{"id":3775,"date":"2013-05-13T13:34:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T19:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2013-05-13T13:34:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T19:34:46","slug":"how-could-pjs-just-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=3775","title":{"rendered":"How could PJ\u2019s just disappear?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are the choices you have, and the choices that are made for you.\u00a0 When Steve and I need a room painted, or some gardening done we do it ourselves. But what about all the others who hire someone for the task?\u00a0 It is always nice to have at least one glowing recommendation before you hand over the job.\u00a0 And what about a babysitter?\u00a0 Someone trustworthy, and competent enough to watch your most precious youngster in your absence.\u00a0 That requires far more looking into than the painter or gardener, doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0 Can\u2019t be too safe with a decision like that.<\/p>\n

Then comes a decision you would have never thought you would have to make, and you quietly find out it is not your decision at all, it is made for you, with no discussion or input from you at all. \u00a0Our daughter was dead, and people I had never met were streaming in to our home, I could have assumed whatever I wanted about these people, but in reality I knew nothing, nothing at all about their qualifications to do what they were about to do – this at a time when their actions will easily have a profound effect on the rest of our life.<\/p>\n

A long time law enforcement investigator in this valley explained his feelings, and knowledge of Morgan\u2019s death scene investigation.\u00a0 He felt that when limited to just the local talent in this County there was no way Morgan would have a \u201cmicroscopic\u201d investigation.\u00a0 Which basically means things would have been missed.\u00a0 Perhaps a tiny piece of evidence that could have set the wheels in motion to apprehend Morgan\u2019s killer, as I see so often on crime TV, that would not happen and that evidence would go uncollected, and forever lost.<\/p>\n

The obvious becomes that I never had the choice, the decision was made for me, as well as Steve, Morgan’s brother and sister, and of course Morgan, that she did not need to have microscopic evidence collected.\u00a0 OK, so they do not have the expertise, or capability to collect really tiny pieces of evidence, but what about the larger, more obvious pieces of evidence? \u00a0Or what about things that should be there, but are missing, and don\u2019t even require collection at all, just a report on the missing item(s), what about those?<\/p>\n

Steve talked to Morgan before she went to sleep, and she was dressed in PJ\u2019s as she always was, to sleep in.\u00a0 He remembers the PJ\u2019s and we have talked about them with investigators many times, just never an investigator from Garfield County.\u00a0 We might have told them about this problem, but an effort was never made to determine exactly what she was wearing when she went to sleep.<\/p>\n

In the importance of little things that don\u2019t add up Morgan was wearing PJ\u2019s when Steve last saw her, and street clothes in the morning after she was dead.\u00a0 Now she could have changed at some time on her own, so the real unexplained problem is what happened to her PJ\u2019s? \u00a0They were not to be found when we packed up the room.\u00a0 It is a big item to be missing, and to be completely overlooked.\u00a0 This goes way beyond the microscopic aspect.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what exactly to call it, but if there were PJ\u2019s the night before that she was wearing, and after her death there were none, how did they get out of her room?\u00a0 And who took them?\u00a0 And why?\u00a0 Three questions that could be answered, should be answered, but never were answered.<\/p>\n

There was a period of time that Steve thought, just because it made sense to him in the context of an investigation, that her PJ\u2019s were collected as evidence, and the contracted pathologist or the Coroner had them.\u00a0 It was something I didn\u2019t question, that is how our minds worked in the shock, and grief of what had just happened. \u00a0We are parents – not investigators and the “investigators” should have asked.<\/p>\n

I was however, very strong in my conviction that Morgan looked staged, and I told the officers at the time, she was posed in a position I would never have found her in.\u00a0 If I place myself into the position I found her in \u2013 it is uncomfortable, it is not a position I would ever sleep in.\u00a0 Plus she was on the opposite side of the bed from which she always slept.\u00a0 All little things that should be in the Sheriff’s reports (like her PJ’s) are not in any of the Sheriffs reports, and I have not been able to find them yet in any reports.\u00a0 No evidence collection required, not microscopic or otherwise, just notes.<\/p>\n

Steve\u2019s memory of her position seems a little less razor-sharp than mine is.\u00a0 But he remembers vividly being focused on signs of life, a twitch, an eyelid flutter, he was administering CPR from the instant he could not get a response from her, and felt she was not breathing.\u00a0 So it’s natural that I feel that his memory focus would be different from mine, because he was focusing on different things than I was.<\/p>\n

At the time we did not really want to focus on anything, we just wanted to get through this somehow, someway, with little discussion Steve and I assured each other that certainly the Sheriffs were focusing on all these little things that came to nag at us.\u00a0 I would never have imagined that where we assumed there was something there was nothing.\u00a0 No focusing at all.\u00a0 How is that possible in a \u201csuspicious death?\u201d\u00a0 A death that was also labeled, \u201ca mystery,\u201c on the day Morgan was found, a death that required an autopsy, and after four months of stalking that was conjectured to become, \u201cmore intense,\u201d just two days before her death by the stalking case detective, with no reason given.\u00a0 And no, I did not ask, because at that second in time I was quite taken aback to hear this, and wondering what it meant for the investigation now that the Detectives were 100% sure it was Keenan VanGinkel who was responsible for the stalking of Morgan.<\/p>\n

All this still leaves missing PJ\u2019s, and we all know they can\u2019t just disappear, not without help from someone.\u00a0 They were never spoken of after that morning, officially that is.\u00a0 When you have a \u201csuspicious death,\u201d and then articles of clothing worn, when the victim was last seen, are now\u00a0completely gone – I believe you have a big problem, a big clue, that has to be explained.<\/p>\n

Because then the issue of how did she get into street clothes goes from a possibility that Morgan changed at night in response to sounds outside, to possibilities far more sinister.\u00a0 And the actions of the death scene detectives become far more important.<\/p>\n

Over time, as the evidence was looked at again by other professionals, some perhaps for the first time, it becomes all so important that way back on day one when they had the chance to collect all the evidence they wanted to, that they chose to collect none. \u00a0I believe they absolutely had a duty to collect evidence, or stand aside and let someone capable of doing it to take over, but they did not. If they were not capable they should have called in the very capable State agency, the CBI that morning – it was an option they did not choose.<\/p>\n

This morning on my drive I was passed by a Colorado State Trooper.\u00a0 On the back of his patrol car were two brief sayings, one on each side \u2013 \u201cHonor to Serve,\u201d and, \u201cDuty to Protect.\u201d\u00a0 As chance would have it I also was passed by a Garfield Sheriffs SUV a bit later \u2013 it had no saying printed on the back, nothing.<\/p>\n

I know it’s just words printed on the back of a car, but to me it makes a difference that two little promises are printed on the back of the State Troopers, they see them, they know what it says back there, and oh how I wish Morgan had been blessed with a little more \u201cHonor to Serve,\u201d and \u201cDuty to Protect.\u201d<\/p>\n

And if anyone is wondering about yesterday – my Mother’s Day was beautiful, thanks to my family, friends, and my children – all of my children…<\/p>\n

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