{"id":2041,"date":"2012-10-28T19:14:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T01:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2019-09-13T10:40:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T16:40:37","slug":"monday-november-14th-day-105-of-morgans-stalking-hes-hiding-in-the-grass-why-are-their-batteries-always-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=2041","title":{"rendered":"Monday, November 14th – Day 105 of Morgan’s Stalking – He’s hiding in the tall grass – and why are the sheriff’s batteries always dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Morgan’s favorite lunch – peanut butter, honey and bananas<\/p><\/div>\n

Morgan has been feeling sick, and she ignores a text from her friend in Savannah, just past midnight at ~ 12:44 am, \u201cWhen is your Dad\u2019s bday?\u201d What a way to start November 14 – it is now Steve’s birthday!<\/p>\n

We have a lot of activity in the morning from the stalker, and for some reason Steve is up, and ready.\u00a0 Like he knew it was coming.\u00a0 For the first time in a week he has the thermal imaging scope out, and is dressed all in black, when I see him go out the back door at\u00a0 4:48 am, right after Morgan alerts us to rocks on her window.<\/p>\n

I ask him if I should call the sheriffs, as he goes out he says no.\u00a0 He has a black aluminum baseball bat in his free hand, and I hope he finds something worthy of a swing.\u00a0 Steve was quite a home run hitter in his younger days.<\/p>\n

I try to watch him from the back windows, and I have lost all sight of him, as I go around the house trying to pick out where he is.\u00a0 Normally the outside motion detectors would be announcing his actions around the house, but this time there is nothing they are picking up on. Whatever he has decided to do this morning, he is under cover.<\/p>\n

He calls me at 5:45 am, it is still pitch black outside, and I ask him what is up. \u00a0He has picked up two trails in the grass, and has located an area on the berm where he can clearly see the heat signature of where a body that was lying in the tall grass.\u00a0 He has been watching deer as they come through, and is very familiar with how they present on the thermal imaging and he is convinced this was a person.\u00a0 He is still close by so he whispers to me. Call the deputies and tell them I have heat signatures across the yard. Tell them to come in from the north side, our side of the street.<\/p>\n

This is a different Steve, he has never had me direct the officers before.\u00a0 My chest is racing I think he must see something to have said that.\u00a0 One of the officers on the way calls and he has a thermal imaging scope also. Probably much better than ours and he will circle back in from the end of the street.\u00a0 I tell him Steve is on the berm and has located two spots where a body was hiding.\u00a0 The deputy is excited and shortly after our phone call I hear a truck race by the front of our house.<\/p>\n

This seems too good to be true, we are working together and putting technology to work in order to catch the stalker.\u00a0 Steve calls me and says he see their flashlights coming, he wonders why they always use their flashlights, you can see them so easily.\u00a0 My Steve and Officer Steve P. from the sheriff’s department meet up out on the berm between our neighbor Rhonda\u2019s house and ours.\u00a0 I can see them standing there and talking, pointing at the ground.<\/p>\n

They split up and Steve comes straight for the back door.\u00a0 I unlock it and let him in, this is pathetic, were his first words.\u00a0 He is very angry. Something was moving down at his end and he could not see it.\u00a0 Because his batteries were dead.\u00a0 Of course he can\u2019t take batteries from us because, what, we might catch the guy? \u00a0He won\u2019t take my thermal scope, because that is against policy.\u00a0 Steve says he told him, maybe we should rent the Unicorn hot air balloon for the day, but he didn\u2019t understand, or wanted to choose to ignore him.\u00a0 He was coming right at them Steve tells me, right at them.\u00a0 I thought they had night vision, could have spotted him easily.\u00a0 This is a nightmare times two!<\/p>\n

Morgan is wandering down the hall and wondering what is up.\u00a0 She tells Steve, it’s just rocks against my window daddy, it’s OK I can take it.\u00a0 He offers to make her French toast, and she perks up quite a bit.\u00a0 \u201cBut it is your birthday.\u201d \u00a0Morgan tells him.\u00a0 \u201cYes, it is and I want to make you breakfast.\u201d\u00a0 Which he does, for us all.<\/p>\n

Detective P. and Detective M. knock at the front door apologizing about the dead scope, and promising that they will have it working next time.\u00a0 I was extremely disappointed, but I don\u2019t tell him the same thing happened to the detectives last time they were here, and then I say good bye.<\/p>\n

We have a wonderful breakfast and Morgan goes about getting ready for school.\u00a0 Steve tells me this is just not fair.\u00a0 Morgan is giving this all she has, more than anyone ever should, and it has just become one screw up after the next.\u00a0 He tells me we have to hold them more accountable.\u00a0 To actually have live batteries is not that big of a request he feels.\u00a0 I know they think this stalker is harmless, but you never know Steve tells me.\u00a0 First the car was keyed before the stalking started, with the word BITCH on it (down to the metal and the Carbondale police officer (not the Garfield County Sheriffs) said that it is usually a sign of someone with deep seated problems or on drugs), with lots of anger and who knows what they do next.\u00a0 I don\u2019t like this at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I agree with Steve, they don\u2019t seem to be very serious at all, just going through the motions, and it is having a big affect on Morgan\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

Steve leaves for a project he is working on in Aspen, and Morgan comes back out at 10:27 am to announce a text she just received from her instructor, \u201cNo class today.\u00a0 Had to pick up daughter from school.\u00a0 Homework due Wed.\u00a0 Classical vs Neoclassical.\u201d\u00a0 Then she answers her friend in Savannah who was wondering about Steve\u2019s birthday. \u00a0At 10:48 am, she tells him, \u201cToday. HaHa.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morgan is worried about her Dad, he seemed extra stressed this morning, and I tell her it is wearing on us all and he wants it over.\u00a0 Morgan assures me that she is fine.\u00a0 She feels safe as long as she is in the house.\u00a0 That actually for her the worst part is driving up the street, once she is in the front door she feels like everything is OK.<\/p>\n

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Today is October 28, 2012<\/strong> \u2013 Another weekend has been spent with lists, timelines and more evidence – more then I ever thought we would have about Morgan\u2019s death.\u00a0 The order to bring it all out, and through which communication medium, was a big decision today.\u00a0 Last year after our meetings in Los Angeles we had a very ambitious plan that has now been scaled back.\u00a0 Raising awareness is still our biggest goal, and our most successful to date.\u00a0 Justice for Morgan is still very problematic.\u00a0 We know what happened to her, that she never really stood a chance in her last 24 hrs of life, but presenting what we know and preserving the possibility of eventual prosecution is not at all so easy, as I would have thought.\u00a0 I miss my little girl so much and I want to do what is right, so waiting for a few more decisions this week will be something I can do.\u00a0 Steve and I have had so many offers for help that we are humbled by the love and understanding that Morgan’s story was able to spread in the world.\u00a0 We pray for the strength to do justice to what she had already accomplished in her lifetime.<\/p>\n

The chatter on our tipline about stalkers being cornered, and stopped by the lessons we learned and that are being shared with us is very satisfying.\u00a0 Morgan\u2019s stalker was a very talented individual, in a sick sort of way, and reading about what happened to Morgan has actually helped many other individuals. \u00a0It has been more than satisfying for Steve and I, that methods we employed that were useless for us, have been very successful for others. \u00a0And have so changed the perceptions of how to correctly confront your stalker for so many others.\u00a0 It is not the end I had hoped for when Morgan was still alive, but now I gladly take it, in the memory of Morgan and for all of those it is helping. But this doesn’t mean we are giving up – NEVER! \u00a0And I am still very confident that a law enforcement agency will step up to the plate and take over this investigation. \u00a0Thank you all for so many signatures to our petition to the Governor of Colorado – we will continue to take signatures (only 300 left to go) and then we will be presenting it to him.<\/p>\n

Click here to read about the 106th day of Morgan\u2019s stalking https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=2071<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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