Last night I received a message through this website & this is what it said:
Hello! I’m from Brazil. I heard about Morgan’s case right now through ID channel.
I’m so sorry about her. She’s beatiful girl, smile and she have a amazing spirit. Yes, she Is, because she’s alive trough The strength of yours and justice must be done . you guys do not give up.
There must be someone out there who knows something else. Someone close to her. I’ll pray for you find out a evidence, a link , something.
Saudades – Brazilian expression to say: I’m miss you, but something more than this.
Keep faith, you know her better than anyone.
Peace.
Ps. I’m so sorry about my poor english. Patricia
I was very moved by this when I read it. I had never heard of this word before, but it seemed to touch on how I have felt for a very long time.
From the moment I knew Morgan was no longer with us I had this extremely strong feeling come over me…in fact I started to tell people what I was feeling that very morning. My first thought, of course, was disbelief. I wanted a reset button to make it all go away and turn the clock back to the day before – when Morgan was still alive. I yearned to have her back and did not want to give in to the understanding that she was no longer with us. Then my next feeling, a very strong feeling, as though I was receiving a message from someone, I “felt” that Morgan was okay and bathed in white light and love, that she is still there, I just could not see her. I “knew” I would see her again, I could “feel” that she was still on her journey, and she was going to still be around to help with what was going to come next. I had no idea what that meant. I could not even comprehend at that time what was going to happen. and then I “felt” that I had to remember everything, because there was meaning to what had just happened…it was going to change many lives and save many people. Maybe I was “seeing” Morgan’s legacy.
Saudades – It can, yes, be used for the feeling of missing a dear person who has passed away, but It is also a “bittersweet (…) yearning and hopefulness towards something over which one has no control” (same wikipedia article). In that sense, it’s also the hopeful yearning of someone (or something, a place for example) which you know you’ll see again but, can’t right now. by Helder Ribeiro,
There are many reasons criminals get away with crimes and one reason is the lack of shared information between law enforcement agencies. This is an eye opener for most people – it was for me. Did you know that the following 8 law enforcement districts are all within a 15 minute to an hour drive from each other, and some are just across the street from one another? With this jurisdictional overlap I have been told that a criminal can get arrested in one jurisdiction (let’s suppose it is the City of Carbondale), but just one block over the jurisdictional line (let’s say in the County of Garfield where Morgan was murdered – our house was in Carbondale BUT it was not within the city limits, so it was patrolled by the sheriffs not the police) the records of those crimes are not shared with the other law enforcement agency. So it is feasible that a woman that is being stalked, or has been raped, and is only within a 5 minute drive away (or less) from the same crime that has happened to another woman, the information and MO on that crime is not shared, so the other law enforcement agency would have no idea they are dealing with a serial offender. I don’t know what you think, but for me this revelation was outrageous considering the technological age we now live in! This makes it extremely easy for a criminal to believe he has a good chance of never being caught…and he would be right.
