{"id":3049,"date":"2013-02-27T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T18:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2013-02-27T12:25:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T19:25:50","slug":"stalking-risk-and-threat-assessment-why-wasnt-this-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=3049","title":{"rendered":"Stalking risk, and threat assessment – why wasn’t this done?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Morgan wasn’t a public figure, although she was very special to most of the people that knew her, but her stalker did live and work right by our house, so I have copied a piece of the study that discusses Type II category stalkers, which includes the Type 1 offenders. \u00a0Unbeknownst to me Morgan’s stalker worked at City Market in El Jebel, where we would send Morgan by herself to pick up groceries when she had just gotten her license and was a new driver. \u00a0The little five minute drive included parking in a lot and two stoplights. Or she could take the frontage roads and have an eight minute drive with no lights. \u00a0Great practice for a new driver venturing out on her own for the first times.<\/p>\n

We know the obsession with Morgan started long before we knew there was a problem, and we believe it was at that grocery store that he first saw Morgan, and began his deadly obsession. \u00a0We also know, since many readers of the blog have come forward over the last year and shared their stories that the same M.O. has been happening in the subdivisions right across from ours. \u00a0In our very limited way we have established that for at least 4 years before Morgan’s stalking this has been going on. \u00a0There are reported incidents the summer before, and one even 2 weeks before, while Morgan was out of town. \u00a0All of these more recent incidents were called in to the Garfield County Sheriff’s office. \u00a0With that knowledge, the Sheriff’s office should have had a protocol that would have enabled them to assess Morgan’s situation. \u00a0In view of a continued pattern in the immediate neighborhood they should have dealt with it in a completely different way than they did. \u00a0This is just one thing that HAS<\/strong> to change or others will keep falling to the same fate as Morgan in this County. \u00a0Meanwhile all I can tell you is there is an undeniable effort on the Counties part to try and cover it all up, pretend it is not happening or never happened. \u00a0This blind eye approach can’t last forever. \u00a0The word is out – and more people who spread the word, will raise awareness and they will make all the difference in the world, more victims will be protected, and they will demand that their law enforcement agencies do what is right.<\/p>\n

Along these lines I would like to share a little bit of knowledge I have gleaned from a paper that was written about that typology…<\/p>\n

Behavioral Sciences and the Law Behav. Sci. Law (2011) Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002\/bsl.975<\/strong><\/p>\n

Predictors of Recidivism by Stalkers: A Nine-year Follow-up of Police Contacts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Angela W. Eke, Ph.D.*, N. Zoe Hilton, Ph.D.y, J. Reid Meloy, Ph.D.z, Kris Mohandie, Ph.D.x and Jennette Williams, R.Dipl.$<\/p>\n

To summarize the paper reports that in a study done on 78 offenders, 77% reoffended within an average follow-up of 106 months (8.8 years). \u00a0Over half were charged for new stalking related offenses and 33% for violent recidivism. \u00a0The existing literature predicted this violent reoffending, including sexual offenses, because of the known risk factors: first conviction at a younger age, prior release failures, and criminal history.<\/p>\n

With Morgan’s stalker we now know that all of these things fit his profile.<\/p>\n

Quoted from the Paper: Type II categories<\/strong> include Public Figure (targeting a victim whom they identified from their public or media appearances) and Private Stranger (pursuing a victim not previously known to \u2018\u2018the stalker\u2019\u2019 but who lives or works within the stalker\u2019s environment) stalkers who had no prior relationship with their targets<\/strong>. Overall, Type I offenders<\/strong> committed more threats and violence and, proportionally, included more males stalking females.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

My hope is in the future a public outcry to law enforcement to change the “small town mentality” and stop using it as an excuse will bring about change. \u00a0There is a suggested national protocol for law enforcement agencies that they can use and learn from to stop\u00a0untold\u00a0emotional trauma to stalking victims and also save lives. The figures vary widely but victims of violent stalkers lose their lives 9% to 18% of the time. \u00a0If going to the\u00a0grocery\u00a0store netted you a 9-18% chance of being killed I bet you’d just go out to dinner.<\/p>\n

But I want to question those number severely. \u00a0Morgan was stalked and murdered. \u00a0A forensic\u00a0toxicologist is quite certain from all of her labs. \u00a0A forensic\u00a0Psychologist sees lethal danger every step of the way, and we really don’t have to wonder if he is right because Morgan is dead. \u00a0The Sheriff announces he will never investigate, and the contracted pathologist for Garfield County (that did Morgan’s autopsy) calculates what all the numbers mean for Morgan and his math has a PhD of biological engineering from MIT shaking her head in disbelief. \u00a0And then the pathologist points at the non investigation into her stalker as good rational that the stalker was not involved in her death.<\/p>\n

There are some extremely good stalking laws that are also on the books, but are not being enforced – WHY NOT?<\/strong> \u00a0The protection of our families from criminals should be a top priority – more so then writing speeding tickets or staking out bars. \u00a0More laws are needed for victims, but I feel like the first thing we have to do is demand that the laws we already have in our state are upheld – and trust me they are not being upheld! \u00a0Morgan’s murder was premeditated by a person with a criminal history that is a con man and a sociopath so there are people that try to protect him, do alibis for him, that are too afraid of him to come forward and give up the information that they have on him…but don’t worry because some people have been brave enough to come forward, and I feel like there are more that will be coming forward very soon now. \u00a0The truth will not stay covered up for long.<\/p>\n

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