After her classes, Morgan came home, it was overcast and a storm was threatening, not quite snow yet, but a good electrical\/ice storm.\u00a0 Morgan made plans to Skype late with her friends, and then she left for Carbondale.\u00a0 She had a date to cook with her dad tonight.\u00a0 She wanted to learn just how to make his marinara sauce, so that someday in the future she could cook it for him, and she wanted me to let her know what time to be home for that.<\/p>\n
Later in the day after I had talked with Steve, I called Morgan and told her that it sounded like 7:00 pm they would be were cooking.\u00a0 She texted me at 6:30 pm and said, \u201cOn my way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Morgan and her father had a great time making dinner together, laughter and teasing, and after we all ate and cleaned up, Morgan went to her room. \u00a0I was sleeping, but then I got a single bubble text on my phone from Morgan \u2013 a rock on her window.\u00a0 I\u00a0wasn’t\u00a0supposed to answer, I had promised I wouldn’t keep her awake for hours by running outside, calling the sheriff’s, etc. (she wanted to ignore it and get some sleep, but promised to send me a text bubble for my record keeping for the sheriffs), the problem was she had not done this for a while so I could not help myself and sent back three question marks.\u00a0 Morgan told me, \u201cGo to sleep!\u201d I sent her a smiley face, and said, \u201cWhat about you Missy?\u201d\u00a0 She answered, \u201cI am.\u201d \u00a0I\u00a0couldn’t\u00a0help myself, and sent her \u201cWhat made you think I was awake?\u201d\u00a0 Morgan said \u201cStop texting me. I\u2019m sleeping.\u201d \u00a0I knew it was time to stop, and said, \u201cSorry.\u201d with a sad face.<\/p>\n
I started to get up, but Steve stopped me and said we will check in the morning.\u00a0 I felt like it was something more that I should look at now, but stayed in bed anyway, staring at the ceiling. \u00a0Eventually I fell asleep for a while, and then I woke up, not knowing what time it was and got up anyway. \u00a0I think the rain woke us up, as Steve got up with me \u00a0and we cuddled on the bench, both looking at replays of the camera, wondering who in the world would be out in rain like this.<\/p>\n
We could not find anything at the time Morgan sent the bubble, and I had given up an went back to bed when Steve called me back. \u00a0He had found something when reviewing the driveway camera from an hour later. \u00a0Someone was crouched behind the LR3 and a car was coming up the street, we could just catch the headlights.\u00a0 The stalker was out of sight of the cameras, behind the car, no way to tell what he was doing, but the car coming up the street would expose him and caused a change in his plans, and he quickly stands up.\u00a0 Now he is caught on camera, and he quickly goes from a crouched position to upright and runs off the driveway, and goes in front of the garage, again off of camera, probably ducking behind the bushes.\u00a0 We talked with our neighbor who came home at that time and he did not see anyone in our driveway, he told us he really wasn\u2019t looking, and the weather was very bad also.\u00a0 He had heard about the stalker, and had no idea he was just outside of our house at all hours, but he said he would watch far more closely in the future. \u00a0Two very disturbing things to me about this video, first he is wearing the white shirt again, second it is freezing and raining out and he is not wearing a coat – what does that mean? \u00a0Does his\u00a0\u00a0behavior seem to be escalating?<\/p>\n
In this video he shows up right at the end, but you can see him stand up from his hiding spot, off camera, behind the car.<\/p>\n