “The risk of criminal exposure was far too great.”

On the record, in court, Brooke Harris’ lawyer, Jonathan Shamis (who was quoting Keenan’s lawyer), said that Keenan could not be interviewed or on the Dr. Phil show about Morgan’s stalking and suspicious death because the “criminal exposure” was far too great. That one quote both floored me and spoke volumes about just who the alleged guilty party was in Morgan’s murder – Keenan.

As Brooke’s lawyer was speaking to a judge about why Keenan would not be on the national show, he explained why Brooke had to go, and also how he had to go with her to protect her from criminal exposure! I am not making this up – It’s all in the court records. 

But we aren’t supposed to conclude that both suspects – Brooke Harris and Keenan Vanginkel, had criminal lawyers closely guarding their every move.

Putting my own opinions aside, you can draw your own conclusions from what Keenan did say when he did go on national TV years later. “Every time the Ingrams called the sheriff, I (Keenan) was on camera at City Market.”

I know what he said on national TV is not true – it was another BIG LIE, a FALSE NARRATIVE, and to prove it, I simply picked six incidents of stalking at our home at 62 Corral Drive, in Carbondale, Colorado. I picked six times because they had the time recorded by a surveillance DVR or other provable events. And many months after Morgan’s death, we were finally given Keenan’s work hours and could plainly see it was a lie.

Why would Keenan lie? About something so easily proven to be a lie? Most likely because he thinks no one will go to all the trouble to prove he is lying and he is right…it’s easier for everyone, including law enforcement to turn a blind eye.   Why would a stalker lie about his stalking? Why would a murderer lie about murder? Maybe that is exactly why his lawyer would not let him go on national TV back in 2012; maybe she knew he could not stop himself from lying.

Now the statute of limitations is over for Morgan’s stalking, but not for her murder. Murder is a capital crime, and there is NO statute of limitations on murder!  

The clock is still ticking, TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK, and we are still coming for all those involved in the murder and cover-up of our daughter’s murder. #JUSTICEFORMORGAN

The Lies of a Stalker…

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Morgan’s stalker, Keenan Vanginkel, yes, I can say that- because his name is all over the police reports as the “suspect” in her felony stalking case, and yet he went on a TV show and blatantly LIED on camera. If the producers of that show had even done just a little investigating, like reading the actual police reports, they would have known it was a lie…but alas, they did not. A lot in the media these days only want to sell their shows, so they want the quick and easy show to support their narrative. They don’t care about the truth.

He said that once the sheriffs saw that his employment required a fingerprint ID to clock in and out of work, they could see he was at work when all the incidents of stalking occurred…what a lie! 

The first part of his statement is correct: his employer did require a fingerprint ID to clock in and out of work…this in fact, corroborates the fact that he was NOT at work during the stalking incidents and Morgan’s murder.

I am sure some people believed him, but what they didn’t hear was the truth. Let’s unpack his statement…first, think about it: how would he know when the over 50 incidents of stalking happened if he was not involved? Secondly, his hours were not received by the sheriff’s until AFTER Morgan was killed. Then, 5 months after his work hours were compared to the stalking incidents, the detective brought Keenan into the sheriff’s interrogation room and tried to get him to admit to the stalking. When I watched the video of that interrogation, he was jittery, scratching himself, jumpy, and when told about the evidence, he still denied it was him. What a shock, right? A guilty person denying his guilt…that NEVER happens, right? I guess in some cases, if the suspect doesn’t confess, there is no crime.

So, the truth is that the sheriff’s received his work hours AFTER Morgan was killed, and when compared to the stalking incidents, they supported that he had no alibi for the dates and times of the stalking. The hours showed the stalking took place before and after his work hours, not during those work hours. His employment was less than a ten-minute drive from our house, and he mostly worked the graveyard shift, which gave him a great opportunity to stalk under the cloak of darkness.

He usually stalked on his way to work…so many lies from him and his supporters over the years, but facts don’t lie. We have the facts in black and white, as well as the horrific pictures of what was done to Morgan, including pictures of her body.

Morgan was stalked and then attacked, only days before she was scheduled to testify on camera, and the sheriff’s detective said they were planning on making an arrest.

Unfortunately, the suspect knew this was going to happen, as the detective told them that week, just before the murder. I think he wanted to scare him into confessing or stopping; I’m not quite sure…but this was not a good strategy.

 When a victim of stalking is going to move away, or about to appear as a witness, those are the most dangerous and vulnerable times for the victim. I wish we had known that at that time. 

At that time, the sheriff’s detective informed us that he believed the stalking would escalate. That was only 2 days before her murder.  We were upset and scared, but had no idea what that meant…now we know. I honestly don’t think that the detective had any idea the stalker would kill Morgan. Unfortunately, many do not understand the lethal turn that stalking can, and sometimes does, take.

I write these things in the hope that another victim may learn from Morgan’s story, and our mistakes. I have heard from so many victims over the years, since I have been writing this blog – so many victims thanking me and saying that what they read helped them in their ordeal, to get away from their stalker, or have that stalker arrested. Every single time I hear this, I get a warm feeling inside, and my heart becomes happy…this is Morgan’s legacy.