Remember the simple things in life – like brushing your child’s hair…

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MorganwithMomI loved Morgan’s hair…actually I love everything about Morgan.  Her smile, her eyes, her voice, her cuddles, everything.  I miss everything about her – I miss Morgan.  Some mornings I wake up and just cry, I know it is the grieving process, but I still tell myself, “I want Morgan back, I want to wake up and see this was all just a bad dream.”  But that never happens, and it never will.  I know, just like all the other parents that have lost a child, that I will carry this pain with me until the day I die.  Don’t believe anyone that tells you it gets better over time – it doesn’t.  I think you just get better at managing it over the years.  But even if you get better at managing it – it still gets away from you at times when you least expect it, and the tears flow.

It always seemed like Morgan loved having me brush her hair and braid it.  Even when she was an adult, she would sometimes ask me if I could put a french braid in her hair before she went to bed.  I think she knew I enjoyed it and it became one of our bonding moments over the years that we did together.  Just like squeezing each others hands to say, “I love you,” without words, or doing a girl’s night together where we would both give ourselves facials and laugh at how funny we looked.  All those precious memories are all I have left of Morgan.  I am so grateful that I have them – nothing can take away the love of a child, not even death.

Parents never think they will loose a child.  We usually think we will pass before our children, and when a loved one is violently ripped from your life your whole world changes. I can no longer see Morgan’s bright light, but nevertheless I can “feel” it.  And I know others can too.  They tell me that the “felt” her right when they needed her.  She still comes to comfort them, and to let them know she is okay.

 

Don’t Cut the Victims of Crime Act Funding!!!

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Just received this notification from COVA – URGENT!

Don’t Cut VOCA
 
 Calls Needed Immediately: 
VOCA Funding for Victims of Crime Under Threat
November 3, 2015

 

Please forward Widely!
 
We must make our voices clear and loud right now to sustain VOCA funding
While many aspects of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, signed by President Obama this week, are good for vulnerable people, steady funding for the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) is at risk.  Looking for ways to provide additional funding for defense and human needs, the Budget deal took $1.5 billion out of the non-taxpayer-generated VOCA funds, which are dedicated to direct victim services, to pay for the overall increase in funding. If this deal is sustained, the amount of VOCA funds allocated each year could be much lower than last year’s appropriations and the similar current amount budgeted in both the U.S. House ($2.7 billion) and Senate ($2.6 billion). Appropriations bills for FY 2016 will determine if VOCA is funded at the 2015 and 2016 recommended levels.
 Call your Members of Congress right now (especially if they are on the Appropriations committees or party leaders, see below) with this message:

“Do not reduce the funds allocated for VOCA.  We count on VOCA to fund direct services such as (name critical services such as shelter, rape crisis services, legal assistance, direct counseling, etc.). This money comes from criminal fines, not taxpayer money and barely meets the needs of programs and services to victims.  In 2015, VOCA was increased in order to truly help the many victims who have been going without critical support services. There is at least $12 billion balance in this fund and VOCA dedicated funding is a small part of that.  If VOCA is cut from the 2015 level, it will be devastating. It will harm our programs by (include details such as – reduced numbers of victims who could be served,  reduced professional and skilled staff, reduced or eliminated victim service and prevention programs). In this year’s Appropriations process and beyond, Congress must maintain its commitment to helping the most vulnerable victims escape and heal from violence and abuse and rebuild their lives. Please don’t turn back the clock on victims. Please tell Appropriators that victims in [Your state] are counting on sustained VOCA funds.  With over $12 billion in the VOCA fund, this is not the time to cut funding for victim services.”

 

To reach your Representative and Senator:
 Find your Senators and Representative here 
; enter your full nine-digit zip code for the best results.  You will be taken to their contact info, including phone number.  Be sure to say you are a constituent!  You can also call the Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121. Choose Representative and then enter your zip code to be transferred. When you are done leaving a message for your Representative, call back and follow the same process to leave messages for your Senators. Special attention should be given to the Senate and House Appropriations committee members, so if your Members are either with us or hopeless, contact the “money” folks who will decide how to divvy up the funds.

 

Tweet ’til you drop:
@your Senators’ and Representative’s Twitter handle  (you can find this in the search box at the top right hand part of your screen)
Please protect the Victims of Crime Act. Rape Crisis Centers need to help victims on waiting lists. #DontCutVOCA
Domestic violence victims need VOCA to stay safe. Too many are turned away. #DontCutVOCA
#DontCutVOCA when the FY 15 increase is just starting to help hurting victims.
#DontCutVOCA just when survivors of sexual assault are finding courage to seek services.
 
Key contacts: 
@HalRogersKY
@CongCulberson
@SpeakerRyan
@SenatorBarb
@SenShelby
@SenateMajLdr


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Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance
1325 S Colorado Blvd, Suite 508 B
Denver, CO 80222

Accessory to Crime in Colorado – you can go to jail!

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I would like everyone to know that there are people in Colorado that “know” what really happened to Morgan & “know” who was involved in her murder.  And for those people that “know” I would like everyone to be aware that they can & will be prosecuted themselves under CRS 18-8-105 if they do not come forward before someone else implicates them.

WARNING! It is illegal to assist a fugitive in any way. Accessory to Crime, CRS 18-8-105 Colorado Law states: “A person is an accessory to a crime if, with intent to hinder, delay or PREVENT the discovery, detection, apprehension, prosecution, conviction or punishment of another for the commission of a crime, he renders assistance to such person.” This crime can be up to a Class 4 FELONY, punishable by up to two (2) years in prison and/or a fine up to $500,000.00!

Morgan was stalked & murdered.  There is ample evidence of this, as well as who was involved, which makes it a capital crime with no time limit to prosecute.  So I would like to say this to everyone at this time…Steve & I will never stop fighting until EVERY SINGLE PERSON that has hindered, delayed or prevented the discovery, detection, apprehension, prosecution, conviction or punishment of another in the case of Morgan’s murder is found and prosecuted to the maximum extent possible.  Please know, this is my PROMISE!

Our family has not only suffered, and continues to suffer the loss of our sweet and loving Morgan, but we also suffer through the agony of exposing the cover-up and crime of murder in our daughter’s case.  No family should ever have to do that, and unfortunately I now know many other families that have.  This is so wrong!

If you know someone that may be criminally implicated in this crime as an “accessory to crime” and you care for that person at all I would strongly urge you to have them call or text the Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers tip line with any and all information regarding Morgan’s case.  http://www.nococrimestoppers.com.  By coming forward it will show they are no longer willing to be accessories to murder.

Crime Stoppers provides a way for members of the community, like you, to assist local law enforcement agencies in the fight against crime. Crime Stoppers knows “someone other than the criminal has information that can help solve a crime”. Crime Stoppers offers ANONYMITY to people who provide information about crimes AND pays rewards when the information supplied leads to an arrest.

Crime Stoppers provides three ways for you to provide vital information to law enforcement agencies to fight crime.  You may hold the key to solving a crime. 

1 – Phone Number:  1-800-222-TIPS (8477)

2 – Text to: 274637 (crimes) Keyword: NOCO [followed by your tip]
Click here to learn how to text a tip

3 – Internet/Web Tips:  Click here to submit a tip

There is also a way you can help solve Morgan’s case by donating to the reward fund at Crime Stoppers.  Your donation is completely tax refundable as they are a 501 (c)3 nonprofit organization.  They have put a direct link on the first page of their website, towards the bottom of the page, just for donations to the Morgan Ingram reward fund.  If you decide to contribute, even as little as a dollar, please know that our family is extremely grateful for your support.

To Donate to the Morgan Ingram Fund

 

To send us Donations via mail: Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers P.O. Box 18063 Boulder, CO 80308-8063 (if you choose this option please remember to write in the note section of your check that it is for the Morgan Ingram Fund).

Halloween 2011…I see her over and over again

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morganhalloweenI see my sweet youngest daughter, over and over again every Halloween, just as you see her here in her mouse costume.  Did you notice the heart drawn on her shoulder?  She put hearts everywhere – it was a Morgan thing. 🙂  This was her last Halloween.  She was having fun with her friends after they all came over to carve pumpkins & roast the seeds.

I see Morgan’s sweet face and wish with all my heart that I could kiss and hug her again…I know until the day I die I will wish the same thing.  How could people live among us in this world that can take a life and not care?  I have been told over and over again that there are many people in this world that are sociopaths and for them other lives have no meaning.  But as a mother I want to scream, “Why my child?”  She did nothing wrong…she was a loving, giving soul.  Then I think back on all the children that have been taken over the years.  It doesn’t matter what they were like they were still loved and their parents are still fighting for justice.  You should hear some of their stories…it is just not right…no one has the right to end another’s life against their will.  It is not right, and never will be right.

It is really hard some days with all the holidays coming up.  I want my baby back, but I know I can’t have that one wish.  The pain never goes away and I am pretty sure it never will.  I am no longer the person I used to be because a piece of my heart called Morgan disappeared the day she died.  That missing piece will never be replaced.  But a funny thing happened tonight that made me want to write this blog.  I was lying in bed feeling very sad and all of a sudden I saw a “flash” picture of Morgan pop in front of my face, she was upside down smiling to surprise me.  It made me smile and disappeared just as fast as it came.  Maybe most of you think I must have been dreaming, but I wasn’t.  My eyes were closed, but I was wide awake and just sad – I can feel Morgan around me most of the time, but it is really a wonderful surprise when she pops in to cheer me up.  So now when I see her Halloween picture I am reminded of all the fun we all had and I am grateful for that.  Still sad because I can’t have future holidays with Morgan, but grateful for all the wonderful times we did have together…I feel blessed.

All evidence will not be revealed…

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I would like to thank all of those many people that have written in to me (mostly privately) to try to help solve Morgan’s case.  I greatly appreciate all your ideas about how to go about finding more evidence, exposing those involved as well as getting her case opened.

What I would like you all to know is that we do have all the physical and documented evidence that shows this was a murder, as well as video and audio recordings of those who have engaged in this coverup.  And after all these years of doing our due diligence we know who was involved as well as who joined in to protect those involved, but this evidence is not for the people out on the Internet to see, most of who are connected to the criminals. Those people pretend to be armchair sleuths that know what they are doing, but they want to ignore the facts and instead state lies that are not even close to being true – things they have made up, kind of like the stalker’s family that sent me 3 different emails to tell me he wasn’t even in the state when Morgan was murdered, but clearly his work timesheet shows he checked in to work that very night at 2:00 am at a job that was less than a 5 minute drive from our house.  So no, this evidence is for law enforcement to use when the time comes for a REAL investigation, and please be assured it will be.

Cover-ups do happen and they are not always just about what you may think they are about.  This cover-up is very multilayered and involves more than just Morgan’s case.  It is very upsetting and sickening to now know what we have been up against from the very start.  I am actually glad we didn’t know at first or it may have been much for us and too overwhelming to continue on, so in a way ignorance is bliss.

From the very beginning I have tried to express to everyone that I would only be releasing a small portion of what we have and that is exactly what I have done.  The people involved in Morgan’s murder and cover-up would love nothing more than for me to show them all the evidence so they can try to figure out a way to spin it in their favor.  Remember when people know they have done something wrong, something that could possibly carry a jail sentence, that gives them all the more reason to keep covering up their actions.  I have never heard of many people that admit they were breaking the law when they know they are in danger of doing time in jail. So the bottom line is this…no one has received ALL the evidence YET and until we are assured that a law enforcement agency outside of Garfield County is ready to open an investigation ALL the evidence will not be released to the public.  Garfield County Sheriffs and Coroner can not investigate themselves period!  And they have already shown that they do not want to investigate those involved in Morgan’s stalking and murder so an investigation in a different jurisdiction will need to happen and luckily for Morgan she can still receive justice as there is NO statute of limitation on murder.

There are amazing detectives in the U.S. that really do care about solving crimes and we have been extremely blessed to have had some of them involved in Morgan’s case.  This case will get opened and there will be justice.  It won’t bring Morgan back…she should be off on another adventure between college and her passion for travel and women’s rights, but she has been taken against her will and is no longer here, so we have to be her voice and stand up for justice.  And we are and alway will be her voice, as well as the voice of other victims.

And on a side note, for the others involved in hiding the truth, you know who you are…you are co-conspiritors that are involved in covering up Morgan’s murder – you might not want to be the last one to come forward with the truth because if you are you will also be implicated and arrested as a co-conspiritor, ultimately you will be involved in a murder case.  Just know there will be justice for Morgan and all other victims of stalking!