{"id":3550,"date":"2013-04-15T19:09:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T01:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2013-04-15T19:12:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T01:12:16","slug":"is-distrust-of-garfield-county-authorities-justified-in-morgans-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=3550","title":{"rendered":"Is distrust of Garfield County Authorities justified in Morgan’s case?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I spent a morning last week with two very engaging, and luckily for me talented technicians.\u00a0 Of course we talked about Morgan, her stalking, and her murder.\u00a0 And in a moment that has been repeated far too many times since the beginning of Morgan\u2019s stalking there were three truths they shared, just like so many other \u201clocals\u201d that I have spoken with.<\/p>\n

They both had children of their own, they were saddened, shocked and angered to hear this could have happened in our little valley, and they had not heard a word about Morgan\u2019s story from the news.\u00a0 And before they left, they enlightened me with a few quotes about tyranny \u2013 AKA, oppressive power; especially; oppressive power exerted by government.<\/p>\n

Tyranny? Could such a thing exist in Garfield County, Colorado, in the United States?\u00a0 It\u2019s been on my mind ever since.\u00a0 I searched, and almost immediately came upon this quote by one of our founding fathers, James Madison:<\/p>\n

\u201cAll men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

And pertaining to my dealings with Garfield County since Morgan\u2019s death James Madison could\u00a0have easily been referring specifically to the County Coroner, and his contracted pathologist from Grand Junction, as well as the Sheriff.\u00a0 None of these men has been a champion for Morgan\u2019s rights, quite the opposite, that we are grieving parents left to fight on our own is a far more accurate description of what Steve and I have been treated to here by Garfield County.<\/p>\n

James Madison\u00a0had another quote I thought fit right in too:<\/p>\n

\u201cA popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

If anyone in Garfield County Government really cared about Morgan, her rights, arresting her stalker, her death, or even using this tragedy to prevent it from happening again – they did a good job of hiding it.<\/p>\n

The Coroner never spoke with any of Morgan\u2019s doctor\u2019s, how he came up with any pertinent information about Morgan\u2019s medical history is a complete mystery to me. \u00a0All my attempts to direct him to the correct information, facts contained in records, was ignored.\u00a0 And this complete lack of concern for the information became abundantly apparent in everything that has been written about Morgan\u2019s death.\u00a0 Very little is remotely accurate, but then if you don\u2019t ask her doctors, or speak with her parents, or see her pharmacy records, how can you possibly know the prescription medications she did or did not take, medical conditions she did or did not have? \u00a0One of Morgan\u2019s doctor\u2019s grew tired of waiting for the call for information that never came from the Coroner\u2019s office so she called herself, to offer the information, and was given the complete brush off.\u00a0 Minds were made up and there was no need for information, any information. \u00a0If you wonder how is that any way to solve a crime, don’t – because it isn’t.<\/p>\n

The investigation into her death began, proceeded, and ended with a complete lack of information, and as was so correctly predicted in the quote \u2013 stands today as a farce.<\/p>\n

The tragedy for Morgan, meanwhile, remains everywhere, in her murder, in her stalking.\u00a0 First, when nine months after she was killed, the Sheriff goes on TV and declares they were at our house over fifty times and never saw a stalker, should that information he shared be more for for him, in his\u00a0governmental\u00a0capacity as the duly elected protector of the citizens, and if so, might different tactics be in order? \u00a0I mean to really\u00a0catch\u00a0stalkers, stop stalkers, you need to take stalking seriously! \u00a0The information of stalking history is readily\u00a0available and indicates clearly that a percentage of stalking victims will be killed by their stalker.<\/p>\n

Just to go on a little rant for the victims of stalking, say the percentage is 10%, it is not, every number I have seen is 11% or much higher. \u00a0And of course speaking of statistics, and percentages remember that according to Garfield County statistics Morgan was not killed by her stalker, Garfield County says they never saw a stalker, and she killed herself, which I am told, is not medically possible. \u00a0So if it is 10%, one in ten. \u00a0Would you rest easy having a stalker and know you have a one in ten chance of being killed? \u00a0Even if you move, state to state, same statistics. \u00a0Would you be satisfied with anything that did not include your stalker being arrested and incarcerated? \u00a0Would you ever really feel safe? \u00a0Russian\u00a0roulette, a game of death with a gun that has six shots with one containing a bullet, click, your turn, absolute\u00a0insanity to actually do, right? \u00a0But have a stalker and one in ten you die, how is that even remotely OK?<\/p>\n

Rant for victims over, Steve and I had no knowledge of this shocking information, and the Sheriff saw nothing wrong with going on TV and telling the world his men were at our house over fifty times, and never saw the stalker, and evidently he does not see a problem with that. \u00a0I guess that is too much to ask of Garfield County duly elected officials.<\/p>\n

We gave the Sheriff a photograph of the stalker leaning against Steve\u2019s truck, and watching his Deputies drive away, and if that was not a little wake up call, then what would it have taken for the duly elected protector of the County’s citizens to see that there was a problem with their approach to stalking?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s too late for our daughter, but if this story repeats itself, right here, that will be only a worse tragedy, a completely preventable tragic ending for someone else depending on the Sheriff\u2019s department for protection, and the Coroner for truth.\u00a0 Let\u2019s not let another family suffer a farce and a tragedy when both can be prevented.<\/p>\n

I completely believe James Madison\u00a0would have seen problems here and also been able to offer solutions. \u00a0He was not only a founding father of the United States, the forth president, he is also credited with being the, \u201cfather of the constitution\u201d.\u00a0 Such wisdom and foresight is obviously rare.\u00a0 I only wish he were here today to help send a wake up call to Garfield County, but I understand this task is up to Steve and I in the loving memory of our daughter.<\/p>\n

And we have gotten quite a bit of help already.\u00a0 An esteemed trio consisting of a Forensic Pathologist, a Forensic Toxicologist, and a Forensic Psychologist have been able, with a great degree of medical certainty, to recreate the tragic death of Morgan.\u00a0 It was not natural causes; it was not a suicide, in fact every doctor not working for Garfield County who has reviewed Morgan\u2019s case agrees on those two facts.\u00a0 Garfield County\u2019s contracted pathologist still believes she has Porphyria and took many medications.\u00a0 Shockingly, this is not based on information from any of Morgan’s medical doctors, and it is a farce. a complete farce.<\/p>\n

The Sheriff, he\u2019s just fine with the information that his men never saw a stalker.\u00a0 But, did he forget I gave him a picture!\u00a0 If I give him a picture of the stalker seeing his men drive away, and he tries to spin it into his men never actually saw the stalker, in reality, is that just a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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